Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion

7 best books like Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion (Susan Jacoby): The Warehouse, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, Permafrost, The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World, In Dubious Battle, Holloway, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Small Band of Outcasts Conquered an Empire

The Warehouse

Author	Rob Hart
ISBN	1984823795

Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave.

“On the surface, The Warehouse is a thrilling story of corporate espionage at the highest level, but dig a little deeper and you’ll find a terrifying cautionary tale of the...

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0316409138

A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.

In his international...

Permafrost

Author

Alastair Reynolds

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.

2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch...

The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World

Author

Amanda Little

In the fascinating story of the sustainable food revolution, an environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking bleak--or better than ever?

"In The Fate of Food, Amanda Little takes us on a tour of the future. The journey is scary, exciting, and, ultimately,...

In Dubious Battle

Author	John Steinbeck
ISBN	0143039636

At once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man’s struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious landowners spirals out of control, as a principled defiance...

Holloway

Author	Robert Macfarlane
ISBN	0571302718

Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep down into bedrock.

In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. They found their way into...

The Triumph of Christianity: How a Small Band of Outcasts Conquered an Empire

Author	Bart D. Ehrman
ISBN	1508238332

From the New York Times bestselling authority on early Christianity, the story of how Christianity grew from a religion of twenty or so peasants in rural Galilee to the dominant religion in the West in less than four hundred years.

Christianity didn’t have to become the dominant religion...