Did Hawking write a religious book?
I heard quite often that God exists outside of space-time and that prompted me to pick Stephen Hawking’s best-seller of “A Brief History of Time,” which was published in 1988 and revised in 1996.
I...
Roland Barthes shares his experiences in Japan
There are prominent English-language books about China, including “The Good Earth” by Pearl Buck, “Wild Swans” by Jung Chang, and “Red Star Over China” by Edgar Snow.
About Japan, there are “The Chrysanthemum and...
How forgiveness transcended tragedy
On Oct. 2, 2006, a gunman named Charles Roberts took hostages of 10 girls aged between six and 13 at a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
Roberts eventually shot eight, killing five, before committing suicide.
The mass...
Copies have no longer any originals
Before filming the world-famous Matrix series, its directors of the Wachowski brothers asked actors and actresses to read three books, including “Out of Control” by Kevin Kelly and “Introducing Evolutionary Psychology” by Dylan Evans.
The...
Yuval Noah Harari to come up with a radical reworking of 'Sapiens'
Yuval Noah Harari, the author of best-selling books “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus,” is now working on the new graphic novel series along with comics artists David Vandermeulen and...
MBK head to release 'Offerings' on March 24
As the founder of Korea’s largest homegrown private equity fund, MBK Partners Chairman Michael Byungju Kim is mostly known about his aggressive investments.
This time around, however, he is poised to grab...
Dr. Kevin N. Cawley, director of the Irish Institute of Korean Studies in the School of Asian Studies at University College Cork (UCC), authored a book titled “Religious and Philosophical Traditions of Korea.”
The newly published book gets praises from...