Adequate Wisdom by Ronald P. Smolin Wins Best
Non-Fiction Book at 2012 World Book Awards

The book was chosen as part of the annual international literary competition.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (Press Release) - Oct. 23, 2012 - The World Book Awards Selection Committee is proud to announce that Adequate Wisdom: Essays on the Nature of Existence: A Layman's Observations of Life & the Cosmos by Ronald P. Smolin has won top honors at the 2012 World Book Awards. Adequate Wisdom has been named Best Non-Fiction Book in this year's competition. Written for the general reader, the book provides a broad overview of the structures, events and ideas in the world with the goal of achieving an adequate understanding of the cosmos and the human condition.

An organizational "map" of the world and human civilization, this work discusses a wide variety of issues, including: knowing one's place in the universe; determinism and free will; the infinite universe; what is personality?; the trend towards synergy; atheism and agnosticism; compassion and punishment; the role of sexuality; death--the ultimate challenge; and is there meaning to existence?

Published by BainBridgeBooks a Division of
Trans-Atlantic Publications, February 12, 2012
$27.95 Hardcover. 384 Pages, Illustrated
ISBN 9781891696305 LC # 2011037243

Written for the general reader, the book provides a broad overview of the structures, events and ideas in the world with the goal of achieving an adequate (workable) understanding of the cosmos and the human condition.