Narrator: Susan Jameson Unabridged Audio Length: 10 hours, 44 min.
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet, Lost on the left, Found on the right, and the two never seem to balance. His days are full of people clamouring for answers and explanations. A jealous husband suspects his wife. Two spinster sister make a shocking find. A solicitor investigates an old murder....
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Hume sought to create a comprehensive "science of man" in order to understand human nature and human actions. He saw
a constant social and political tension between liberty and
authority, and he developed extensive political and economic
theories to describe this conflict.
Spinoza sought a life of "supreme and unending happiness". Unable to find deep satisfaction in the usual pleasures of social life, politics or business (or in riches, fame, or sensual pleasure), Spinoza sought a more stable source of contentment.A Portuguese Jew living in Holland,