Columbia Univ. Press
The Art of War (Dec., $19.95) by Sun Zi (Sun Tzu), trans. by Victor Mair, offers a new take on the Chinese classic for military strategists and scholars.
Harvard Univ. Press
A Secular Age (Sept., $39.95) by Charles Taylor provides a historical perspective on secularization and belief in the transcendent.
Hill & Wang
Irreligion:A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up (Jan., $20) by John Allen Paulos contains 12 chapters that refute the 12 arguments most often put forward for believing in God’s existence.
MIT Press
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World (Nov., $27.95) by Owen Flanagan seeks to balance science’s claim that there is no “free will” with the search for meaning.
Pegasus Books
(dist. by Consortium)
A Beginner’s Guide to Philosophy (Dec., $19.95) by Dominique Janicaud examines a range of philosophical theories and techniques, from pre-Socratic thinkers to Hegel and Nietzsche.
State Univ. of New York Press
Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory (Oct., $70) by Eduardo Mendieta offers a philosophical approach to the processes of globalization in the context of Latin America.
Sterling
The Middle Way: Finding Happiness in a World of Extremes (Sept., $24.95) by Lou Marinoff reveals the ABCs for finding the “middle” path of Aristotle, Buddha and Confucius.
