Written in the mid-1960s, this is Maslow's classic treatise on transcendent states of being and their essential value in human life. Proposing religious experience as a legitimate subject for scientific investigation, Maslow studies the human need for spiritual expression.

An up to date and authoritative survey of the entire history of the relationship between science and Christianity. Essays by Christian scientists explore the history of science-faith advances and theological perspectives. The book begins with a review of the scientific method and the nature of religious belief. Subsequent chapters deal with each major scientific discipline and its engagement with Christianity.

The years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art--Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?--and, consequently, the reevaluation of art's place in society. Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art practice worldwide since 1989, focusing on artists whose fresh visual vocabulary and innovation reflect these past turbulent decades. The book's ten chapters...

This revealing, disturbing, and thoroughly researched book exposes a dark side of faith that most Americans do not know exists or have ignored for a long time-religious child maltreatment. After speaking with dozens of victims, perpetrators, and experts, and reviewing a myriad of court cases and studies, the author explains how religious child maltreatment happens. She then takes an in-depth look at the many forms of child maltreatment found in religious...

"The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth--from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal...

We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval...