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Politics and Government
Fujitive Days by Bill Ayers
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis by
David Rieff
The West and the Rest: Globalization and the
Terrorist Threat by Roger Scruton
The World We're In by Will Hutton
Enforcement at the EPA by Joel A. Mintz
Bringing Down the Great Wall by Fang Lizhi
Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer on War and Justice by Brian Orend
"That's Not What We Meant to Do!" by Steven M. Gillon
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels
The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, and
Jay
It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the
United States by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks
The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy
There's No Such Thing as Free Speech by Stanley R. Fish
Sociology and Culture
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End
Welfare by Jason DeParle
The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith
by Alan Wolfe
The Outlaw Sea by William Langwiesche
Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and
Giftedness by Barbara A. Kerr
Murder and the Reasonable Man: Passion and Fear in the
Criminal Courtroom by Cynthia Lee
The Geography of Thought by Richard E. Nisbett
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American
Community by Robert Putnam
Afraid of the Dark by Jim Myers
Class Dismissed by Meredith Maran
Mother Nature by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Granta (Vol 77): What We Think of America
The Way We Talk Now by Geoffrey Nunberg
The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy by
David B. Kopel
More Guns, Less Crime by John R. Lott, Jr.
The Price of Motherhood by Ann Crittenden
Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities
and Politics by Jere Takahashi
The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz
Girls in America: Their Stories, Their Words by
Carol Cassidy
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan
Faludi
Crossings: A White Man's Journey into Black America
by Walt Harrington
The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
A Kind and Just Parent by William Ayers
Connexity by Geoff Mulgan
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
Business and Economics
Intrapreneuring in Action: A Handbook for Business Innovation by
Gifford Pinchot and Ron Pellman
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara
Ehrenreich
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy ed.
by Arlie Russell Hochschild and Barbara Ehrenreich
The Sum of Our Discontent: Why Numbers Make Us Irrational by David
Boyle
Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher
Education by David L. Kirp
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
by Peter L. Bernstein
Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins,
and L. Hunter Lovins
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
Games Mother Never Taught You by Betty Lehan
Harragan
The Age of Heretics by Art Kleiner
The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz
Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Maister
History, Biography, and Autobiography
What If There Had Been No Lee Kuan Yew? by Anthony Oei
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
Freedom in Exile by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir by
Richard Cohen
Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way by Robin Gerber
Mapping Human History by Steve Olson
Blood of the Liberals by George Packer
The Wages of Guilt by Ian Buruma
A History of Writing in Japan by Christopher Seeley
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Beethoven by Ates Orga
Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century by
Joel Kaye
Departing from Deviance by Henry L. Minton
Eighty Years and More by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Walking People by Paula Underwood
Assembling California by John McPhee
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos by William
Poundstone
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Written by Herself edited by Jill Ker Conway
Science, Technology, and Medicine
A Different Universe by Robert Laughlin
Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
Meaning, Medicine, and the "Placebo Effect" by Daniel
Moerman
The Expressiveness of the Body, and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese
Medicine by Shigehisa Kuriyama
Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds by Massimo
Piattelli-Palmarini
Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley
Why Things Break by Mark E. Eberhart
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman
The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen by Mark Buchanan
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
by Roy Porter
The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of
Creationism by Niles Eldridge
Complications by Atul Gawande
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by
Olivia Judson
Genome by Matt Ridley
Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
The Science of Cooking by Peter Barham
Why Things Bite Back by Edward Tenner
Words and Rules by Steven Pinker
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
The Social Life of Information by John Seely
Brown and Paul Duguid
Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of
Global Warming by S. George Philander
Cats' Paws and Catapults by Steven Vogel
The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
Emergence by John H. Holland
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Great Essays in Science by Martin Gardner
The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science by Harry Collins
and Trevor Pinch
Remaking Eden by Lee M. Silver
A Scientist at the Seashore by James Trefil
The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Feminism and Gender
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
