Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death in 2005, Beirut is a tour de fo…
by DeBevoise, M. B., Dupuy, Jean Pierre
fromCultural memory in the present
by DeBevoise, M. B., Dupuy, Jean Pierre
fromCultural memory in the present
by DeBevoise, M. B., Dupuy, Jean Pierre
fromCultural memory in the present
by DeBevoise, M. B., Dupuy, Jean Pierre
fromCultural memory in the present
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls ""enlightened doomsaying, "" has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that ha…
by Casanova, Pascale, DeBevoise, M. B.
fromConvergences (Cambridge, Mass.)
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat…
"An intimate look inside a mathematician's mind as he wrestles with the theorem that will make his reputation Cédric Villani is a rock-star mathematician. An intellect of unusual depth and breadth, he is the director of France's greatest mathematics research institute. In 2010 h…
"A monster stalks the earth--a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the sight of its own shadow. This monster is the market. The shadow it fears is cast by a light that comes from the future: the Keynesian crisis of expectations. It…
