Truth A History and a Guide for the Perplexed [Paperback]

Written by a renowned Oxford historian, this fascinating volume presents a global history of truth. Sharp and authoritative,Truthmanages to touch every period of human experience; it leaps from truth-telling technologies of primitive societies to the private mental worlds of great philosophers; from spiritualism to science and from New York to New Guinea. In clear, lucid prose, this little book takes on an enormous subject and makes it understandable to anyone.

Felipe Fernandez-Armestohas been a member of the Modern History Faculty of Oxford University since 1983. His many previous works includeColumbusandMillennium.

[Fernandez-Armesto's] interesting and challenging book takes us on a whirlwind guided tour of human thought. The New York Times Book Review

In this energetic study...the author reaches beyond academe with crisp prose complemented by numerous whisical touches . . .Truthis a beacon of lucidity. Boston Globe

Although serious in his intentions, Fernandez-Armesto writes with a light touch, ranging widely over the fields of anthropology, history and philosophy...very timely and eminently readable. Los Angeles Times

Sharp and interesting . . . [The author is] bound to engage speicalists in the fields he sprints through. New Statesman