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'A stark and important warning about the value of knowledge . . . Vital reading for this day and age' PETER FRANKOPAN

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'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the...

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How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of eco...

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This revolutionary reassessment of Jung's research, conclusions, and character asserts that Jung falsified his key research in developing the theor...

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