The Qur'an

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The Qur’an: A Biography is a beautifully written and authoritative account of one of the world’s most famous, and most misunderstood books.Few books in history are as poorly read or understood as the …

The Village Effect

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Marrying the findings of the new field of social neuroscience together with gripping human stories, award-winning author and psychologist Susan Pinker explores the impact of face-to-face contact from …

Band of Angels

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In Band of Angels, Kate Cooper tells the surprising story of early Christianity from the woman’s point of view. Though they are often forgotten, women from all walks of life played an invaluable role …

Dante in Love

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With a biographer’s eye for detail and a novelist’s comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works of literatur …

The First Muslim

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The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited – and remade.Muhammad’s was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his nam …

Plato at the Googleplex

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What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters?A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and thin …

The Kingdom of Infinite Space

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From the act of blushing and the amount of manganese in our tears (tears of pain contain more than tears of distress) to the curiousness of a kiss, The Kingdom of Infinite Space explores the astonishi …

Green Philosophy

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The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-explo …

Four Meditations on Happiness

In this original and thought-provoking book philosopher Michael Hampe sets out to help us understand happiness. The right and proper path to a happy life is a topic that has been debated for millennia …

Our Church

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For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of theroad, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives w …

The Illustrated Christmas Cracker

For over forty years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers – a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends – to his friends instead of a Christmas card. …

The Twelve Days of Christmas

My dearest darling- That partridge, in that lovely little pear tree! What an enchanting, romantic, poetic present! Bless you and thank you.Your deeply loving EmilyEveryone knows the ‘Twelve Days of Ch …

A History of Western Thought

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Stephen Trombley’s A History of Western Thought, outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today.No major representative of any …

Australian Classics

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Providing a selected overview of Australia’s greatest literature, Australian Classics is an accessible companion to the literature of Australia from the nineteenth century to the present. Australian C …

And Man Created God

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And Man Created God is a sweeping exploration of the religions of the world at the time of Jesus: this is popular history at its best.At the time of Jesus’s birth, the world was in ferment. Across Eur …

Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey

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The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers often fail to recognise that they were made famous by t …