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The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters by Diane Coyle and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics by Riane Eisler
Published on 22 April 2007
The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky and Contemplative Science by Alan Wallace
Published on 25 February 2007
Many Worlds in One by Alex Vilenkin and God's Universe by Owen Gingerich
Published on 23 July 2006
Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction, and Economics by Paul Ormerod and by Thomas Schelling
Published on 23 April 2006
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama
Published on 23 April 2006
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs. The Penguin Press, 396 pages, $27.95.
Published on 22 May 2005
Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins and From Athens to Auschwitz: The Uses of History by Christian Meier.
Published on 3 April 2005
In Search of Paul by John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed. From Jesus to Christianity by L. Michael White. Why the Jews Rejected Jesus by David Klinghoffer.
Published on 27 March 2005
Love’s Confusionsby C.D.C. Reeve. Harvard University Press, 224 pages, $24.95, and Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Livesby Simon Goldhill, University of Chicago Press, 335 pages, $27.50.
Published on 6 February 2005
The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael Mann. Cambridge University Press, 580 pages, $24.95. Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity by Reviel Netz. Wesleyan University Press, 267 pages, $24.95.
Published on 19 December 2004
Why Read? by Mark Edmundson. Bloomsbury Press, 160 pages, $21.95 and Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Lifeby Stanley Cavell.
Published on 3 October 2004
In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati. Oxford University Press, 308 pp., $28.
Published on 22 August 2004
Humankind: A Brief History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Oxford University Press and The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death by Timothy Taylor. Beacon Press, 353
Published on 1 August 2004
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis by Eli Zaretsky, Knopf, 429 pp., $30.
Published on 18 July 2004
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball, Farrar, Straus and The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture by Mark C. Taylor.
Published on 6 June 2004
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan Books, 389 pages, $25 and Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan Books, 278
Published on 25 April 2004
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning, North Point Press; Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein, Norton; and The Coming Generational Storm
Published on 4 April 2004
The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman. Knopf, 432 pages, $30, and Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by
Published on 28 March 2004
Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness by Dan Lloyd, MIT Press, 357 pp, $24.95; Turing (A Novel about Computation) by Christos Papadimitriou. MIT Press, 284 pp., $24.95; and Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies,
Published on 1 February 2004
The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art by Arthur Danto, Open Court, 167 pp., $19.95 and Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue, Yale University Press, 209 pp., $24.95.
Published on 23 November 2003
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman. Norton, 426 pages, $25.95.
Published on 12 October 2003
The Baffler: A Literary and Cultural Review PO Box 378293, Chicago IL 60637 and Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy, edited by Thomas Frank and Dave Mulcahy. Norton, 404 pp., $24.95.
Published on 21 September 2003
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels and A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined by Reynolds Price.
Published on 24 August 2003
Respect in a World of Inequality by Richard Sennett.
Published on 13 July 2003
Emerson by Lawrence Buell
Published on 1 June 2003
The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout. HarperCollins, 410 pp., $29.95.
Published on 2 March 2003
Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays by David Lodge. Harvard University Press, 320 pages, $24.95.
Published on 5 January 2003
One Man’s Bible by Gao Xingjian. HarperCollins, 450 pages, $26.95.
Published on 17 November 2002
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour. Farrar, The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 351 pp., $26.00.
Published on 29 September 2002
Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall.
Published on 1 September 2002
The Faith: A History of Christianity by Brian Moynahan. Doubleday, 806 pages, $40.
Published on 11 August 2002
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz. Norton, 282 pp., $24.95.
Published on 28 July 2002
The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order by Francis Fukuyama, The Free Press, 354 pp., $26.00.
Published on 3 June 2002
Nature Writing: The Tradition in English, edited by Robert Finch and John Elder. Norton, 1152 pages, $39.95
Published on 2 May 2002
A Jacques Barzun Reader, edited by Michael Murray, HarperCollins, 615 pages, $29.95.
