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Hymns & Qualms By Peter Cole
Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole’s acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his “prosodic mastery” and “keen moral intelligence” (American Poets), and for the “rigor, vigor, joy, and wit” of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a vital, unclassifiable body of work that plumbs centuries of wisdom while paying sharp attention to the textures and tensions of the present.
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Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
In Googled, the reader discovers the ‘secret sauce’ of the company’s success and why the worlds of ‘new’ and ‘old’ media often communicate as if residents of different planets. It may send chills down traditionalists’ spines, but it’s a crucial roadmap to the future of media business: the Google story may well be the canary in the coal mine.
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The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong.
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50 Best Business Ideas of the Last 50 Years
Revealing the inspiring stories behind the 50 best innovative ideas that have changed the business world. Judged by an expert panel of entrepreneurs, business leaders and inventors, from the humble post-it note and the revolutionary fax machine to email, conference calls and pay per click.
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The Longing of the Soul
The Longing of the Soul does not aim to represent a guideline for the correct understanding and the correct execution of the Prayer rituals, nor does it represent a guideline for the Islamic jurists.This book tries to reawaken the sacred sensibilities we have lost. The essential goal lies in the attempt to bring back the love we have lost in terms of the acts of worship the Almighty enjoined us to fulfill, the joy of obedience to His command, and the pleasure of having faith in Him. -
The Nectar of Pain by Najwa Zebian
The Nectar of Pain is a collection of poetry and prose that the pain of love and loss gave birth to. When pain knocks on your door, let it in. If you don’t, it will knock harder and harder. Its voice will become louder and louder. So let it in. Spend some time with it. Understand it. Then walk it to the door and let it leave because it’s time for you to welcome happiness.
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Looking for Alaska By John Green
Alaska has everything that fascinates Miles and with whom he eventually falls in love. Miles life was getting interesting. He had a prankster room-mate, a woman, who fits her imaginations and two great male friends. All who contributed in making Miles more like him were unique in nature and had their own quirks. But the circle of life is not all about happiness and Miles learns this pretty soon.
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson By John Green
Penguin Audiobooks presents Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. An unabridged recording voiced by MacLeod Andrews and Nick Podehl. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, teenager Will Grayson crosses paths with . . .Will Grayson!
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True Promise of Paradise by Shaykh Muhammad Al Sha’rawi
Allah Most High says: “But you prefer the life of this lower world, even though the hereafter is better and more lasting”. Indeed, most people – even the devout – spend far more time thinking of all the details of their day to day dealings with the dunya.
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The First Sin: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives
Both Jewish and Islamic sources relate the story of the first known sin in the universe, i.e., Satan refusing to obey God’s command to bow down to Adam. In the present volume, Dr. Dirks explores both Jewish and Islamic sources on the first sin, compares and contrasts them, and identifies the underlying root cause behind Satan’s refusal to bow down to Adam, which was arrogance.