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Christianity in a Nutshell

Leonardo Boff · Orbis Books
Format: Paperback

For over fifty years and in more than sixty books, Leonardo Boff has explored the mysteries of the Christian message. In this short work he sets out to describe the essence of Christianity in language that is accessible and meaningful within the contemporary worldview, including the scientific...
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The One-Stop History of the Bible

Robert V Huber · Lion Hudson
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Following on from the successful One-Stop Bible Guide and One-Stop Bible Atlas comes this guide to the history of the Bible from its origins to how it has shaped history and nations. In a highly visual way, The One-Stop Guide to the History of the Bible tells the story of how the Bible...
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Redeeming the Kamasutra

Wendy Doniger · Oxford University Press
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken...
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Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table

Ellen Wayland-Smith · Picador
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety.In...
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