The Good Book
A Humanist Bible
By A. C. Grayling; Michael Page (Narrator)
(Tantor Media, Compact Disc, 9781452603131)
Publication Date: June 2011
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Paperback, Compact Disc, MP3 CD
Categories: General
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Published on the four hundredth anniversary of the King James Bible, The Good Book is a work of extraordinary audacity from a remarkable thinker-a secular humanist Bible drawn from the wisdom and inspiration in the world's great literature.
A. C. Grayling is a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of the acclaimed Among the Dead Cities, Descartes, Toward the Light of Liberty, Meditations for the Humanist, and Thinking of Answers. A fellow of the World Economic Forum and past chairman of the human rights organization June Fourth, he contributes frequently to the Times (London), the Financial Times, and the Economist, among other publications. Grayling's play Grace, co-written with Mick Gordon, was acclaimed in London and New York. He lives in London. Michael Page has been recording audiobooks since 1984 and has over two hundred titles to his credit. He has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for The War That Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander and The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. As a professional actor, Michael has performed regularly since 1998 with the Peterborough Players in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He is currently a professor of theater at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he lives with his wife, Jane, and two daughters, Camilla and Chloe (when they are not away at college). He has a particular interest in Shakespeare and Eastern European theater and travels frequently to Hungary and Romania.
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