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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
Publication date
June 6, 2011
Pages
96
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781408815755
ISBN-10
1408815753
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.46 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$16.55
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: What is What? Could it be that noted author Mark Kurlansky has written a very short, terrifically witty, deeply thought-provoking book entirely in the form of questions? A book that draws on philosophy, religion, literature, policy - indeed, all of civilization - to ask what may well be the twenty most important questions in human history? Or has he given us a really smart, impossibly amusing game of twenty questions? Kurlansky considers the work of Confucius, Plato, Shakespeare, Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, Hemingway, Emily Dickinson, the Talmud, Charles de Gaulle, Virginia Woolf, and others, distilling the deep questions of life to their sparkling essence. What? supplies endless fodder for thoughtful conversation but also endless opportunity to ponder and be challenged by - and entertained by - these questions in refreshingly original ways. As Kurlansky says, In a world that seems devoid of absolute certainties, how can we make declarative statements? Without asking the questions, how will we ever get to the answers?
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Hardcover
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from Bloomsbury Pub Ltd (June 6, 2011)
9781408815755 | details & prices | 96 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.46 lbs | List price $16.55
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