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The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life
Parker J. Palmer
Jossey-Bass, 2008
Promise of paradox
This is Parker Palmer's first book. A stunning approach to the central themes of Christian spirituality and introduces a new religious writer of major stature. This book, deeply rooted in the spiritual teaching of Thomas Merton, will have its greatest appeal for ...
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More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
Steven E. Landsburg
Free Press, 2007
Thought-provoking and original
Don't let the title or the jocular style fool you--this book is a tremendous intellectual achievement.
Even if you feel like you've already gotten the gist of "how economists think"-style books (Freakonomics, The Undercover Economist...), you'll find plenty of ...
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Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic
Ray Takeyh
Times Books, 2006
Essential Reading!!
Like many Americans, my view of Iran has been frozen at the time of the 1979 Iranian Revolution with its searing images of vitriolic anti-Americanism. Given the emerging situation in the Middle East, an updated perspective of Iran is sorely needed. Ray Takeyh does a ...
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Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums
Julian Havil
Princeton University Press, 2008
In Nonplussed! , popular-math writer Julian Havil delighted readers with a mind-boggling array of implausible yet true mathematical paradoxes. Now Havil is back with Impossible? , another marvelous medley of the utterly confusing, profound, and unbelievable--and all of it mathematically irrefutable. Whenever Forty-second Street in New York is ...
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Barry Schwartz
Harper Perennial, 2005
Great book
Barry Schwartz explores interesting paradox. If we as consumer have a lot of choices, it does not mean that we would be able to make a better decision or be happier. In fact it is often quite opposite. The book is based on strong scientific foundation: psychology of ...
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The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap
Susan Pinker
Scribner, 2008
Susan Pinker, psychologist and award-winning columnist, has written a groundbreaking and controversial book that reveals why learning and behavioral gaps between boys and girls in the classroom are reversed in the workplace. Pinker examines how fundamental sex differences play out over the life span. By comparing fragile boys who succeed later ...
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The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, Book 6)
Eoin Colfer
Hyperion Books for Children, 2008
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Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, Revised Edition
Deborah Stone
W. W. Norton, 2001
A provocative and rewarding examination of policy making
Deborah Stone's "Policy Paradox" is an important work in the field of policy analysis. The subtitle is illuminating: "The Art of Political Decision Making." Her takeoff point is the following statement (pages x-xi): "This new field of policy analysis supposedly ...
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Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas
Julian Havil
Princeton University Press, 2007
Fascinating
This book will delight readers who like to get their hands into their math. Havil sticks to mostly elementary concepts, avoiding highly abstract fields that would lose most readers. When a subject could go too far afield, Havil warns about it and presents only the ...
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The Strategy Paradox: Why committing to success leads to failure (and what to do about it)
Michael E. Raynor
Doubleday Business, 2007
Requisite uncertainty and human capabilities
Zachary Stein ((Harvard Graduate School of Education) & Theo L. Dawson (Developmental Testing Service)
We agree with many of the other reviewers of this book. It combines high quality scholarship and accessibility, making it stand out from most of the popular ...
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Epileptic
David B.
Pantheon, 2006
unknown Confessions
the only prior experience i brought to this reading of a graphic novel was 'jimmy corrigan: the smartest boy in the world,' which is why amazon recommended it to me. ultimately, i think that the genre is all that connects them. this book is much more intimate, ...
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
Edmund White
Bloomsbury USA, 2008
Annoyed By Most Travel Books?
Edmund White gives a very different "travel book" in FLANEUR: A STROLL THROUGH THE PARADOXES OF PARIS. If you don't delight in books that compare prices of hotels and restaurants or books in which the author traces the difficulty of restoring and furbishing a fabulous ...
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Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Second Edition
Michael Sipser
Course Technology, 2005
My choice for textbook in my computation theory class
I recently encountered this book at a publisher's booth at a computer conference and read it on the ride back home. This morning I made a trip to the college bookstore and notified them that it is the textbook that I will be using in my computation theory class this ...
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Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality
Thomas Moore
Harper Perennial, 2001
Original Self
Upon leaving Australia to move to the U.S.A., I weapt when I packed away my extensive library into heavy wooden crates,in an attempt to protect their wisdom, until I could return one day. I only had room to stash a few precious books into my suitcases which were to ...
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The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance
Randy Alcorn
Multnomah Books, 2003
Gracious truth telling and Truthful grace giving!
This book spells it out for us! It has shed light on the the inner dilema: I want the world to know that Jesus Christ is Lord--He is a Holy God and we have sinned against Him!!! We need to be Saved by His only Son Jesus Christ!!!! I want to shout it from the roof ...
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