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This book concentrates on the exposition of Rousseau's principal ideas, dealing first with his criticism of society in the two Discourses and the Letter to d'Alembert, and then with his constructive attempts in Émile to analyze the essential features of human nature as they are revealed through the psychological and moral development of the individual. There follows an account of Rousseau's ideas on religion, political philosophy, and art (with special emphasis on the Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Priest and the Social Contract); and a final section indicates the main philosophical aspects of the Confessions and the other personal writings.

As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth-shattering in its implications—to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and, inevitably, of savagery and death. Yet it is also far more than that. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us—and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity. Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it—and like none you’ve ever read before. ~ from dust jacket.