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A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a... more

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  The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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  • Posted:Oct-08-2009

  • Sarcastic, snobby writing about a topic that's actually important
  • When I reviewed Taleb's other book, Fooled By Randomness, I gave it 3 stars and later I thought I probably was too harsh. It was an important and interesting book but it just made me feel less than...
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  • Very disappointing
  • I have had this sitting on my Kindle for a month, and was really looking forward to it. What a disappointment! This appears to be the author's single good idea padded out with endless fluff and...
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  • Not a great book
  • I agree with the review by Gaetan Lion below.
    
    I would like to add that to support a few of his views, he resorts to a fictitious story of a writer who publishes on the internet and...
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Using unconventional examples from his own life, Shane Claiborne stirs up questions about the church and the world,... more

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  The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

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  • Challenging
  • I am leading a small group through this book.
    
    It challenges comfortable Christianity and inspires me to go to the broken and tender places of the world.
    
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  • awesome thought provoking book.
  • Absolutlely the best book i have read on the Christian lifestyle. This guy is real and in your face in a nice way. He is doing the work of Christ in this book. He give stories and real life events,...
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  • Two Major Issues with Shane's Vision of Ministry
  • I read this book months ago, and waited until now to review it. It took me that long to pray through and digest this challenging view of the Christian life. But after going through it more than...
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Bishop John shelby spong, author of Jesus for the Non-Religious, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Sins of... more

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Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed... more

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  The Republic of Plato

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  • A book that is holy
  • Of all those who are today recognized as great philosophers, there may only be a few who merit the title in the true sense, while the others are perhaps more accurately commentators, essayists. Not...
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  • Plato- Bloom
  • The cover of the book was in very good shape but there were highlighted pages. It arrived promptly.
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  • Sigh
  • Let's keep something in mind here: there's probably not a one of the people on here talking about how brilliant "The Republic" is, who would ever want to live in Plato's ideal, "just" republic....
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Finally available in a popularly priced,  non-illustrated, smaller-format edition, which is ideal  for the... more

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  The Power of Myth

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  • In My Top 10 Books
  • This piece of literary treasure is a launching pad for all of Joseph Campbell's groundbreaking philosophical and anthropological work. First of all a myth is not a lie; rather it is a way for...
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  • Interesting, but hard to follow
  • The Power of Myth is an interview between Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell. I found it to be a bit mundane and repetitive. I found it hard to follow and I had to go back and reread passages to...
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  • Intellectual stuff
  • I have tremendous admiration for the author Joseph Campbell and also for Bill Moyers, who did the interview. Both are tremendously intelligent, well-read and capable of verbalizing opinions and...
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C. S. Lewis takes us on a profound journey through both heaven and hell in this engaging allegorical tale. Using his... more

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  The Great Divorce

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  • riddled with narrow-minded assumptions
  • This book displays Mr. Lewis' gift for writing. The plot is well developed, the language is pretty clear and accessible, and some of the dialogues between the main characters kept my attention....
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  • interesting approach of heaven and hell
  • This is an interesting approach to Heaven and Hell. Instead of being chosen, the characters have to choose whether to stay in Heaven or return to hell by choosing to adhere to their attachement...
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  • My all-time favorite book
  • This little story utterly changed my life, in that it actually provided (hypothetical, but completely plausible) answers to me for my questions regarding the difference between religiousity and...
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This extraordinary book brings together many sources of important information on the changes occurring within our... more

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  Great Shift, The: Co-Creating a New World for 2012 and Beyond

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  • Reader Beware
  • It is not surprising that the authors of this book are aware of a stronger spiritual presence in these recent years. However, we must be cautious about what we open ourselves up to spiritually. Not...
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  • Accelerating Consciousness
  • An interesting read, this book speaks to the evolution of human consciousness.
    
    The writings of respected channeling authors are compiled to give us an update on how we are developing and...
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  • keep an open mind
  • Channeled messages--no matter how open to the idea I might be, it makes me just a little uncomfortable Within the hidden chambers of my discomfort I wonder: What if channeling is all made up, just...
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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie?s... more

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  Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (Fsg Classics)

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  • Sophies World
  • I bought this book for a philosophy class I am taking. The book was a very good intro to philosophy and gives the ideas in creative ways. While it was good at giving the history and evoking thought...
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  • A Must Read On Beginning Philosophy
  • This book became an instant favorite. It rests somewhere in between a novel with introspective ideas and an introductory level textbook on philosophy. The novel aspects paint beautifully the world...
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  • Gaarder gives it "the old college try"
  • At the risk of sounding like a parrot and saying, "Me, too!" I agree with the reviewer (see "A Doughnut!", January 13, 1999) who says, "The author is not expected to deal with every philosopher....
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Today nearly everyone is familiar with holograms, three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a... more

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  The Holographic Universe

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  • Posted:Aug-25-2009

  • Probable about important matters...
  • The late Michael Talbot was fascinated by the findings in 1982 at the University of Paris that "under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously...
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  • Everybody chill out
  • Everybody has a bias, including me, though we usually don't admit it. Talbot, like many folks, early experienced the validity of what some like to think of as "paranormal crap." If you've had...
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  • A mish-mash
  • This book probably only deserves one star because of the ridiculous way the author jumps to unfounded conclusions. However I'm giving it two because I must admit I was captivated by the description...
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"The Convoluted Universe" is the sequel to "The Custodians". This book contains some of the more complicated concepts... more

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  The Convoluted Universe: Book One

