Princeton University Press
The sense of loss that necessarily pervades Running Out is balanced is by Lucas Bessire’s lyrical prose, whose consistently crisp beauty serves as a welcome respite.
Read MoreThe pathway to tyranny is paved by encouraging people to believe in the uselessness of science, logic, and expertise.
Read MoreThis is a beautifully produced book, replete with illustrations. Full-page photos of evocative landscapes are supplemented by both maps and smaller shots detailing architectural features.
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This is a wonderfully readable book, sure-footed in its scholarship but hip and occasionally hilarious in its tone.
Read MoreChopin and His World establishes multiple new starting points for further studies of one of the world’s greatest composers, yet it can be read with pleasure by people who merely(!) love the music.
Read MoreDo these “four late nineteenth-century visionaries” still speak to us?
Read MoreThis is an important and timely book, one that happens to be compulsively readable and that anyone even mildly interested in the intersection between religion and politics, faith and science, or religious commandment and secular law should read.
Read MoreI cannot recall reading any book about Jewish history that contains so many “Aha!” moments.
Read MoreIris Murdoch proves a wonderful companion: funny, honest, insightful, and courageous.
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