Recommended Reading
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Sam's Recommendations
Mind and Life Sciences
Physics & Mathematics
Philosophy
History, Economics, and Politics
Religion and Religious Criticism
Eastern Philosophy and Meditation
General Nonfiction
Reader Recommendations
Mind and Life Sciences
Physics & Mathematics
Philosophy
History, Economics, and Politics
Religion and Religious Criticism
Eastern Philosophy and Meditation
General Nonfiction
Fiction
Authors by Last Name (l)
La Rochefoucauld
Lakoff, George
The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics
Lane, Nick
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Power, Sex, Suicide. Mitochondria and the meaning of life.
Langewiesche, W
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
Lanier, J
Larsen, Edward
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
Larson, E.
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America
LaVey, Anton Szandor
Lawrence, T.E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
Lazreg, M.
Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
Lederman, Leon
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
LeDoux, J
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
Lee, H.
Lem, Stanislaw
LeShan, Lawrence
How to Meditate - A Guide to Self-Discovery
Leslie, J
The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction
Lessing, Doris
Levi, P
Levi, P.
Levitt, Norm
Prometheus Bedeviled: Science and the Contradictions of Contemporary Culture
Levy, N.
Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century
Lewis, B.
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
The Crisis Of Islam
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, Michael
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Lewis,C.S.
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Lifton, R.J.
Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo
Lilla, M.
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
Linden, David J.
The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams and God
Lindley, David
Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
Lipstadt, D.
Livio, Mario
The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosm
Llinas, R.R.
I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self
Llosa, M.
Lloyd, Christopher
What On Earth Evolved? 100 Species that Changed The World
Loftus, J.W.
The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails
Loftus, John W.
Lomborg, Bjørn
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
Lord Russell Of Liverpool
The Scourge of the Swastika: A Short History of Nazi War Crimes
The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes
Lord, James
Louise M. Antony (editor)
Lovelock , James
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
Lovelock, J.
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity
