The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Charles L Cohen
3.70
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram--Abraham, a father of many nations. With …
Want to Read $ 6.99"The Quran's most prominent message might be summarized as the imperative to believe in one God, God's messengers, books, and angels, and the Day of Judgment."-Charles L Cohen, The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
"The Quran's most prominent message might be summarized as the imperative to believe in one God, God's messengers, books, and angels, and the Day of Judgment."-Charles L Cohen, The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
"Forced to govern as well as preach, Muhammad in Medina was a prophet with exceptional civil power, given that the umma was a polity as well as a congregation."-Charles L Cohen, The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
"Forced to govern as well as preach, Muhammad in Medina was a prophet with exceptional civil power, given that the umma was a polity as well as a congregation."-Charles L Cohen, The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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1. Jerusalem: The Biography
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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. Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction
By: Thomas Dixon
3.87
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
The debate between science and religion is never out of the news: emotions run high, fuelled by pol… read more
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3. The Story of English in 100 Words
By: David Crystal
3.82
Format: None pages,
The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tou… read more
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4. Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
By: Firas Alkhateeb
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the… read more
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5. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
By: Joe Barrett , Peter Enns
3.63
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adamrecounts his transformative spir… read more
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6. Rules of Summer
By: Shaun Tan
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Combining humour and surreal fantasy, Shaun Tan pictures a summer in the lives of two boys. Each sp… read more
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By: Elizabeth Vandiver
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Keats compared discovering Homer to "finding a new planet." What is it in Homer's great works--and … read more
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8. Free Will
By: Sam Harris
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more
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By: Confucius , D.C. Lau
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11. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
By: Graham Robb
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12. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
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Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
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13. Augustine: Philosopher and Saint
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4.25
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14. القرآن الكريم
By: Anonymous
4.38
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally … read more
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"We are nearer to him than his jugular vein."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم"-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
15. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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16. Growing Up
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4.07
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This Pulitzer Prize-winner is "the saddest, funniest, most tragical yet comical picture of coming o… read more
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By: Bruce Pascoe
3.36
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18. Shakespeare's Sonnets
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4.45
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19. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
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An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
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"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
20. The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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5.00
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21. The Art of Biblical Narrative
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3.07
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In what is both a radical approach to the Bible, and a fundamental return to its narrative prose, R… read more
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22. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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23. The Secret History of Christmas
By: Bill Bryson
3.84
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
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24. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
25. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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26. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
27. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.94
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more
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"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
28. North Korea Journal
By: Michael Palin
3.85
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT DOCUMENTARYA glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as … read more
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"My philosophy of travel, such as it is, is that the more difficult somewhere is to get to, the greater the prize to be won by getting there. But when the prize was North Korea, I found this was not a…"-Michael Palin, North Korea Journal
29. Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
By: Philip Freeman
4.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Han… read more
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30. The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Charles L Cohen
3.70
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram--Abraham, a father of many nations. With … read more
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- religion
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"The Quran's most prominent message might be summarized as the imperative to believe in one God, God's messengers, books, and angels, and the Day of Judgment."-Charles L Cohen, The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
"Forced to govern as well as preach, Muhammad in Medina was a prophet with exceptional civil power, given that the umma was a polity as well as a congregation."-Charles L Cohen, The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
"Tanakh does contain historical material, especially as one moves forward form the tenth century BCE, but it does not depict a baseline narrative that needs only minor adjustments to its generally acc…"-Charles L Cohen, The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
"Relegating Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to separate spheres discounts their affinities. Even as they strove to differentiate themselves polemically, they acknowledged that they shared a common de…"-Charles L Cohen, The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
31. The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession
By: Bruce Chilton
4.28
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Until his death in 4 BCE, Herod the Great's monarchy included territories that once made up the kin… read more
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