Tragic Sense of Life
 thank heavens for a passionate philosophy...: ...and a passionate philosopher who can write! It's here: the verdancy of flowers, the whiff of a woman's fine perfume....well, not exactly those, but an immense hunger for attachment to the world in which we [... more]
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Sorrow Of Belgium
somewhat disappointing: I review this book reluctantly because I read it over 11 years ago. Frankly there is little that I remember about except two things. The first is that there is an hilarious part on pre-pubescent boys sharing their misconceptions [... more]
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Sidney Hook On Pragmatism Democracy And Freedom
Is there anything this guy didn't see?: Sidney Hook was a preeminent philosopher from the 30's to the 80's, but his essays - from defences of secular humanism and the scientific method, to discourses on the problem with the idea of natural rights - sound [... more]
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The Last Billable Hour
susan wolfe is a martha stewart wannabe: the book is not of literary worth. wolfe probably wrote about her experiences at a major silicon valley firm where she spent only 3 years. she was a loser associate in every respect having lasted only 3 years. she [... more]
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Surviving Desire
From Amazon.com: Surviving Desire is actually three short films, two of which--"Theory of Achievement" and "Ambition"--demonstrate writer-director Hal Hartley at his most quirky and abstract. They consist mostly of a series of [... more]
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Come Back, Amelia Bedelia
Mrs. Rogers Finallly Gave Amelia Bedelia a Pink Slip!: While Amelia Bedelia was removing her chocolate cream puffs from the oven, Mrs. Rogers asked for cereal and coffe for breakfast, (she should have said "a bowl of cereal and a cup of coffee," [... more]
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The Beautiful and Damned
The Tragic Tale of Anthony Patch: The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a tragic tale of a man named Anthony, struggling with several issues. It begins with his own laziness and social anxiety, only to continue with an effort to achieve [... more]
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Making Sense of It All: Pascal and the Meaning of Life
typo in previous review: In a review dated 9 May 2000.... "Pascal was a Jansenist, the Roman version of a Catholic...." I am reasonably certain that he intended to say, "of a Calvinist." The Calvinists claimed, as did the Jansenists, [... more]
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Broken: Making Sense of Life After Your Parents Divorse
Author: Tim Baker Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 248.86 EAN: 9781576836538 ISBN: 1576836533 Number Of Pages: 163 Publication Date: 2006-04-15 [... more]
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Dancing in Limbo: Making Sense of Life After Cancer
wife of cancer survivor: Thank you so much for this wonderful book! I have been a caregiver for my husband for the past 9 months. Once he got a "clean" bill of health I didn't know what to do with myself. I thought I was going crazy! You take [... more]
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Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
From Amazon.com: Perhaps the most widely read philosopher of the 20th century, Ayn Rand has delighted and infuriated people of all ideologies and, like it or not, has helped to create the political realities we deal with every day. With Ayn Rand: A Sense [... more]
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Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development ...
History, but no explaining: I was rather disappointed in this book. Keller's view of 'explanation' is that it is relative to the needs of each particular culture and their historical time (p. 5). As such, she does not really critique or analyze the [... more]
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