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Post by Random Panther on Apr 14, 2012 18:54:38 GMT -5
...and lists.
The Origins Of Our Species-Chris Stringer
Written In Stone-Briam Switek
The Better Angels Of Our Nature-Steven Pinker
Survivors-Richard Fortey
The Age Of Empathy-Fraanz De Waal
The Uses Of Pessimism-Roger Scruton
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Post by Tofu DeBeast on Apr 14, 2012 19:00:12 GMT -5
I'll have to check some of those out.
My list:
Godel, Escher, Bach - Hofstadter
A History of Civilizations - Braudel
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbon
Ancestor's Tale - Dawkins
The God Particle - Lederman
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Post by Random Panther on Apr 14, 2012 19:02:43 GMT -5
I have The Ancestor's Tale,an excellent book.
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Post by Sister Mary Meds on Apr 14, 2012 21:54:22 GMT -5
Some of my recent favorites:
1491 by Charles Mann
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by John Lee Anderson
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
An Early History of God by Mark Smith
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 14, 2012 22:48:35 GMT -5
In The Shadow of Man and Africa in My Blood - Jane Goodall. - The Pelopenesian War - Thucydides - Cosmos - Carl Sagan. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People - Bede. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon. Inside the Third Reich and Spandau - The Secret Diaries - Albert Speer. The Lucky Country - Donald Horne. Damned Whores and Gods Police - Anne Summers. What Is Property and The Philosophy of Poverty - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Pentimento - Lillian Hellmann. A Fine Old Conflict - Jessica Mitford. ETA: Why is it I always write these lists and then look at what I've said and think - "no - no that's not the right list at all." Buggritt - they're the ones I typed without thinking about it too much so that must be my real list.
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Post by BadBeast on Apr 16, 2012 0:05:05 GMT -5
I like books and lists too. It's impossible to say what is my "top ten" books are, so I'll put a list of ten top books up instead.
So .. . . . General Fiction / US Authors
Moby Dick- Herman Melville
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Cosmic Trigger - Robert Anton Wilson
Interzone - William S. Burroughs
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Proud Highway - Hunter S. Thompson
Dune - Frank Herbert
Dice Man - Luke Rienhart
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
eta: Sorry, missed the "Non Fiction" stipulation in the OP.
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Post by BadBeast on Apr 17, 2012 18:46:23 GMT -5
Non Fiction.
Manly P Hall - "The Secret History of Everything"
The Jewish War - Josephus
The Persian Campaign - Xenophon
The Age of Fable - Thomas Bullfinch
A Natural History of Selbourne - Gilbert White
The Compleat Angler - Izaak Walton
Magick in Theory and Practice - Crowley
The Modern Antiquarian - Julian Cope
Jane's - Gun Recognition Guide
Millar's - Antiques Price Guide
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Post by kelly on Apr 18, 2012 13:15:48 GMT -5
 "A People's History of the United States 1492-present" Howard Zinn "The Prophet" Khalil Gibran "The Guns Of August" Barbara Tuchman "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace" Gore Vidal "Hons & Rebels" Jessica Mitford "Against Empire" Michael Parenti "Hegemony or Survival" Noam Chomsky "The Power of Now" Eckhart Tolle
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