Thoughts on Faith, Science, and Literacy

My essay "A Crack in the Cosmos" has recently been published in The Dublin Review of Books and is now available online. For links to this essay and other pieces of mine, click on the Articles button. "A Crack in the Cosmos" is adapted from a book proposal I'm working on about the historical and psychological origins of religious faith. Another essay of mine is slated for publication in the fall, based on a second proposal for a related book about the impact of alphabetic writing. Trade book editors, please take note!

A Brief History of History

A Brief History of History

Great Historians and the Epic Quest to Explain the Past

The Lyons Press
$27.95 hardcover (352p)
ISBN 978-1-59921-122-0


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Sailing from Byzantium

Sailing from Byzantium

How a Lost Empire Shaped the World

Delacorte, $22 hardcover (368p)
ISBN 0-553-80381-6

Delta, $14 paperback (368p)
ISBN 0-553-38273-0

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