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 (s)
Greenblatt, S.
The Swerve: How The World Became Modern
S, Acharya
The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Sacks, O.
An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
Safina, C.
The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year In An Unnatural World
Sagan, C.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Pale Blue Dot
The Dragons of Eden
Broca’s Brain
The Varieties of Scientific Experiance
Billions & Billions
Sagan, C. and A. Druyan
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Sagan, Carl
Sage, L.
Said, E.
Salinger, J. D.
Sandel, M.J.
Justice: What’s The Right Thing To Do?
Sandler, L.
Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth
Sands, P.
Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
Santayana, G.
Persons and Places: The Background of My Life
Scepticism And Animal Faith: Introduction To A System Of Philosophy
Sapolsky, R.
A Primate’s Memoir: A neuroscientist’s unconventional life among the baboons
Saramago, J.
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Sartre, J.P.
Saul, J.R.
Scammell, M.
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
Schacter, D.L. and E. Scarry
Schaeffer, F.
Scheeres, Julia
Schell, J.
The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Crisis of Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Fate of the Earth
The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
Schlosser, E.
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
Schoonover, C.
Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
Schrödinger, E.
What Is Life?: with “Mind and Matter” and “Autobiographical Sketches”
My View of the World
Schulz, K.
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Schumm, B.A.
Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
Schwartz, B.
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Scott Fitzgerald, Scott F.
Scully, M.
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Seabright, P.
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
Searle, J.R.
The Mystery of Consciousness
The Construction of Social Reality
The Rediscovery of the Mind
Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power
Sebald W.G.
Seife, C.
Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Sellars, W.
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind
Senge, P.M.
Sentilles, S.
Sereny, G.
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience
Shankaracharya
Shankara’s Crest Jewel of Discrimination
Shanks, N.
Sharlet, J.
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
Shermer, M.
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
How We Believe
The Science of Good and Evil
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies
Shields, D.
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (Vintage)
Shirky, C.
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Shlain, L.
Sex, Time and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
Shteyngart, Gary
Shubin, N.
Shultz, K.
Sidgwick, H.
Silver, L.M.
Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life
Singer, P.
Writings on an Ethical Life
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
Practical Ethics
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
Singh, S.
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It
Singh, S. & E. Ernst
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
Singh, S. & J. Lynch
Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem
Skloot, R.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Slater, L.
Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Smith, A.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Smith, Cameron M.
Smith, G.H
Smith, Zadie
Smolin, L.
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
Solomon, A
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Solzhenitsyn, A
Solzhenitsyn, A.
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged
Sommers, T.
Spark, Muriel
Specter, M.
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives
Spencer, Robert
Spiegel, Marjorie
The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery
Spinoza, B.
The Ethics and Selected Letters
Spinoza, Benedictus, de
Theological-Political Treatise
Spong, J.S.
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture
Stead, Christina
Stein, Gertrude
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas [Paperback]
Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
Log from the Sea of Cortez
