Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this book, the author takes her reader on a personal, theological journey exploring the centrality of Jesus in Christian-Muslim relations.

A view of Winston Churchill, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and failures as a statesman. It treats Churchill's relationships with Stalin, Roosevelt and Eisenhower, as well as his farsighted political vision concerning the coming of World War II and the Cold War.

This third edition of Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones's history of the Central Intelligence Agency includes a new prologue that discusses the history of the CIA since the end of the Cold War, focusing in particular on the intelligence dimensions of the terrorist attacks on 9/11.

A compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it-from Maastricht to today

The world's leading economic thinker on climate change analyzes the economics and politics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions

A tour of clocks throughout the centuries--from the sandglass to the telomere--to reveal the physical, biological, and social nature of time