Posted Tue, 09/18/2012 - 4:35pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
September 2012
Historian Thomas Cahill is the author of the bestselling Hinges of History (five volumes as of 2008), published to great acclaim and translated into several languages. The first four volumes were bestsellers. This book, a gift from a Jewish friend, is volume II. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Tue, 11/03/2009 - 3:47pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
October 2009
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Robert Wright taught philosophy at Princeton and religion at the U. of Pennsylvania. He is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a contributing editor at The New Republic, and has written for Time, Slate, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker magazines. Read more
Posted Fri, 04/10/2009 - 4:24pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2009
Publisher:
Back Bay Books
Harold S. Kushner is the author of several best-selling books. This book was also a national bestseller. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) I'm glad that a good friend lent me books 299 and 300 when I told him I bought book 297. Read more
Posted Fri, 04/10/2009 - 4:04pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2009
Harold S. Kushner is the author of several best-selling books. The 1986 first edition of this book had subtitle “The Search for a Life That Matters.” It was a NYT bestseller for over 24 weeks. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) I'm glad that a good friend lent me books 299 and 300 when I told him I bought book 297. Read more
Posted Fri, 04/10/2009 - 3:38pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2009
Publisher:
Schocken; Anv edition
Harold S. Kushner is the author of several best-selling books. First published in 1981, this book is a classic that offers clear thinking and consolation in times of sorrow. It was a #1 bestseller with over 4 million copies sold. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Fri, 03/20/2009 - 12:20pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
February 2008
Publisher:
Grove Press; Reprint edition
Karen Armstrong, a former Roman Catholic nun, authored about 20 books and is an internationally renowned expert on religion and a powerful voice for interfaith understanding. (For her books I've read, click on her name.) Read more
Posted Thu, 03/19/2009 - 6:14pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
October 2007
Karen Armstrong, a former Roman Catholic nun, authored about 20 books and is an internationally renowned expert on religion and also a powerful voice for interfaith understanding. She wrote Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet in 1993. (For her books I've read, click on her name.) Read more
Posted Sun, 03/15/2009 - 3:43pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2006
Publisher:
Penguin Classics; Revised edition
N.J. Dawood is the editor and translator who wrote the Introduction for The Koran (or Qu’an, meaning Recital) is the collection of revelations to Muhammad from God. In 2006 Amazon.com listed 11 books by Dawood. Read more
Posted Fri, 03/13/2009 - 4:31pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 2005
Jaroslav Pellikan is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale, recent winner of the Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences, and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more
Posted Fri, 03/13/2009 - 12:13pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
November 2005
Richard Elliot Friedman's book 132 developed its evidence in the more-or-less chronological story of how he did his detective work. This book color-codes the Torah's sources within the Torah. (For his books I've read, click on his name.) Read more
