Recommended Reading (A - Z)

 

Aczel, A.D. Probability 1: Why There Must Be Intelligent Life in the Universe. 1998.

Physical Science

Ainslie, G. Breakdown of Will. 2001.

Mind and Life Sciences

Ajahn Chah. Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah. 2002.


Allen, J (Ed). Without Sanctuary. 2000.

Politics and History

Anonymous. Terrorist Hunter. 2003.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Ariely, D.. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. 2008.

Mind and Life Sciences

Asbridge, T. The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam. 2005.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Aurelius, M. Meditations.

Philosophy

Barbero, A. The Day of the Barbarians. April 3, 2007.

Politics and History

Bauby, J.D. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. 2002.

Mind and Life Sciences

Bawer, B. While Europe Slept. 2006.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Becker, E. The Denial of Death. 1997.

Mind and Life Sciences

Berman, P. Terror and Liberalism. 2004.

Politics and History

Blackmore, S. Conversations on Consciousness. 2006.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Blakemore, C. and S. Jennett (Eds.). The Oxford Companion to the Body. 2002.

Mind and Life Sciences

Block, N., O. Flanagan, and G. Güzeldere. The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates. 1998.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Bok, S.. Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. 1999.

Philosophy

Bowman, J. Honor: A History. 2007.

Politics and History

Boyer, P. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophesy Belief In Modern American Culture. 1992.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Boyer, P. Religion Explained. 2002.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Briggs, R. Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. 2002.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Broks, P.. Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology. 2004.

Mind and Life Sciences

Burr, WH. Self-Contradictions of the Bible. 1860.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Byrom, T (Trans.). The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita. 2001.

Eastern Philosophy and Meditation

Canetti, E. Crowds and Power. 1966.

Politics and History, Philosophy

Carroll, J. Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews—A History. 2001.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Carter, R. Mapping the Mind. 2000.

Mind and Life Sciences

Casebeer, W.D.. Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition. 2005.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Chalmers, D.J. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. 1997.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Changeux, JP. The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge. 2004.

Mind and Life Sciences

Chinul. Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen. 1991.

Eastern Philosophy and Meditation

Cialdini, R.B. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. 2006.

Mind and Life Sciences

Collins, L and D Lapierre. Freedom at Midnight. 1975.

Politics and History

Crick, F. The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul. 1995.

Mind and Life Sciences

Dacey, A.. Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life. 2008.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Philosophy

Dalrymple, T. Life at the Bottom. May 25, 2003.

Politics and History

Damasio, A. Descartes Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. 2005.

Mind and Life Sciences

Damasio, A. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. 2003.

Mind and Life Sciences

Davidson, D. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. 2001.

Philosophy

Davies, N. Human Sacrifice: In History and Today. 1981.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Davies, N. Europe: A History. 1998.

Politics and History

Dawkins, R. The God Delusion. September 18, 2006.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Dawkins, R. Climbing Mount Improbable. 2006.

Mind and Life Sciences

Dawkins, R. A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and LoveR. 2004.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Mind and Life Sciences

Dawkins, R. The Selfish Gene. 2006.

Mind and Life Sciences

Dawood, N. J., Trans. The Koran. 1956.

Religion and Religious Criticism

De Waal, F. Primates and Philosophers. 2006.

Mind and Life Sciences

Dennett, D. Breaking the Spell. 2006.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Philosophy

Dennett, D.C. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. 1996.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Dennett, D.C. Consciousness Explained. 1992.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Dershowitz, A. Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking. 2007.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Dershowitz, A. The Case for Israel. 2004.

Politics and History

Deutsch, D. The Fabric of Reality. 1998.

Physical Science

Diamond, J. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. 2005.

Politics and History

Diamond, J. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. 2005.

Politics and History

Dowman, K (Ed). The Flight of the Garuda, Second Edition: The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 2003.

Eastern Philosophy and Meditation

Dyson, F. Imagined Worlds. 1998.

Physical Science, Mind and Life Sciences

Edwards, P., Ed. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 1967.

Philosophy

Ehrman, B. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. 2007.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Einstein, A. Ideas and Opinions. 1954.

Physical Science, Philosophy

Einstein, A. Out of My Later Years. 1956.

Physical Science, Philosophy

Ellens, J.H. (Ed.). The Destructive Power of Religion: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam [4 volumes]. 2004.

Religion and Religious Criticism

Feinberg, T.E. Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self. 2002.

Mind and Life Sciences

Feynman, R. The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition. 2005.

Physical Science

Feynman, R. Six Easy Pieces. 2005.

Physical Science

Feynman, R. Six Not-So-Easy Pieces. 2005.

Physical Science

Feynman, R. The Meaning Of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist. 2005.

Physical Science

Fingarette, H. Self-Deception. 2000.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Flanagan, O. The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them. 2002.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Friedrich, O. The End of the World: A History. 1994.

Politics and History

Friedrich, O. The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945. 1994.

Politics and History

Fuster, J.M. Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition. 2005.

Mind and Life Sciences

Gazzaniga, M. The Ethical Brain. 2005.

Mind and Life Sciences

Gazzaniga, M. The MInd’s Past. 2000.

Mind and Life Sciences

Gilbert, M. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War. 1985.

Politics and History

Gilpin Faust, D.. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. 2008.

Politics and History

Glover, J. Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. 2001.

Politics and History, Philosophy

Glynn, I. An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind. 2003.

Mind and Life Sciences

Goffman, E. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. 1959.

Mind and Life Sciences

Goffman, E. Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. 1982.

Mind and Life Sciences

Goffman, E. Behavior in Public Places. 1966.

Mind and Life Sciences

Goldberg, E. The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. 2002.

Mind and Life Sciences

Goldberg, M. Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. April 9, 2007.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Goldhagen, DJ. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. 1997.

Politics and History

Goldstein, J. Experience of Insight. 1987.

Eastern Philosophy and Meditation

Gorenberg, G. The End of Days. March 15, 2002.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Greene, B. The Fabric of the Cosmos. 2005.

Physical Science

Greene, B. The Elegant Universe. 1999.

Physical Science

Gregory, R. The Oxford Companion to the Mind. 2004.

Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy

Griffin, DR. Animal Minds. 1994.

Mind and Life Sciences

Gross, PR and N Levitt. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. 1997.

Philosophy

Harding, DE. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious. 2002.

Eastern Philosophy and Meditation

Harris, L. The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West. 2007.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Hatzfeld, J. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. 2006.

Politics and History

Hauser, M. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong. 2006.

Mind and Life Sciences

Hauser, M. Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think. 2000.

Mind and Life Sciences

Heisenberg, W. Physics and beyond;: Encounters and conversations. 1971.

Physical Science, Philosophy

Hill, F. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. 1995.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Hirsi Ali, A. Infidel. 2007.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

Hirsi Ali, A. The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. 2006.

Religion and Religious Criticism, Politics and History

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