PHILOSOPHY
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS
The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture Under Communism (Mar., $28.95) by Isaiah Berlin is the first collection of his writings about the U.S.S.R. Advertising.
CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS
Isaiah Berlin, Letters 1928—1946 (July, $40), edited by Henry Hardy, assembles the liberal thinker's early correspondence. Ad/promo.
MIRAMAX
The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the Twenty-First—Century Moral Landscape (July, $23.95) by Anita L. Allen explains why Americans today take the easy way out.
ONEWORLD (dist. by NBN)
Did My Genes Make Me Do It?: And Other Philosophical Dilemmas (July, $24.95) by Avrum Stroll tackles such questions as: does God exist? is there life after death?
OXFORD UNIV. PRESS
Greed (Apr., $17.95) by Phyllis A. Tickle asserts that greed leads to pride, envy, sloth, gluttony, lust and anger.
PANTHEON
Status Anxiety (May, $24) by Alain de Botton diagnoses and cures this common human condition. Advertising. 7-city author tour.
PENN STATE UNIV. PRESS
Moral Philosophy After 9/11 (Aug., $29.95) by Joseph Margolis claims no neutral ground for deciding moral disputes.
PRINCETON UNIV. PRESS
Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law (Apr., $29.95) by Martha C. Nussbaum critiques the role that shame and disgust play in our lives.
QUEST
The Letters of H.P. Blavatsky, Vol. 1, 1861—1879 (May, $29.95), edited by John Algeo, is the first of four volumes collecting all known letters by the 19th-century esoteric thinker.
