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Kalam Cosmological Arguments
A defense of the kalam family of arguments for the existence of God.
Kant: A Revolution in Thinking
A short route into the philosopher everyone is told to read and almost nobody finishes.
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Karl Popper: The Formative Years 1902-1945
The Viennese decades from the archives: the Jewish background he downplayed, the socialist youth politics, and the New Zealand exile where The Open Society was written.
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Kathmandu
A city book about Kathmandu, written by someone who stayed long enough to stop being a visitor.
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
A struggling writer declares war on money and respectability, in Orwell's mordant comedy of ambition and compromise.
Kerala, 1956 to the Present: India’s Miracle State
Kerala has India's best social indicators on modest income, and this is the short explanation why.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage grew rich on oil, then began dying, and almost nobody was supposed to notice.
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Kin
A novel by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, and an Oprah's Book Club selection. A verified summary will follow.
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King of Ashes
Cosby's South, where a family debt cannot be settled in money, and going home is the most dangerous move available.
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
An articulate, well-read criminal narrates his own rise, which makes it far worse.
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Kitchen Confidential
The book that made Bourdain famous: a profane, exhilarating dispatch from behind the kitchen door, telling you what really goes on before your meal arrives.
Knowledge of Angels
On a medieval island, a wolf-child and an atheist become the same theological experiment.
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Kulti
A professional footballer gets her childhood idol as coach, and he turns out to be difficult.
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The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti’s Rise to Fame by his Manager, Friend, and Sometime Adversary
The manager who ran Pavarotti's career for thirty-six years, settling accounts both fondly and otherwise.
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The Knights of Crystallia
Alcatraz reaches the free kingdom of Mokia and discovers he is a celebrity there, which turns out to be its own kind of trap.
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