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Steven Pinker:

  • John Mueller (OSU political science): history & politics of war
  • Ray Jackendoff (Tufts linguistics): language & cognition
  • Philip Tetlock (U Penn psychology): psychology of taboo, limitations of expert prediction
  • Rebecca Goldstein
  • Alan Fiske (UCLA anthropology): nature of human relationships, cross-cultural variation
  • Manuel Eisner (Cambridge historical crimonologist)
  • Leda Cosmides (UCSB psychology)
  • John Tooby (UCSB anthorpology)
  • Alice Dreger (Northwestern medicine, sexuality)

more:

  • Paul Vasey
  • Simon LeVay
  • (Marc S. Breedlove "Whom you love")

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  • Cynthia Stokes Brown: Big History

Neuroethics Penn List:

  • Acceptable Risk, by Robin Cook
  • Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan
  • Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress
  • Brain Storm, by Richard Dooling
  • Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner), by Philip K. Dick
  • The Futurological Congress, by Stanislaw Lem
  • Galatea 2.2, by Richard Powers
  • Golden Age, by John C. Wright
  • Grey Matter, by Gary Braver
  • Gridlinked, by Neal Asher
  • Interface, by Neal Stephenson & J. Frederick George
  • I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
  • The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon
  • Mindscan, by Robert J. Sawyer
  • Neuromancer, by William Gibson
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Terminal Man, by Michael Crichton
  • The Thanatos Syndrome, by Walter Percy

Ökoöko:

  • An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (2006)
  • Silent Spring, Rachel Carson (1962)
  • Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, et. al. (2000)
  • A Sand-County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (1949)
  • American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau by various authors (2008)
  • Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus (2003)
  • Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises by Architecture for Humanity, Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair (2006)
  • ecoDesign: The Sourcebook by Alastair Fuad-Luke (2006)

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  • Meine erste bis neunundneunzigste Liebe, Mittler oder so
  • Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning, Gary Marcus
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
  • Looking for Alaska - John Green
  • It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini (Spi 14 It's)
  • The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
  • The Kay Scarpetta Series - Patricia Cornwell
  • Burned, Crank, Glass, Fallout, Identical, Impulse, or Tricks - Ellen Hopkins
  • Catch-22, Joseph Heller (Lit 11 Hell?)
  • Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

Perks of Being A Wallflower:

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

according to this

  • Life of Pi, Yann Martel
  • Perks of being a Wallflower
  • An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
  • Looking for Alaska, John Green
  • Me Emma, Elizabeth Flock
  • Extremely loud bla, J.S. Foer
  • Winterhirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
  • By the time you read this, I'll be dead, Peters
  • Speak, Anderson
  • The things they carried, Tom O'Brien
  • Living dead girl, Elizabeth Scott
  • All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten, Robert F.
  • The art of racing in the rain, ??

//// TIME:

