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downton abbey related research reading list

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What resources/databases etc do you use for your research? I've occasionally seen you link something, but often you say something that makes me want to go poke around in your sources, and I never know where to go. I'm super curious!

a lot of it is actually.... not online because i graduated and no longer have database access! but!

i’ve been using FindMyPast.co.uk for census data & Royal Household archives & occasionally i’ll poke around on JSTOR or Google Scholar using my handy dandy database search skills. but mostly i’ve been reading & flipping thru like, actual books, so here’s a ref list. this actually isn’t like... everything i’ve used or looked at in the last ten (!!!) months but it is like. the bulk of it lol.

GREAT HOUSES & DOMESTIC SERVICE

Evans, Sian. Life Below Stairs: In the Victorian and Edwardian Country House. 2011. National Trust.

Horn, Pamela. Life Below Stairs: Real Lives of Edwardian Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939. 2013. Amberley Publishing.

Horn, Pamela. Country House Society: The Private Lives of England's Upper Class After the First World War. 2013. Amberley Publishing.

Hyams, Jacky. The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago. 2011. John Blake.

Lethbridge, Lucy. Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times. 2013. W. W. Norton & Company.

Maloney, Alison. Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants. 2012. Thomas Dunne Books.

Musson, Jeremy. Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant. 2010. John Murray Publishing.

Muthesius, Hermann. (trans. D. Sharp) The English House. 1904/1987 (English ed). Rizzoli International.

Paterson, Michael. Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes: Masters and Servants in the Golden Age. 2012. Robinson.

Powell, Margaret. Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid. 1968. Peter Davies.

Powell, Margaret. Servants Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance. 1979. St Martin’s Griffin.

Sambrook, Pamela. Country House Servant. 1999. The History Press.

White, David S. and Deb H. Beyond Downton Abbey: A Guide to 25 Great Houses. 2012. White & Associates. [Two volumes]

THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD

Gorst, Frederick John. Of Carriages and Kings: A Royal Footman’s View of Edwardian Elegance. 1956. New York, Crowell.

Healey, Edna. The Queen’s House: A Social History of Buckingham Palace. 1997. Pegasus Books.

Hoey, Brian. All the Queen’s Men: Inside the Royal Household. 1992. Harper Collins.

Hoey, Brian. At Home with the Queen. 2002. CB Creative Books.

Hoey, Brian. Working for the Royals. 2014. CB Creative Books.

Hubbard, Kate. Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household. 2012. Harper Collins.

Tinniswood, Adrian. Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household. 2018. Hachette Book Group.

Wright, Patricia. The Strange History of Buckingham Palace. 1996. Sutton.

QUEER & LGBT HISTORY

prior knowledge from reading authors such as Lillian Faderman, Graham Robb, Eve Sedgwick, Martin Duberman, Rictor Norton, among others, those are just off the top of my head.

recent/in progress reads:

Brady, Sean. Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913. 2005. Palgrave Macmillan.

David, Hugh. On Queer Street: A Social History of British Homosexuality 1895-1995.

Slide, Anthony. Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century. 2003. Psychology Press.

SEX

Anonymous. The Horn Book: a Girl's Guide to the Knowledge of Good and Evil. 1899.

Dennett, Mary Ware. The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People. 1928.

Long, Harland William. Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living: Some Things that All Sane People Ought to Know about Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise. 1922.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael. Married Love; or, Love in Marriage. 1918.

LANGUAGE

Blakeborough, Richard. Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, With a Glossary of Over 4,000 Words and Idioms Now in Use. 1898.

Green, Jonathon. Green’s Dictionary of Slang. 2010. Chambers Publishing. Available online: https://greensdictofslang.com/.

Milne, David. A Readable English Dictionary, Etymologically Arranged, with an Alphabetical Index. 1888.

Robinson, Francis Kildare. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases. 1858.

Wright, Joseph. The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years. 1898. [Multiple volumes]

BOOKS I HAVEN’T GOTTEN MY HANDS ON YET BECAUSE I’M BROKE

Corbitt, Frederick John. Fit for a King: A Book of Intimate Memoirs. 1956. Odham’s Press.

Dawes, Frank Victor. Not in front of the servants: A true portrait of Upstairs, downstairs life. 1984. Hutchinson.

Gerard, Jessica. Country House Life: Family and Servants 1815-1914 (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times). 1994. Wiley-Blackwell.

Hartcup, Adeline. Below Stairs in the Great Country Houses. 1980. Sidgwick & Jackson.

Horn, Pamela. Life Below Stairs in the Twentieth Century. 2001. Sutton.

King, Ernest. The Green Baize Door. 1963. Kimber.

