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The Book_ On the Taboo Against - Alan Watts
Amazon.com ReviewModern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest... -
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
SUMMARY:Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian - leaving nothing beh... -
The Best Alternate History Stor - Harry Turtledove
Amazon.com ReviewWhat if? Harry Turtledove, renowned alt-historian and the editor of this anthology, calls that question "those two mournful little words." But little though they .... -
The Battery - Henry Schlesinger
In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and David Bodanis's E=MC2, The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest s... -
The Ayn Rand lexicon_ objectivi - Ayn Rand; Harry Binswanger
SUMMARY: A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so exte... -
The Ape Who Guards the Balance - Elizabeth Peters
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Named 1998 Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, Elizabeth Peters is also a doctor of Egyptology whose mysteries have sub... -
The Americans_ The Democratic E - Daniel Boorstin
The third and final volume in Daniel Boorstin's award-winning trilogy, The Americans: The Democratic Experience wraps up his remarkable exploration of the American character. Begin... -
The Alexander Cipher - Will Adams
SUMMARY: Egyptologist Daniel Knox's lifelong fascination with Alexander the Great and his tomb, a fabled wonder of the ancient world, could be the death of him. After construction ... -
The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, c... -
The Age of Empathy_ Nature's Le - Frans de Waal
From Publishers WeeklyDe Waal (Chimpanzee Politics), a renowned primatologist, culls an astounding volume of research that deflates the human assumption that animals lack the char....