To The Temples

In 2016, the world's oldest existing library reopened in Fes, Morocco. It opened for the first time in the 9th Century. These shrines to the written word date back even further, and continue to be built today. They're a place where some of the oldest written texts are preserved and some of the newest technology connects visitors with vast amounts of knowledge. Libraries are changing, but, as places that are fundamentally free and open to all, they're also staying the same. Libraries of the World explores the most stunning examples, but it also explores how varied the idea of a library can be. It can be a grand Baroque hall with leather-bound tomes or a mid-century masterpiece, but it can just as easily be a few shelves in a repurposed phone booth.

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Jem McCrail is a fantastical godsend to the timid young Alice Pilling. "Like a dropped acorn,†? she appears halfway through the week, halfway through the term, and halfway through Miss Aldridge's Silent Reading Hour. Through the doorway she barely clears, wearing clothes like the urchin she encountered in her favorite P. G. Wodehouse story, Jem leads the stammering Alice into a world of culture, truancy, and bizarrerie-a world far beyond the dull lessons of school. The girls cultivate a steadfast bond based on a wicked and encircling sense of humor, an impish joy in indelicate literature, and Mozart's The Magic Flute. Then, as abruptly as she came, Jem disappears. The years and schools that follow, as well as the lovers, do not dim the image of the wondrous Jem. The disheartened Alice is almost ready to settle into an ordinary life when an accident and the intervention of a latter-day fallen angel impel her to go on one more wild and extravagant journey. Like the opera it echoes, the result is pure enchantment. "Why did it take me so long to discover the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive, brilliant tales? I have become a literary evangelist on her behalf. On account of my badgering, all my friends now love her, too.I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author.†? -Elizabeth Gilbert

"An archaeological exploration of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem from ancient times to modern day events. Diagrams, illustrations, maps, time lines, overlays and photographs trace God's sanctuary through the tabernacle, Solomon's Temple, Zerubbabel's Temple, Herod's Temple, the present Temple Mount, and the future temple"--Provided by publisher.

The fourteen guided meditations in this book are designed to take you on a journey to temples and holy places that exist both in and out of this reality, places without time constraints, preconceived ideas or limitations. Each journey takes you through healing: meeting your guides, native american goddesses, and new teachers; clearing your chakras; and visiting past lives. These meditations were designed by Maya Cointreau, a shamanic energy healer and herbalist, to help those on the path of healing, whether it be to heal oneself or to heal others, whether you are new to meditation or not. Following each meditation in the book you will also find four beautifully-lined journal pages to record your thoughts and visions.

Romer describes her travels to popular tourist destinations in Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine. She organizes her trip by theme rather than in diary style, and comments on the people she meets as well as the sites she visits.

In Hebrews and the Temple Philip Church examines attitudes to the temple in the literature of the Second Temple period and in Hebrews and argues that Hebrews was written to counter the recipients’ preoccupation with the temple.