[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth

Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha

Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout...a scholar of immense intellectual capacity

Mindfulness has become a serious movement, now with champions among policy makers as well as Buddhists. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of its guiding spirits

Elegant and powerful, erudite and accurate...dazzling in its breadth and historical detail

Riveting… Armstrong is one of our most erudite expositors of religion… a rare mix of cool-headed scholarship and impassioned concern

A powerful and important work of scholarship, synthesis and argument... It is also a remarkably pleasurable read

A magisterial debunking of the secularist tale

A welcome counterblast... Excellent

Her view of religion is broad and deep, identifying it both with a universal need for meaning, and with the human desire for community

Engaging… Makes its case eloquently

A hefty yet accessible tome that debunks myths, fires debate and helps explain some of the chaos in the world today

Well researched, insightful and revelatory… A compelling argument

Armstrong offers both a convincing rebuttal of some key New Atheist arguments, and hope for a better future

Taking us from prehistoric to modern times, Karen Armstrong deftly manages her vast subject, and her conclusions will surprise you

A disturbing and refreshing view of 20,000 years of human society

thought-provoking

Armstrong is doing us a great service