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All Things Shining Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus
	A wide-ranging look at the loss of meaning in the West, and a gripping guide for how to retrieve it Review: the New York Review of Books

On China by Henry Kissinger
	An eminent historian and strategist reflects on how China's past illuminates its 21st-century trajectory, drawing on 40 years of intimate... Review: the Economist Review: the New York Review of Books Review: The Guardian

Moral Landscape How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
	Bestselling author Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.... Review: the New York Review of Books Review: The Guardian

Great Soul Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld
	In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an... Review: the Christian Science Monitor Review: The Asian Review of Books Review: the New York Review of Books

Townie by Andre Dubus
	I've never read a better or more serious meditation on violence, its sources, consequences, and, especially, its terrifying pleasures, than... Review: the New York Review of Books Review: The Christian Science Monitor

What Is a Palestinian State Worth? by Sari Nusseibeh
	Can one right (the right of return) be given up for another (the right to live in peace)? Can one claim Palestinian identity and still... Review: the Independent

Information A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
	The author of the bestsellers "Chaos" and "Genius" presents his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become... Review: The Observer Review: the Christian Science Monitor Review: The Guardian

Tell-Tale Brain A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V S Ramachandran
	Drawing on strange and thought-provoking case studies, an eminent neurologist offers unprecedented insight into the evolution of the... Review: the Observer

Academically Adrift Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum

Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---And What We Can Do about It by Andrew Hacker
	Renowned sociologist Hacker and "New York Times" writer Dreifus make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420... Review: Business Week Review: The Asian Review of Books

Crisis on Campus A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities by Mark C Taylor
	A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its...

Not for Profit Why Democracy Needs the Humanities by Martha C Nussbaum
	Anxiously focused on national economic growth, we increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be...

Life by Keith Richards
	The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With his trademark... Review: the Independent

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