A noted author of several books as well as articles in such publications as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsday, and Vogue, Susan Jacoby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Jacoby) attempts to set the record straight by demonstrating just what sort of role both individual freethinkers as well as more general movements and groups have had on significant […]
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Prolific author Andrew (‘A.N.’) Wilson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._N._Wilson) takes us on a delightful tour of the recent past, the age of Elizabeth II. Starting from the year of the coronation in 1953 Wilson covers such familiar topics as the Suez crisis, Vietnam, The Beatles, Princess Diana, the miners’ strike, the Cold War, the Angry Young Men, the
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How did an obscure Jewish religious sect in Roman occupied Judea go from nothing to become the world’s most dominant organised religion? Why did any one of the hundreds of other obscure cults such as Mithraism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism) not meet with the same success? There have been hundreds of histories of Christianity, each positioned somewhere along the spectrum
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This book (2008) has wonder in the title and is wonderful to read. Richard Holmes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Holmes_(biographer) is a biographer to trade and married to novelist Rose Tremain. This was his first major work of biography in over a decade. Holmes immerses us into the world where the Romantic spirit was being thrilled by the discoveries of science
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