India: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Book
India s population of 1.2 billion is as varied and colorful as the spice markets of Old Delhi. Each...
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Book
Alain de Botton's Religion for Atheists looks at the God debate with fresh eyes All of us, whether...
The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns and Daniel J. Harrington
Book
Can the Bible be approached both as sacred scripture and as a historical and literary text? For many...
The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam
Book
The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the...
The Golden Lands: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand & Vietnam
Book
A groundbreaking survey of the Buddhist architecture of Southeast Asia, abundantly illustrated with...
The Vatican Heresy: Bernini and the Building of the Hermetic Temple of the Sun
Robert Bauval, Chiara Hohenzollern and Sandro Zicari
Book
In 16th century Italy, in the midst of the Renaissance, two powerful movements took hold. The first,...
Writings Against the Saracens: Peter the Venerable
Book
Robert of Arbrissel (d. 1117) once named Cluny among the chief holy places of Christendom-just after...
Theatre, Exhibition, and Curation: Displayed and Performed
Book
Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre...
From the Deep Woods to Civilization
Book
"Has a many-sided appeal …. This stimulating book is one of the few that really deserve the...
Buddha at the Gas Pump
Podcast
The implication of the title - Buddha at the Gas Pump - is that ordinary people are experiencing...