Broken Altars
Secularist Violence in Modern History
ISBN: HB: 9780300263619,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 14 black&white illus.
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 14 black&white illus.
A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century.
A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political...
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25.00 GBP
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They Flew
A History of the Impossible
ISBN: PB: 9780300280074,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
512 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
512 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance.
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era – tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft...
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16.99 GBP
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Book of Mormon
The Earliest Text
ISBN: PB: 9780300263374,
Yale University Press,
July 2022
832 pp., 22,8x15,2 cm
832 pp., 22,8x15,2 cm
Now in paperback, this corrected text is based on the earliest sources and represents the most accurate and readable edition of the Book of Mormon ever published.
First published in 1830, the Book of Mormon is the authoritative scripture of the Chur...
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17.99 GBP
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Cursed Britain
A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
ISBN: PB: 9780300254778,
Yale University Press,
August 2020
360 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 20 colour illus., 3 maps
360 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 20 colour illus., 3 maps
"Cursed Britain" unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes mounted, many...
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12.99 GBP
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New Cosmic Story
Inside Our Awakening Universe
ISBN: HB: 9780300217032,
Yale University Press,
November 2017
240 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
240 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have...
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22.50 GBP
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On Faith and Science
ISBN: HB: 9780300216172,
Yale University Press,
October 2017
312 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
312 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
Throughout history, scientific discovery has clashed with religious dogma, creating conflict, controversy, and sometimes violent dispute. In this enlightening and accessible volume, distinguished historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Lar...
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27.50 GBP
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Flourishing
Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
ISBN: PB: 9780300227130,
Yale University Press,
May 2017
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula...
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14.99 GBP
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Before Religion
A History of a Modern Concept
ISBN: PB: 9780300216783,
Yale University Press,
September 2015
288 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
288 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as "ancient religion". Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures; at...
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19.99 GBP
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Solomon's Secret Arts
The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780300123586,
Yale University Press,
April 2013
412 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
412 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational tho...
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35.00 GBP
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Spirit of Zoroastrianism
ISBN: PB: 9780300170351,
Yale University Press,
May 2011
256 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
256 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions, though it is not among the best understood. Originating with Iranian tribes living in Central Asia in the second millennium BCE, Zoroastrianism was the official religion of the Iranian empires un...
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14.99 GBP
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