Product Description: In Ancient Greece, extreme male supremacy kept women subjugated as housebound servants lacking education or rights. Many were slaves or concubines. Yet, in a strange contrast, Greek male artisans portrayed bold, free, fighting females - the Amazons - in hundreds of paintings, writings and sculptures...read more

Product Description: Despite the prevalence of religious belief in the United States (nearly 200 million Americans belong to 350,000 congregations), a growing minority (14 percent) of U.S. adults identify with no religion whatsoever. Journalist, James A Haught addresses the secular segment of American society in this interesting collection of incisive essays that give voice to honest doubts about religious beliefs...read more

Chronologically arranged, this collection of quotations by well-known artists, politicians, scholars, writers, scientists, poets, philosophers, and entertainers offers a look at their opinions and doubts about religion

Looks at religious clashes in twenty-five nations, and reexamines the supposedly benign messages of organized religion

Product Description: Through the centuries, artists have portrayed the fascinating beauty of the union of a man and woman. From sixth-century B.C. Greek vases, to eleventh-century Indian temple carvings, to Oriental "pillow books," to Fragonard, Rodin, Picasso, and the avant-garde of the 1990's, artists of many sorts have expressed the rapture of lovers as a fundamental human experience...read more

Uses a question and answer format, with illustrations, to explain why the sky is blue, what a rainbow is, what atoms are, how gravity works, and many other scientific facts and events

Surveys the violence done in the name of religion during the past nine centuries, from the Crusades to Khomeini's Iran