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| Oliver
Sacks |
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A
Hat |
| The English doctor (neurologist) has given us
a fascinating insight into the nature of language and the topography of
our brains. The book's title hints at the author's wit and his ability
to make complex material approachable. |
| Allen
Bloom |
The Closing of the American Mind |
| This book by the Yale professor is subtitled
"How Higher Education has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the
Souls of Today's Students". What follows is a brilliant analysis of
what ails the American education system written in the early days of
political correctness.
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| Virginia
Postel |
The Future and Its Enemies |
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Dynamist |
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| The author posits the theory that old
definitions of right vs. left no longer mean anything in American politics. The new struggle is between those who favor controlled growth (stasists)
and those who embrace dynamic change, creation, discovery, and competition
(dynamists). |
| Carl
Sagan |
The Demon Haunted World |
| Besides providing us with the landmark Cosmos TV
series and book, Sagan wrote many other collections of essays on the
position of our world within that cosmos. In this book he examines the
underlying cause of our fears and superstitions. |
| Balint
Vazsonyi |
America's 30 Years War: Who is Winning? |
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Founding America |
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| The Hungarian emigrant and now American citizen
takes a hard look at American culture and education since Mr. Johnson's
great society. He finds a society in a freefall of decline with a new
McCarthyism (political correctness) at the root of the problem. |
| Hans
Kueng |
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| The most eminent theologian of our times has
been all but excommunicated by the Roman Church during the 1970s due to
his outspoken comments while teaching at a German University. Since then been forced to embark on his own
path - an ecumenical faith institute that aims to heal the rifts that
separate Catholics, Jews, and Protestants. He was the official theologian
at the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. |
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