Religion for Atheists - A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Religion for Atheists - A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. In this book, a non-believer both rejects the supernatural claims of the major religions and points out just how many good ideas they sometimes have about how we should live. It looks at the God debate with fresh eyes

Course of Love (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant new novel about love and marriage in the modern world - from the author the bestselling novel Essays in Love Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but what comes after happily ever after? This is a love story with a difference. From dating to marriage,

School of Life - An Emotional Education (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Consolations of Philosophy (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Sets six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety; the fear of failure and

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (Harris Sam)(Paperback)

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and

OCR A Level Religious Studies: Philosophy of Religion (Waterfield Julian)(Paperback / softback)

Engage students with the 'Philosophy of Religion' content for OCR A Level Religious Studies; build their knowledge, deepen their understanding and develop their skills using this accessible textbook, brought to you by subject specialists with examining experience and the leading A Level Religious

Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia (Bottro Jean)(Paperback)

A well written guide to Mesopotamian religion by one of the world's foremost Assyriologists. Bottero studies the public and private relationships between the people and the divine, their cosmology, hymns and prayers, rituals, myths and magic. He discusses important sites, monuments, objects, images

The Course of Love (De Botton Alain)(Paperback)

'An engrossing tale that] provides plenty of food for thought' (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the

Hinduism for Dummies (Srinivasan Amrutur V.)(Paperback)

Your hands-on guide to one of the world's major religions The dominant religion of India, 'Hinduism' refers to a wide variety of religious traditions and philosophies that have developed over thousands of years. Today, the United States is home to approximately one million Hindus. If you've heard

How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures - Robin Dunbar

A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologistWhen did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured?Every society in the history of humanity has

Art of Travel (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our

News - A User's Manual (Botton Alain de)(Paperback / softback)

With an exploration of our obsession with media, this book examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the

Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical (Burkert Walter)(Paperback)

This is the first major synthesis of Greek religion to appear for a generation. A clearly structured and readable survey for classical scholars and students, it will also be generally welcomed as the best modern account of any polytheistic religious system. The text builds up an impressive and

A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion (Herling Bradley L.)(Paperback)

How should we understand and interpret the strange but familiar thing that we call 'religion'? What are the foundations of a methodical approach to this subject, and what theoretical tools are available to students who are new to this area of inquiry? A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion

The Art of Travel (de Botton Alain)(Paperback)

A wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will 'give one an expansive sense of wonder' (The Baltimore Sun). Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and

Souls of China - The Return of Religion After Mao (Johnson Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition (McKanan Dan)(Paperback)

A broad, definitive history of the profound relationship between religion and movements for social change in AmericaThe United States has always had an active, vibrant, and influential religious Left. In every period of our history, people of faith have envisioned a society of peace and justice,

Status Anxiety (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Looking at history, philosophy, economics, art and politics, this book reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their

Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America (de la Torre Miguel A.)(Paperback)

This book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santer a - a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own secretive nature, has close to a million adherents in the United States alone. Santer a is a religion with

The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics (Berger Peter L.)(Paperback)

Theorists of 'secularization' have for two centuries been saying that religion must inevitably decline in the modern world. But today, much of the world is as religious as ever. This volume challenges the belief that the modern world is increasingly secular, showing instead that modernization more

Beyond Religion - Ethics for a Whole World (Lama Dalai)(Paperback / softback)

A decade later, His Holiness enters the contemporary debate about religion vs atheism, and returns to the theme of ethics with a major new work: Beyond Religion: ethics for a whole world. In this thought-provoking new book he argues that religion is not a necessity for pursuing a spiritual

Kiss & Tell (de Botton Alain)(Paperback)

Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone's life is a subject worthy of the biographer's art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathize, the narrator of Alain de Botton's Kiss & Tell takes Johnson's idea to heart and decides to write about the next person who walks into his life

Saving the People - How Populists Hijack Religion(Paperback / softback)

Critical look at the new wave of right-wing populist movements that are using religion to mobilise

God Argument - The Case Against Religion and for Humanism (Grayling Professor A. C.)(Paperback / softback)