|
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Timeless: Nature's Formula for Health and Longevity
Louis J Cozolino · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
|
|
Unlocking the secrets of positive aging.Few prejudices in Western society are more powerful than those concerning aging. Until recently, we have assumed that the story of aging is one of loss and decline. But there's an entirely different truth. Yes, you can teach an old dog -- or even... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
ALAN LIGHTMAN · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, an inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and science, with an exploration of the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty versus modern scientific discoveries pointing to the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world.As... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves
Charles Fernyhough · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A luminous exploration of the nature of thoughts, from daydreams to the voices in our headsAt the moment you caught sight of this book, what were you thinking? Was your thought a stream of sensations? Or was it a voice in your head? Did you ask yourself, "I wonder what that's about?"... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate Bolick · Crown
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"-- |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety Is Putting Us All at Risk
Tracey Brown · Sourcebooks
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
|
|
Can a cell phone cause a major explosion at a gas station? What would happen if the 3 oz rule at airports was abolished? And are all the child protection measures really making children safer? These rules exist in the name of our own protection, but has anyone ever stopped to consider exactly... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Common Good
Robert B Reich · Knopf
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
David Armitage · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
|
|
A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day. We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG · Oxford University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
|
|
Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the opposition is epidemic today, from countries refusing to negotiate, to politicians pandering to their base. Social media has produced... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
Jim Miller · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A new history of the world's most embattled ideaToday, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Does Santa Exist?: A Philosophical Investigation
Eric Kaplan · Dutton
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa - from a co-executive producer of The Big Bang TheoryMetaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of acclaimed comedy writer and scholar Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth about old St. Nick... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
