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| Highly readable but challenging examination of the origins and implications of moral systems, on both the individual and cultural level. Haidt's practical concern here is the intractable conflict between the Left and Right in American politics. The c ...more | |
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| This one grabbed me from the opening pages and kept me spellbound right up to the end. The ex-husband of a spoiled rich girl walks 75 miles to his former home, after being released from a mental institution. In an apparent coincidence, his former mot ...more | |
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| Imaginative take on time travel, in which a researcher trying to cure Alzheimer's accidentally (but with help from an evil billionaire) invents a machine that can rewrite history. Things don't get interesting until after about 40 pages of yadda yadda ...more | |
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"This is a book that has remained in print for 60 years – so, it clearly has had something to say to the world about how power in America works.
I want to focus mostly on the last chapter of this book – but to do that I need to quickly point to some id" Read more of this review » |
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