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Little, Brown and Co.
One of the U.S. oldest and most distinguished publishing houses, Little, Brown (Hachette Book Group) is committed to publishing fiction of the highest quality and non-fiction of lasting significance, by many of America’s finest writers.
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The Evolution of God by Robert Wright published by Little, Brown and Co. in 2009. Author of this book invites us on a journey through history, unveiling a discovery of importance to the present moment. Using theology, archaeology, history and psychology, Wright overturns conventional wisdom:
- Contrary to the belief that Moses brought monotheism to the Middle East ancient Israel was polytheistic until after the Babylon exile.
- Jesus didn’t really say, “Love your enemies,” or extol the God Samarian.
- Muhammad was neither a militant religious zealot nor a benign spiritual leader but a cool political pragmatist…
Wright has taught philosophy at Princeton and religion at University of Pennsylvania…
This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace published by Little, Brown and Company in 2009. In this witty manifesto, the celebrated writer and philosopher David Foster Wallace distills the important lessons he learned. He responds to important questions:
- How do we keep from going through adult life unconsciously, comfortably entrenched in habit?
-How do we remove ourselves from the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion?
David Foster reveals the basic and important decision how to think about our world. Refreshing and easy to read, this book written with intellect, humor, and practical philosophy, and offers advice that renew you with everyday reading. One of the great authors of our times, David Foster Wallace wrote several novels and nonfiction. He died in 2008.
The Crime of Paris : A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler published by Little, Brown and Co. in 2009. Paris was the heart of a rapidly changing world and also a violent place with dark alleyways, home of gangsters and serial killers. Police and Alphonse Bertillon, the world’s greatest detective and inventor of the mug shot battled back with a weapon of their own. August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. It was assumed Bertillon would quickly find the painting… This title is the story of investigation, leading into the world of avant-garde artists, cheap apartments of Montparnasse and Monmartre, cabarets… This book pictures history off the City of Light. Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler are authors of critically acclaimed books The Monsters, In Darkness, Death. They live in New York City.
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Introducing selected titles:
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The Evolution of God by Robert Wright published by Little, Brown and Co. in 2009. Author of this book invites us on a journey through history, unveiling a discovery of importance to the present moment. Using theology, archaeology, history and psychology, Wright overturns conventional wisdom:
- Contrary to the belief that Moses brought monotheism to the Middle East ancient Israel was polytheistic until after the Babylon exile.
- Jesus didn’t really say, “Love your enemies,” or extol the God Samarian.
- Muhammad was neither a militant religious zealot nor a benign spiritual leader but a cool political pragmatist…
Wright has taught philosophy at Princeton and religion at University of Pennsylvania…
This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace published by Little, Brown and Company in 2009. In this witty manifesto, the celebrated writer and philosopher David Foster Wallace distills the important lessons he learned. He responds to important questions:
- How do we keep from going through adult life unconsciously, comfortably entrenched in habit?
-How do we remove ourselves from the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion?
David Foster reveals the basic and important decision how to think about our world. Refreshing and easy to read, this book written with intellect, humor, and practical philosophy, and offers advice that renew you with everyday reading. One of the great authors of our times, David Foster Wallace wrote several novels and nonfiction. He died in 2008.
The Crime of Paris : A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler published by Little, Brown and Co. in 2009. Paris was the heart of a rapidly changing world and also a violent place with dark alleyways, home of gangsters and serial killers. Police and Alphonse Bertillon, the world’s greatest detective and inventor of the mug shot battled back with a weapon of their own. August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. It was assumed Bertillon would quickly find the painting… This title is the story of investigation, leading into the world of avant-garde artists, cheap apartments of Montparnasse and Monmartre, cabarets… This book pictures history off the City of Light. Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler are authors of critically acclaimed books The Monsters, In Darkness, Death. They live in New York City.
References:
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/publishing_little-brown-and-company.aspx
Category:
Articles
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