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We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, it was the philosophers who offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes for a life worth living. Here, James Miller returns to this vibrant tradition with short, lively biographies of twelve famous philosophers. With a flair for paradox and rich anecdote, this is a book that confirms...
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Where did rock and roll come from? And what has it come to? These are the sorts of questions that cultural historian and veteran music journalist Jim Miller raises in his challenging new book about the rise -- and arrested development -- of rock and roll. Concentrating on the music in its early, formative decades, he explores how rock and roll was transformed from a joyous and sometimes earthy dance music in the 1940s into an abrasive, often angry...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings on the justice of self-government shocked the ruling class of his native Geneva, forced the author into exile, and led to the burning of his books. However, from Geneva to Paris his dream of democracy took hold, profoundly influencing the French Revolution and the rebirth of democratic ideals in the modern world. Through an unusual blend of biography, philosophy, and history, James Miller shows how a solitary dreamer...