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Alternating Current
Octavio Paz
2005 Edition
A key figure in the Latin American literary renaissance, Octavio Paz focuses here on literature and art, drugs, the murder of God, and ethical and political problems.
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Irving Howe, New York Times Book Review (front page)
Octavio Paz is an intellectual literary one-man band, [and] Alternating Current is full of energy, curiosity, intelligence.
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Ann the Word
The Story of Ann Lee, Female Messiah, Mother of the Shakers
Richard Francis
2001 Edition
The first serious popular biography of the woman who made God female—Ann Lee, the fearless, feisty, charismatic founding leader of the Shakers.
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Kirkus ReviewsStarred Review
An elegantly written life of the enigmatic and powerfully charismatic Shaker prophet. . . . Francis provides a full (the first full biography ever written, in fact), faithful and immensely enjoyable account of the vicissitudes of Mother Ann and her disciples. . . A splendid account, highly recommended to all readers interested in early American history, women’s studies, or the history of religion.
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Atheist Manifesto
The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Michel Onfray
2008 Edition
This hugely controversial work demonstrates convincingly how the world’s three major monotheistic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, condemning nonbelievers often to death.
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Sir Read-a-lot
Tightly argued, hugely controversial.
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Belief or Nonbelief
A Dialogue
Umberto Eco, Carlo Maria Martini
2000 Edition
A dialogue hailed by Booklist as "pithy, witty, and profound" in which a renowned novelist and one of the Vatican’s leading authorities square off on some of today’s burning issues.
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The Best Books of 2000 - Los Angeles Times
In an age of talk radio’s ugly rejoinders and the weak-kneed compromise we all tend toward in order to get along, this robust exchange is a joy to read.
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Conjunctions and Disjunctions
Octavio Paz
2005 Edition
One of the great minds of the 20th century explores the duality of human nature in all its variations in cultures around the world.
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Helen Vendler - The American Scholar
The descriptive brilliances succeed each other with dazzling rapidity, and Paz takes on the blurred vivacity of a hummingbird.
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Galileo's Mistake
A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church
Wade Rowland
2003 Edition
A provocative reexamination of one of the turning points in the history of science and thought, the epic confrontation between Calileo Galilei and the Roman Catholic Church, an event that would forever define the modern era.
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Publishers Weekly
[Rowland] builds a compelling case that Galileo and the Church differed over something far more important than whether the earth revolved around the sun—the differed on the very nature of truth and how mortals can come to know it. . . .His book will appeal to readers interested in the current debate about the relation between science and religion.
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In the Name of Identity
Violence and the Need to Belong
Amin Maalouf
2001 Edition
A thoughtful inquiry into our concept of identity and its impact on society. The author considers how we define ourselves, how identity is understood in the world’s different cultures, and how recognizing identity is key to survival in the new millennium.
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Publishers Weekly
[A] compelling, provocative and persuasive study of the dangers of personal, religious, ethnic and national identities. With intelligence, wit and moral fortitude, Maalouf accessibly and eloquently addresses such complicated issues as how we judge religious traditions that have embraced violence and brutality; modern manifestations of "otherness" . . . Maalouf does not naively demand that personal identities be dismissed, but suggests a number of ways in which identities can remain intact and... cont'd
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The Monkey Grammarian
Octavio Paz
1990 Edition
Written while Paz was the Mexican ambassador to India, The Monkey Grammarian is a dazzling mind-journey to the temple city of Galta, "a sumptuous feast of visual imagery."—San Francisco Chronicle
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Keith Botsford, New York Times Book Review
The world as seen in this book is not very remote from that seen by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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On Poets and Others
Octavio Paz
2005 Edition
The philosopher-man of letters brilliantly reflects on some sixteen fellow poets and writers. "A perfect introduction to Octavio Paz."—Los Angeles Times
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New York Times Book Review
Mr. Paz's writing is full of vivid, compressed imagery . . . At his most abstract, Mr. Paz remains lucid.
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Wise Thoughts for Every Day
On God, Love, the Human Spirit, and Living a Good Life
Leo Tolstoy
2005 Edition
A treasury of timeless wisdom that the great author of War and Peace considered his most important and lasting contribution to humanity.
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Midwest Book Review
A fine pocket-sized book which will make for an excellent gift for any Tolstoy reader . . . A fine inspirational.
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