Book interviews tagged Polemics
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil
- ISBN: 978 0 374 22998 6
- featured in: A glimpse into the intellectual life of early modern EuropeJanuary 30, 2009
Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins
- ISBN: 978 0 8018 8813 7
- featured in: On genesis myths, genetics myths, and the persistent dialogue between science and religion over human beginnings and identityFebruary 6, 2009
Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed
- ISBN: 978 0 226493121
- featured in: Much is lost in the claim that the Buddha anticipated EinsteinMarch 13, 2009
What is a Number? Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins
- ISBN: 978 0 801890185
- featured in: On the central role mathematical notions have played in the history of ideasMarch 24, 2009
Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid
- ISBN: 978 0295987521
- featured in: The other half of Edward Said’s Orientalism—and of three decades of polemicsApril 3, 2009
Philip II of Macedonia
- ISBN: 978 0 300 12079 0
- featured in: Perhaps it is Philip, not Alexander, who deserves to be called “Great”April 24, 2009
Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe’s Battlegrounds
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03397 9
- featured in: The idea of a Christian Europe is simply a case of historical amnesiaApril 28, 2009
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13708 7
- featured in: Power in twelfth-century Europe was of lordship—not government, nor “feudalism”May 15, 2009
Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4077 1 hb
- featured in: Smart government can create decent social housingMay 18, 2009
Mathematics in 10 Lessons: The Grand Tour
- ISBN: 978 1591026860
- featured in: The necessity to understand mathematics is simpleJune 3, 2009
Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13725 4
- featured in: The path to justice is lighted by the glow of civil passionsJune 19, 2009
Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions
- ISBN: 978 1861894304
- featured in: The questions answered by the pseudo-historians are questions that a curious public frequently asksJuly 8, 2009
The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth
- ISBN: 978 0691138985
- featured in: Evolution is ecology on a longer time scaleJuly 17, 2009
Muhammad is Not the Father of any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4178 5
- featured in: Muhammad’s sonlessness was a function of theological imperativesSeptember 4, 2009
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
- ISBN: 978 0521727327
- featured in: Climate change in a more creative and less pejorative discourseOctober 9, 2009
Science in Environmental Policymaking: The Politics of Objective Advice
- ISBN: 978 0262512961
- featured in: Scientists in three distinct settings of the policy processNovember 16, 2009
Le Corbusier and the Occult
- ISBN: 978 0262026482
- featured in: You will hate this book if you want to believe in the innocence of geniusFebruary 19, 2010
The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
- ISBN: 978 0307272454
- featured in: About the similarities and differences between science and engineeringMarch 26, 2010
Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age
- ISBN: 978 0520261372
- featured in: Europe is the new world, not the old
March 31, 2010
Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement
- ISBN: 978 0674035034
- featured in: Why the Cultural Revolution’s student red guards fought one anotherApril 16, 2010
Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character
- ISBN: 978 0226251431
- featured in: How we became the secure, independent, yet group-joining Americans we areApril 26, 2010
Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company
- ISBN: 978 0816665303
- featured in: All artistic production may be appropriative
May 5, 2010
Capitalism and the Jews
- ISBN: 978 0691144788
- featured in: How the history of capitalism and the history of the Jews have been interlinkedJune 14, 2010
