It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome ...
 Amazon.com Review: Stephen Jay Gould calls Richard Lewontin "simply the smartest man I have ever met." And not the least opinionated, either. Lewontin has long been famous among biologists for a volatile combination of feisty leftism, [... more]
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Reading and Writing: A Personal Account
Reding and Writing By V.S. Naipaul: `Reading and Writing ` by V. S. Naipaul ( Pub. New York Review Of Books ,2000) A review by V. Ramsamooj Gosine. In spite of its brevity, Reading and Writing ` by V.S.Naipaul is compulsive reading for anyone who is [... more]
$16.95
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The Memory Wars
Amazon.com Review: This volume collects Frederick Crews's two controversial essays on Freud from the New York Review of Books, "The Unknown Freud" and "The Revenge of the Repressed," as well as some of the critical letters provoked by [... more]
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Animal Liberation
The fruits of atheism: Singer would do well to read the Declaration of Independence, written by men far more ethical and wise than he: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator [... more]
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The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain
highly speculative: Of the many books and periodical articles that I have read concerning the Spanish Inquisition, this is the most biased and speculative and opinionated. I would not recommend this book to anyone. It is extremely long and tedious. We [... more]
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Looking Back (New York Review Books Classics)
Author: Russell Baker Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9781590170885 ISBN: 1590170881 Number Of Pages: 212 Publication Date: 2004-02-29 Release Date: 2004-02-29 [... more]
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From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in ...
Author: Ingrid Rowland Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 945.05 EAN: 9781590171233 ISBN: 1590171233 Number Of Pages: 324 Publication Date: 2005-01-31 Release Date: 2005-01-31 [... more]
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Hidden Histories of Science
Promising concept - mediocre execution: The jacket summary for this book suggests an interesting concept for exploration, namely the reasons that some scientific theories remain in obscurity for generations, only to be subsequently 'rediscovered' and [... more]
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China's New Rulers: The Secret Files; Second, Revised ...
New Rulers: A Consensus Team for Jiang: The value of this book is severalfold. It gives intriguing hints at the nature of top level Chinese decision-making processes. It contains excellent biographical sketches of top leadership in the Chinese Communist [... more]
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The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin
Mark Lilla and Ronald Dworkin together???: Can't wait to see this one. Lilla and Dworkin is like a collaboration between Ken Vandermark and Wynton Marsalis. A Tribute to a Great Thinker and Pluralist!: This book, which was published from a conference [... more]
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A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
A beautiful mind in a beautiful book: Mary McCarthy is one of the most important American thinkers of the twentieth century, and she was at the heart of everything in the New York worlds of politics and letters. This superb collection of her essays shows [... more]
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Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11
Oh see what we cannot say: What has happened to freedom of speech in America? Why are we not publicly and openly debating the self-serving and undeomocratic policies of the Bush administration? Didion, in another fine essay on American life, asks these [... more]
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