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Newton's Cannon: Book One of THE AGE OF UNREASON (The Age of Unreason)
J. Gregory Keyes

Del Rey, 1999

What if Alchemy worked?
What if Newton - who was interested in such things - deduced the rules for it as here he did for physics? And what if this new science created new weapons for the wars of the 18th century? That's the basic premise of the "The Age of Unreason" series. All four books ...
  
  











  



  
The Shadows of God (Age of Unreason, Book 4)
J. Gregory Keyes

Del Rey, 2002

Exciting conclusion--powerful characters
Russia and England, dominated by angels working to destroy humanity, are on the verge of success. Only a small group of Americans, including European exiles, Indians, and colonists, now stand against them. In an alternate reality, Isaac Newton discovered not only ...
  
  











  



  
The Age of Unreason
Charles Handy

Harvard Business School Press, 1998

You Get What You Pay For
A company at which I worked adopted one of the philosophies in this book -- the core business -- and outsourced all of the functions it considered non-core, such as human resources, accounting, info technology etc. The resulting situation was miserable, I've never ...
  
  











  



  
What Nietzsche Really Said
Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins

Schocken, 2001

Nietzsche Distilled and Made Accessible
Nietzsche is undoubtedly the most enigmatic, confusing, and ambiguous philosopher of all time. For most of us, we want answers, not more confusion. Fortunately, we have two very able individuals who have studied, analyzed, and understood Nietzsche, at least in a way ...
  
  











  



  
The Age of American Unreason
Susan Jacoby

Pantheon, 2008

Maybe being a scientist and an intellectual is worthwhile after all
I enjoyed this book tremendously. I liked best Jacoby's critique of today's newspapers for reporting at face value patently false statements by politicians, as if actual facts made no difference at all. I did disagree with a few of Jacoby's points. She is too ...
  
  











  



  
Empire of Unreason (Age of Unreason, Bk 3)
J. Gregory Keyes

Del Rey, 2001

An Intricate Tapestry of Events
Empire of Unreason is the third volume (out of four) in J. Gregory Keyes series, "The Age of Unreason." The series depicts an 18th Century world that has discovered the existence of angels who take an active role in the human world. These are not the beneficient ...
  
  











  



  
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention and the Four Theaters of the Brain
John J. Ratey

Pantheon, 2001

Use your brain - change your life
This book is insightful, very readable and inspirational. Understand the working of your brain and live life to the fullest.
  
  











  



  
A Calculus of Angels (The Age of Unreason, Book 2)
J. Gregory Keyes

Del Rey, 2000

The best Science fiction I have ever read
This book is amazing. If you haven't read the first one; you need to. If you have then you don't need my review.
  
  











  



  
The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
Richard Wolin

Princeton University Press, 2006

Long live the death of postmodernism
Wolin presents a clear view of the political impliations of postmodernism's program.
  
  











  



  
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love
Yehuda Koren, Eilat Negev

Da Capo Press, 2008

Reasons for Suicides
This deeply researched book goes into detail after detail about Ted Hughes's relationship with two talented women living in an age about to burst with freedom for women. Although the Suffragette Movement had power, giving women the vote in decades before Sylvia & Assia ...
  
  











  



  
The Politics of Unreason: Right Wing Extremism in America, 1790 1977 (A Phoenix book ; P75)
Seymour Martin Lipset

Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx), 1978

More sociology than history
Seymour Lipset's and Earl Raab's "The Politics of Unreason: Right Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970" is an attempt to explain the history of far right movements through a sociological methodology. The result is a dense book running 500 pages that uses many charts ...
  
  











  



  
Empire of Unreason (Age of Unreason)
Greg Keyes

Tor, 2005
  
  











  



  
The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics
John Dunn

Basic Books, 2001

Not for the Uninitiated
Dunn is a Political Theorist at Cambridge who makes good in this book on the Theorist part of his academic title. Informing us at the outset that he's writing a book for the general reader about how to think about politics, his prose style (which employs parentheses ...
  
  











  



  
Thanksgiving
Michael Dibdin

Pantheon, 2001

Dibdin's finest novel - transcending the genre
Michael Dibdin is one of genre fictions great writers. And as well as being a fine prose stylist Dibdin is versatile. He has written a fine modern series, the Aurelio Zen books, which concluded with the near perfect Blood Rain; has written witty (and erudite) parodies ...
  
  











  



  
Reason and Unreason: Psychoanalysis, Science and Politics (Disseminations--Psychoanalysis in Contexts)
Michael Rustin

Wesleyan, 2002

Reason and Unreason: Psychoanalysis, Science and Politics explores issues concerning the justification and legitimacy of psychoanalytic knowledge, and its relevance to political and social questions. Part I explores the achievements of the British psychoanalytic tradition, relating these to recent developments in the sociological understanding of ...
  
  











  



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