"Seduction plays a crucial role not only in how the French fall in love but also in how they conduct business, enjoy food and drink, define style, engage in intellectual debate, elect politicians, and project power around the world. Sciolino gives us an inside view of how seduction works in all areas of French life"--Page 4 of cover.

In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature.

"A paleontologist with the spirit of a poet."--publisher. This volume gathers The Immense Journey (1957), The Firmament of Time (1960), The Unexpected Universe (1969), and a selection of Eiseley's uncollected prose together.

Product Description: A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.

"How the global mind drives the evolution of both consciousness and civilization: explains how our brains receive consciousness from the global mind, which upgrades human consciousness according to a pre-set divine time frame; reveals how the Mayan Calendar provides a blueprint for these consciousness downloads throughout history; examines the mind shift in humans and the development of pyramids and civilization in ancient Egypt, Sumer, South America,...

"A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution -- from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality -- and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike -- either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we...