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You may not have seen them, but lurking out there in the highways and byways is a tribe of scholars who believe that everything you presume about the way humans make history happen is, well, rubbish. Most of them do not write scintillating narrations of a grand theory that falls well on the deterministic side of center, as grand theories go.

But Jared Diamond does. That’s a good thing. (more…)

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When you make use of a product from Oxford University Press, you assume a high standard in content, presentation, and physical quality.

OUP’s Atlas of the World hits the mark in all three categories. (more…)

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For biblical scholars and students who are Mac users, there is no need to look further than the constantly evolving and resolutely powerful Accordance Bible Software from OakTree software. (more…)

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It is difficult to imagine that so few years ago academic and professional writers painstakingly typed and checked (or typed and didn’t check) reference after reference. EndNote takes care of the hassle of managing multiple works and citations while writing a manuscript. As long as you type things in correctly the first time, you’re good to go, from title page to the last page of your index. (more…)

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I could not carry on with life as I know it without the Economist.

No hype. It’s that good. (more…)

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This entry in the Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies series brings to fresh light some classic exemplars of twentieth-century Old Testament criticism, no small contribution in a moment when the discipline’s fast-fragmenting methodologies threaten biblical scholars with amnesia. (more…)

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First Things editor Richard John Neuhaus is famous for two things. (more…)

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As an insatiable news junky and practicing Christian reader whose work takes me to many countries each year, I recently caved to my wife’s insistence and began to read the World subscription that a relative had given us. (more…)

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Christian faith has always been centrifugal, rarely containable, and viscerally cross-cultural. The mission of the Christian Church is therefore expansive, intentionally persuasive, and usually outward-looking. (more…)

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No human being alive today knows Britain’s legendary lion of a Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, than Martin Gilbert.

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