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  • The Magic of Realityby Richard Dawkins; Dave McKean

    Free Press 2012; US$ 16.00

    Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world?s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate the ways in which the world really works. Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts,... more...

  • Joseph Antonby Salman Rushdie

    Random House 2012; US$ 33.37

    On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa . His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses , which was accused of being 'against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran'. So... more...

  • And Man Created Godby Selina O'Grady

    Atlantic Books Ltd 2012; US$ 11.65

    At the time of Jesus's birth, the world was in ferment. Across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia - societies rife with gods and messiahs, priests and warriors - the old certainties of family, village and tribe were being overturned. Religion was becoming the source of order and stability. And Man Created God takes the reader on a... more...

  • The Price of Freedom Deniedby Brian J. Grim; Roger Finke

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 21.00

    This book examines the extent and causes of contemporary religious persecution and conflict. more...

  • I Killed Scheherazadeby Joumana Haddad

    Chicago Review Press 2011; US$ 11.95

    For centuries the heroine of The Arabian Nights , Scheherazade, defined the Arab woman?until Joumana Haddad, an Arab woman herself, had had enough. Haddad angrily challenges prevalent notions of identity and womanhood in the Middle East in this intrepid exploration. While she finds the West?s dominant portrayal of Arab women appalling, she finds... more...

  • Going Clearby Lawrence Wright

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 28.95

    A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower,  the now-classic study of al-Qaeda?s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists?both famous and less well known?and years of archival research, Lawrence... more...

  • The Righteous Mindby Jonathan Haidt

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00

    Why can?t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.   His starting point is moral... more...

  • The Buddhaby Michael Carrithers

    Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 9.99

    Michael Carrithers discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time, and traces the development of his thought. He also assesses the rapid and widespread assimilation of Buddhism and its contemporary relevance. more...

  • Peacemaker, Theby Ken Sande

    Baker Publishing Group 2004; US$ 16.99

    Conflict-resolution expert Ken Sande takes readers beyond resolving conflicts to true, life-changing reconciliation with family members, coworkers, and fellow believers. more...

  • The Renewal of the Kibbutzby Raymond Russell; Robert Hanneman; Shlomo Getz

    Rutgers University Press 2013; US$ 39.95

    This book explores the waves of kibbutzim reforms since 1990. Looking through the lens of organizational theories that predict how open or closed a group will be to change, the authors find that the less successful kibbutzim were the most receptive to reform, and reforms then spread through imitation from the economically weaker kibbutzim to the strong.... more...