The Enigma of Health: The Art of Healing in a Scientific AgeIn this important new book, Hans Georg Gadamer discusses the transformation in human self understanding wrought by the scientific worldview, focusing in particular on the unparalleled achievements of modern medicine. He explores the ethical and humanist issues raised by the technological successes of modern clinical practice, and relates them to the classical conception of "praxis" in the philosophical tradition. In a series of lucid and engaging

The Killing Season is the definitive account of a pivotal period in Indonesian history

protesting

Though those who battle for these ideas are full of good intentions

The book also carries translation of over 1500 verses which al-Ghazali calls the jewels and the pearls of the Qur’an

‘It is only in the silence that you can hear God’s voice

they are punctuated by street talk and saturated with a cryptic wit that recalls Lydia Davis

The Genealogy of Kings was listed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme International Register

where the form is practiced as a major art

A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts

resistance

the Dutch manufacturing company has found itself in the spotlight

one of the locations where humankind originated