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7 best books like The Jade Cabinet (Rikki Ducornet): How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe , How the Mind Works, Jesus' Son, On the Incarnation, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 
AuthorThomas Cahill
ISBN0385418493
From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of western civilization - from the Greek and Roman classics to Jewish and Christian works - would have been utterly lost were it not for the...
How the Mind Works
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0393318486
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy...
Jesus' Son
AuthorDenis Johnson
ISBN0060975776
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange...
On the Incarnation
AuthorAthanasius of Alexandria
ISBN0913836400

I was pleased to find On the Incarnation remarkably fresh and engaging, still fierce and still passionate too. Such is rarely the case with works of theology, particularly when orthodoxy has robbed them even of the novelty of heresy, for dry-as-dust disquisitions on settled questions often summon...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0143122010
“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)

A provocative history of violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate and the forthcoming Enlightenment...
Letter to a Christian Nation
AuthorSam Harris
ISBN0307265773
In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. Letter to A Christian Nation is his reply. Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....
The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind
AuthorRichard E. Leakey
ISBN0385468091
Richard Leakey, One Of The World's  Foremost Experts On Man's Evolutionary Past, Now Turns  His Eye To The Future And Doesn't Like What He  Sees.

To the philosophical the  earth is eternal, while the human race -- presumptive  keeper of the world's history -- is a mere speck  in...
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