false 25254 45000 1400078679 9781400078677 157 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170273201m/45000.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170273201s/45000.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45000.The_Island_at_the_Center_of_the_World_The_Epic_Story_of_Dutch_Manhattan_and_the_Forgotten_Colony_That_Shaped_America 4.06 580
The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.]]> 25254 3.93 837 247 2004 2788874 038551753X 9780385517539 70 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2788874.Descartes_Bones_A_Skeletal_History_of_the_Conflict_Between_Faith_and_Reason 3.52 187
Why would this devoutly Catholic official care so much about the remains of a philosopher who was hounded from country to country on charges of atheism? why would Descartes' bones take such a strange serpentine path over the next 350 years—a path intersecting some of the grandest events imaginable: the birth of science, the rise of democracy, the mind-body problem, th econflict between faith and reason? Their story involves people from all walks of life—Louis XIV, a Swedish casino operator, poets and playwrights, philosophers and physicists—who used the bones in scientific studies, stole them, sold them, revered them as relics, fought over them, passed them surreptitiously from hand to hand.

The answer lies in Descartes' famous phrase: "Cogito, ergo sum—I think, therefore I am." In his deceptively simple seventy-eight-page essay, Discourse on the Method, this small, vain, vindictive, peripatetic, ambitious Frenchman destroyed 2,000 years of received wisdom and laid the foundations of the modern world. At the root of Descartes' "method" was skepticism: "What can I know for certain?" Like-minded thinkers around Europe passionately embraced the book—the method was applied to medicine, nature, politics, and society. The notion that one could find truth in facts that could be proved, and not in reliance on tradition and the Church's teachings, would become a turning point in human history.

In an age of faith, what Descartes was proposing seemed like heresy. Yet Descartes himself was a good Catholic who was spurred to write his incendiary book for the most personal of reasons: He had devoted himself to medicine and the study of nature, but when his beloved daughter died a thte age of five, he took his ideas deeper. To understand the natural world one needed to question everything. Thus the scientific method was created, and religion overthrown.

The great controversy Descartes ignited continues to our era: where Islamic terrorists spurn the modern world and pine for a culture based on unquestioning faith; where scientists write bestsellers that passionately make the case for atheism; where others struggle to find a balance between faith and reason.

Descartes' Bones is a historical detective story about the creation o fthe modern mind, with twists and turns leading up to the present day—to the science museum in Paris where the philosopher's skull now resides to the church a few kilometers away where, not long ago, a philosopher-priest said a mass for his bones.]]> 25254 3.93 837 247 2008 668539 1573226599 9781573226592 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176947335m/668539.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176947335s/668539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/668539.Gospel_Truth 3.93 14 25254 3.93 837 247 1997 564781 0805059016 9780805059014 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175833696m/564781.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175833696s/564781.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/564781.Saints_and_Madmen_How_Pioneering_Psychiatrists_Are_Creating_a_New_Science_of_the_Soul 3.70 10 Author Russell Shorto (Gospel Truth) dares to ask these questions. He even offers evidence of a new movement in psychiatry, in which established doctors are assuming a more holistic approach to psychotic episodes and taking the patient's soul into account. This is not a cavalier dismissal of all that can be gained from appropriate diagnoses of (and medications for) mental illness; rather, it is an impressively researched argument for opening up to the idea of spiritual visions. Citing extensive research and numerous case studies, Shorto helps readers consider the possibility that grandiose spiritual visions aren't necessarily symptoms of mental illness. --Gail Hudson

]]> 25254 3.93 837 247 1999 214160 0943718074 9780943718071 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214160.J_R_R_Tolkien_Man_of_Fantasy 5.00 1 25254 3.93 837 247 1989 898392 0382097580 9780382097584 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1221528321m/898392.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1221528321s/898392.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/898392.Tecumseh_and_the_Dream_of_an_American_Indian_Nation 5.00 1 25254 3.93 837 247 1989 898393 1878841351 9781878841353 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/898393.Jackie_Robinson 4.00 1 25254 3.93 837 247 1991 763334 1559720549 9781559720540 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/763334.Cinderella_Cinderella_The_Untold_Story 3.00 1 25254 3.93 837 247 1990 7338491 0803232837 9780803232839 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7338491-a-description-of-new-netherland 0.0 0 A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translaiton of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century. Adriaen van der Donck, a graduate of Leiden University in the 1640s, became the law enforcement officer for the Dutch patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, located along the upper Hudson River. His position enabled him to interact extensively with Dutch colonists and the local Algonquians and Iroquoians. An astute observer, detailed recorder, and accessible writer, Van der Donck was ideally situated to write about his experiences and the natural and cultural worlds around him.</DIV><DIV>
Van der Donck’s Beschryvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant was first published in 1655 and then expanded in 1656. An inaccurate and abbreviated English translation appeared in 1841 and was reprinted in 1968. This new volume features an accurate, polished translation by Diederik Willem Goedhuys and includes all the material from the original 1655 and 1656 editions. The result is an indispensable first-hand account with enduring value to historians, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists.</DIV>]]> 777624 3.00 1 1 3238171 0.0 0 0 3238172 0.0 0 0 1820729 0.0 0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 2008 763335 0943718066 9780943718064 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/763335.The_Secret_History_of_Grammar 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 9808 3.72 18 2 1988 2084729 0382099370 9780382099373 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2084729.Abraham_Lincoln_To_Preserve_the_Union 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 1991 5483798 0382099354 9780382099359 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5483798.The_History_of_the_Civil_War 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 53367 3.41 371 42 718381 0.0 0 0 1990 4895591 1562940651 9781562940652 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4895591.Careers_For_Hands_On_Types 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 1992 763336 1562940643 9781562940645 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/763336.Careers_For_The_Curious 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 1992 1182129 0943718104 9780943718101 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1182129.Edgar_Allan_Poe_Creator_of_Dreams 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 1989 898395 1562940457 9781562940454 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/898395.Jane_Fonda_Political_Activism 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 1991 5005978 0395635713 9780395635711 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5005978.Careers_for_Animal_Lovers 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 95405 3.00 1 1 1992 3879165 1878841122 9781878841124 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3879165.Abraham_Lincoln_and_the_End_of_Slavery 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 1991 1301003 0395635748 9780395635742 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1301003.Careers_for_People_Who_Like_to_Perform 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 1992 2084727 0812039181 9780812039184 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2084727.Thomas_Jefferson_and_the_American_Ideal 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 1987 1182130 0382095715 9780382095719 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1182130.Geronimo_and_the_Struggle_for_Apache_Freedom 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 1989 4323834 0382099419 9780382099410 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4323834.David_Farragut_and_the_Great_Naval_Blockade 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 1991 1376109 1562610635 9781562610630 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1376109.How_to_Fly_the_Space_Shuttle 0.0 0 25254 3.93 837 247 0 5367232 0943718201 9780943718200 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5367232.Polly_s_Planet_A_Geographical_Adventure 0.0 0 9808 3.72 18 2 25254 3.93 837 247 1994 7268282 0823230392 9780823230396 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7268282-dutch-new-york 0.0 0 2760725 3.00 1 0 25254 3.93 837 247 2009