Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.79
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestselling scholar’s illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated …
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1. Jerusalem: The Biography
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.07
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more
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"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
2. Sucker's Portfolio
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.85
Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition
Available to readers for the first time, Sucker’s Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never b… read more
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- audiobook
3. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
By: David McCullough
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - story of the adventurou… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics
By: Elaine Pagels
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the Nat… read more
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- theology
- christianity
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
5. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- history
6. The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
By: Charles Freeman
4.15
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the l… read more
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- nonfiction
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8. Buddhism Plain and Simple
By: Steve Hagen
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book offers a clear, straightforward approach to Buddhism in general and awareness in particul… read more
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9. The Secret History of Wonder Woman
By: Jill Lepore
3.81
Format: 320 pages,
A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, drawing… read more
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10. Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
By: Brian Zahnd
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love? In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hand… read more
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11. Theogony/Works and Days
By: Hesiod , None
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… read more
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12. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
By: Richard Dawkins , Lalla Ward
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the univers… read more
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13. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
By: J.M. Barrie , Arthur Rackham
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Before he flew away to Neverland, the little boy who wouldn't grow up dwelt in the heart of London,… read more
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14. Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
By: Bertrand Russell , Paul Edwards
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned wi… read more
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15. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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- history
16. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
17. Paul: A Biography
By: N.T. Wright
4.34
Format: 480 pages, ebook
In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T.… read more
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- audiobook
18. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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- history
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19. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
20. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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- history
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
21. Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
By: Chuck Palahniuk
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with… read more
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"Three parts description . Two parts instruction . One part onomatopoeia . Mix to taste ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
"Once someone who draws superheroes draws your picture , you never want to go back to reality ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
"My guess is that people haven’t a clue how to get along . They need a structure , rules , and roles to play ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
"All through that lunch I feigned interest in her cats , yes , cats , while psychically begging her to love me and interview me ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
22. God: An Anatomy
By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
4.25
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more
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- theology
- christianity
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy
23. Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
4.13
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to t… read more
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24. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
By: Eleanor Janega
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more
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- history
- audiobook
25. #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing
By: Emily Joy Allison
4.35
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When Emily Joy Allison outed her abuser on Twitter, she launched #ChurchToo, a movement to expose t… read more
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26. Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.79
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestselling scholar’s illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated … read more
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27. Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
By: National Geographic Society
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead S… read more
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- history
28. The Exodus
By: Richard Elliott Friedman
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Exodus has become a core tradition of Western civilization. Millions read it, retell it, and c… read more
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"The documentary hypothesis once held (and maybe still holds) the agreement of the majority of scholars. But that is not what made it right. We do not determine truth by a majority vote. The hypothesi…"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
"Could it not be that Moses and/or the Levites just came to it on their own?! Scholars have a tendency to take any parallel between ancient Israel's culture and assume that Israel took it from the oth…"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
"We have seen a movement from many deities to two to one. Whether you take that movement to be fact, mythology, or theology, it is the story of how we got to where most (Western) religions are now. An…"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
"We all know that there are harsh passages toward others in the Bible as well: dispossess the Canaanites, destroy Jericho, etc. But, as I said earlier, the evidence on the ground indicates that most o…"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
29. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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30. D-Day Revisited: The Invasion of Normandy
By: John McManus
3.75
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
World War II is the defining conflict of the 20th century, one that created a line in the sands of … read more
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31. Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist
By: James F. McGrath
4.32
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Meet the real John the Baptist. For many, John the Baptist is a footnote in the gospels—Jesus’… read more
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