Published on 31 March 2002
John Maynard Keynes: A Biography, vol. 3: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 by Robert Skidelsky. Viking, 580 pp., $34.95.
Published on 24 February 2002
In Siberia by Colin Thubron. HarperCollins, 286 pages, $26.
Published on 20 February 2002
Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds and John Eidenow. Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 340 pages, $24.00.
Published on 13 January 2002
The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays by Evan Connell. Counterpoint, 470 pages, $28.00
Published on 18 November 2001
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson. HarperCollins, 847 pages, $40.00
Published on 1 June 2001
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler. HarperCollins, 402 pp., $26.00.
Published on 22 April 2001
All the Names by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Harcourt, 238 pages, $24.
Published on 11 February 2001
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by Harry V. Jaffa. Rowman and Littlefield, 549 pages, $35.00.
Published on 14 January 2001
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian. HarperCollins, 510 pages, $27.00.
Published on 31 December 2000
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover. Yale University Press, 464 pages, $29.95.
Published on 22 October 2000
Marcel Proust: A Life by William Carter. Yale University Press, 946 pages, $35 and Marcel Proust: A Life by Jean-Yves Tadié, translated by Euan Cameron. Viking, 986 pages, $40.
Published on 1 October 2000
Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon by Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock. Norton, 370 pages, $29.95.
Published on 30 July 2000
John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton. Yale University Press, 656 pages, $35.
Published on 16 July 2000
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun
Published on 11 June 2000
In Babylon by Marcel Moring, translated from the Dutch by Stacey Knecht. William Morrow, 417 pages, $24.
Published on 9 April 2000
The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
Published on 19 March 2000
Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind by David Cesarani. Free Press, 646 pp., $30.00.
Published on 23 January 2000
The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny by Victor Davis Hanson. Free Press, 480 pp., $30.
Published on 16 January 2000
In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance by David Thomson. Knopf, 330 pp. $27.50.
Published on 26 December 1999
Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats by Brenda Maddox. HarperCollins, 474 pages, $32.
Published on 28 November 1999
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh. Little, Brown and Company, 536 pp., $29.95.
Published on 31 October 1999
More Matter: Essays and Criticism by John Updike. Knopf, 900 pages, $35.00.
Published on 3 October 1999
T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life by Lyndall Gordon. Norton, 721 pp., $35
Published on 22 August 1999
Jonathan Swift: A Portrait by Victoria Glendinning. Henry Holt, 324 pp., $35.00
Published on 13 June 1999
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould. Library of Contemporary Thought, 241 pp., $18.95 and The Secular Mind by Robert Coles. Princeton Univ. Press, 189 pp., $19.95.
Published on 30 May 1999
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler, Knopf, 840 pp., $35.00.
Published on 9 May 1999
The Memoirs of Elias Canetti, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 834 pp., $40.
Published on 7 March 1999
The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century by David Fromkin, Knopf, 253 pp., $25.00
Published on 24 January 1999
Cities in Civilization by Sir Peter Hall. Pantheon, 1169 pp., $40
Published on 13 December 1998
The American Century by Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker, Knopf, 710 pages, $50.
Published on 1 November 1998
An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future by Robert D. Kaplan. Random House, 393 pp., $27.50.
Published on 27 September 1998
Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: Wallace Stegner’s American West, edited by Page Stegner. Henry Holt, 359 pp., $25.00.
Published on 23 August 1998
Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass, Houghton, Mifflin, 445 pp., $25.00
Published on 28 June 1998
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter. Norton, 831 pp., $35.00
Published on 17 May 1998
Genuine Reality: A Life of William James by Linda Simon. Harcourt Brace, 466 pp., $35.00.
Published on 15 March 1998
Keats by Andrew Motion. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 636 pp., $35.00.
Published on 8 February 1998
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker. Norton, 660 pp., $29.95 and The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon. Norton, 527 pp., $27.95.
Published on 9 November 1997
The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention by David Noble. Knopf, 304 pp., $26.
