| 1. The Idea of Justice | 
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By: Professor Amartya Sen
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
September 30, 2009
This is an accessible yet dense book. Sen essentially argues that it is extremely difficult and likely past the ability of people to start axiomatically about how a justice system should be formed and deduce the practical results. This stems from the fact that the elements that people define as the parameters of their freedom are multidimensional versus something reducible to say utility, or even... more
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| 2. Leadership without easy answers |
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By: Ronamd A Heifetz
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
1995
This book provides a discussion of just how complicated leadership is and how challenging it can be to lead in a responsible, ethical fashion. Ronald A. Heifetz analyzes a number of leaders who faced not just crises, but transformational situations. As the book's title promises, Heifetz doesn't take shortcuts; he carefully looks at the complexities that leadership, power and authority involve. His... more
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| 3. No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale |
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By: Felice C. Frankel, George M. Whitesides
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
November 09, 2009
This lovely coffee-table book contains 60 full-page illustrations, each accompanied by an explanatory essay. The illustrations came from Felice Frankel, who is on the staff of both MIT and Harvard; the essays are by George Whitesides, a famous chemist at Harvard.
Combining art and science is not an easy task. The Frankel-Whitesides agenda worked most naturally for the pictures numbered... more
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| 4. The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire | 
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By: Edward N. Luttwak
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
November 01, 2009
The book answers a lot of questions about the long history of the eastern part of the former Romer empire, and its enormous importance in the defence or european culture and civilization.
A book highly recommendable for anybody interested in history... more
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| 5. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy |
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By: Peter H. Wilson
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
October 01, 2009
This book has occupied my free time for the last 6 weeks, solid. It is extremely dense, beautifully written, and succeeds in tying together the various strands of a war tragedy more complex than any save perhaps the fall of Rome or the world wars of the 20C. The 30 years war is one of those watersheds, when an old order gives way to new directions that take centuries to work themselves out. Wilson's... more
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| 6. A Secular Age |
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By: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
September 20, 2007
I speak about the librarian product and the bookseller.
It arrived in perfect conditions without dilay. ... more
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| 7. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution | 
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By: Laurent Dubois
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
October 31, 2005
A very well written narrative of the Haitian Revolution. As Dubois points out, this was the only successful slave revolt in human history, with its success brought about by a unique convergence of turmoil in Haiti and the collapse of the French government associated with French Revolution. While Dubois focuses on events in Haiti, he does very in relating the relevant developments in French politics... more
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| 8. Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being |
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By: Esther M. Sternberg M.D.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
May 31, 2009
Dr. Sternberg makes an excellent case for the powerful role of the mind in promoting healing. I gifted this book to a dear friend who has Multiple Sclerosis and who struggles on a daily basis to cope with her disease. There is no doubt that a positive attitude is foremost in coping with any chronic health problem. Equally important is creating an environment where that positive force can thrive... more
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| 9. How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (The John Harvard Library) |
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By: Jacob A. Riis
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
April 15, 2010
This book is a must for those of us in the social science/urban studies field. It is cheap; however, there are many typos throughout, something I do not mind so much and I attribute to the inexpensive nature of this edition. Good stuff!... more
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| 10. A Theory of Justice: Original Edition | 
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By: John Rawls
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
March 31, 2005
I would like to point out three significant problems with Rawls' _Theory of Justice_. First, the theory fails to take account of the difference between community and society. Second, the theory creates a conflict between private virtue and public virtue. And third, the theory, although it purports to be a secular basis for justice, surreptitiously adopts certain assumptions that have their origin in... more
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