Ruskie: Beers, Bears & Babushkas captures a slice of Russian life; people - and businesses - as they really are. Do they all drink vodka like there's no tomorrow? Do all the women prove their love by cutting off their fingers? Do Moscow businessmen have their rivals shot? Not all of them, but Matthew managed to find those who do - with terrifying consequences. Faster than a Russian woman in pursuit of a designer handbag, scarier than an angry babushka, and hotter than, well, watching a famous Russian tennis player in her underwear... Entrepreneur Matthew Francis arrives in Russia with the...

Although we often assume religion is in decline in the West, it continues to have an important yet contested role in individual lives and in society at large. And after half a century in which religion and belief were barely talked about in the public sphere, we face a pressing lack of religious literacy. Many are now ill-equipped to engage with religion and belief when they encounter them in their daily lives--in relationships, law, media, professions, business, and politics, among other venues.
This valuable book is the first to bring together theory and policy with analysis and...