Tschumi, Gabriel. Royal chef: recollections of life in royal households from Queen Victoria to Queen Mary. 1954. William Kimber.

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Book List 2018

I’m a couple weeks behind on this, but here’s the list of books I read in 2018. I’ve broken it down by category, though this is pretty loose since, you know, genres bleed into one another and such. You can also find reviews of some of these books here, and I always take requests for reviews as well. Follow me on Goodreads to see what I’m reading and rating.

Let me know what you think if you’ve read any of these books or have recommendations, and, as always, please feel free to send me malicious personal attacks if I say something you disagree with.

Non-Fiction

Philosophy

Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric by Charlene Haddock Seigfried

The Pragmatic Turn by Richard J. Bernstein

Race Matters by Cornel West

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West

American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag

Ethics Without Ontology by Hilary Putnam

Meaning in Life and Why It Matters by Susan Wolf

The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love by Susan Wolf

The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World by Owen J. Flanagan

Meaning in Life by Thaddeus Metz

The Human Eros: Eco-Ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence by Thomas Alexander

Naturalism and Normativity by Mario De Caro (Editor), David Macarthur (Editor)

Truth in Context: An Essay on Pluralism and Objectivity by Michael P. Lynch

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison

Experiments in Ethics by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter by Peter Singer

The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment by Robert Wright

A Defense of Buddhist Virtue Ethics by Jack Hamblin

Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams

Reality, Art and Illusion by Alan Watts

Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett

Science

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte

Why Dinosaurs Matter by Kenneth Lacovara

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us by Richard O. Prum

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean

Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne

What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

The Physics of Time by Carlo Rovelli

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku

The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World--and Could Destroy It by Alanna Mitchell

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

Visions for the 21st Century by Carl Sagan et al.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage by Chet Raymo

The Virgin and the Mousetrap: Essays in Search of the Soul of Science by Chet Raymo

Politics/Race/Gender

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay (editor)

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin

The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Race Matters by Cornel West

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Tears We Cannot Stand: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

The Common Good by Robert Reich

Transgender History by Susan Stryker

Memoir

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

South of Forgiveness: A True Story of Rape and Responsibility by Thordis Elva

Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou

The Chicken Chronicles by Alice Walker

The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman

My Own Life by David Hume

Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good by Kevin Smith

Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth

Calypso by David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Ink Spots by Brian McDonald

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin

History/Biography

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan

God: A Human History by Reza Aslan

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang

Fiction

Literary Fiction

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Another Country by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Home by Toni Morrison

God Help the Child by Toni Morrison

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

The Dead by James Joyce

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

A Confederacy of Dunces by Jonh Kennedy Toole

The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo

Genre Fiction

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

Slice of Life by Kurt Vonnegut

2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Pure Drivel by Steve Martin

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Green Mile by Stephen King

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 by Lemony Snicket

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Worst of 2018

Every single book I read this past year had redemptive value. Even if it was total garbage, it still taught me some stuff (like how not to write a book). Even a bad book can be a good book if you let it be.

So, here’re a few books that didn’t quite hit the spot for me:

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Ink Spots by Brian McDonald

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

Best of 2018

It was genuinely difficult to choose my top books of 2018. What a literary year it has been for me. 2018 marks the most books I’ve read in a year, and I was lucky enough to come across some real game-changers. I finally read the Harry Potter series and, boy howdy, did it ever live up to the hype. What took me so long?? But this was, more than anything, the year of James Baldwin. He has made an indelible mark on me as a reader, a writer, and a human. What a year this has been! I hope to read a fraction as much beautiful, lovely, challenging, profound prose in 2019.

In no particular order, here are the books of 2018 that most moved me, shook me, rattled me, rolled me:

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

The Pragmatic Turn by Richard J. Bernstein

Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric by Charlene Haddock Seigfried

The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage by Chet Raymo

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Well, there you have it, folks. Here’s to many more good books in the years to come!

