Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
10 best books like Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (Barbara Ehrenreich): The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Negroland, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays, My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith, Composing a Life
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects...
| Author | Margo Jefferson |
| ISBN | 0307378454 |
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the...
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Robert Fulghum engages with musings on life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow, and the best chicken-fried steak in the continental United States. The little seed in the Styrofoam cup offers a reminder about our own mortality and the delicate nature of life . . . a spider who catches (and loses) a full-grown...
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
| Author | Harold S. Kushner |
| ISBN | 1400034728 |
When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts...
| Author | Michael Wex |
| ISBN | 0061132179 |
A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint
Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect language for it. Rich in color, expressiveness,...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679724699 |
This is a perfect example of the kind of writing characterised by Clive James as prose that ‘scorns the earth for fear of a puncture’. Foucault may be able to think – it's not easy to tell – but he certainly can't write.
Everywhere there is an apparent desire to render a simple thought impenetrable....
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
| Author | Aaron Lansky |
| ISBN | 1565125134 |
“Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important.” —Library Journal, starred review
“A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations.” —The New York Post
“What began as a quixotic journey was also a picaresque...
Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
| Author | Camille Paglia |
| ISBN | 0679741011 |
In her lecture at M.I.T. in 1991, Camille Paglia remarked at the outset that she faced a dilemma on the occasion of that appearance.
She was unsure about whether she should conduct herself as a lady or just be herself, since she undoubtedly had both friends and enemies in the audience.
She...
| Author | Benyamin Cohen |
| ISBN | 0061245178 |
One day a Georgia-born son of an Orthodox rabbi discovers that his enthusiasm for Judaism is flagging. He observes the Sabbath, he goes to synagogue, and he even flies to New York on weekends for a series of "speed dates" with nice, eligible Jewish girls. But, something is missing. Looking out of his window...
| Author | Mary Catherine Bateson |
| ISBN | 0802138047 |
Wow. I am really surprised by this book. I suppose the kindest thing to say is that it was written by a woman of a certain generation, and I feel that a lot of the compromises she accepts as "progress" are (happily) outdated thinking today. Her suggestions seem to point toward submission, I found. The women...
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
| Author | Michael J. Sandel |
| ISBN | 0374203032 |
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities?...
