by michaeld | Dec 29, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Business & Investing
When Enough is Enough By Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky Other Press, $24.95, 272 pages For this father and son team of academics, economics is a moral enterprise that enables a discovery of life’s fundamental concern: what does it mean to live...
by Site Owner | Sep 25, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Philosophy
By Michael K. Kellogg Prometheus Books, $28.00, 332 pages Michael K. Kellogg offers an argument about the continued relevance of the classics in today’s society. In individual chapters about the ten greatest Greek authors, Kellogg explores their contributions and how...
by Site Owner | Aug 20, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Richard J. Smith Princeton University Press, $24.95, 288 pages The vast world of ancestral and other spirits in Bronze Age China is implicit in the divinations, sacrifices and prayers that suffice the basic text of the Changes. This work of learned and...
by Site Owner | Jul 23, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Michael Houellebecq Knopf, $26.95, 269 pages Jed Martin, like previous Michael Houellebecq protagonists, lives out his financial and career success in a mist of psychological neutrality. He neither enjoys the pleasures afforded by his connections to the art world...
by Site Owner | Jul 9, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Body, Mind & Spirit
By Ezra Bayda Trumpeter, $14.95, 164 pages What if the cause of our deepest unhappiness is the pursuit of happiness itself? What would it mean for us if, in the words of Zen teacher and author Ezra Bayda, “Happiness is not so much a feeling to be attained than a...