  • A - B
  • The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow
  • All the King's Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren
  • American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth
  • An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser
  • Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell
  • Appointment in Samarra (1934), by John O'Hara
  • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970), by Judy Blume
  • The Assistant (1957), by Bernard Malamud
  • At Swim-Two-Birds (1938), by Flann O'Brien
  • Atonement (2002), by Ian McEwan
  • Beloved (1987), by Toni Morrison
  • The Berlin Stories (1946), by Christopher Isherwood
  • The Big Sleep (1939), by Raymond Chandler
  • The Blind Assassin (2000), by Margaret Atwood
  • Blood Meridian (1986), by Cormac McCarthy
  • Brideshead Revisited (1946), by Evelyn Waugh
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), by Thornton Wilder
  • C - D
  • Call It Sleep (1935), by Henry Roth
  • Catch-22 (1961), by Joseph Heller
  • The Catcher in the Rye (1951), by J.D. Salinger
  • A Clockwork Orange (1963), by Anthony Burgess
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), by William Styron
  • The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen
  • The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), by Thomas Pynchon
  • A Dance to the Music of Time (1951), by Anthony Powell
  • The Day of the Locust (1939), by Nathanael West
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), by Willa Cather
  • A Death in the Family (1958), by James Agee
  • The Death of the Heart (1958), by Elizabeth Bowen
  • Deliverance (1970), by James Dickey
  • Dog Soldiers (1974), by Robert Stone
  • F - G
  • Falconer (1977), by John Cheever
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), by John Fowles
  • The Golden Notebook (1962), by Doris Lessing
  • Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), by James Baldwin
  • Gone With the Wind (1936), by Margaret Mitchell
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1939), by John Steinbeck
  • Gravity's Rainbow (1973), by Thomas Pynchon
  • The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • H - I
  • A Handful of Dust (1934), by Evelyn Waugh
  • The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940), by Carson McCullers
  • The Heart of the Matter (1948), by Graham Greene
  • Herzog (1964), by Saul Bellow
  • Housekeeping (1981), by Marilynne Robinson
  • A House for Mr. Biswas (1962), by V.S. Naipaul
  • I, Claudius (1934), by Robert Graves
  • Infinite Jest (1996), by David Foster Wallace
  • Invisible Man (1952), by Ralph Ellison
  • L - N
  • Light in August (1932), by William Faulkner
  • The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), by C.S. Lewis
  • Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Lord of the Flies (1955), by William Golding
  • The Lord of the Rings (1954), by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Loving (1945), by Henry Green
  • Lucky Jim (1954), by Kingsley Amis
  • The Man Who Loved Children (1940), by Christina Stead
  • Midnight's Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie
  • Money (1984), by Martin Amis
  • The Moviegoer (1961), by Walker Percy
  • Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf
  • Naked Lunch (1959), by William Burroughs
  • Native Son (1940), by Richard Wright
  • Neuromancer (1984), by William Gibson
  • Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 1984 (1948), by George Orwell
  • O - R
  • On the Road (1957), by Jack Kerouac
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), by Ken Kesey
  • The Painted Bird (1965), by Jerzy Kosinski
  • Pale Fire (1962), by Vladimir Nabokov
  • A Passage to India (1924), by E.M. Forster
  • Play It As It Lays (1970), by Joan Didion
  • Portnoy's Complaint (1969), by Philip Roth
  • Possession (1990), by A.S. Byatt
  • The Power and the Glory (1939), by Graham Greene
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), by Muriel Spark
  • Rabbit, Run (1960), by John Updike
  • Ragtime (1975), by E.L. Doctorow
  • The Recognitions (1955), by William Gaddis
  • Red Harvest (1929), by Dashiell Hammett
  • Revolutionary Road (1961), by Richard Yates
  • S - T
  • The Sheltering Sky (1949), by Paul Bowles
  • Slaughterhouse Five (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Snow Crash (1992), by Neal Stephenson
  • The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), by John Barth
  • The Sound and the Fury (1929), by William Faulkner
  • The Sportswriter (1986), by Richard Ford
  • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964), by John le Carre
  • The Sun Also Rises (1926), by Ernest Hemingway
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Things Fall Apart (1959), by Chinua Achebe
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), by Harper Lee
  • To the Lighthouse (1927), by Virginia Woolf
  • Tropic of Cancer (1934), by Henry Miller
  • U - W
  • Ubik (1969), by Philip K. Dick
  • Under the Net (1954), by Iris Murdoch
  • Under the Volcano (1947), by Malcolm Lowry
  • Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
  • White Noise (1985), by Don DeLillo
  • White Teeth (2000), by Zadie Smith
  • Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by Jean Rhys
  • Graphic Novels
  • Berlin: City of Stones (2000), by Jason Lutes
  • Blankets (2003), by Craig Thompson
  • Bone (2004), by Jeff Smith
  • The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2002), by Kim Deitch
  • The Dark Knight Returns (1986), by Frank Miller
  • David Boring (2000), by Daniel Clowes
  • Ed the Happy Clown (1989), by Chester Brown
  • Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), by Chris Ware
  • Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (2003), by Gilbert Hernandez
  • Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

