Faitheist: How An Atheist Found Common Ground With The Religious
10 best books like Faitheist: How An Atheist Found Common Ground With The Religious (Chris Stedman): Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, As You Like It, Richard II, A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line, Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching style, Preet Bharara shows the...
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
| Author | C. Vann Woodward |
| ISBN | 0195146905 |
C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0198320043 |
Tragedy of King Richard II , William Shakespeare
King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some...
A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories
| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 0878160183 |
‘A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories’ written and illustrated by Will Eisner, one of the giants in the sequential arts arena, is a perfectly executed graphic novel, which provides the reader a peek at the American experience during the early 1930s. Through four interconnected graphic...
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
| Author | Shane Claiborne |
| ISBN | 0310266300 |
Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we’ve made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne...
| Author | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| ISBN | 0141185023 |
Unlike the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt's tales probe psychological depths in black people unheard of before in Southern regional writing. They also expose the anguish of mixed-race men and women and the consequences of racial hatred, mob violence,...
Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
| Author | Tiffany Dufu |
| ISBN | 1250071739 |
A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto
from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.
Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu...
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
| Author | Linda Kay Klein |
| ISBN | 1501124811 |
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.
In the 1990s, a “purity industry”...
| Author | Christian Wiman |
| ISBN | 0374216789 |
Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable...
How does Christianity change the way we view the natural world? In this addition to a critically acclaimed series, renowned theologian Norman Wirzba engages philosophers, environmentalists, and cultural critics to show how the modern concept of nature has been deeply problematic. He explains...
Evo's Bolivia: Continuity and Change
| Author | Linda C. Farthing |
| ISBN | 0292757271 |
In this compelling and comprehensive look at the rise of Evo Morales and Bolivia's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl offer a thoughtful evaluation of the transformations ushered in by the western hemisphere's first contemporary indigenous president. Accessible...
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
| Author | Benny Lewis |
| ISBN | 0062282697 |
Benny Lewis, who speaks over ten languages—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time "language hacker," someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3...
Homies and Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America
| Author | Robert Brenneman |
| ISBN | 9780199753 |
Why would a gun-wielding, tattoo-bearing "homie" trade in la vida loca for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano (brother in Christ)? To answer this question, Robert Brenneman interviewed sixty-three former gang members from the "Northern Triangle" of Central America--Guatemala,...
Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance
| Author | Benjamin Kohl |
| ISBN | 1842777599 |
Bolivia has experienced two decades of unprecedented popular resistance to the consequences of neoliberal policies, resulting in the resignation and flight of its president in October 2003. This unusual book uncovers the reasons and processes behind the rising opposition - mirrored in country...
Friedrich Hayek: A Biography
| Author | Alan Ebenstein |
| ISBN | 0226181502 |
In the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of the visionary thinker, from his early years in fin-de-siècle Vienna to his remarkable career as a Nobel Prize winning economist, political philosopher, and leading public intellectual....
Give Up to Get On: How to master the art of quitting in love, work and life
Why giving up is good for you!
We all have a natural tendency to see the best in things, to put a positive spin on situations and to err on the side of optimistic - we are a nation of wishful thinkers. We are hard-wired to believe that if at first you don't succeed, try and try again. But hanging in there...
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
| Author | David Hackett Fischer |
David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America.
Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again,...
