Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, Paperback - John Ralston Saul

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Clad in the black robe of his priestly order and armed only with a crucifix, for more than a quarter of a century Father De Smet relentlessly tramp...

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Paperback of the standard biography of Gold Meir, the first elected female leader in the West.

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We must transform our perception of our relationship with the Earth, if we ever hope to save ourselves from ecological disaster.

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This is the first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors, whose philosophical importance has so far been overlooked. It will appeal...

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