college-bound: American Literature

  • Agee, James A Death in the Family
  • Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg, Ohio
  • Baldwin, James Go Tell It On the Mountain
  • Bellamy, Edward Looking Backward: 2000-1887
  • Bellow, Saul Seize the Day
  • Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
  • Cather, Willa My Antonia
  • Chopin, Kate The Awakening
  • Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, The Ox-Bow Incident
  • Cormier, Robert, The Chocolate War
  • Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
  • Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
  • Ellison, Ralph
  • Invisible Man
  • A black man's search for himself as an individual and as a member of his race and his society.
  • Faulkner, William
  • As I Lay Dying
  • The Bundren family takes the ripening corpse of Addie, wife and mother, on a gruesomely comic journey.
  • ✔ Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
  • Gaines, Ernest
  • The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  • In her 100 years, Miss Jane Pittman experiences it all, from slavery to the civil rights movement.
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter
  • Heller, Joseph
  • Catch-22
  • A broad comedy about a WWII bombardier based in Italy and his efforts to avoid bombing missions.
  • Hemingway, Ernest
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • During World War I, an American lieutenant runs away with the woman who nurses him back to health.
  • Hurston, Zora Neale
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Janie repudiates many roles in her quest for self-fulfillment.
  • Kesey, Ken
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • A novel about a power struggle between the head nurse and one of the male patients in a mental institution.
  • Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Lewis, Sinclair
  • Main Street
  • A young doctor's wife tries to change the ugliness, dullness and ignorance which prevail in Gopher Prairie, Minn.
  • London, Jack
  • Call of the Wild
  • Buck is a loyal pet dog until cruel men make him a pawn in their search for Klondike gold.
  • McCullers, Carson
  • The Member of the Wedding
  • A young southern girl is determined to be the third party on a honeymoon, despite all the advice against it from friends and family.
  • Melville, Herman
  • Moby-Dick
  • A complex novel about a mad sea captain's pursuit of the White Whale.
  • Morrison, Toni
  • Sula
  • The lifelong friendship of two women becomes strained when one causes the other's husband to abandon her.
  • O'Connor, Flannery
  • A Good Man is Hard to Find
  • Social awareness, the grotesque, and the need for faith characterize these stories of the contemporary South.
  • Parks, Gordon
  • The Learning Tree
  • A fictional study of a black family in a small Kansas town in the 1920s.
  • Plath, Sylvia
  • The Bell Jar
  • The heartbreaking story of a talented young woman's descent into madness.
  • Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Great Tales and Poems
  • Poe is considered the father of detective stories and a master of supernatural tales.
  • Potok, Chaim
  • The Chosen
  • Friendship between two Jewish boys, one Hasidic and the other Orthodox, begins at a baseball game and flourishes despite their different backgrounds and beliefs.
  • Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye
  • Sinclair, Upton
  • The Jungle
  • The deplorable conditions of the Chicago stockyards are exposed in this turn-of-the-century novel.
  • Steinbeck, John
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The desperate flight of tenant farmers from Oklahoma during the Depression.
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • The classic tale that awakened a nation about the slave system.
  • Tan, Amy
  • The Joy Luck Club
  • After her mother's death, a young Chinese-American woman learns of her mother's tragic early life in China.
  • Twain, Mark
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, travel down the Mississippi in search of freedom.
  • Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Walker, Alice
  • The Color Purple
  • A young woman sees herself as property until another woman teaches her to value herself.
  • Welty, Eudora
  • Thirteen Stories
  • A collection of short stories about people and life in the deep South.
  • Wolfe, Thomas
  • Look Homeward, Angel
  • A novel depicting the coming of age of Eugene Gant and his passion to experience life.
  • Wright, Richard
  • Native Son
  • Bigger Thomas, a young man from the Chicago slums, lashes out against a hostile society by committing two murders.
  • World Literature
  • Achebe, Chinua
  • Things Fall Apart
  • Okonkwo, a proud village leader, is driven to murder and suicide by European changes to his traditional Ibo society.
  • Allende, Isabel
  • House of the Spirits
  • The story of the Trueba family in Chile, from the turn of the century to the violent days of the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in 1973.
  • Austen, Jane
