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Art: A New History
Yes, it is possible to write a single-volume general history of art, if you narrow the definition and focus on your own enthusiasms. Paul Johnson is best known for...
Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Robert Kaplan has spent the past twenty years reporting on local collapses of civilization, chiefly in sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. He tells us that, in...
Daemonomania
This book is the third of the projected four in John Crowley’s major novelistic treatment of gnosticism and hermeticism. As in the two prior books, Aegypt (1987) and Love...
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (1500 to the Present)
From Dawn to Decadence is one of those wonderful books that cannot be categorized. Some reviewers have compared it to The Education of Henry Adams , the great intellectual...
The Archetypes in the Machine
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“Intelligent Television”
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Getting Over the End of the World
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The Coming Age of Cathedrals
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After Darwin
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Updating St. Anselm?
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