6 Best nonfiction books like Questioning Islam: Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the Muslim Religion by Peter Townsend

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Questioning Islam: Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the Muslim Religion

By: Peter Townsend

4.16

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Many questions are currently being asked about the place of Islam in the modern world. Among these …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Questioning Islam: Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the Muslim Religion by Peter Townsend , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

By: Richard Dawkins , Well-illustrated

4.16

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Charles Darwin, whose 1859 masterpiece "On the Origin of Species" shook society to its core, would … read more

Similar categories in Richard Dawkins's The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution book and Peter Townsend's Questioning Islam: Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the Muslim Religion

  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
"The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried"

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

"Of course they don't function as gills, but five-week human embryos can be regarded as little pink fishes, with gills."

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

"Incidentally, I'm puzzled why, with so much oxygen about, thing didn't burst into flames all the time. Perhaps they did."

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

"It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes."

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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2. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more

Similar categories in Christopher McDougall's Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen book and Peter Townsend's Questioning Islam: Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the Muslim Religion

  • nonfiction
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3. A Little History of the World

By: E.H. Gombrich , Clifford Harper , None

4.11

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. The War of the Worlds

By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more

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"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.17

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more

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"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

6. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By: Stephen King

3.96

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more

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7. The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Begin your journey into Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime … read more

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"Do not spoil the wonder with haste!"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

"Never is too long a word even for me..."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

"What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

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8. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

By: David Wallace-Wells

4.01

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

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9. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

By: Mary Roach

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s classic, now with a new epilogue. For two tho… read more

Similar categories in Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers book and Peter Townsend's Questioning Islam: Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the Muslim Religion

  • nonfiction
  • history
"There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room..."

-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."

-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."

-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."

-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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10. Questioning Islam: Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the Muslim Religion

By: Peter Townsend

4.16

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Many questions are currently being asked about the place of Islam in the modern world. Among these … read more

Similar categories in Peter Townsend's Questioning Islam: Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the Muslim Religion book and Peter Townsend's Questioning Islam: Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the Muslim Religion

  • islam
  • history
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • society

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