Published on 5 October 1997
Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest by Alex Shoumatoff. Knopf, 516 pp., $30.
Published on 24 August 1997
Children of Darkness and Light by Nicholas Mosley. Dalkey Archive Press, 241 pp., $13.95.
Published on 20 July 1997
George Eliot: A Life by Rosemary Ashton. Allen Lane/Penguin, 465 pp., $32.95.
Published on 1 June 1997
The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War by Samuel Hynes. Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 318 pp., $24.95.
Published on 30 March 1997
Gladstone: A Biography by Roy Jenkins. Random House, 698 pp., $35.00; The Two Mr. Gladstones: A Study in Psychology and History by Travis L. Crosby. Yale University Press, 287 pp.
Published on 18 February 1997
My Other Life by Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin, 456 pp.
Published on 15 December 1996
Rebecca West: A Life by Carl Rollyson. Scribner, 511 pp., $35.00
Published on 17 November 1996
The History of Reading by Alberto Manguel. Viking, 372 pp., $26.95.
Published on 15 September 1996
Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedyby John Patrick Diggins. Basic Books, 334 pp., $35.
Published on 18 August 1996
Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophyby Michael J. Sandel. Harvard University Press, 417 pp., $24.95.
Published on 3 June 1996
The Siren and Selected Writings by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun, David Gilmour, and Guido Waldman. Edited by David Gilmour. Harvill, 185 pp., $24.00.
Published on 5 May 1996
H.G.: The History of Mr. Wells by Michael Foot. Counterpoint, 344 pp., $29.00.
Published on 7 January 1996
Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol. The Free Press, 493 pp., $25.00.
Published on 17 December 1995
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Volume IV: The Naked Heart by Peter Gay. Norton, 463 Pp., $29.95.
Published on 19 November 1995
A Requiem for Karl Marx by Frank Manuel. Harvard University Press, 255 pp., $24.95.
Published on 3 September 1995
The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolutionby Michael Lind. The Free Press, 436 pp., $25.00.
Published on 16 July 1995
Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue. Knopf, 364 pp., $27.50.
Published on 18 June 1995
Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue. Knopf, 364 pp., $27.50.
Published on 18 June 1995
God: A Biography. By Jack Miles. Knopf 446 pp. $27.50.
Published on 9 April 1995
Penchants and Places: Essays and Criticism. By Brad Leithauser. Knopf, 291pp., $25.
Published on 21 February 1995
The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. Knopf, $24. ; The Revolt of the Elites. By Christopher Lasch. Norton, $22.
Published on 29 January 1995
The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation by Tom Engelhardt. Basic Books, 320 pp., $25.00
Published on 24 January 1995
The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation by Tom Engelhardt. Basic Books, 320 pp., $25.00.
Published on 24 January 1995
Just Curious: Essays by Cullen Murphy. Houghton Mifflin, 248 pp., $21.95.
Published on 8 January 1995
A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints edited by Paul Elie, with an introduction by Robert Coles. Harcourt Brace, 325 pp., $22.00.
Published on 22 December 1994
Vamps and Tramps: New Essays by Camille Paglia. Vintage Books, 532 pp., $15.00.
Published on 1 December 1994
Great Day Coming: A Memoir of the 1930sby Hope Hale Davis. Steerforth Press, 337 pp., $24.00
Published on 20 November 1994
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso. Harvard University Press, 385 Pp., $24.95.
Published on 23 October 1994
In Defense of Elitism. By William A. Henry III. Doubleday, 212 pages. $20.
Published on 29 September 1994
Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future. By Richard Bernstein. Knopf, 367 pages $25.00.
Published on 6 September 1994
Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America. By Russsell Jacoby. Doubleday, 235 pp., $22.95
Published on 31 May 1994
The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller. Simon & Schuster, 491 pages, $27.50.
Published on 30 January 1993
Antipolitics: An Essay By George Konrad. Translated by Richard E. Allen. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 243 pp. $12.95.
Published on 17 June 1984