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Alex Rosenberg



Alex Rosenberg's first novel, "The Girl From Krakow," is a thriller that explores how a young woman and her lover navigate the dangerous thirties, the firestorm of war in Europe, and how they make sense of their survival. Alex's second novel, "Autumn in Oxford" is a murder mystery set in Britain in the late 1950s. It takes the reader back to the second world war in the American south and England before D-day, France during the Liberation and New York in the late '40s. It will be published by Lake Union in August.

Before he became a novelist Alex wrote a large number of books about the philosophy of science, especially about economics and biology. These books were mainly addressed to other academics. But in 2011 Alex published a book that exp ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 17,616 ratings · 1,099 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors
The Girl from Krakow
3.87 avg rating — 15,176 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions
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Autumn in Oxford
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The Atheist's Guide to Real...
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فلسفة العلم: مقدمة معاصرة
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How History Gets Things Wro...
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Philosophy of Social Science
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In the Shadows of Enigma: A...
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The Intrigues of Jennie Lee
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Philosophy of biology
3.61 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions
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Economics--Mathematical Pol...
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions
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“The truth never takes a backseat

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― Alex Rosenburg
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“You know, seeing the world straight doesn’t make you smarter or better. It might just make you worse and more complacent about things.”
― Alex Rosenberg, The Girl from Krakow
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“Doing right means nothing more than minimizing human misery.”
― Alex Rosenberg, The Girl from Krakow
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