For billions of people, having a religious belief system provides purpose in life. For some, religion serves as a guide for moral behavior. Today's world is one in which our understanding of world religions is both understatedly important, as well as increasingly complex.

After many years exploring the foundations of various world religions, Jason Boyett has written this comprehensive, easy-to-understand exploration of the twelve major world religions through a meticulous, yet unbiased lens. 12 Major World Religions offers an impartial look at where each of these belief systems intersects, how they differ, and why some have been--or are currently--misunderstood.

Mythology is not about the past. The past is what's behind us and that's not where mythology really exists. The big daddy of mythology hails from ancient Greece--and whether we realize it or not, Greek mythology influences the western world of today.

If you have ever seen the Atlantic Ocean, if you love the wonders of stargazing, if you've dreamed of being in the Olympics, or made reference to Pandora's Box--then you have been influenced by Greek mythology.

The Greeks were not a boring bunch, and their mythology was no different! Greek Mythology: Timeless Tales from the Ancients is a smart, fun, compulsively readable overview of the Greek's favorite characters and tales. These myths are filled with sex, violence, drama, lies, monsters, hubris, journeys, and just about anything else you can think of! This modern guide to favorite Greek myths includes:

• Overviews of legendary Greek mythology figures and their Roman counterparts
• Thematic, rousingly written overviews of the 50 most popular Greek myths such as The Birth of Athena to Perseus and Medusa
• A complete index of gods and goddesses, heroes and humans told through lively, easy-to-understand narratives

Part reference and all rousing read, Greek Mythology: Timeless Tales from the Ancients brings ancient Greek mythology to life and leaves the scholarly footnotes behind. Strap on your winged sandals and get ready for a journey through the ancients.

Jason Boyett's Pocket Guides are smart and hilarious. And they're sneaky too: You don't realize how much you're learning because you're having so much fun. --AJ Jacobs, author, The Year of Living Biblically

Americans consistently identify the Bible as the most influential book in history, but seriously: are you really reading it? Probably not. If all you know about the Bible are a few Psalms and the Christmas story, then you're missing out on a book that's wilder, weirder, and more entertaining than you ever imagined.

With a stealthy combo of entertainment and insight, Jason Boyett's Pocket Guide to the Bible fills the gaps in your religious education. It introduces you to the characters you must know, reveals the thrilling development of the biblical canon, and details the less-churchy parts of Scripture (hello, sex and violence ). Don't miss out on discovering

• How God employs talking donkeys, mentally unstable prophets, and helpful prostitutes in his master plan

• Which moral failures may result in an old-fashioned smiting

• Why Catholic Bibles include books some Protestants refuse to recognize

• Whether your New International Version of the Bible may in fact be demonic

With Pocket Guide to the Bible, you'll finally realize what's so good about the Good Book.

Boyett's witty, weird, and sometimes even wise Pocket Guides are proof that the best things do come in small packages.
--DANIEL RADOSH, AUTHOR, RAPTURE READY

We name our cities, hospitals, and churches after them. We flock to shrines bearing their remains. We ask for their help when we lose our keys. Who are these saints, what made them so holy, and what in the world are those birds doing on St. Francis's shoulder?

Jason Boyett's Pocket Guide to Sainthood takes an intriguing and unflinching look at the fascinating--and fascinatingly weird--lives of the saints. Whether you are a Catholic desperately needing a patron, or a Protestant trying to identify your cabbie's bobblehead, this may be as close as you ever come to true holiness. Make the most of it by learning

• How St. Denis delivered his best sermon while holding his own decapitated head
• Why both hair shirts and nakedness are mainstays of saintly fashion
• Which saints are the patrons of bowel disorders, serial killers, and other useful categories
• What is involved in the canonization process, should you get so lucky...or martyred

With Pocket Guide to Sainthood, virtue just got a whole lot more entertaining.

THE POCKET GUIDE SERIES explains complex religious subjects with a lethal dose of educational hilarity, guided by the author's insatiable curiosity, humor, and gentle irreverence. The Pocket Guide series includes Pocket Guide to the Bible, Pocket Guide to the Afterlife, and this book. Discover more at www.pocketguidesite.com.

In O Me of Little Faith, author Jason Boyett brings you a transparent and personal account of his own of struggles with doubts and unbelief in living out his faith. With humor and frankness, Boyett uses personal anecdotes and a fresh look at Scripture to explore the realities of pursuing Christ through a field of doubt.After three decades of knowing God, understanding Christianity, and living a Christian life, Boyett has come to the place where he can voice the tough questions and travel the road of uncertainty with blinders off, candor on. The message along the way is one of encouragement: Relax. Rely on the grace of a merciful God, a kind father who realizes that his finite creatures must have doubts, should have questions, and will have trouble making sense of an infinite Creator. Ultimately, Boyett concludes that doubt and faith are not polar opposites, but actually work together, existing side-by-side. Uplifting, entertaining, hopeful, O Me of Little Faith will strike a chord with you and any Christian who's dealing with the uncertainties of living life in pursuit of a God who occasionally seems to disappear.

Combine the simple advice of Life's Instruction Book with the witty practically of The Motley Fool. Toss in a little Onion.com attitude for fun, and tailor it for the untethered millennial generation--young adults in their 20s--for whom college has ended and real life has begun (and for whom adulthood still seems a year or two away). Advise them on how to make the most of this period of life, how to get started on the right foot financially. Gaze head-on at the social issues and decisions that are sure to crop up. Make pragmatic improve-your-life suggestions, and recommend ways to simply be cool. Identify the important things, and put the insignificant where it belongs. And entertain. The result? A book titled. Things You Should Know by Now: A Mini-Life Manual for the Quarterly-Aged.

A Guy's Guide to Life: How to Become a Man in 224 Pages or Less is a teenage guy's handbook to becoming a man with a healthy mind, body, and soul.

What does society want of teen guys? To be independent, tough, andmacho? To be a sensitive, caring metrosexual? To excel in school andsports and business? The challenges are many, and we haven't evenmentioned the most important-and most frightening-topic ofconversation: girls. The road to manhood is a perilous one.

Guys need a guidebook, one that asks and answers the questionsthey're reluctant to discuss. They need a book that addresses the mythsof manhood with a straightforward approach teenage guys will appreciateand absorb. Author Jason Boyett understands what many fail torealize--that somewhere between the awkwardness and braggadocio, thegoofiness and the developing body, there is a real person struggling tomake his mark on the world.