The Great Delusion

The Great Delusion

Publisher: Yale University Press

Total Pages: 328

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The policy of remaking the world in America's image is supposed to protect human rights, promote peace, and make the world safe for democracy. But this is not what has happened.

The Great American Delusion

The Great American Delusion

Publisher: Caravan Books UK

Total Pages: 308

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The Great American Delusion asks whether, with global power shifting eastwards, the US can save itself and, with it, the Western world before it’s too late. Patrick Davies worked alongside the Obama and Trump White Houses for five years.

The Great Delusion

The Great Delusion

Publisher: Hill and Wang

Total Pages: 240

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In The Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present together through the life of a strange and brooding nineteenth-century German engineer and technological utopian named John Adolphus Etzler, who ...

The Strong Delusion

The Strong Delusion

Publisher: iUniverse

Total Pages: 307

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This book delves into myriad topics, including: Encounters with angels, otherworldly beings, and Jesus Christ; Encounters with demons, ghosts, nephilim, jinns, and mythical creatures; The Bibles explanation of ET good guys and bad guys; The ...

Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain

Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Total Pages: 198

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But if it is so bad for us, why is it ubiquitous? In Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler argue that, paradoxically, self-deception can also play a vital role in our success and well-being.

The Science Delusion

The Science Delusion

Publisher: Melville House

Total Pages: 133

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In short, the rich philosophical debates of the 19th century have been nearly totally abandoned, argues critic Curtis White.

The Delusions of Crowds

The Delusions of Crowds

Publisher: Grove Press

Total Pages: 491

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Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last five hundred years—from the Anabaptist Madness of the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that pervade today’s polarized America ...

God Is No Delusion

God Is No Delusion

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Total Pages: 149

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Dawkins contends that he has reason and evidence on his side, and he dismisses faith as unfounded, even irrational. Dominican Thomas Crean tackles Dawkins' claims head-on.

Energy of Delusion

Energy of Delusion

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Total Pages: 450

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One of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, Viktor Shklovsky writes the critical equivalent of what Ross Chambers calls loiterature writing that roams, playfully digresses, moving freely between the literary work and the ...

The Hell of Good Intentions

The Hell of Good Intentions

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Total Pages: 401

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From the New York Times–bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy—explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the “forever wars” in ...

The Cult of We

The Cult of We

Publisher: Crown

Total Pages: 473

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Peppered with eye-popping, never-before-reported details, The Cult of We is the gripping story of careless and often absurd people—and the financial system they have made.