In this beautifully illustrated book, the Reverend Nicholas Holtam – vicar of London's internationally renowned church St Martin-in-the-Fields – presents his favourite paintings from the National Gallery, London, alongside religious commentary, Bible...

Crushed by the Romans in the first century A. D. , the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and rei...

For sale in CIS only! Viewing Iraq from the outside is made easier by compartmentalising its people (at least the Arabs among them) into Shi'as and Sunnis. But can such broad terms, inherently resistant to accurate quantification, description and de...

Currently it is fashionable to be devoutly undevout. Religion's most passionate antagonists – Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others – have publishers competing eagerly to market their various denunciations of r...

For sale in CIS only! We fail to understand Islam', writes Roger Hardy in the introduction to this book, 'and we are paying a high price for our failure'. "The Muslim Revolt" explains, in layman's language, a phenomenon that still seems to madden an...

For sale in CIS only! In his seminal work "The Clash of Civilisations", Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington claimed that conflict between cultural blocs, or civilisations, will dominate the future. More controversially, he predicted that future c...

"The Anchor Bible" series offers new, book-by-book translations of the "Old and New Testament" and the "Apocrypha", with commentary. This volume on the "Book of Daniel" has been prepared by two distinguished biblical scholars from the faculty of the...

Admittedly, as the last book in the "Old Testament", and a minor prophet at that, Malachi is often overlooked by Bible readers. Yet, Malachi's passionate proclamations and the significance of what he had to say to his people capture the attention of...

The poetry found in the "Book of Lamentations" is an eloquent expression of one man's, and one nation's, despair. The poet is deep in mourning as a result of the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in the sixth century b. c. e. He looks to Israel's...