The Christian World: A Global History
10 best books like The Christian World: A Global History (Martin E. Marty): Welcome to Night Vale, Goldfinger, The Wire in the Blood, Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society, Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples, Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Five, Vol. 1, More Than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age
| Author | Joseph Fink |
| ISBN | 0062351427 |
From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live.
Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great...
| Author | Ian Fleming |
| ISBN | 0142002046 |
Auric Goldfinger is the richest man in England—though his wealth can’t be found in banks. He’s been hoarding vast stockpiles of his namesake metal, and it’s attracted the suspicion of 007’s superiors at MI6. Sent to investigate, Bond uncovers an ingenious gold-smuggling scheme, as well...
| Author | Val McDermid |
| ISBN | 0312936923 |
Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities are convinced they're runaways with just the bad luck of the draw to connect them. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane...
Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories
| Author | Ian Fleming |
| ISBN | 0143114581 |
Many of Ian Fleming's short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise, and included in this collection are such stories as Octopussy, The Living Daylights, and For Your Eyes Only. The title story, Quantum of Solace, lends its name to the upcoming James...
The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0232521026 |
The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen combines creative case studies of ministry...
Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
| ISBN | 1608467996 |
This volume offers readers a concise and accessible introduction to the ideas of Noam Chomsky, described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive.”
In these recent, wide-ranging interviews, conducted for Truthout by C. J. Polychroniou, Chomsky discusses...
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1524762091 |
Richard Rohr, one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, delivers his long-awaited book on Jesus. In this radical message of hope, Rohr shows how "Jesus" + "Christ" reveal the divine wholeness at the heart of things--and what that means for every one of us.
In his decades as a globally...
| Author | Neil MacGregor |
| ISBN | 0241308291 |
One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a set of beliefs and assumptions - a faith, an ideology, a religion - that goes far beyond the life of the individual. These beliefs are an essential part of a shared identity. They have a unique power to define - and to divide - us, and...
Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Five, Vol. 1
| Author | Brian Buccellato |
| ISBN | 1401267688 |
This is it: the final year of INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US, leading into the storyline of the hit videogame! Having defeated the Green Lantern Corps, the forces of magic, and now the gods themselves, the Superman's totalitarian regime seems to have eliminated all threats. Yet uneasy lies the crown on the...
More Than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age
‘This groundbreaking study provides a much-needed philosophical framework for those practising mindfulness as well as a call to recover the pragmatic and therapeutic dimensions of philosophy.’ - Stephen Batchelor, author of After Buddhism and Secular Buddhism
Modern readers...
Practicing History: Selected Essays
| Author | Barbara W. Tuchman |
| ISBN | 0345911016 |
I'm somewhat new to Tuchman, having read only The Guns of August and this 1981 compilation of essays and speeches ranging from the 1930s to the 1970s. By far the most interesting pieces are in the first section, "The Craft," where she discusses her habits of research and writing. Among her pointers:...
Manila Was a Long Time Ago
Sixteen stories, sixteen cities... and the Filipino in all of them.
Intriguing and curious, the characters in each of the stories in Manila Was a Long Time Ago represent the best and the worst of us, set in places we dream of-the streets of Berlin lined with historically mismatched buildings,...
The Changing Faces of Jesus
| Author | Géza Vermes |
| ISBN | 0670894516 |
Vermes is internationally recognized for pioneering biblical scholarship as well as for the definitive English translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now he takes readers on a journey thru the New Testament to reveal the true historical figure of Jesus hidden beneath the oldest Gospels. How was this...
| Author | Peter May |
| ISBN | 0340823763 |
He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. His victims are young, beautiful and viciously mutilated. Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad, has been put in the spotlight. His bosses, the media, and the terror-stricken public are demanding a fast result. When American pathologist Margaret Campbell...
Si Janus Sílang at ang Hiwagang may Dalawang Mukha
| Author | Edgar Calabia Samar |
Hindi natagpuan nina Janus ang katawan ni Renzo sa Paanan ng Bundok Banog.
Bumalik sila sa Angono para hanapin ang puwang ng mga wala na, at para hanapin ang sagot sa mga naroongtanong: Ano na ang nangyayari kina Manong Joey sa Kalibutan? Wala na bang nakakita kay Boss Serj mua noong Pasko? Bakit...
