Robert Romanyshyn
One of Graham Greene's characters famously said, "I suffer, therefore I am," suggesting that pain is an inescapable, and perhaps incurable, part of the human condition. But must this be so? Ellen Macfarland argues otherwise in The Sacred Beyond [... more]
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Oliver Sacks M.D.
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of ... [... more]
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Eric W. Johnson
Treasury of Humor Eric W. Johnson More than 1000 jokes make this a marvelous collection of humorous anecdotes and witty tidbits. Here is the human condition in all its high hilarity--from the bizarre to the bittersweet. Divided into fifteen ... [... more]
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Ernest Kurtz
I Am Not Perfect is a simple statement of profound truth, the first step toward understanding the human condition, for to deny your essential imperfection is to deny yourself and your own humanity. The spirituality of imperfection, steeped in the ... [... more]
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V.S. Pritchett
The Enchanted Wanderer Written over the course of Leskov's career, each story in elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the backdrop of nineteenth-century ... [... more]
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Thomas Boswell
Thomas Boswell, longtime Washington Post syndicated sports columnist, has been called "an astute observer of the human condition disguised as a first-rate sportswriter." Boswell will be featured as a major on-screen spokesman in Ken Burns's PBS [... more]
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Ellen Macfarland, Ph.D.
One of Graham Greene's characters famously said, "I suffer, therefore I am," suggesting that pain is an inescapable, and perhaps incurable, part of the human condition. But must this be so? Ellen Macfarland argues otherwise in The Sacred Beyond [... more]
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Frederick Reuss
Not since The Moviegoer has a first novel limned the human condition with such originality and subtle insight. A small-town iconoclast who is at once deeply principled and occasionally as... From the author of Horace Afoot comes this affectionate ... [... more]
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Nikolai Leskov
The Enchanted Wanderer Written over the course of Leskov's career, each story in elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the backdrop of nineteenth-century ... [... more]
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