Leslie Armour
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Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
This title is a well-drafted wake-up call and offers readers a chance to refocus on some very central issues.
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Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid
The book is dense with examples and conundrums, so readers will need the index to keep them straight. An entertaining account of much that everyone needs to think about.
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Unlearning with Hannah Arendt
This book is charmingly written, carefully translated, and easy for ordinary readers—but it makes Arendt sound too much like Jean-Paul Sartre and we should be a little wary.
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Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill
This book is a reflective offering that delivers great pictures and a moving plea.
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Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us About Right and Wrong
A good read, necessarily ending in numbing thoughts.
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Is God Happy? Selected Essays
A pudding with plums (glimpses of the human predicament) but also soggy parts (old disputes about the lost world of communism). Worthwhile for the plums.
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Socrates
This is a charming book, much of it according with Gregory Vlastos's Socrates, the standard work. As good as a murder mystery, Johnson's narrative is exciting, but readers should remember that people who don't like Plato's metaphysics have been saying these things for 2500 years! [See Prepub Alert, 4/18/11.]
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What Should I Do?
A handy book for readers whose dinner table talk runs to ideas of right and wrong.
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