Shadow Witness (Trese, #7)
| Author | Budjette Tan |
| ISBN | 6219616219 |
All the train stations of the MRT are suddenly visited by ghosts of the brutally murdered. All except for the 13th station.
There is a secret restaurant owned by an aswang chef, who serves the most unique people as one-of-a-kind dishes.
An ancient chest containing an imprisoned entity...
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
| Author | Chinua Achebe |
| ISBN | 1594204829 |
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war
The defining experience of Chinua Achebe’s life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970....
Action (1893): Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice
| Author | Maurice Blondel |
| ISBN | 0268021775 |
“Blondel’s masterwork, Action, here elegantly translated into English for the first time by Oliva Blanchette, remains a philosophical classic. It is a book that should be read by every mature philosopher and theologian.” —International Philosophical Quarterly
“This translation...
| Author | Frederick Forsyth |
| ISBN | 1473560136 |
'Forsyth deserves his place among the thriller greats.' The Times
'The master of the modern espionage novel returns . . . this is Forsyth at his spellbinding best.' Daily Mail
Most weapons do what you tell them. Most weapons you can control.
But what if the most dangerous...
Kubori Kikiam: Guinea Pigs One to Seven
Filipino street food has never been this fun... or strange!
Meet Dodon, Benjo and Manny. They love computer games, porn, and the occasional peek up a pretty girl's skirt—ordinary pursuits perhaps, but for kikiam? If talking and walking street food strikes you as bizarre, then you ain't...
Old Goriot (Penguin Classics)
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN | 1439513465 |
The first 30 pages of this are a masterpiece of realist fiction. A depiction of a lower middle class boarding house and its residents who simultaneously reflect its genteel squalor and create. Martin Amis once infamously commented that he could look through the window of any dwelling in London and accurately...
| Author | Édouard Louis |
| ISBN | 0374266654 |
The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle—a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of-age story
“Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I’m really gonna be a tough guy.” Growing up in a poor village in northern...
Revelations: Book Two of the Naermyth Series
It's been six months after the events in Capiz. Athena fears her developing powers, knowing it's only a matter of time before she loses control.
Meanwhile, the tension between Naermyth and humanity is growing. Macky believes Mamon is again engaged in shady operations. When Athena is sent...
What the Bible Really Teaches: A Challenge for Fundamentalists
| Author | Keith Ward |
| ISBN | 0281056803 |
This prominent theologian adds his contribution to the authority of Scripture debate An impassioned contribution to the debate about the authority of scripture - how we read the Bible, and how, the author believes, a fundamentalist reading is unsustainable. This book will infuriate many and delight...
Politics: Between the Extremes
'Compelling' Ian McEwan 'Engrossing' Alan Johnson 'Essential' Robert Peston
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
Politics has changed. For decades Britain was divided between Left and Right but united in its belief in a two-party state. Now, with nationalism resurgent and mainstream...
The Filipino Heroes League: Supreme Power
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
| Author | John Barton |
| ISBN | 0241003911 |
A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation: how it came to be written, how its contents were selected - and how it really relates to the religions that endorse it
The Bible is the central book in Western culture, yet extraordinarily there is no proper history of it. This exceptional work,...
Looking for Polaris: A Memoir of Losing and Finding
| Author | Dawn Laurente Marfil |
This book was a fast read — not just because it was a short collection but because I truly enjoyed reading Dawn Marfil's essays on love (self, family, romantic) and loss and moving forward. I'm so glad I stumbled upon this book; I wish I read it sooner. What I loved the most was how much I can relate to her...
The Merciful Humility of God: The 2019 Lent Book
| Author | Jane Williams |
| ISBN | 1472954815 |
The 2019 Lent Book is a stirring meditation on God's humility.
In one of the most moving stories of Christian literature, Augustine describes himself as sitting in turmoil, knowing that his current way of life had become untenable and was making him ill, because he could find no resting place...
| Author | John MacQuarrie |
| ISBN | 0802805434 |
"One of Britain's most distinguished and well-loved Reformed theologians, Professor Macquarrie, wrote this book to explain basic Christian beliefs held about Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ. A long-time member of the Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the author intended this book...