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  • A Must read!!!
  • This is one of my favorite books, and it is still my favorite Convoluted Universe book of the three by Dolores.
    This book really does have it all. I came across Dolores's work last year when I...
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  • Consider other authors, like Adrian Dvir
  • I ordered Dolores' book based on the high reviews it received. I can see why they received those marks but I can't agree with them. The topics covered in her books, through regression hypnosis, are...
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This brief and flexible introductory level text is designed to illustrate the power of logic as a tool for critical... more

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"An engaging, accessible discussion, replete with examples, of the varieties of metaphor and how they work."--Mary... more

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  Metaphors We Live By

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  • A reference book about metaphor studies
  • I've read this book in the Brazilian edition and decided to buy it in the original language because I am a sutend of metaphors in political discourse and think that this is a work of reference in...
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  • A little obvious
  • The book's focus is on the fact that many of the sayings we use in daily life can be seen as metaphors for more literal explanations. For example it takes a chapter to explain how we feel that...
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  • in opposition to the other reviews
  • After reading the other reviews, I feel obliged to opine about the book. I am a philosophy student. I generally introduce myself as a logician, but on the philosophy side. My areas of interest in...
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Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life--the life proper... more

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  The Virtue of Selfishness

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  • Making A Virtue Out Of Selfishness
  • If you have read Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead and want to dig a little deeper into Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, this is the book for you. Her essays The Objectivist Ethics, The...
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  • The Virtue of Narcissism
  • What this is really about is not "selfishness" as vaguely (un)defined by Ms. Rand, but more to the point good old narcissism as defined in psychology. Narcissism can be a trait or a full blown...
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  • A mix of legitimate points and very flawed rethorics.
  • This, like many of Ayn Rand's works, seems to be one of those "love it or hate it" books that has a very loyal following as well as many opponents. I don't think it's that easy because this is a...
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Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on... more

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  Awakening the Buddha Within : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

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  • Lift Your Spirit
  • This book is truly one that lifts our spirit. It is written with such clarity and simplicity that everyone can understand it. It encourages us and aids us on our journey to growing in spirit.
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  • Ruined by lousy prose
  • I naively bought this book after visiting Lama Surya Das's Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, MA (LSD was not there). I am now sorry that I spent my money on it. Somewhat new to Buddhism, I am in no...
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  • Good intro to Buddhism but too voluminous for what it offers
  • This is an easy to read book that touches on some basics on Tibetan Buddhism and meditation techniques. Although it briefly explains the basics, this book is not about the Buddha and Tibetan...
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Surprisingly, no book of quotations on God and religion by atheists and agnostics exists. Luckily, for the millions... more

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  The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those...

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  • Formatting is horrible
  • While the content is thoughtful and thought-provoking, the Kindle version of this book is very poor. Random spaces appear in words everywhere, fonts have damaged characters, extraneous dashes and...
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  • Misquotes and lack of citations
  • I am an atheist, but this is just bad. For example, it attributes a quote to John Adams that was really said by James Madison ("Who does not see that the same authority which can establish...
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  • My primary quote book
  • Seriously: I refer to this one more than to all my other quote books put together. The following sampling is a part of one I did on my blog about several quote books.
    
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  Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics)

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  • Great Purchase
  • The book arrived right on time and the person kept in contact telling me when it would arrive and such. The book came in the right condition (as stated in the description) Great!
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  • History not reality
  • First off, this was a difficult read and I would only recommend this book to people who really have a strong background in literature or who read every day. Secondly the ideas in this book are...
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  • so-so
  • Certainly this is much better than "The Big Store", but it can't really compare to "Horse Feathers" and, of course, "Duck Soup". Where is Margaret Dumont?
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  Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

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  • A philosophy book that stuff scientists (like me) can get behind
  • Dan Dennett manages to achieve a great deal in a relatively short book. Through a series of insightful, clever though experiments and self-referential terms the author manages to allow the reader...
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  • A good, but overly scientific, introduction
  • Dr. Dennett's work is a good introduction to the idea of evolution and its resultant consequences. As a Catholic theologian-in-training, I found his discussion on the moral and ethical implications...
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  • Dennett Showing off, Misses the Boat.
  • Dennett has almost managed to do the impossible: antagonize the readers of his explanation of evolution so much that they wish it were not true. I have no doubt that, for many readers, this...
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  Crimes Against Logic

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  • Why would a religious person but a book about logic?
  • This book is great! It was written well and exposes the many logical fallacies that exist in the public realm. Now, if you are looking for Quine or David Lewis, you're going to be disappointed....
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  • Somewhat Witty, Perceptive and Shallow
  • I suppose I am writing a short opinion because it was good enough to warrant a reaction. From the cover you would think it would have been a hilarious decimation of humans holding on to their...
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  • Can't Recommend
  • I bought this book as a potential learning aid for my work group. While all my staff works in technical areas, I hoped that this book might help structure their thinking. We work with the public,...
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One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us... more

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  On Bullshit

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  • What the?
  • I got the audio CD version of this book at a book sale for only $1, but I still feel cheated. I thought with a title like "On Bull***t" , it had to be funny, or at least provide some interesting...
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  • the program of producing "BS" in large organizations
  • The Fable of the Sharks
    
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  • Cumbersome
  • This essay is educational but not engaging. I hesitate to level this criticism at such a "renowned moral philosopher," but I feel slighted for paying ten dollars for what I (incorrectly) assumed...
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  The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(e) / Intervention)

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  • The Coming Irrationality
  • I've given 'The Coming Insurrection' 4 stars not on literary merit but because I found it informative. In many ways it is just as heated and irrational as Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' or 'The Protocols...
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  • Goodbye Civilization, Hello Barbarism, Anarchy & Other Utopian Garbage
  • I'd heard that this was a very scary book. The French government had even jailed the members of the Invisible Committee of authors for Terrorism. I found the book incredibly na?ve. The most...
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