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. —Ursula K. Le Guin

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The outgoing U.N. envoy to Myanmar says civil war has spread throughout the country. Brian Dennett describes the brutal fighting via AMG international partners in the country. “One community effectively held off the military using handmade guns and weapons. They were celebrating that fact, only to be bombed by an aircraft sent by the military government. That has just devastated that entire…

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AMG International Reports, Eight Pastors and Elders Have Died from the Coronavirus Surge in Myanmar | BCNN1

(Image courtesy of karl-ferdinand from Pixabay) Fighting continues in Myanmar months after the military seized power from the elected government. Brian Dennett of AMG International reports thousands of people are still hiding in the jungle away from the violence. Now, a deadly COVID-19 surge has invaded Myanmar, and many Christians have died as a result. Dennett says, “We were so saddened to hear…

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Brian Dennett Death - Obituary | Brian Dennett Dead - Passed Away

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This Explains Everything - John Brockman

This Explains Everything 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works John Brockman Genre: Science & Nature Price: $8.99 Publish Date: January 22, 2013 Publisher: Harper Perennial Seller: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world. What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most surprising and brilliant theories of the way of our minds, societies, and universe work. Jared Diamond on biological electricity • Nassim Nicholas Taleb on positive stress • Steven Pinker on the deep genetic roots of human conflict • Richard Dawkins on pattern recognition • Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on simplicity • Lisa Randall on the Higgs mechanism • BRIAN Eno on the limits of intuition • Richard Thaler on the power of commitment • V. S. Ramachandran on the "neural code" of consciousness • Nobel Prize winner ERIC KANDEL on the power of psychotherapy • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on "Lord Acton's Dictum" • Lawrence M. Krauss on the unification of electricity and magnetism • plus contributions by Martin J. Rees • Kevin Kelly • Clay Shirky • Daniel C. Dennett • Sherry Turkle • Philip Zimbardo • Lee Smolin • Rebecca Newberger Goldstein • Seth Lloyd • Stewart Brand • George Dyson • Matt Ridley http://dlvr.it/R1jJQG

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Brian Eno Lists 59 Books For Building Your Intellectual World

Best Ideas: A Compendium of Social Innovation edited by Nicholas Albery

A Foreshadowing of the 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets by Christopher Alexander

Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andric

Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin Barber

The Artful Universe by John Barrow

Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

The Creators by Daniel Boorstin

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery edited by B.A. Botkin

How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand

Civilization and Capitalism by Fernand Braudel

The Transformation of War by Martin van Creveld

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace by Arthur Danto

River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins

Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett

Defence Policy Making edited by G.M. Dillon

Women En Large: Image of Fat Nudes by Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Trust by Francis Fukuyama

Edge City by Joel Garreau

Ecce Homo by George Grosz

Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall

Managing the Commons by Garrett Hardin and John Baden

The Middle Ages by Friedrich Herr

Going Bugs by James Hillman

Culture of Complaint by Robert Hughes

The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johann Huizinga

The State We're In by Will Hutton

Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization by Kevin Kelly

Wild Blue Yonder by Nick Krotz

Fetish Girls by Eric Kroll

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Artificial Life by Steven Levy

Planetary Overload by A.J. McMichael

Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte

Erotica Universalis by Gilles Neret

Living Without a Goal by Jay Ogilvy

Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje

Evolution of Consciousness by Robert E. Ornstein

Art and Pornography and Man's Rage for Chaos by Morse Peckham

Works and Texts by Tom Phillips

The Language Instinct by Stephen Pinker

In Search of a Better World by Karl Popper

Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone

Postcards by Annie Proulx

Consequences of Pragmatism and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty

The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

England's Dreaming by Jon Savage

Lords of the Rim by Sterling Seagrave

Art and Physics by Leonard Shlain

I am That: Conversations with Sri Nisaragadatta Maharaj

Face of the Gods and Flash of the Spirit by Robert Farris Thompson

Ocean of Sound by David Toop

The Seven Cultures of Capitalism by Charles Hampden Turner

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

Art and Anarchy by Edgar Wind

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171 Books Recommended by Sam Harris

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Harari

Prisoner's Dilemma - William Poundstone

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age - William Manchester

The Atomic Bazaar: Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking - William Langewiesche

The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1 - William James

The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy - William James

Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition - William Casebeer

From a Logical Point of View - Willard Van Orman Quine

The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason - Victor Stenger

Mortal Questions - Thomas Nagel

The View from Nowhere - Thomas Nagel

The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam - Thomas Asbridge

Life at the Bottom - Theodore Dalyrmple

The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History - Terence McKenna

The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist - Stephen Batchelor

Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi - Sri Munagala Venkataramiah

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts - Simon Garfield

Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki

Mythologies - Roland Barthes

The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose

Shadows of the Mind - Roger Penrose

Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft - Robin Briggs

Philosophical Explanations - Robert Nozick

The Ends of the Earth - Robert Kaplan

The Return of History and the End of Dreams - Robert Kagan

Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony - Robert Edgerton

Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America - Rita Katz

DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences - Rick Strassman

Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers - Richard Rorty

Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health - Richard Rhodes

The Meaning Of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist - Richard Feynman

