What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20^th century?

In this riveting novel, beloved international bestselling author Deepak Chopra captures the spellbinding life story of the great and often misunderstood Prophet.

Islam was born in a cradle of tribal turmoil, and the arrival of one God who vanquished hundreds of ancient Arabian gods changed the world forever. God reached down into the life of Muhammad, a settled husband and father, and spoke through him. Muhammad's divine and dangerous task was to convince his people to renounce their ancestral idols and superstitious veneration of multiple gods. From the first encounter, God did not leave Muhammad alone, his life was no longer his own, and with each revelation the creation of a new way of life formed and a religion was born.

Muhammad didn't see himself as the son of God or as one who achieved cosmic enlightenment. His relatives and neighbors didn't part the way when he walked down the parched dirt streets of Mecca. There was no mark of divinity. Orphaned by age six, Muhammad grew up surrounded by dozens of cousins and extended family to become a trusted merchant. Muhammad saw himself as an ordinary man and that is why what happened to him is so extraordinary.

Rooted in historical detail, Muhammad brings the Prophet to life through the eyes of those around him. A Christian hermit mystic foretells a special destiny, a pugnacious Bedouin wet nurse raises him in the desert, and a religious rebel in Mecca secretly takes the young orphan under his spiritual wing. Each voice, each chapter brings Muhammad and the creation of Islam into a new light. The angel Gabriel demands Muhammad to recite, the first convert risks his life to protect his newfound faith, and Muhammad's life is not a myth but an incredible true and surprisingly unknown story of a man and a moment that sparked a worldwide transformation.

The I Ching - or Book of Changes - is an ancient Chinese oracle, a tool of divination whose origins stretch back more than 3,000 years. Through the centuries, generations of diviners have asked the I Ching to answer their most burning questions and help them to negotiate relationships, decisions and dilemmas with poise and insight.
This beautiful, practical I Ching for divination pays homage to the original text while supporting hte modern user with lucid explanations and guidelines for interpreting the oracle.
I Chingincludes:
- The main themes of each of the 64 hexagrams.
- Step-by-step instructions on how to cast a hexagram.
- Translations with brief suggestions for interpreting the answers you recive.
21 cm x 26 cm 208 page softcover.

The Ultimate Bible Fact and Quiz Book is an exciting compendium of facts and questions ranging from the astonishing to the inspirational. This book is packed full with more than 4,500 facts and questions to test everyone's knowledge.
Do you know:
- How many wings a seraph has?
- What destroyed the statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream?
- Who was the first person Jesus raised from the dead?
The Ultimate Bible Fact and Quiz Book is the perfect companion for everyone who wants to test their knowledge of the Bible and will provide hours of entertainment for friends and family alike.

17 cm x 24 cm 384 page sprial bound softcover.

Sing and dance togetehr and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
So speaks Gibran's prophet Almustafa, on the eve of his return to his homeland after a 12-year exile in the city of Orphalese. Entreated by its inhabitants to impart of his wisdom before quitting their shores, Almustafa delivers a set of short and deeply profound discourses on aspects of life and the human condition, including love and marriage, work, commerce and laws, and pain and death.
Written in 1923 by Lebanese philosopher Kahlil Gibran, and since translated into over 40 languages, The Prophet is as enduring as it is popular. The ideas it expresses in spare and poignant cadences are ever more fitting as our daily lives become increasingly cluttered and chaotic. Starkly and strikingly beautiful. The Prophet is a testimony to life and love.
This beautiful collector's edition is illustrated throughout with stunning images which capture and enhance the elegant and meditative tenor of the timeless text.

22 cm x 26 cm 128 page hardcover.

Philosophy can't be pinned down. There are histories that attempt to stitch the whole convoluted thing up into a single long, coherent sequence of events. Other books are organized thematically. Here we have metaphysics. This is ethics. Here's what we know about the nature of knowledge. Some of these books are excellent, but they're all attempts to civilize something wild, something the mostly mistrusts authority, something that's really only human, something messy that moves around in several different directions at once. Maybe that's the best way to pass along a feel for this kind of thing is to do what people have always done when they've got a great deal of complicated information to convey, and that's tell a story.' - James Garvey and Jeremy Stangroom.

19 cm x 25 cm 384 page hardcover.

From the authors of the bestselling "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar," an uproarious new book on the meaning of death (and life, too)
The new book by the bestselling authors of "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar" is a hilarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality and immortality. That is, Death. The authors pry open the coffin lid on this one, looking at the Big D and also its prequel, Life, and its sequel, the Hereafter. Philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre have been wrestling with the meaning of death for as long as they have been wrestling with the meaning of life. Fortunately, humorists have been keeping pace with the major thinkers by creating gags about dying. Death's funny that way--it gets everybody's attention.
Death has gotten a bad rap. It's time to take a closer look at what the Deep Thinkers have to say on the subject, and there are no better guides than Cathcart and Klein.

An ideal companion to the popular Daily Wisdom series, Nightly Wisdom mines a rich vein of Buddhist teachings on such topics as lucid dreaming, Tibetan ?dream yoga? ? the art of extending meditation into the boundless world of dreams ? and relaxing into restful sleep. Featuring poetry and prose from sources modern and ancient (including the Buddha himself), Nightly Wisdom is a bedside keepsake to be read last thing in the evening so that, as per the Buddha?s advice, one?s sleep may be infused with a virtue that can be renewed in the morning and carried on throughout the day. The book is perfect for anyone who has dreamed of waking up to the entirety of life or wondered how to best suffuse this wisdom into that third of our lives we spend in bed.

Get your hopes up. Raise your expectations. Your best days are in front of you. This is exactly the moment to put your faith into action and expect God's blessings. It's your time to declare your faith, to look for God's favor, and

The Prince is one of the most influential books ever written. Published posthumously in 1532, Machiavelli's observations on the manipulation and exercise of power have withstood the test of time. His shrewd and insightful text presents strategies that some of history's greatest rulers have borrowed to achieve their goals. This beautifully produced edition of Machiavelli's classic study of statesmanship is ideal for ambitions schemers and the general reader alike.