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"The Violinist" is a very dark comedy about euthanasia, college romance, fortune-telling, imaginary acquaintances (as opposed to imaginary friends), and fatal peanut allergies. In tone it evokes Vonnegut, Palahniuk, at times Dostoevsky, as well as satirists like Stephen Colbert. Chelsea is a violinist in a college orchestra who plays at funerals as a side job, for roughly $100 a performance. With the aid of the devil on her shoulder (Darlene), she realizes that she can increase her income through slightly premature mercy killings at local nursing homes, acts she euphemistically refers to as...

"Cosmos, Chaos, and Process" is a comprehensive history and normative analysis of the tension between the ideas of order and disorder in Western thought, as this has taken shape in philosophy, religion, and science. Chapters with titles like "Cosmos as True Myth," "God and the Speed of Light," and "2+2 Is Not Four" offer a survey of process philosophy (and anti-process philosophy) in all its various forms, from the pre-Socratics to Superstring Theory. In doing so, the author seeks to formulate an existential and humanistic social ethic in the tradition of Albert Camus and Karl Jaspers. Other...