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What to give a First Things reader

Authors :
McClay, Wilfred M.
Novak, David
Weigel, George
Decter, Midge
Barr, Stephen M.
Source :
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life. December, 2008 Issue 188, p16, 4 p.
Publication Year :
2008

Abstract

Seeking ideas for presents this year, we asked several of our well-read friends and contributors for recommendations of a few wise, or fun, or disturbing books that every FIRST THINGS [...]

Subjects

Subjects :
Nicomachean Ethics (Nonfiction work) -- Aristotle -- Book reviews
The Boys of Summer (Novel) -- Kahn, Roger
The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth (Biography) -- Cutler, Alan
Studies in Classic American Literature (Nonfiction work) -- Lawrence, D.H.
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Autobiography) -- Collins, Francis S.
Helena (Machado de Assis) (Novel) -- Book reviews
The Civil War: A Narrative (Nonfiction work) -- Foote, Shelby -- Book reviews
The Leopard (Novel) -- di Lampedusa, Giuseppe -- Book reviews
Fides Quarens Intellectum (Nonfiction work) -- Barth, Karl
Democracy in America (Nonfiction work) -- Tocqueville, Alexis de -- Book reviews
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Nonfiction work) -- Ellis, Joseph J. -- Book reviews
God in Search of Man (Nonfiction work) -- Heschel, Abraham Joshua
Helena (Novel) -- Waugh, Evelyn -- Book reviews
A Distant Trumpet (Novel) -- Horgan, Paul -- Book reviews
The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries (Nonfiction work) -- Colville, John
The Education of Henry Adams (Autobiography) -- Adams, Henry -- Book reviews
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (Nonfiction work) -- Polanyi, Michael
Kuzari (Nonfiction work) -- Halevi, Judah
The Triumph of the Therapeutic: The Uses of Faith After Freud (Nonfiction work) -- Rieff, Philip
Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises (Nonfiction work) -- Kissinger, Henry
The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages (Nonfiction work) -- Grant, Edward
The Mind Has Mountains (Essay collection) -- McHugh, Paul R.
I Hear America Swinging (Nonfiction work) -- De Vries, Peter
Sayings of the Fathers (Nonfiction work) -- Hertz, Joseph
Books -- Book reviews
Philosophy and religion

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10475141
Issue :
188
Database :
Gale General OneFile
Journal :
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsgcl.189050890