Reviews of religion, religious issues, worship, and scholarly books. en-us http://www.publishersweekly.com/community/Religious+Books/47143.html?nid=3320 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its http://www.publishersweekly.com/info/337409.html Terms of Use. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:03:31 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6671386.html?nid=3320 Most attendees gave the 2009 International Christian Retail Show good marks with lots of business being done despite a drop in attendance. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:47:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6657646.html?nid=3320 Church Publishing is suspending title acquisitions for its Seabury Books trade imprint and cutting staff by 30%. Mon, 11 May 2009 15:24:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6649190.html?nid=3320 This Week's Web: lyrical essays on a life in poetry, a celebrity psychologist on the sickness of celebrity, a graphic ambulance ride-along, the new science of talent development, and two excellent volumes on music and race relations. Plus: Cezanne the Godfather, Thoreau the arsonist, and Paula Deen the health-conscious (not to worry, it's just for a chapter). Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6647142.html?nid=3320 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6639012.html?nid=3320 ABINGDON PRESS Funeral for a Stranger (Aug., $13 paper) by Becca Stevens addresses the issue of attending the funeral of an individual one has never met. Gone to Green (Aug., $13.99 paper) by Judy Christie. A woman finds new faith after leaving her corporate life at a large urban newspaper to run a rural paper. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6639008.html?nid=3320 In these tough economic times, it's a rare publisher who's expanding. But after doing due diligence, strategic planning and careful acquiring, Abingdon Press will launch a Christian fiction line in late summer. In recent years, the market for Christian fiction has been so successfully cultivated by a handful of evangelical Christian publishers, such as Nelson, Tyndale, Bethany House, Zondervan ... Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6635818.html?nid=3320 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6635236.html?nid=3320 The American Future: A History Simon Schama . Ecco , $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-053923-8 Past performance may not guarantee future returns, but it's the best we have to go on, contends this lively meditation on American history. Looking back from the tumultuous 2008 election campaign, historian Schama (NBCC-award winner for Rough Crossings) ponders four themes in American history as they pl... Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6631979.html?nid=3320 This Week's Web: Israeli and Palestinian writers interviewed in Norweigian; an ancient mechanical artifact of Indiana Jones; Kiyosaki gets spiritual; and more confessions than you require. Plus: literary roundup with books on Ginsberg, Snyder, Richard Matheson, and refugee writers. Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6631455.html?nid=3320 Closing Time: A Memoir Joe Queenan . Viking , $26.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-670-02063-8 Humorist and pop culture writer Queenan (Queenan Country) turns the mirror on himself in this somber and funny memoir about life with father in the projects of Philadelphia. Queenan closes the chapter on his life with a verbally and physically abusive alcoholic father. Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6630478.html?nid=3320 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6627788.html?nid=3320 That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution Lars Schoultz . Univ. of North Carolina , $35 (768p) ISBN 978-0-8078-3260-8 In time for the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, Schoultz, a University of North Carolina political science professor, offers an exhaustive study of the relationship between the U. Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6621935.html?nid=3320 The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty Peter Singer . Random , $22 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6710-7 Part plea, part manifesto, part handbook, this short and surprisingly compelling book sets out to answer two difficult questions: why people in affluent countries should donate money to fight global poverty and how much each should give. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6620251.html?nid=3320 This week's Web: a lurid gallery of pulp illustration, a clever tribute to small town dead folk, a guided tour of New York's graffiti scene, a Chinese dolphin's long odds, a philosophical approach to being right all the time, and the uncollected works of fascinating and repulsive multimedia trailblazer Ana Mendieta. Plus: more Lincoln, more audio, and poetry from Hilda Raz. Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6618183.html?nid=3320 This week's Web: the manufacture and maintenance of American racism, the disappearing culture of California cetaceans, trance states in human learning and self-help, and the long rise of women in advertising (no, Peggy was not the first). Plus! An audio fiction bonanza: Dafoe and Woods read King, Weiner reads Dick, Stuart Masterson and Glass read together—and more. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6617550.html?nid=3320 One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food Michael Schaffer . Holt , $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8711-6 A Fast Food Nation for dog lovers, this astute and amusing investigative report offers a “journey into the $41-billion-a-year world of the modern American pet. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6616439.html?nid=3320 Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life Judith Orloff, M.D. Harmony , $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-307-33818-1 Orloff (Second Sight) offers a superbly written series of psychological strategies for maximizing positive emotions and minimizing toxic ones. A practicing psychiatrist, the author straddles the worlds of mainstream medicine and alternative h... Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6614184.html?nid=3320 The Painter’s Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art Hugh Howard . Bloomsbury Press , $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59691-244-1 Patron of the arts is not the first association one makes with George Washington, but Howard elegantly makes the case that the founder of the nation also helped establish America’s art. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6612221.html?nid=3320 Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds Olivia Gentile . Bloomsbury , $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59691-169-7 In this biography of bird enthusiast Phoebe Snetsinger, former journalist Gentile wonders whether there is a “line between dedication and obsession, and when does obsession cross the line into pathology?” Married, with four children, Phoebe was... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6608031.html?nid=3320 Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America Julia Angwin . Random , $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6694-0 Angwin, an award-winning journalist for the Wall Street Journal, recounts the history of MySpace.com in this well-written, entertaining and drama-filled chronicle. From its founding by Chris DeWolfe to its surprising purchase for nearly $600 million by Rupert ... Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST