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Johannes Brahms - Jan Swafford
An illuminating new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 Natio... -
Jesse James_ Last Rebel of the - T. J. Stiles
Amazon.com ReviewProbably no American outlaw has attracted more attention--much of it flattering--than Jesse James. This revisionist biography by T.J. Stiles delves into the exciti... -
Jerusalem_ The Biography - Simon Sebag-Montefiore
The intimate history of Jerusalem through the lives of the men and women who ruled it and created it. Jerusalem lacks a biography. It lacks a secret history. Simon Sebag Montefi... -
Jack and Jill - James Patterson
SUMMARY: In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme sign... -
Is God a Mathematician_ - Mario Livio
Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why ... -
Introvert Power_ Why Your Inner - Laurie Helgoe
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *"If you have introvert inclinations and are doubting yourself, this is a must read. Or if you know someone who exhibits introvert symptoms, read this book before... -
Introduction to objectivist epi - Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff; Harr
SUMMARY: Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basi... -
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
SUMMARY:In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophi... -
Incomplete Nature_ How Mind Eme - Terrence W. Deacon
As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes ap... -
Inception and Philosophy - Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Inception and Philosophy