Books by Stephen T. Asma and Complete Book Reviews
Stephen T. Asma, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-072395-8
Asma opens this memoirish spiritual travel guide with a central purpose: by journeying to Cambodia to see the collective manifestations of Theravada Buddhism, the tradition closest to that avowed by the historical Buddha, he will disabuse Western...
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Stephen T. Asma, Author . Oxford Univ. $27.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-19-533616-0
Asma's book zooms in on the subject of monsters, both mythical and real, past, present and future, detailing how they have fascinated and frightened the human imagination through all of recorded time. Conjuring dread, the mind's eye has...
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Stephen T. Asma, Author Oxford University Press $30 (303p) ISBN 978-0-19-513050-8
Artfully posed human skeletons and ""monster"" fetuses in jars are the stuff of Stephen T. Asma's fascinating Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums. A professor of philosophy and interdisciplinary...
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Stephen T. Asma. Univ. of Chicago, $22.50 (200p) ISBN 978-0-226-02986-3
Contrary to his book’s title, Asma (On Monsters), a professor of philosophy at Chicago’s Columbia College, is not so fiercely antifairness as he is fiercely profavoritism. After arguing that the “biological process of filial favoritism” is “natural...
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Stephen T. Asma. Univ. of Chicago, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-226-22516-6
Blending arguments from philosophy, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience, Asma, professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, argues that improvisation, or “spontaneous creation,” lies at the heart of imagination and that the “improvising...
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Stephen T. Asma. Oxford Univ., $29.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-19-046967-2
Asma (The Evolution of Imagination), professor of philosophy and founding fellow of the Research Group in Mind, Science, and Culture at Columbia College, Chicago, outlines an eloquent argument for the benefits of religion in this short, engrossing...
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Stephen T. Asma, Author, Stephen T. Asma, Illustrator . Hampton Roads $15.95 (162p) ISBN 978-1-57174-595-8
Revising his 1996 illustrated primer, Asma (The Gods Drink Whiskey
) explores the key tenets of Buddhism in the style of a graphic novel. A sparse text punctuated by extensive illustrations—some cartoonlike and others more serious and detailed&
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