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher - Richard Feynman

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design - Richard Dawkins

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

The Al Qaeda Reader: The Essential Texts of Osama Bin Laden's Terrorist Organization - Raymond Ibrahim

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Ray Kurzweil

The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil

Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment - Phil Zuckerman

The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized - Owen Flanagan

The Problem Of The Soul: Two Visions Of Mind And How To Reconcile Them - Owen Flanagan

The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World - Owen Flanagan

I Am That - Nisargadatta Maharaj

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - Nick Bostrom

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors - Nicholas Wade

A History of the Mind - Nicholas Humphrey

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

Hyperspace - Michio Kaku

The Complete Works - Michel de Montaigne

Essays - Michel de Montaigne

Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique - Michael Gazzaniga

The Mind’s Past - Michael Gazzaniga

The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities - Matthew White

Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human - Matt Ridley

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think - Marc Hauser

Islam in the World - Malise Ruthven

Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth - Mahatma Gandhi

Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Grammar - Ludwig Wittgenstein

On the Nature of the Universe - Lucretius

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America - Louis Menand

The Drunkard's Walk - Leonard Mlodinow

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 - Lawrence Wright

Going Clear - Lawrence Wright

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing - Lawrence Krauss

Collected Maxims and Other Reflections - La Rochefoucauld

Black Holes and Time Warps - Kip S. Thorne

The Logic of Scientific Discovery - Karl Popper

The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism - Karl Popper

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge - JP Changeux

The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger - Jonathan Schell

The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition - Jonathan Schell

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power - John Searle

The Mystery of Consciousness - John Searle

The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction - John Leslie

Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up - John Allen Paulos

Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition - Joaquin Fuster

Slouching Toward Bethlehem - Joan Didion

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong - JL Mackie

My Stroke of Insight - Jill Bolte Taylor

Freedom from the Unknown - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Why Evolution Is True - Jerry Coyne

Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre

The Confessions - Jean Jacques Rousseau

Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak - Jean Hatzfeld

The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries - Jaroslav Pelikan

Who Owns the Future? - Jaron Lanier

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond

The Journalist and the Murderer - Janet Malcolm

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA - James Watson

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood - James Gleick

The Golden Bough - James Frazer

Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History - James Carroll

The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain - James Blair

Without Sanctuary - James Allen

The Trial of Socrates - IF Stone

The Histories - Herodotus

Walden, or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau

The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger - Heinrich Kramer

On Truth - Harry Frankfurt

Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience - Gitta Sereny

The Concept of Mind - Gilbert Ryle

The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness - Gerald Edelman

Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness - Gerald Edelman

A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination - Gerald Edelman

The Phenomenology of the Mind - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools and Rascal Gurus - Georg Feuerstein

Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved - Frans de Waal

Philosophical Dictionary - Francois Voltaire

The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul - Francis Crick

A Delusion of Satan - Frances Hill

Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior - Erving Goffman

The Story of Art - Ernst Gombrich

The Second Machine Age - Erik Brynjolfsson

The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness - Erich Fromm

Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market - Eric Schlosser

Praise of Folly - Erasmus

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge - EO Wilson

Crowds and Power - Elias Canetti

Inquisition - Edward Peters

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon

On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious - Douglas E. Harding

Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation - Donald Davidson

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory - DJ Chalmers

Reasons and Persons - Derek Parfit

Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives - Dean Buonomano

Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness - David Komito

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume

The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications - David Deutsch

Voodoo Histories - David Aaronovitch

The Illusion of Conscious Will - Daniel Wegner

Judgment Under Uncertainty - Daniel Kahneman

Hitler's Willing Executioners - Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama - Daniel Goleman

Consciousness Explained - Daniel Dennett

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life - Daniel Dennett

On the Eve of the Millenium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason - Conor Cruise O'Brien

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens

Mortality - Christopher Hitchens

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever - Christopher Hitchens

The Enemy - Christopher Hitchens

Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West - Christopher Caldwell

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

The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Carl Sagan

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God - Carl Sagan

Zen War Stories - Brian Victoria

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Brian Greene

Among the Thugs - Bill Buford

A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy - Bernard Williams

What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East - Bernard Lewis

The Paradox of Choice - Barry Schwartz

The Caged Virgin - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life - Austin Dacey

The Nature of the Physical World - AS Eddington

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness - Antonio Damasio

The Legacy of Jihad - Andrew Bostom

Probability 1 - Amir Aczel

A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia - Alexander N. Yakovlev

The Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley

Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking - Alan Dershowitz

The Case for Israel - Alan Dershowitz

Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah - Ajahn Chah

The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith

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