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."
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."
NONFICTION
Released: March 7, 2012
"Important historical points that would glow brightly if illuminated by more narrative fire."
Moran (History/Univ. of Kansas;
The Scopes Trial, 2002, etc.) provides a scholarly look at the antievolution "impulse," focusing on the interactions of the social forces that animated, propelled and changed it.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 6, 2012
"Unlike The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work and The Architecture of Happiness, this installment in the author's oeuvre is shallow and glib."
De Botton (
A Week at the Airport, 2010, etc.) suggests ways a secular society can provide the benefits and comfort its citizens once derived from faith.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 6, 2012
"A confused and disappointing ramble through 13th-century papacy."
NONFICTION
Released: March 6, 2012
"A flawed but worthwhile glimpse at a rich tradition."
NONFICTION
Released: March 6, 2012
"At times a bit dense for the casual reader, but Eck's perseverance illuminates one of the world's most mysterious and multifaceted countries."
NONFICTION
Released: March 6, 2012
"Scholarly but widely accessible, the book provides a solid introduction to the one book of the New Testament that claims to be divinely inspired."
NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"Likely to appeal only to Christian readers."
A mother's searching memoir about how she and her family found their faith tested in the aftermath of a devastating car crash.
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