Joan Schwartz
Joan Schwartz is a graduate of Rutgers University and received an M.A. from the University of Chicago. She has worked as an editor for the University of Chicago Press, Columbia University Press, Macmillan Publishing Company, and The Free Press. ... [... more]
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Notes on Quantum Mechanics
 porn!: this book was so full of bad words and sexual acts, it made my eyes water! not for younger readers. this author has sunk to a new low. The previous reviewer got it wrong !: I don't know which book the previous reviewer was referring to. This is a [... more]
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Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature ...
From Amazon.com: God or evolution? Though the debate about our origins has swirled in epic controversy since Darwin's time, David Sloan Wilson bravely blends these two contentious theories. This has been tried before, of course, mainly by religious [... more]
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Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History
The Trials and Tribulations of a Magnum Opus: I verily believe poor old Beethoven would roll right over if he were to learn just to what extent his crowning achievement has been employed over the last few centuries. The premise of this book is as [... more]
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Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of ...
Much more than a catalog: Much more than a catalog This book is not just a catalog of the show now at San Francisco's MOMA. It is a rich source that chronicles the evolution of the Chicago Institute of Design (ID) and its photography program. With 6 [... more]
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Leo Strauss and Nietzsche
Chasing phantoms: This is what happens when you take esotericism too far. Lampert should have better heeded Strauss' warning that textual clues must be supportable in some measure by the text itelf--or else pondered Strauss' argument that "the [... more]
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Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods
Wonderful as an Introduction or Companion: "Mesopotamia" is not a history, but a foot in the door toward understanding the complex issues involved in the study of the West's remote, but culturally crucial ancestor. The author maintains a [... more]
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Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
Caldwell, B. Hayek's Challenge: On the plane to and from the Southern Economic Association meetings in San Antonio (including a 3 hour delay in Dallas on the way home) in November I had the opportunity to read the best book written in Austrian economics [... more]
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Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American ...
Let the government tell you what to think: You don't need to think for yourself. Let the communists do all your thinking for you. Your parents are wrong, christianity is wrong, but Socialism. facism and communism are right. The big government will be [... more]
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Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester around the World
One of a Kind: Otto's first book, Fools are Everywhere, is a brilliantly crafted one and will delight readers. Her writing is extraordinarly gentle on the mind - eloquent and powerful. The quotes she has sprinkled throughout and the fun "flip-pages& [... more]
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Chinese Thought from Confucius to Mao Tse-tung
Old-fashioned but enjoyable: I just picked up a beautiful old copy of this at Moe's books in Berkeley. It dates from the early fifties. I don't know if this Chicago edition is simply a reprint, but I am finding it to be a throroughly well-written and [... more]
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Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and ...
a waste of paper.: This book has the thinnest analysis I have ever seen. Although Lassner makes several promising overtures to explain the relation of Jewish and Medieval Muslim texts, he gets bogged down in presenting the same material over and over [... more]
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