Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages Publisher: North Atlantic Books On Sale: September 29, 2009 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-55643-831-8 (1-55643-831-1)
Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are is an account of humankind’s function within the grand celestial battle between internal and external knowledge. Author Bob Frissell gives a compelling account of our planetary ascent into higher consciousness, presenting a big-screen view of the Earth through the...
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Format: Trade Paperback Publisher: Schocken On Sale: August 11, 2009 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1159-7 (0-8052-1159-4)
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: October 13, 2009 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7472-0 (0-8129-7472-7)
In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have a future, and, if so, what...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 25, 2009 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-27566-0 (0-307-27566-3)
Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and painters.
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages Publisher: Random House On Sale: March 3, 2009 Price: $22.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6710-7 (1-4000-6710-3)
This is the right time to ask yourself: “What should I be doing to help?”
For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. Yet around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than many...
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