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	Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk  •  Susan T. Hitchcock  •  John Esposito  •  Desmond Tutu  •  Mpho Tutu RELIGION •  2006 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES A handsomely produced tour of the five major world religions and the places that each holds sacred. This oversize book by National Geographic features 210 photographs, illustrations and maps, along with essays by contributing scholars. (REL05, $24.00)
	World Religions: Eastern Traditions  •  Willard G. Oxtoby RELIGION •  2002 •  PAPER  • 515 PAGES A clear and insightful introduction to Eastern religions by a team of scholars. It's a handsomely produced concise overview of Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist, and East Asian traditions, as rewarding for the general reader as the student. This second edition features additional suggested reading, photographs, glossary and thought-provoking review questions. (ASA07, $62.95)
	Islamic Art and Culture, A Visual History  •  Nasser D. Khalili CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 192 PAGES An oversized volume examining 1,200 years of cultural and art history from all corners of the Islamic world. Includes architecture, calligraphy, carpets and rugs, armor, textiles, and miniature paintings. (ISL64, $65.00)
	What Makes You Not a Buddhist  •  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse RELIGION •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 128 PAGES From the Buddhist lama and filmmaker comes a book on viewing the postmodern Western world through Buddhist perspectives on happiness, suffering, and enlightenment, written with warmth and wit. (TBT96, $19.95)

	A Peace to End all Peace, The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East  •  David Fromkin   • HISTORY  •  With its focus on the creation of the modern nations of the Middle East, this fascinating book reveals the historical foundations of the present-day conflicts in the region. Fromkin weaves a panoramic tale spanning from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to independence after WWI. (ARB13, $20.00)
	Atlas of the World's Religions  •  Frederick Denny  •  Ninian Smart   • RELIGION  •  Three hundred illuminating color maps show the growth of religious thought and influence across the globe in this illustrated, authoritative geography of faith. (WLD123, $110.00)
	Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras  •  Diana L. Eck   • RELIGION  •  With its wide geographic and spiritual scope, and combination of the personal and scholarly, this book is a fascinating introduction to religion, and the author. (IDA78, $20.00)
	Essential Tibetan Buddhism  •  Robert Thurman   • RELIGION  •  A collection of recently translated texts by the foremost Western scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. Thurman has chosen well from the vibrant sacred literature of Tibet, and helpfully includes suggested further reading, explanatory notes and a directory of sacred sites. (TBT15, $14.95)
	From the Holy Mountain, a Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East  •  William Dalrymple   • RELIGION  •  In this beautifully written hymn to Eastern Christianity, Dalrymple follows the journeys of ancient monks and scholars through Istanbul, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. (MDE49, $19.00)
	Islam, A Short History  •  Karen Armstrong   • RELIGION  •  Armstrong brings authority and experience to this clear-headed, vivid survey of the history and impact of Islam from the birth of Muhammad to present day challenges. A Modern Library Chronicles book. (ISL15, $14.95)
	Muhammad, The Prophet for Our Time  •  Karen Armstrong   • RELIGION  •  In this extended essay, a volume in the Eminent Lives series, Armstrong looks at the significance of Mohammed's life and teachings. (ISL60, $21.95)
	The Atlas of Religion  •  Joanne O'Brien   • RELIGION  •  One in a series by the University of California Press. (REL36, $21.95)
	The Great Arab Conquests, How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in  •  Hugh Kennedy   • HISTORY • FAVORITE  •  A scholarly history of the transformation of the world's religious and political landscape in the hundred years after the death of the Prophet. (MDE121, $27.95)
	The Ornament of the World, How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain  •  Maria Rosa Menocal  •  Harold Bloom   • RELIGION  •  A lively, illuminating portrait of the Andalucian Kingdom, its cultural achievements and religious tolerance from the eighth century to 1492. (SPN185, $14.99)
	The Orthodox Church  •  Kallistos Ware   • RELIGION  •  A comprehensive, clear overview of the origins, historical development and practice of Eastern Christianity by a British scholar and Archbishop. With chapters on Byzantium, conversion of the Slavs, the Church under Islam and the contemporary Orthodox world. (GEN261, $17.00)
	The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions  •  John Westerdale Bowker   • RELIGION  •  An exhaustive reference to the history, beliefs and practices of the world's religions, featuring more than 8,200 entries and contributions from 80 experts. (REL41, $29.95)
	The World of Buddhism  •  Richard Gombrich   • RELIGION  •  With chapters on the teachings of the Buddha, Buddhist history, sects, shrines, and temples and Buddhism as it is practiced in in India, Burma, Thailand, China, Korea, and Japan. (REL39, $39.95)
	When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World  •  Hugh Kennedy   • HISTORY  •  Kennedy evokes the culture, politics and key figures of the Abbasid court in rich detail in this portrait of Baghdad at zenith of its power in the 8th and 9th centuries. (MDE85, $18.95)
	World Religions, Western Traditions  •  Willard G. Oxtoby   • RELIGION  •  (REL27, $62.95)
	Trickster Travels, A Sixteenth-century Muslim Between Worlds  •  Natalie Zemon Davis   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  n this brilliant book one of the great scholars of early modern Europe re-imagines the life and times of Leo Africanus (al-Hasan al-Wazzan), the enigmatic Muslim traveler and geographer of the Renaissance. (NAF47, $30.00)
	Where God Was Born, A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories  •  Bruce Feiler   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This third of Feiler's books on the Bible and the Middle East, takes him to Israel, Iraq and Iran. He interweaves his own spiritual quest with interviews and an account of travels with archaeologist Avner Goren. (MDE91, $14.95)
	A Time to Keep Silence  •  Patrick Leigh Fermor   • LITERATURE  •  Fermor's entrancing chronicle of sojourns to the monasteries of Solesmes, Wandrille and La Grande Trappe in Normandy. He ends this short meditation on the contemplative life with a visit to the Byzantine rock chapels of Cappadocia. Orginally published in 1953. (WLD121, $12.95)
	Monkey, A Journey to the West  •  David Kherdian   • LITERATURE  •  The 16th-century Chinese epic of adventure and pilgrimage, brilliantly retold by David Kheridan. It's the wild tale of the encounters of the rogue-trickster Monkey and his Buddhist companion Tripitaka on the Silk Road. (ASA32, $14.95)

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