Stendhal's novel is an amusing and piquant study of hypocrisy and free will in post-Napoleonic France.

This book, designed and written on a grand scale, is about the quest over three centuries of Spaniards born in the New World to define their 'American' identity.

A criticism of Christianity from the secularist point of view.

" Indeed, as Michael Novak points out in this brilliant book about the birth of the American Republic, the very first act of the Continental Congress was to pray to Divine Providence in the face of British bombardment of Boston.

Calvin's teachings spread rapidly throughout Western Europe shaping the law of early modern Protestant lands.

This book, first published in 1996, is a translation of a fascinating work by one of the world's great poets.

Should the wall of separation between church and state be permeable or inviolable?

In 1876, three girls from the German village of Marpingen claimed to see a vision of the Virgin Mary.

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