A documentary history of Jewell, Florida, a lost community of everglades pioneers founded in 1885 by Samuel and Fannie James, an African American couple, believed to be former slaves. Jewell eventually grew into the City of Lake Worth, its earliest history largely forgotten. Pioneers of Jewell rediscovers the world of Fannie and Samuel James in the context of their neighbors and the wider context of Race and Segregation in the aftermath of the American Civil War. For the first time, groundbreaking research reveals the flight of Fannie's family from North Carolina to Ohio during the Civil War...

Este pequeno libro de oraciones es dedicado a la unidad de todas las religiones. Nada revela el corazon de un pueblo mas que la oracion. Y compartir las oraciones de una variedad de tradiciones religiosas tiene un potencial especial. Puede unir a los corazones en un reconocimiento sagrado de los misterios de la vida y los valores sagrados que todos tenemos en comun. Contiene oraciones de seis religiones mundiales: judia, hindu, budista, cristiana, islamica y baha'i."

The first edition of the Interfaith Prayer Book was released in 2001. It proved to be immensely popular for use both at interfaith gatherings and for personal reflection, having found its way into hospitals, motel rooms and college classrooms as well as places of worship all around the world. That edition contained a selection of prayers from six religious traditions; Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and Baha'i. This Expanded Edition adds prayers from eight additional traditions; Native African, Native American, Zoroastrian, Taoist, Confucian, Shinto, Jain and Sikh. Its aim is to...