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1.		God the Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist from Prometheus Books Price: £9.09 Customer Review: A new addition to the recent new atheist polemics. Stenger has done only marginally useful scientific work. As for his suggestion that Anthropic Fine tuning is a non-problem because of his simplistic program MonkeyGod that purports to simulate universes and "show" that anthropic universes are... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Exploring History 1400-1900: An Anthology of Primary Sources from Manchester University Press Price: £14.24	Click here for more information

3.		The Pagan Book of Days: A Guide to the Festivals, Traditions, and Sacred Days of the Year from Destiny Books Customer Review: It is worth pointing out that this book is exceptionally good as a reference guide, regardless if one is pagan or not. I am an atheist, but was always interested in the pagan calender, which is still a part of our more traditional calender. The content is very impressive and is well worth a look if... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews from HarperPerennial Price: £6.99 Customer Review: If you are interested in the history of Greece, of the Balkans, or of the Ottoman Empire, this beautifully written book is not to be missed. I disagree with the reviewer Yorgos who wrote that Mazower adopts the "stubborn and annoying British habit of calling the city "Salonica."" Mazower's book is... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford Paperback Reference) from OUP Oxford Price: £7.09 Customer Review: I bought this book using money I had recieved on my 21st birthday, I did not buy it because I needed it for a course of anything like that, I bought it just out of interest. I must say I do not regret buying this book one bit, as it is just so interesting. The names of Saints are something which... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		John Newton: From Disgrace to "Amazing Grace": From Disgrace to "Amazing Grace" from Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Price: £7.69 Customer Review: The story of John Newton's life is one of my personal favorites. Like most of us, Newton's journey to his destiny was filled with false starts, obstacles, and a good deal of regret. Perhaps of all the biographies that I have read, the story of this man's life resonates most with me as genuinely... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		The Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons from Profile Books Ltd Price: £10.50 Customer Review: Michael Haag's The Templars: History & Myth, is the best book I have read on the history of the Knights Templar. Written for the non-academic reader, it nevertheless is a comprehensive, scholarly approach to a fascinating subject. Anyone who subscribes to some of the modern myths and pseudo... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		Islam: A Short History (Universal History) from Phoenix Price: £5.99 Customer Review: This book is useful only as a short book with some general historical factual information, dates and the like. The analysis of historical and religions events and developements says more about the writer and her post-christian liberalism than it does about Islam. The writer shows some knowledge of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths we Never Knew: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew from OUP USA Price: £6.29 Customer Review: The "Lost Christianities" of Bart Ehrman is a very neutral description of the Christian history of the first 3 centuries AD. Ehrman has no axe to grind with competing scholars no dogmatic bias, just the open minded attempt to describe the different streams of Christianities before the orthodox were... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England,1400-1580 from Yale University Press Price: £11.98 Customer Review: This work is, without a doubt, the absolute benchmark when it comes to the study of English popular religion on the eve of the Reformation. Duffy brings the lost world of late medieval / early modern English Catholicism to life in such an enthralling fashion that you're almost as sorry about the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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