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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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 28, 2012
"A frank, exhaustive, marvelously readable study."
A sharp, clear, deeply researched examination of the consistent application of the founding religious principles to American foreign policy, from the colonists' sense of a Protestant exceptionalism to President Barack Obama's "Good Niebuhr Policy."
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 17, 2012
"A modern apologetic with appeal for like-minded readers."
Conservative writer and speaker D'Souza (
The Roots of Obama's Rage, 2010, etc.) draws on years of experience publicly debating atheists in crafting a new argument for the existence, and benevolence, of God.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 2012
"A remarkable tale told somewhat unremarkably."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 2012
"A fascinating, impassioned hybrid of memoir and divine supposition."
Former
Guideposts editor Tompkins (
The Divine Life of Animals: One Man's Quest to Discover Whether the Souls of Animals Live On, 2010, etc.) plumbs theories on mortality and the prospects of an afterlife.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2012
"Not especially illuminating, but this book may appeal to Christians interested in personal stories of finding hope after loss."
Catholic author and blogger Welborn's (
Listening to God with Blessed John Paul II, 2011, etc.) part travelogue, part family memoir written in the year following her husband's sudden death in 2009.
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