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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Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative ...
 the shape of twentyfirst century thinking: Professor Turnbull's particular speciality is the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. This is a controversial field, since some argue that science (Western techno-Science) is objective truth itself and therefore [... 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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Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, ...
total waste of time: This book was a total waste of time. Full of high-blown, flowery prose, lofty hypotheses, and absolute nonsense. Sometimes a Ph.D thesis--which this apparently was before the University of Chicago Press was convinced to publish it-- [... 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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The Archko Volume
Wise as serpents: In the 19th century there was a flood of genuine discoveries of ancient manuscripts containing hitherto unknown works from antiquity. This seems to have stimulated the production of numbers of bogus documents, targetted at various [... more]
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Heidegger For Beginners
a painless introduction to Heidegger, but only an intro: I wish I had found this book before starting on Heidegger in a class. It is a simple (simplified) overview of the complex and integrated thought of Heidegger. But I believe it will give beginners [... 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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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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