The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion (Stark Rodney)(Paperback)

Short History of Christianity (Blainey Geoffrey)(Paperback / softback)

A vivid, concise and balanced history of the world's largest religion, written for readers of all religious

Anaconda: The Secret Life of the World's Largest Snake (Rivas Jess a.)(Pevná vazba)

Anaconda tells the unexpected story of the world's largest snake. Written by Jes�s Rivas, the undisputed expert on the biology of anacondas, this is the first authoritative book on the biology of the green anaconda. In this book, Rivas describes his experiences over a quarter of a century,

How Jesus Became Christian (Wilson Barrie)(Paperback)

In How Jesus Became Christian, Barrie Wilson Ph.D. confronts one of the simplest--yet undiscovered--questions of religious history: How did a young, well-respected rabbi become the head of a cult that bore his name, espoused a philosophy he wouldn't wholly understand, and possessed a clear streak

How the World Works: Religion - The rich history of the world's major faiths (Hawkins John)(Paperback / softback)

Sceptical Christianity: Exploring Credible Belief (Reiss Robert)(Paperback)

How can Christianity remain a credible religion in our current era of scepticism? Reviving the debates begun by John Robinson and the demythologisation movement over half a century ago, Sceptical Christianity considers the main reasons behind people's religious scepticism and posits the question:

The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today (Deconick April)(Paperback)

Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical

Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (Keown Damien)(Paperback)

With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last seventy years or so there has been a growing interest in Buddhism, and it continues to capture the imagination of many in the West, who see it as either an alternative or a supplement to their own

Introduction to the Study of Religion (Rodrigues Hillary P.)(Paperback)

Why do people study religion? How have they studied it in the past? How do we study religion today? Is the academic study of religion the same as religious education? These and many other questions are addressed in this engaging introduction to the discipline of religious studies, written by two

A New History of Early Christianity (Freeman Charles)(Paperback)

This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a familiar story The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early Christianity shows how our current debates are rooted

Introducing Jesus: A Graphic Guide (O'Hear Anthony)(Paperback)

Christianity interprets Jesus as identical to Christ, but is the historical Jesus the same as the Christian savior?This Introducing Jesus graphic guide seeks to place Jesus within the context of his time and to trace the developments of Christianity from St. Paul to modern liberation

Magic in Christianity: From Jesus to the Gnostics (Conner Robert)(Paperback)

The world of Jesus and the early Christians swarmed with prophets and exorcists, holy men and healers, who invoked angels and demons, gods and ghosts. Magic in Christianity: From Jesus to the Gnostics explores that world through the surviving texts of the first Christians and their pagan and Jewish

Nemesis - The Hunt for Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal (Glenny Misha)(Paperback / softback)

This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil's most notorious criminal. It's a story of gold-hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, politicians and drug lords and the battle for the beautiful

Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World's Largest Sex Trafficker (Krell Maggy)(Pevná vazba)

Insider details from the takedown of Backpage, the world's largest sex trafficker, by the prosecutor who led the charge For almost a decade, Backpage.com was the world's largest sex trafficking operation. Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, in 800 cities throughout the world, Backpage ran

Between Two Worlds - How the English Became Americans (Gaskill Malcolm (Professor of Early Modern History University of East Anglia))(Paperback / softback)

The politics of everyday China (Collins Neil)(Paperback)

China's rise from the poverty, isolation and stagnation of the 1970s to the world's second largest economy is a transformative event perhaps unequalled in human history. The world today pays more attention to China, looks to it with more admiration than perhaps any other time. Yet, this rise also

Barbarians At The Gate (Burrough Bryan)(Paperback / softback)

The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess and egotism of the

God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades (Stark Rodney)(Paperback)

The truth about the Christian Crusades and Muslim Jihad. --Christian Scholar's

The Jesus I Never Knew (Yancey Philip)(Paperback)

How does the Jesus of the New Testament compare to the Jesus we think we know so well? Join bestselling author Philip Yancey as he conducts an enlightening biblical and historical investigation into the real Jesus.From the manger in Bethlehem to the cross in Jerusalem, Philip Yancey presents a

How Water Influences Our Lives (Jahren Per)(Pevná vazba)

Gives the reader an insight into how the world's largest commodity, water, influences many aspects of our lifeProvides many illustrations, cultural and historic background, anecdotes and side-stories The book is suitable not only for professionals, but also for anyone who is interested in

The Historical Jesus: Five Views (Beilby James K.)(Paperback)

Christianity Today Book Award winner The scholarly quest for the historical Jesus has a distinguished pedigree in modern Western religious and historical scholarship, with names such as Strauss, Schweitzer and Bultmann highlighting the story. Since the early 1990s, when the Jesus quest was

Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Bayne Tim)(Paperback)

What is the philosophy of religion? How can we distinguish it from theology on the one hand and the psychology/sociology of religious belief on the other? What does it mean to describe God as 'eternal'? And should religious people want there to be good arguments for the existence of God, or is

How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought (Batnitzky Leora)(Paperback)

A new approach to understanding Jewish thought since the eighteenth century Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since

Selfie - How the West Became Self-Obsessed (Storr Will)(Paperback / softback)

Selfie explains how the West became self-obsessed and reveals the danger of this modern obsession - a 'fascinating' (Guardian), 'brilliant' (Independent) and 'electrifying' (Financial Times)

Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats (Goodfellow Maya)(Paperback)

How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politics As refugees drowned in the Mediterranean, the UK Government proudly announced that the aim of its immigration policy was to create a 'hostile environment' for undocumented immigrants. Despite study after study confirming that