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In the late fall of 1095, Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France, and set all of Europe into motion. As many as 150,000 people eventually responded to the call, leaving everything they knew behind to undertake what appeared to be a fool's mission: marching several thousand miles into enemy territory to reconquer Jerusalem for Christendom.

On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being...

In a bold and moving book that is sure to spark heated debate, the novelist and cultural critic James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling 2,000-year course of the Church’s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has provoked in his own life as a Catholic. More than a chronicle of religion, this dark history is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture. 

The great poet Ghalib, part of a long tradition of eclectic liberalism, found Benaras so compelling that he wrote his longest poem on the holy city. If we take Ghalib and his myriads of followers out of the equation, will Hindustan be left with a gaping hole or become something quite new? The...

In 1994, the world looked on in disbelief and horror as Rwanda erupted in violent bloodshed. Now, on the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, a powerful testimony emerges of the power of God to bring peace and reconciliation into hearts full of fear and hate. In Forgiveness Makes You Free, Father Ubald shares his own dramatic story of how he survived the genocide and its traumatic aftermath. He testifies about how God spared his life so that he might help others with deep physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds to experience peace and healing. 

Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...

A Thousand Cuts is a harrowing, sobering and ultimately inspiring autobiography of Professor T.J. Joseph, who in 2010 became the victim of a brutal terrorist assault, accused of blasphemy after setting an exam question that enraged fundamentalists. Following a trumped-up charge of blasphemy...

Bloomsbury presents Crescent Dawn by Si Sheppard, read by Mark Elstob. A groundbreaking new history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of a modern Europe. The determined attempt to...

In little time, Loy has become one of the most powerful advocates of the Buddhist worldview, explaining like no one else its ability to transform the sociopolitical landscape of the modern world. In this, his most accessible work to date, he offers sharp and even shockingly clear presentations of oft-misunderstood Buddhist staples - the working of karma, the nature of self, the causes of trouble on both the individual and societal levels - and the real reasons behind our collective sense of "never enough", whether it's time, money, sex, security...even war.

The narrow street on which Harry Bernstein grew up was seemingly unremarkable; there was nothing to distinguish it from the hundreds of other such working class streets in the industrial north of England - save for an invisible wall down the middle, dividing Jews on one side, from Christians on...

Descubra como o pânico moral e a histeria coletiva transformaram vizinhos comuns em inquisidores implacáveis. Transforme seu deslocamento diário em uma jornada imersiva e inquietante pelas engrenagens da perseguição histórica. Entenda os rígidos mecanismos sociais que converteram...

Desentraña la historia de España y cómo la represión religiosa usó el terror para gobernar la mente de un imperio. Perfecto para enriquecer tu trayecto diario, este relato inmersivo te sumerge en las oscuras sombras del poder y la coerción institucional. Siente la inquietud de una sociedad...

宗教的統一という大義がいかにして日常を縛る監視社会へと変貌したのか、政治と権力が結びつく恐怖支配のメカニズムを解き明かす歴史通史です。毎日の通勤時間や、静かに知性と向き合いたい夜のひとときに、落ち着...

集団心理の暴走と暗黒の歴史が交差するヨーロッパを舞台に、人々の抱く漠然とした恐怖がいかにして罪なき命を奪う狂気へと変貌したのかを解き明かす歴史ノンフィクションです。夜の静寂の中で知的好奇心を深く満た...

Explora la historia filosófica de la incredulidad y el peligroso costo del librepensamiento frente al dogma religioso. Para mentes curiosas en plena búsqueda de la verdad, este viaje reflexivo analiza cómo cuestionar lo divino pasó de ser una herejía fatal a un pilar del secularismo...

Plongez dans la sombre histoire des chasses aux sorcières, où la peur collective engendre des siècles de persécution. Des premiers soupçons médiévaux aux violences judiciaires de l'époque moderne, ce récit captivant dissèque les mécanismes d'une véritable hystérie européenne...

Erlebe eine düstere historische Reise in den lebensgefährlichen Kampf um intellektuelle Freiheit und Religionskritik. Während du auf dem täglichen Arbeitsweg bist oder abends tief in Gedanken versinkst, entfaltet sich hier das nervenaufreibende Schicksal derer, die weltliche und göttliche...

Ergründe in dieser historischen Analyse die wahren Ursprünge europäischer Hexenjagden und tödlicher Massenpaniken. Auf deiner täglichen Fahrt zur Arbeit oder beim konzentrierten Zuhören am Abend zieht dich diese atmosphärische Zeitreise tief in das von Aberglaube und Teufelsangst...

Ein tiefgründiges historisches Sachbuch entschlüsselt die tödliche Dynamik aus Massenpanik, Angst und Machtmissbrauch. Wenn sich Nachbarn plötzlich in Todfeinde verwandeln und bloßer Verdacht schwerer wiegt als Fakten, entsteht ein rasantes Klima des Schreckens. Perfekt für die abendliche...

Plongez dans les heures sombres de la monarchie ibérique, où un tribunal a érigé la terreur en pouvoir absolu. Cette écoute captivante, idéale pour enrichir votre culture historique lors de vos trajets, décortique la mécanique implacable de la célèbre juridiction espagnole. De 1478 au...