by Susan Wendell
Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the
Twenty-First Century edited by Wendy McElroy
FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society by Holly
Devor
Feminism in 20th-Century Science, Technology, and
Medicine edited by Angela Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa
Schiebinger
Armed and Female by Paxton Quigley
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
by Jennifer Baumgartner and Amy Richards
The Gender Knot by Allan G. Johnson
Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
The Futures of Women by Pamela McCorduck and Nancy
Ramsey
Fire with Fire by Naomi Wolf
Pride and Joy by Terri Casey
Faces of Feminism by Sheila Tobias
At the Root of This Longing by Carol Lee Flinders
My Spirit Flies by M. Cathy Angell
Breaking and Entering by Connie Fletcher
The Mismeasure of Woman by Carol Tavris
Backlash by Susan Faludi
Philosophy and Spirituality
Voices of Insight edited by Sharon Salzberg
The Mind of Clover by Robert Aitken Roshi
The Perennial Philosophy: An Intepretation of the Great Mystics, East and
West by Aldous Huxley
The Udana (John Ireland translation)
The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (excerpts from the Anguttara
Nikaya) (Nyanaponika Thera/Bhikkhu Bodhi translation)
The Dhammapada (Glenn Wallis translation and analysis)
A Handful of Leaves, Part IV transl. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Meditations by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The Wings to Awakening transl. and commentary by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The Karma of Questions by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Mindful of the Body by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The Mind Like Fire Unbound by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Inner Strength by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo (trans. by Thanissaro Bhikku)
A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield
A Gradual Awakening by Stephen Levine Guided Meditations,
Explorations, and Healings by Stephen Levine
A Year to Live by Stephen Levine
Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by
Stephen Levine
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by His Holiness the Dalai
Lama and Howard C. Cutler
The Issue at Hand by Gil Fronsdal
Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
The Diamond Heart, Book One: Elements of the Real in Man by A.H.
Almaas
Spacecruiser Inquiry by A.H. Almaas
The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
Things As They Are by Ven. Acariya Maha Boowa Nanasampanno
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Sci Fi, Cyberpunk, and Speculative Fiction
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley
Robinson
He, She, and It by Marge Piercy
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
Honor Harrington on Basilisk Station by David Weber
The "His Dark Materials" trilogy by
Philip Pullman
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
Genderflex edited by Cecelia Tan
Mind and Body edited by Cecelia Tan
Brightness Reef by David Brin
The Postman by David Brin
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
Shadow Man by Melissa Scott
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri Tepper
Grass by Sheri Tepper
Native Tongue by Suzette Elgin
The Judas Rose by Suzette Elgin
Earthsong by Suzette Elgin
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
Beggars and Choosers by Nancy Kress
Beggars Ride by Nancy Kress
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh
Exegesis by Astro Teller
Contact by Carl Sagan
Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
Invader by C.J. Cherryh
Inheritor by C.J. Cherryh
Historical Fiction
The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
Japanese Tales edited and translated by Royall
Tyler
The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki (Waley's
translation)
The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby
Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
Smouldering Charcoal by Tiyambe Zeleza
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Just Regular Fiction
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka
Autumn Bridge by Takashi Matsuoka
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree, and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction edited
by Kate Wheeler
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Souls and Bodies by David Lodge
Small World by David Lodge
Changing Places by David Lodge
Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
Silence by Endo Shusaku
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Pigeon Feathers (and Other Stories) by John
Updike
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Shinjuu by Laura Joh Rowland
Three Women by Marge Piercy
American Fuji by Sara Backer
Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri Tepper
Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cantor's Dilemma by Carl Djerassi
The Bourbaki Gambit by Carl Djerassi
NO by Carl Djerassi
Exit to Eden by Anne Rice
Publish and Perish by James Hynes
Pretzel Logic by Lisa Rogak
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Dancing Girls by Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
Poetry
House of Light by Mary Oliver
Living in the Open by Marge Piercy
Because of the Light by Roseann Lloyd
A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry edited by JP Seaton and Dennis
Maloney
A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen by Robert Aitken
Classic Haiku: A Master's Selection translated by Yuzuru Miura
The Narrow Road to Oku by Matsuo Bashou, translated by Donald Keene,
illustrated by Miyata Masayuki
Haiku, Volume 1: Eastern Culture by R.H. Blyth
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
The KGB Bar Book of Poems edited by David Lehman
Music of the Sky edited by Patrick Laude and Barry McDonald
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