Fundamentalism: A Very Short Introduction

5 best books like Fundamentalism: A Very Short Introduction (Malise Ruthven): Castle in the Air, Mostly Dead Things, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

Castle in the Air

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0064473457

In which a humble young carpet merchant wins, then loses, the princess of his dreams

Far to the south of the land of Ingary, in the Sultanates of Rashpuht, there lived in the city of Zanzib a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer named Abdullah who loved to spend his time daydreaming. He was...

Mostly Dead Things

Author	Kristen Arnett
ISBN	1947793306

One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into...

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Author	Daniel Goleman
ISBN	0062114867

Bestselling author Daniel Goleman returns with a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention

For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences...

The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus

Author	Charles King
ISBN	0195177754

The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly...

The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

Author	Peter Singer
ISBN	0300180276

From the ethicist the New Yorker calls “the most influential living philosopher,” a new way of thinking about living ethically

Peter Singer’s books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a new...