The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science

8 best books like The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (Edwin Arthur Burtt): Thousand Cranes, The Sound of the Mountain, Point Counter Point, Past Master, The Servile State, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, With a New Preface, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology

Thousand Cranes

Author	Yasunari Kawabata
ISBN	0679762655

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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.
 
While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of...

The Sound of the Mountain

Author	Yasunari Kawabata
ISBN	0679762647

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Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive...

Point Counter Point

Author	Aldous Huxley
ISBN	1564781313

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes...

Past Master

Author	R.A. Lafferty
ISBN	0441653030

The golden planet of Astrobe, made in the image of Utopia, now faced a crisis which could destroy it forever; & yet, no one could understand it:
In a world where wealth & comfort were free to everyone, why did so many desert the golden cities for the slums of Cathead & the Barrio? Why did...

The Servile State

Author	Hilaire Belloc
ISBN	0913966320

Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) was one of the most respected men of his day for his learning, insight, wit, and brilliant literary style. Author of over a hundred books and articles, Belloc was a journalist, polemicist, social and political analyst, literary critic, poet, and novelist.

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Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, With a New Preface

Author	Gray Brechin
ISBN	0520250087

First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families—the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others—who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons,...

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

Author	Pauline Maier
ISBN	0679779086

Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans...

Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology

Author

James K.A. Smith

In this culmination of his widely read and highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines the political through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would...