NONFICTION
Released: May 15, 2012
"Through the Levantine haze and a millennium of safekeeping, a carefully paced narrative of purloined Judaica."
NONFICTION
Released: May 15, 2012
"Smoothly composed history and fine scholarship."
Elegant study of the roiling era of internecine religious rivalry and epic strife that saw the nation of Islam rise and conquer.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"A different take on married life, of broader interest because of the issue of same-sex marriage and Mitt Romney's membership in the LDS."
NONFICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
"A refined jeremiad sure to shake up the Christian establishment."
A piercing critique of heresy in a country where "traditional Christian teachings have been warped into justifications for solipsism and anti-intellectualism, jingoism and utopianism, selfishness and greed."
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NONFICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"With occasional personal travel details added to an engaging scholarly history, Kadri offers a readable, useful companion to the Qur'an."
A history of the development of shari‘a law, from Muhammad's recitations to modern interpretations of the Qur'an.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"A timely study, not only because of ongoing Islamic terror threats, but also because of more homegrown activities like the attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords last year."
Wexler and Hancock (
Nexus: The CIA and Political Assassination, 2011, etc.) use newly available documentation from the FBI and other sources to present their case for the role of religious terrorism and white supremacists in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"When death harkens, Cave provides a luminous, mindful taste of the alternatives."
A categorical account of humanity's attempt to achieve immortality, from European philosopher and
Financial Times essayist Cave.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 2, 2012
"A thorough introduction to the controversy with much to teach both sides."
INDIE
Released: April 2, 2012
"Tries to be a book of answers but mostly leaves readers with more questions."
Franklin's (
Comstock Cross Fire, 2008) short guide aims to be an authority on the pathway to heaven.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
"Straight talk by a clear-thinking intellectual with his heart in the right place."
An American journalist offers an elegant, deeply honest look at the failure of Jewish liberalism in forging Israel as a democratic state.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 20, 2012
"Take comfort, then, true believers, but take arms (verbal) all ye atheists and agnostics."
Belief in a divine power is only human, writes Oxford Centre for Anthropology and Mind senior researcher Barrett (
Why Would Anyone Believe in God, 2004).
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NONFICTION
Released: March 13, 2012
"A cogent rendering of a moral universe of fertile complexity and latent flexibility."
