Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide by Joshua S. Goldstein Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2.7 MBOverview: Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong. Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain […]
Pain Management: Fact versus Fiction by Myrna Chandler Goldstein, Mark GoldsteinRequirements: .PDF reader, 2 MBOverview: No one is a stranger to pain. From sudden injuries to post-operative discomfort to nagging aches and stiffness, pain is an unwelcome but familiar part of life. There are numerous methods for managing pain, but it can be difficult to […]
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away by Rebecca GoldsteinRequirements: .MP3 reader, 460.3 MBOverview: Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama […]
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel by Rebecca GoldsteinRequirements: .MP3 reader, 223 MBOverview: A gem . . . An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought. Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of […]
Tourists by Lisa GoldsteinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 244 KBOverview: In a city whose streets are nameless, a scholar searches for an ancient sword. The manuscript is more than one thousand years old. Written in a forgotten tongue of the Near East, it gives directions to a place across the desert where the mythic Jewel King hid […]