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Love and marriage among the English country gentry of Austen's day.
  • Balzac, Honore de
  • Pere Goriot
  • A father is reduced to poverty after giving money to his daughters.
  • Borges, Jorge Luis
  • Labyrinths
  • An anthology of literary fireworks based on Borges' favorite symbol.
  • Bronte, Charlotte
  • Jane Eyre
  • An intelligent and passionate governess falls in love with a strange, moody man tormented by dark secrets.
  • Bronte, Emily
  • Wuthering Heights
  • One of the masterpieces of English romanticism, this is a novel of Heathcliff and Catherine, love and revenge.
  • Camus, Albert
  • The Stranger
  • A man who is virtually unknown to both himself and others commits a pointless murder for which he has no explanation.
  • Carroll, Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Cervantes, Miguel de
  • Don Quixote
  • An eccentric old gentleman sets out as a knight "tilting at windmills" to right the wrongs of the world.
  • Conrad, Joseph
  • Heart of Darkness
  • The novel's narrator journeys into the Congo where he discovers the extent to which greed can corrupt a good man.
  • Defoe, Daniel
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • The adventures of a man who spends 24 years on an isolated island.
  • Dickens, Charles
  • Great Expectations
  • The moving story of the rise, fall, and rise again of a humbly-born young orphan.
  • Dostoevski, Feodor
  • Crime and Punishment
  • A psychological novel about a poor student who murders an old woman pawnbroker and her sister.
  • Eliot, George
  • The Mill on the Floss
  • Maggie is miserable because her brother disapproves of her choices of romances.
  • Esquivel, Laura
  • Like Water for Chocolate
  • As the youngest of three daughters in a turn-of-the-century Mexican family, Tita may not marry but must remain at home to care for her mother.
  • Flaubert, Gustave
  • Madame Bovary
  • In her extramarital affairs, a bored young wife seeks unsuccessfully to find the emotional experiences she craves.
  • Forster, E.M.
  • A Passage to India
  • A young English woman in British-ruled India accuses an Indian doctor of sexual assault.
  • Fuentes, Carlos
  • The Death of Artemio Cruz
  • A powerful Mexican newspaper publisher recalls his life as he lies dying at age 71.
  • Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • A technique called magical realism is used in this portrait of seven generations in the lives of the Buendia family.
  • Gogol, Nikolai
  • The Overcoat
  • Russian tales of good and evil.
  • Golding, William, Lord of the Flies
  • Grass, Gunter
  • The Tin Drum
  • Oskar describes the amoral conditions through which he has lived in Germany, both during and after the Hitler regime.
  • Hardy, Thomas
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • The happiness of Tess and her husband is destroyed when she confesses that she bore a child as the result of a forced sexual relationship with her employer's son.
  • Hesse, Hermann
  • Siddhartha
  • Emerging from a kaleidoscope of experiences and pleasures, a young Brahmin ascends to a state of peace and mystic holiness.
  • Huxley, Aldous
  • Brave New World
  • A bitter satire of the future, in which the world is controlled by advances in science and social changes.
  • Joyce, James
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • A novel about a young man growing up in Ireland and rebelling against family, country, and religion.
  • Kafka, Franz
  • The Trial
  • A man is tried for a crime he knows nothing about, yet for which he feels guilt.
  • Lawrence, D.H.
  • Sons and Lovers
  • An autobiographical novel about a youth torn between a dominant working-class father and a possessive genteel mother.
  • Mann, Thomas
  • Death in Venice
  • In this novella, an author becomes aware of a darker side of himself when he visits Venice.
  • Orwell, George, Animal Farm
  • Pasternak, Boris
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • An epic novel of Russia before and after the Bolshevik revolution.
  • Paton, Alan
  • Cry, the Beloved Country
  • A country Zulu pastor searches for his sick sister in Johannesburg, and discovers that she has become a prostitute and his son a murderer.
  • Remarque, Erich Maria
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • A young German soldier in World War I experiences pounding shellfire, hunger, sickness, and death.
  • Scott, Sir Walter
  • Ivanhoe
  • Tale of Ivanhoe, the disinherited knight, Lady Rowena, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood at the time of the Crusades.
  • Shelley, Mary W.
  • Frankenstein
  • A gothic tale of terror in which Franken-stein creates a monster from corpses.
  • Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Ivan Denisovich Shukhov endures one more day in a Siberian prison camp and finds joy in survival.
  • Swift, Jonathan
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Gulliver encounters dwarfs and giants and has other strange adventures when his ship is wrecked in distant lands.
  • Tolstoy, Leo
  • Anna Karenina
