Penguin Books Australia

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.

'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?...

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...

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.

'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
 

Can science and religion work together, after all?

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...

'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.

'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...