Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society & Culture

ETIQUETTE & ENTERTAINING. This invaluable guide will help you make your way in polite society. There comes a time in every girl's life where she has to leave behind the follies of youth and embrace adulthood. No longer can you get away with spending a Friday night necking bottles of cheap alcopop...

Evidence now points to consciousness existing beyond the brain, such as when the brain is temporarily incapacitated, as well as to the survival of consciousness after death. Conventional science prefers to dismiss these findings because they cannot be accommodated by a materialist view of reality...

Journalist Robert Blair Kaiser takes readers inside the Jesuits' head-and-heart take on the faith, showing how a Jesuit's training to make bold moves for the greater good plays out in the first Jesuit pope-a self-confessed sinner who encourages us to love our supposedly-less-worthy selves and hel...

This book demonstrates a whole range of ways in which different spaces can be instigated and set up in response to children's interests. It is perfect for practitioners looking for new ways to present equipment and new ideas to create beautiful play spaces, which can be executed or set up in a va...

A leading textbook for world religion, this edition is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Known and valued for its respected board of consulting editors, this text addresses ways to study religion, and provides broad coverage of diverse reli...

Since its origins in the deserts of Arabia fourteen centuries ago, Islam has grown until today it has one and a half billion followers, nearly a quarter of mankind. Today Islam is feared and distrusted by much of the Western world for its association with religious extremism and terrorism. Mohamm...

Christians find it perplexing that Jews don't accept Jesus as the messiah because it seems so obvious to them when they routinely refer to Jesus as "Christ" and "the messiah." Almost all Christians think that the prophets of the Jewish Bible frequently made predictions that the messiah would be t...

Explore the Jewish & Christian Scriptures with the world renowned Bible scholar and expert on Jewish evangelism, Rabbi Tovia Singer. This new two-volume work, Let's Get Biblical! Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah?, takes the reader on an eye-opening journey through timeless passage...

Anne Manne's "The life of I" opens with a compelling analysis of the role of narcissism in Anders Breivik's murderous rampage in Norway. Far from being the act of an isolated madman, Breivik's Manifesto shows how deeply he was a man of our time. But what kind of parenting, and what kind of cultur...

DICTIONARIES OF QUOTATIONS. Wit, craic, and maxims from the Emerald Isle's most famous descendents including JFK, Ronald Reagan, St. Patrick, William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde, George Carlin, Brendan Behan, Michael Collins, de Valera, Tug McGraw, and many more! In this lively and wide-reaching co...