  • Anna forsakes her husband for the dashing Count Vronsky and brief happiness.
  • Weisel, Elie
  • Night
  • A searing account of the Holocaust as experienced by a 15-year-old boy.
  • Wells, H.G.
  • The Time Machine
  • A scientist invents a machine that transports him into the future.
  • Biography/History
  • Angelou, Maya
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • An African-American writer traces her coming of age.
  • Ashe, Arthur and Arnold Rampersad.
  • Days of Grace
  • Biography of a highly respected tennis star and citizen of the world who dies of AIDS.
  • Baker, Russell
  • Growing Up
  • A columnist with a sense of humor takes a gentle look at his childhood in Baltimore during the Depression.
  • Berenbaum, Michael
  • The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
  • Brown, Dee
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • A narrative of the white man's conquest of the American land as the Indian victims experienced it.
  • Cooke, Alistair
  • Alistair Cooke's America
  • A history of the continent, with anecdotes and insight into what makes America work.
  • Criddle, Jan. D. and Teeda Butt Mam
  • To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family
  • After the 1975 Communist takeover of Cambodia, Teeda's upper-class life is re-duced to surviving impossible conditions.
  • Crow Dog, Mary and Richard Erdoes
  • Lakota Woman
  • Mary Crow Dog stands with 2,000 other Native Americans at the site of the Wounded Knee massacre, demonstrating for Native American rights.
  • Curie, Eve
  • Madame Curie
  • In sharing personal papers and her own memories, a daughter pays tribute to her mother, a scientific genius.
  • Delany, Sara and A. Elizabeth with Amy Hill Hearth
  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
  • Two daughters of former slaves tell their stories of fighting racial and gender pre-
  • judice during the 20th century.
  • Epstein, Norrie
  • Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard.
  • Gain a perspective on Shakespeare's works through these sidelights, interpretations, anecdotes, and historical insights.
  • Frank, Anne
  • The Diary of a Young Girl
  • The story of a Jewish family forced by encroaching Nazis to live in hiding.
  • Franklin, Benjamin
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • Considered one of the most interesting autobiographies in English.
  • Haley, Alex
  • Roots
  • Traces Haley's search for the history of his family, from Africa through the era of slavery to the 20th century.
  • Hersey, John
  • Hiroshima
  • Six Hiroshima survivors reflect on the aftermath of the first atomic bomb.
  • Karlsen, Carol
  • The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
  • The status of women in colonial society affects the Salem witch accusations.
  • Keller, Helen
  • The Story of My Life
  • The story of Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf, and her relationship with her devoted teacher Anne Sullivan.
  • Kennedy, John F.
  • Profiles in Courage
  • A series of profiles of Americans who took courageous stands in public life.
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr.
  • A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • King's most important writings are gathered together in one source.
  • Kovic, Ron
  • Born on the Fourth of July
  • Paralyzed in the Vietnam War, 21-year-old Ron Kovic received little support from his country and its government.
  • Machiavelli, Niccolo
  • The Prince
  • A treatise giving the absolute ruler practical advice on ways to maintain a strong central government.
  • Malcom X, with Alex Haley
  • The Autobiography of Malcom X
  • Traces the transformation of a controversial Black Muslim figure from street hustler to religious and national leader.
  • Marx, Karl
  • The Communist Manifesto
  • Expresses Marx's belief in the inevitability of conflict between social classes and calls on the workers of the world to unite and revolt.
  • Mathabane, Mark
  • Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
  • A tennis player breaks down racial barriers and escape to a better life in America.
  • Maybury-Lewis, David
  • Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
  • Profiles members of several tribal cultures.
  • McPherson, James
  • Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
  • From the Mexican War to Appomattox, aspects of the Civil War are examined.
  • Mills, Kay
  • This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper's daughter, uses her considerable courage and singing talent to become a leader in the civil rights movement.
  • Plato
  • The Republic
  • Plato creates an ideal society where
  • justice is equated with health and happiness in the state and the individual.
  • Rogosin, Donn
  • Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues
  • Negro League players finally gain recognition for their contributions to baseball.
  • Thoreau, Henry David
  • Walden
  • In the mid-19th century, Thoreau spends 26 months alone in the woods to "front the essential facts of life."
