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A sleuth with a taste for the finer things in life, Emma Rhodes investigates the mysterious suicide of an American minister and discovers, much to her dismay, that there may be a killer among her own upper-crust friends. Original ".
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A portrait of a social and cultural community in which scholars were bound by a host of unwritten codes, highlighting the importance of social interaction for the intellectual world in the period immediately preceding the Enlightenment..
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist explores key issues of race, gender, and ethnic identity that have arisen since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, with essays on the pervasive nature of racism, the politics of race, and more. 40,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour..
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Sample these observations:

• So many religions out there! Religious affiliation is a lottery ticket. The winning ticket, if there is one, will be announced in the hereafter, if it exists.
• In a single male ejaculation, there are some 100 million sperm cells. Since each cell carries a slightly different genetic makeup and would create a different person, each human being who ever lived won the lottery of life at odds of 100 million to one. And yet people complain of bad luck.
• In a traditional, theocentric society, the four values of love, marriage, sex, and procreation come as part of a single package.We moderns have unwrapped the package and disassembled the toy.
• Statements like “I really love you!” and “You are beautiful!” are entrance fees.
• The Pill made prudence prudery.
• Humankind does not deserve itself.

If you enjoy these, another 1500 like them await you in LANDMINES OF THE MIND. Sometimes amusing; often shocking; always thought-provoking.

“Witty, startling, honest aphorisms that undercut complacency and provide new perspectives on politics, religion, and sex.”
—Stanley Friedman, author of Dickens’s Fiction

“Excellent….Truth telling, no matter how offensive or shocking to some...Brilliant, incisive and witty aphorisms"
--The Queens Bar Bulletin (November 2006).
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