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Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality
Anthony Aguirre · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Cosmological Koans invites the reader into an intellectual adventure of the highest order. Through more than fifty Koans -- pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition -- leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from West to East,... |
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The Necessity of Secularism: Why God Can't Tell Us What to Do
Ronald A. Lindsay · Pitchstone Publishing
Format: Paperback
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For the first time in human history, a significant percentage of the world’s population no longer believes in God. This is especially true in developed nations, where in some societies nonbelievers now outnumber believers. Unless religion collapses completely, or undergoes a remarkable... |
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Spooky New England: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore
S E Schlosser · Globe Pequot Press
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
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A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous New England ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world. Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 35 creepy tails of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other... |
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The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca
Rosemary Guiley · Facts On File
Pages: 436
Format: Hardcover
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Uncover the magic and truth behind this compelling topic.In more than 480 entries, "The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft, and Wicca, Third Edition" is an exciting update to one of the landmark references on the subject - by paranormal expert Rosemary Ellen Guiley. This new edition... |
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Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics
R Marie Griffith · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars
Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control--sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins... |
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Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions
Phil Zuckerman · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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David Brooks, The New York TimesAs secularism becomes more prominent and self-confident, its spokesmen have more insistently argued that secularism should not be seen as an absence — as a lack of faith — but rather as a positive moral creed. Phil Zuckerman, a Pitzer College sociologist,... |
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Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America
Debbie Cenziper · Hachette Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two.
In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling... |
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Our Great Big American God: A Short History of Our Ever-Growing Deity
Matthew Paul Turner · Jericho Books
Format: Hardcover
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Americans love God. We stamp God on our money, our bumper stickers, and our bodies. With a church on nearly every street, it's hard to deny our country's deep connection with the divine. Yet culture critic Matthew Paul Turner says that God didn't just change America-America... |
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Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives
Helen Taylor · Oxford University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as parents, teachers,... |
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Imagine There's No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World
Mitchell Stephens · Palgrave MacMillan
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief... |
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Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648
Mark Greengrass · Viking; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable new volume in the critically acclaimed Penguin History of Europe seriesFrom peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of the sixteenth century. Martin Luthers challenge to church authority forced Christians to examine their beliefs... |
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Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Mona Eltahawy · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The journalist Mona Eltahawy is no stranger to controversy. Through her articles and actions she has fought for the autonomy, security, and dignity of Muslim women, drawing vocal supporters and detractors. Now, in her first book, Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy has prepared a definitive... |
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Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms
Timothy D Walker · W W Norton
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Easy-to-implement classroom lessons from the world's premier educational system.Finland shocked the world when its fifteen-year-olds scored highest on the first Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) , a set of tests touted for evaluating critical-thinking skills in math,... |
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Grand Central Question: Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews
Abdu H. Murray · IVP Books
Format: Paperback
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All religions and worldviews seek to answer the fundamental questions of human existence: Why am I here? What does it mean to be human? Why is there evil in the world and how do we deal with it? But not every worldview places equal emphasis on each issue. The main worldviews each tend... |
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