  • Tocqueville, Alexis de
  • Democracy in America
  • This classic in political literature examines American society from the viewpoint of a leading French magistrate who visited the U.S. in 1831.
  • Tuchman, Barbara
  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
  • Tuchman uses the example of a single feudal lord to trace the history of the 14th century.
  • Williams, Juan
  • Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-65
  • From Brown vs. the Board of Education to the Voting Rights Act, Williams outlines the social and political gains of African-Americans
  • Yolen, Jane
  • Favorite Folktales From Around the World
  • Yolen frames these powerful tales with explanations of historical and literary significance.
  • Science
  • Attenborough, David
  • The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
  • Various habitats expand the vision of Planet Earth.
  • Bronowski, Jacob
  • The Ascent of Man
  • A scientist's history of the human mind and the human condition.
  • Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring
  • Darwin, Charles
  • The Origin of Species
  • The classic exposition of the theory of
  • evolution by natural selection.
  • ✔ Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
  • Leopold, Aldo
  • A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
  • Leopold shares his present and future visions of a natural world.
  • Social Science
  • Campbell, Joseph
  • The Power of Myth
  • Explores themes and symbols from world religions and their relevance to humankind's spiritual journey today.
  • Hamilton, Edith
  • Mythology
  • Gods and heroes, their clashes and adventures, come alive in this splendid retelling of the Greek, Roman and Norse myths.
  • Kotlowitz, Alex
  • There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in Urban America
  • Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers and their family struggle to survive in one of Chicago's worst housing projects.
  • Kozol, Jonathan
  • Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
  • Kozol's indictment of the public school system advocates equalizing per pupil public school expenditures.
  • Terkel, Studs
  • Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession
  • This kaleidoscope covers the full range of America's views on racial issues.
    • Drama
  • ✔ Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot
  • ✔ Brecht, Bertolt, Mother Courage and Her Children
  • Chekhov, Anton
  • The Cherry Orchard
  • The orchard evokes different meanings for the impoverished aristocrat and the merchant who buys it.
  • Ibsen, Henrik
  • A Doll's House
  • A woman leaves her family to pursue personal freedom.
  • Marlowe, Christopher
  • Doctor Faustus
  • First dramatization of the medieval legend of a man who sold his soul to the devil.
  • ✔ Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman
  • O'Neill, Eugene
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night
  • A tragedy set in 1912 in the summer home of an isolated, theatrical family.
  • Sarte, Jean Paul
  • No Exit
  • A modern morality play in which three persons are condemned to hell because of crimes against humanity.
  • ✔ Shakespeare, William
  • Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet,
  • Macbeth, Twelfth Night, others.
  • ✔ (a bit)Shaw, Bernard
  • Man and Superman, Saint Joan, Pygmalion, others.
  • Sophocles
  • Oedipus Rex
  • Classical tragedy of Oedipus who unwittingly killed his father, married his mother and brought the plague to Thebes.
  • ✔ Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Wilder, Thornton
  • Our Town
  • The dead of a New Hamshire village of the early 1900s appreciate life more than the living.
  • Williams, Tennessee
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Blanche Dubois' fantasies of refinement and grandeur are brutally destroyed by her brother-in-law.
  • Wilson, August
  • The Piano Lesson
  • Drama set in 1936 Pittsburgh chronicles black experience in America.
  • Poetry
  • Angelou, Maya
  • And Still I Rise
  • Poems reflecting themes from her autobiography.
  • Brooks, Gwendolyn
  • Selected Poems
  • Poetry focusing on the lives of African American residents of Northern urban ghettos, particularly women.
  • Cummings, E.E.
  • Complete Poems, 1904-1962
  • Prepared directly from the original manuscripts, preserving the original typography and format.
  • Dickinson, Emily The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
  • Donne, John The Complete Poetry of John Donne
  • Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land
  • Frost, Robert The Poetry of Robert Frost
  • Ginsberg, Allen Howl and Other Poems
  • Giovanni, Nikki My House
  • Hughes, Langston Selected Poems
  • Keats, John Complete Poems
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth The Poetical Works of Longfellow
  • Sandburg, Carl Complete Poems
  • Thomas, Dylan: Poems of Dylan Thomas
  • Williams, William Carlos: Selected Poems
  • Wordsworth, William: Poems
  • Yeats, William Butler: The Poems

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