|
Home
About
Contents
Guidelines
Glossary
Contacts
Discussion
Recent Discussion
Create New Topic
Membership
Join Now
Login
|
Pointers to books
The Basics
| | Thomas, Lewis. The Medusa and the Snail.
|
| | Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
|
| | Montaigne, Michel de. Montaigne's Essays. Penguin.
|
| | Confucius, The Analects of Confucius.
|
| | Confucius, The Analects of Confucius.
|
| | Bronowski, Jacob. Magic, Science and Civilization.
|
| | Seneca, Lucius. Letters from a Stoic.
|
More Basics
| | Durant, Will and Ariel. The Lessons of History.
|
| | Montaigne, Michel de. The Complete Essays of Montaigne. Stanford.
|
| | Rand, Ayn. The Virtue of Selfishness.
|
Rounding out a life
| | Bronowski, Jacob. The Ascent of Man.
|
| | Cousineau, Phillip. Once and Future Myths.
|
| | Durant, Will. The Greatest Minds of all Time.
|
| | Fadiman, Clifton. The Lifetime reading Plan. Crowell.
|
| | Loon, Hendrik Willem. Lives.
|
Useful Fiction
| | Bolt, Robert. A Man for all Seasons.
|
| | Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones.
|
| | Lawrence, D. H. Lady Chatterley's Lover.
|
| | Stephens, James. The Crock of Gold.
|
| | Swift. Gulliver's Travels.
|
| | Wolfe, Tobias. Old School.
|
H. L. Mencken
| | Dorsey, John, ed. On Mencken.
|
| | Fecher, Charles A. Mencken, A Study of his Thoughts.
|
| | Fecher, Charles A., ed. The Diary of H.L. Mencken.
|
| | Mencken, H.L. A Choice of Days. Vintage.
|
| | Mencken, H.L. A Mencken Chrestomathy. Vintage.
|
| | Teachout, Terry. The Skeptic.
|
Classics
| | Homer. The Odyssey. Penguin.
|
| | Homer. The Illiad. Penguin.
|
| | Hoffmann, E.T.A. Tales of Hoffmann.
|
| | Kitto, H. D. F. The Greeks.
|
| | Theophrastus. Characters.
|
| | ----. Greek and Roman Classics. Monarch Notes.
|
History
| | Braudel, Fernand. The Structures of Everyday Life.
|
| | Braudel, Fernand. The Wheels of Commeerce.
|
| | Braudel, Fernand. The Perspective of the World.
|
| | Braudel, Fernand. On History.
|
| | Bronowski, Jacob and Mazlish, Bruce. The Western Intellectual Tradition.
|
| | Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy.
|
| | Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Modern Library.
|
| | Smith. Page, The Shaping of America.
|
| | Van Loon, Hendrik Willem. The Story of Mankind.
|
Economics
| | Buchholz, Todd G. New Ideas from Dead Economists.
|
| | Gardner, David and Tom. The Motley Fool Investment Guide.
|
| | Gardner, John. On Moral Fiction.
|
| | Osborne, David, and Gaebler, Ted. Reinventing Government.
|
| | ----. A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
|
Philosophy
| | Bahm, Archie J. The Heart of Confucius.
|
| | Strathen, Paul. Confucius in 90 Minutes.
|
| | Hoff, Benjamin. The Tao of Pooh.
|
| | La Rochefoucauld, Maxims.
|
Religion
| | -----. The Book of Common Prayer.
|
| | Armstrong, Karen. A History of God.
|
| | Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God.
|
| | Armstrong., Karen. Islam.
|
| | Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old Testament.
|
| | Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The New Testament.
|
| | Barker. Everyone in the Bible.
|
| | Lewis, Bernard. The Crisis of Islam.
|
| | Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels.
|
| | Said, Edward W. Culture and Resistance.
|
Character
| | Lickona, Thomas. Educating Character.
|
Other
| | Adams, Douglas. The Salmon of Doubt.
|
| | Cooke, Alistaire. America Observed.
|
| | Lowenthal, Marvin. The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne.
|
| | Mitchell, Richard. Leaning Tower of Babel.
|
| | Reid, T.R. Confucius Lives Next Door.
|
| | Seldes, George. The Great Thoughts.
|
| | -----. The nature of the Chinese Character.
|
Discuss
[Macro error: Can't find a sub-table named "commentIt".]
|
