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Reformations
A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition …
They Flew: A History of the Impossible
A Very Brief History of Eternity
What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by …
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
A memoir of the Cuban Revolution from the perspective of a Batista-era child describes his carefree early days, the harrowing legal changes that occurred with the ascension of …
Age of Reform, 1250-1550
Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittges The seeds of the swift and …
War against the Idols
In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as ‘idolatry’, or false religion. Wherever these ideas became accepted, …
Very Brief History of Eternity
From the author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a brilliant cultural history of the idea of eternityWhat is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally …
Jews, Christians, Muslims
Thematic examination of monotheistic religions The second edition of Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions, compares Judaism, …
Waiting For Snow In Havana
The moving, wry, wildly beautiful story of a boy exiled from his childhood by the Cuban revolution.
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila
The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever writtenThe Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the …