Best Selling Books by Tim Dowley

This fully illustrated, four-color pictorial guide uncovers the significance, services, symbols, and sacrifices of the Tabernacle.

Bach and the Bachs - Weimar and Cothen - Leipzig - Final years - Bach''s music.

This leading textbook for world religions is now available in a more concise version. Many of the features of Introduction to World Religions are retained in this volume but with focus on the religious traditions themselves. The section on religions of antiquity has been removed and key content in each chapter streamlined to increase accessibility for students in their study and research of the world''s religious traditions. Known and valued for its balanced approach, this book offers an arresting layout with rich illustrations. It continues to provide broad coverage of diverse religions, including indigenous religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese religions. The user-friendly content is enhanced by charts of religious festivals, historic timelines, updated maps of the world''s religions, and a useful glossary. Both historical overviews and modern perspectives for each religion are included. This edition includes several updates made to the new third edition, including a new design, a new section on women and religion, and a newly revised section on religions in today''s world.

ographs of many famous biblical sites. An excellent gift book to be treasuredas a lasting keepsake.

This full-color introductory guide provides a graphic overview of the contents of the Bible, its main characters, historical context, cultural and religious setting, and important events in an interesting and easy-to-use format.

The story of Christmas is retold through the eyes of the shepherds who came to the manger. Includes lots of reusable stickers . . . that glow in the dark!

A new and fascinating biography of the most outstanding composer in musical history, covering Bach''s earliest efforst in Eisenach, his cultural inheritance, his series of posts as organist or musician, and his stormy career in Leipzig. It also traces the significant stages of development in his family and his music. Reproductions of engraving and portraits of the time help to recreate the era in which Bach flourished. The origins of all the composer''s major works are discussed and put into the context of the contemporary world. Written both the general reader and the specialist.

Brief text and numerous illustrations trace the evolution of life on Earth from the earliest times through the present and into the future.

This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer''s life.

Expansion of the Church - 325-600 conquest - Constantine and the Christian Empire - Fall of the Roman Empire - 600-1500, a Christian society - The Eastern Church - The Crusades - Peter Abelard - Thomas Aquinas - Medieval monasticism - Reform, 1500-1650 - Martin Luther - John Calvin - Puritans and Separatists - John Bunyan - The English Baptists - The Anabaptists - Ignatius of Loyola - The Jesuits - Teresa of Avila - The Russian church - James de Jong - 1789-1914, cities and empires - An age of idealogy - Pentecostals - Helder Camara - Pope John XXIII - Protestant religions - Religion in wartime Germany (Nazi) - The Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe & Russia - The Russian tradition of Icons - Icon painters Andrei Rublev & Daniel Chorney.a; - Savonarola - The Monk''s Day in Western Europe - Martin Luther - History of Bibles - Puritans - Thomas Cranmer - Methodists.