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Released: March 26, 2013
"Mild though the rebuke is, a readable and persuasive argument--if, of course, an exercise in preaching to the choir."
A spirited repudiation of pies and deities in the sky in favor of an ethic that "is about this world."
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"Not a substitute for the real thing."
A culminating work of the Jesus Seminar era and of others influenced by it, this collection of manuscripts serves to complete and update the standard Christian New Testament.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"Shepherd's experience with Zen is not everyone's, but it should prove helpful to those struggling with spiritual practice."
NONFICTION
Released: April 12, 2013
"A generally persuasive, impassioned book-length essay. While his conclusions (and language) sometimes grow repetitive, they nonetheless serve to underscore at every turn an incisive argument buttressed by millennia of evidence."
Historian and editor Cannadine (History/Princeton Univ.;
Mellon, 2006, etc.) constructs a stirring critique of history that questions conventional approaches to narrating the human chronicle.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2013
"A bright light within a dark, deeply distressing time in history."
Zuccotti (
Holocaust Odysseys: The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vesubie and Their Flight through France and Italy, 2007, etc.) pursues the undercover work by a French priest in aiding the Jews in Marseille and then Rome elude capture and death by the Nazis during World War II.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2013
"An earnest exegesis of a powerful legend of the first Jew, designed for the faithful--not for atheist or pagan readers."
NONFICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"A disappointing rehash of the science-vs.-religion debate."
An emeritus professor of physics and astronomy traces the roots of modern science, including the discovery of the Higgs boson, to the materialist Greek and Roman philosophers 2,500 years ago.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2013
"William James, suffice it to say, would probably be appalled at first, and then fascinated."
NONFICTION
Released: March 12, 2013
"Where paradox is as common as breathing, Olson discovers a kind of freedom amid the barbed wire. An empathetic, intriguing memoir."
NONFICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Scripture and science meet in a pop-archaeological text; Scripture prevails."
The story of the author's claim to have found long-lost Sodom, the world's most wicked city.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2013
"Yes, Chu concludes in his revealing book, Jesus really loves him. Other Christians? The jury's still out."
NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 27, 2012
"If Kirn has continued reading the Bible, he should continue writing about it, for his responses to Job and the New Testament (as well as his mother's) might well be even pricklier than what he offers here."
In what reads like a Bible blog--a literary, layman's interpretation--the author comes to terms with the death of his mother and a whole lot more after discovering her biblical notes and annotations.
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