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Steve Jones The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern... | Eduardo Galeano Shows us how to remember and how to live. This book is shaped like a calendar. Each day brings with it a story: a journey, feast or tragedy that really... |
Selina O'Grady And Man Created God is a sweeping exploration of the religions of the world at the time of Jesus: this is popular history at its best. | Geoffrey Parrinder An essential introduction to the influence of Jesus in contemporary Qur'anic teachings |
Diarmaid MacCulloch How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its followers? This book describes not only the main facts, ideas and... | Tom Holland In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished for ever, while... |
Karen Armstrong The idea of a single divine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle... | Oliver Bullough The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia's attempts to add them to its empire. Travelling from... |
Sam Harris Our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the primary justification for religious faith. This book intends to link morality to the rest of... | Geoffrey Robertson Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? This book delivers a devastating indictment of the way the... |
Vernon, Mark The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts address the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. | Karen Armstrong Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present, this title shows that meaning of words such as 'belief', 'faith', and 'mystery' has been entirely altered, so... |
Dalai Lama XIV Argues that religion is not a necessity for pursuing a spiritual life. This title focuses on tolerance and understanding between religions, as well as tolerance and understanding between believers (of... | Jonathan Phillips Explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. This book draws on contemporary writings - on chronicles, songs, sermons, travel... |
Desmond Tutu; John Allen Archbishop Desmond Tutu is no stranger to controversy. In 2009, he was awarded the highest civilian award in the United States, the Presidential Medal, by Barack Obama. This collection brings... | John M. Lundquist The idea of the temple the holy precinct, the dwelling place of the gods is central to all religions. This title presents a study of sites of worship, from the... |