Religious issues & debates

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Book Cover:  My Friend the Fanatic: Travels With an Indonesian Islamist
By Sadanand Dhume
In October 2002, Sadanand Dhume found himself in a place most foreigners were trying to flee -Bali. Powerful explosions the previous night had ripped through two tourist nightclubs, killing more than 200 people. That evening he visited all that remained of the Sari Club: piles of ash, twisted girders, blackened beer bottles and the stench of charred wood and petrol. Amidst the desultory crackle of...
In October 2002, Sadanand Dhume found himself in a place most foreigners were trying to flee -Bali. Powerful explosions the previous night had ripped through two tourist nightclubs, killing more than 200...
Published: 05/05/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921351402
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover: The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

Across much of inland Africa and Asia, from Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia to Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, live more than half of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims, and sixty percent of the world's 2 billion Christians.

Across much of inland Africa and Asia, from Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia to Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, live more than half of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims, and sixty percent of the world's...

Published: 11/03/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781846144219
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  This May Help You Understand the World
By Lawrence Potter

'A current affairs primer that ensures you'll never again struggle at dinner parties when someone asks you for your views on Palestine' 
Time Out

What is an oligarch?
Who is really in charge of China?
What is Zionism?
How do the US elections work?
What's really going on in Iran?

Do you ever find yourself floundering in a sea of ten-second soundbites, wishing you had a better grasp of current affairs?...





'A current affairs primer that ensures you'll never again struggle at dinner parties when someone asks you for your views on Palestine' 
Time Out

What is an oligarch?
Who is really in charge of China?...

Published: 29/07/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846144417
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will  Transform Your Life and Our World
By Michael Dowd

Few issues have revealed deeper divisions in our society than the debate between creationism and evolution, between religion and science. Yet from the fray, Reverend Michael Dowd has emerged as a reconciler, finding faith strengthened by the power of reason.

With evidence from contemporary astrophysics, geology, biology, anthropology, and evolutionary psychology, Thank God for Evolution lays out a...

Few issues have revealed deeper divisions in our society than the debate between creationism and evolution, between religion and science. Yet from the fray, Reverend Michael Dowd has emerged as a reconciler...

Published: 13/07/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780452295346
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Hosts of Living Forms

Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging. These writings from On the Origin of Species explain how different life forms appear all over the globe, evolve over millions of years, become extinct and are supplanted.

Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging. These writings from On the Origin of Species...

Published: 15/09/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141048109
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus
By Oliver Bullough

'With this impassioned volume Bullough has struck a blow for the glory of the Caucasus and helped to give voice to the voiceless' 
Justin Marozzi, Financial Times
 

'With this impassioned volume Bullough has struck a blow for the glory of the Caucasus and helped to give voice to the voiceless' 
Justin Marozzi, Financial Times
 

Published: 06/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141037745
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds
By Chicago Social Brain Network The

Can science and religion work together, after all?

Can science and religion work together, after all?

Published: 10/12/2010
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780137075454
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover: The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat  Death

An obsession with the nature of death lies at the heart of the human experience. For most of our history religion provided a clear explanation for life and the afterlife. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries this framework came under relentless pressure as new ideas – from psychiatry to evolution to Communism – seemed to suggest that our fate was now in our own hands...

An obsession with the nature of death lies at the heart of the human experience. For most of our history religion provided a clear explanation for life and the afterlife. But in the late nineteenth and...

Published: 01/03/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781846142192
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to Democracy
By Jeff Sharlet

'A gripping political thriller, a masterpiece of investigative journalism'
Peter Manseau, author of Rag and Bone

The secretive Christian fundamentalist group known as 'The Family' is leading a new crusade for 'God-led government'. Jeff Sharlet, author  The Family (more than 100,000 copies sold worldwide), is the only journalist to have reported from inside the organisation.




'A gripping political thriller, a masterpiece of investigative journalism'
Peter Manseau, author of Rag and Bone

The secretive Christian fundamentalist group known as 'The Family' is leading a new crusade...


Published: 01/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702238659
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover: The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline Between Christianity and Islam

'Her dispatches are compelling. She writes beautifully . . . and explains, more than any newspaper headline, what has gone wrong' Michael Binyon, The Times

The tenth parallel - the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator - is the front line where Christianity and Islam collide. Here, from Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia to Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, both religions are...

'Her dispatches are compelling. She writes beautifully . . . and explains, more than any newspaper headline, what has gone wrong' Michael Binyon, The Times

The tenth parallel - the line of latitude...

Published: 04/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241952238
RRP: $22.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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