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The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters by Diane Coyle and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics by Riane Eisler The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky and Contemplative Science by Alan Wallace Many Worlds in One by Alex Vilenkin and God's Universe by Owen Gingerich Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction, and Economics by Paul Ormerod and by Thomas Schelling America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs. The Penguin Press, 396 pages, $27.95. Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins and From Athens to Auschwitz: The Uses of History by Christian Meier. In Search of Paul by John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed. From Jesus to Christianity by L. Michael White. Why the Jews Rejected Jesus by David Klinghoffer. Love’s Confusionsby C.D.C. Reeve. Harvard University Press, 224 pages, $24.95, and Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Livesby Simon Goldhill, University of Chicago Press, 335 pages, $27.50. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael Mann. Cambridge University Press, 580 pages, $24.95. Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity by Reviel Netz. Wesleyan University Press, 267 pages, $24.95. Why Read? by Mark Edmundson. Bloomsbury Press, 160 pages, $21.95 and Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Lifeby Stanley Cavell. In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati. Oxford University Press, 308 pp., $28. Humankind: A Brief History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Oxford University Press and The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death by Timothy Taylor. Beacon Press, 353 Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis by Eli Zaretsky, Knopf, 429 pp., $30. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball, Farrar, Straus and The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture by Mark C. Taylor. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan Books, 389 pages, $25 and Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan Books, 278 Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning, North Point Press; Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein, Norton; and The Coming Generational Storm The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman. Knopf, 432 pages, $30, and Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness by Dan Lloyd, MIT Press, 357 pp, $24.95; Turing (A Novel about Computation) by Christos Papadimitriou. MIT Press, 284 pp., $24.95; and Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art by Arthur Danto, Open Court, 167 pp., $19.95 and Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue, Yale University Press, 209 pp., $24.95. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman. Norton, 426 pages, $25.95. The Baffler: A Literary and Cultural Review PO Box 378293, Chicago IL 60637 and Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy, edited by Thomas Frank and Dave Mulcahy. Norton, 404 pp., $24.95. Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels and A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined by Reynolds Price. Respect in a World of Inequality by Richard Sennett. Emerson by Lawrence Buell The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout. HarperCollins, 410 pp., $29.95. Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays by David Lodge. Harvard University Press, 320 pages, $24.95. 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Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds and John Eidenow. Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 340 pages, $24.00. The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays by Evan Connell. Counterpoint, 470 pages, $28.00 The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson. HarperCollins, 847 pages, $40.00 River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler. HarperCollins, 402 pp., $26.00. All the Names by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Harcourt, 238 pages, $24. A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by Harry V. Jaffa. Rowman and Littlefield, 549 pages, $35.00. Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian. HarperCollins, 510 pages, $27.00. Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover. Yale University Press, 464 pages, $29.95. Marcel Proust: A Life by William Carter. Yale University Press, 946 pages, $35 and Marcel Proust: A Life by Jean-Yves Tadié, translated by Euan Cameron. Viking, 986 pages, $40. Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon by Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock. Norton, 370 pages, $29.95. John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton. Yale University Press, 656 pages, $35. From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun In Babylon by Marcel Moring, translated from the Dutch by Stacey Knecht. William Morrow, 417 pages, $24. The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind by David Cesarani. Free Press, 646 pp., $30.00. The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny by Victor Davis Hanson. Free Press, 480 pp., $30. In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance by David Thomson. Knopf, 330 pp. $27.50. Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats by Brenda Maddox. HarperCollins, 474 pages, $32. The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh. Little, Brown and Company, 536 pp., $29.95. More Matter: Essays and Criticism by John Updike. Knopf, 900 pages, $35.00. T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life by Lyndall Gordon. Norton, 721 pp., $35 Jonathan Swift: A Portrait by Victoria Glendinning. Henry Holt, 324 pp., $35.00 Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould. Library of Contemporary Thought, 241 pp., $18.95 and The Secular Mind by Robert Coles. Princeton Univ. Press, 189 pp., $19.95. Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler, Knopf, 840 pp., $35.00. The Memoirs of Elias Canetti, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 834 pp., $40. The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century by David Fromkin, Knopf, 253 pp., $25.00 Cities in Civilization by Sir Peter Hall. Pantheon, 1169 pp., $40 The American Century by Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker, Knopf, 710 pages, $50. An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future by Robert D. Kaplan. Random House, 393 pp., $27.50. Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: Wallace Stegner’s American West, edited by Page Stegner. Henry Holt, 359 pp., $25.00. Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass, Houghton, Mifflin, 445 pp., $25.00 The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter. Norton, 831 pp., $35.00 Genuine Reality: A Life of William James by Linda Simon. Harcourt Brace, 466 pp., $35.00. Keats by Andrew Motion. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 636 pp., $35.00. How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker. Norton, 660 pp., $29.95 and The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon. Norton, 527 pp., $27.95. The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention by David Noble. Knopf, 304 pp., $26. Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest by Alex Shoumatoff. Knopf, 516 pp., $30. Children of Darkness and Light by Nicholas Mosley. Dalkey Archive Press, 241 pp., $13.95. George Eliot: A Life by Rosemary Ashton. Allen Lane/Penguin, 465 pp., $32.95. The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War by Samuel Hynes. Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 318 pp., $24.95. Gladstone: A Biography by Roy Jenkins. Random House, 698 pp., $35.00; The Two Mr. Gladstones: A Study in Psychology and History by Travis L. Crosby. Yale University Press, 287 pp. My Other Life by Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin, 456 pp. Rebecca West: A Life by Carl Rollyson. Scribner, 511 pp., $35.00 The History of Reading by Alberto Manguel. Viking, 372 pp., $26.95. Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedyby John Patrick Diggins. Basic Books, 334 pp., $35. Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophyby Michael J. Sandel. Harvard University Press, 417 pp., $24.95. The Siren and Selected Writings by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun, David Gilmour, and Guido Waldman. Edited by David Gilmour. Harvill, 185 pp., $24.00. H.G.: The History of Mr. Wells by Michael Foot. Counterpoint, 344 pp., $29.00. Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol. The Free Press, 493 pp., $25.00. The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Volume IV: The Naked Heart by Peter Gay. Norton, 463 Pp., $29.95. A Requiem for Karl Marx by Frank Manuel. Harvard University Press, 255 pp., $24.95. The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolutionby Michael Lind. The Free Press, 436 pp., $25.00. Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue. Knopf, 364 pp., $27.50. Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue. Knopf, 364 pp., $27.50. God: A Biography. By Jack Miles. Knopf 446 pp. $27.50. Penchants and Places: Essays and Criticism. By Brad Leithauser. Knopf, 291pp., $25. The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. Knopf, $24. ; The Revolt of the Elites. By Christopher Lasch. Norton, $22. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation by Tom Engelhardt. Basic Books, 320 pp., $25.00 The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation by Tom Engelhardt. Basic Books, 320 pp., $25.00. Just Curious: Essays by Cullen Murphy. Houghton Mifflin, 248 pp., $21.95. A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints edited by Paul Elie, with an introduction by Robert Coles. Harcourt Brace, 325 pp., $22.00. Vamps and Tramps: New Essays by Camille Paglia. Vintage Books, 532 pp., $15.00. Great Day Coming: A Memoir of the 1930sby Hope Hale Davis. Steerforth Press, 337 pp., $24.00 The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso. Harvard University Press, 385 Pp., $24.95. In Defense of Elitism. By William A. Henry III. Doubleday, 212 pages. $20. Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future. By Richard Bernstein. Knopf, 367 pages $25.00. Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America. By Russsell Jacoby. Doubleday, 235 pp., $22.95 The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller. Simon & Schuster, 491 pages, $27.50. Antipolitics: An Essay By George Konrad. Translated by Richard E. Allen. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 243 pp. $12.95.