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Classics & Bestsellers
in Roman times, Medieval Asia, and from 1841 to 1970
 | "On The Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura)" [First Century B.C.E.] by Titus Lucretius Carus [99?-55? B.C.E.] De Rerum Natura entry at Wikipedia NOTE: The translation by the Fowlers is biased against Lucretius's pro-Reason arguments Kindle Edition {Ian Johnston translxn} from Richer Resources Publns [10/2010] for $1.99 Kindle Edition (A.E. Stallings translation} from Penguin [2007 edition] for $9.99 Penguin Classics (A.E. Stallings translation} 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2007] for $10.20 Indiana Univ Press {Rolfe Humphries translation} 7¾x5 pb [1968] for $13.95 RECOMMENDED: poetic translation by Anthony M. Ensolen Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 pb [6/95] for $25.48 Johns Hopkins Univ Press 7x5 hardcover [6/95] out of print/used |
 | "Essays In Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)" [1350 C.E.] by Kenko Yoshida [1283?-1350?], Translated by Donald Keene Kenko retired late in life and became a Buddhist monk and hermit; his 243 essays were written during 1330-32 C.E. in the zuihitsu (follow the brush) style and pasted on the walls of his dwelling; the essays were taken down after his death and published; the work is considered a classic of Japanese literature and is part of the modern Japanese high school curriculum Columbia Univ Press 8¾x5½ pb [4/98] for $23.73 Columbia Univ Press 8¾x5½ hardcover [1967] out of print/used Charles E. Tuttle 7x4¼ tankoban hardcover [1981] out of print/used older translations Kindle Edition from Cosimo Classics [2005 edition] for $8.29 Cosimo Classics 8½x5½ hardcover [12/2009] for $29.99 author entry at Wikipedia • book entry at Wikipedia |
see also Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore's Sun Tzu & 'The Art of War' Page
 | "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds" [1841 classic] by Charles Mackay Besides looking at too-frequent financial bubbles & schemes, the book covers alchemy, the Crusades, witchery, haunted houses, fashions, fortune-telling and other mass phenomena. Three Rivers Press 9x6 pb [7/95] for $10.85 Prometheus Books 8½x5½ pb [5/2001] for $20.00 Harriman House 7½x4½ hardcover [12/2003] for $12.91 |
 | "Time & Free Will: An Essay On The Immediate Data of Consciousness" [1889] by Henri Bergson [1859-1941]; translated by F. L. Pogson Nabu Press 9½x7½ pb [8/2010] for $20.75 General Books LLC 9x6 pb [8/2009] for $8.03 Kessinger Publng 10¼x7¼ hardcover [facsimile 1913 edition] for $32.64 |
 | "The Creative Mind: An Introduction To Metaphysics" [1903] by Henri Bergson [1859-1941] Citadel Press 8½x6¾ pb [2/2002] for $10.36 Citadel Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/97] for $17.95 Replica Books hardcover [2/99] for $31.85 |
 | "Generation of Vipers" [Farrar & Rinehart 1942 classic] by Philip Wylie "Wylie's classic, written with devastating wit and a pen as sharp as a barber's razor, wages war on all forms of American hypocrisy." Dalkey Archive Press 8x5½ pb [9/96] for $11.16 Larlin Corp. hardcover [12/79] out of print/used |
 | "The Glass Bead Game" [1943] by Hermann Hesse [1877-1962] American title: "Magister Ludi"; original German title: "Das Glasperlenspiel"; translation 1970 by Richard & Clara Winston Henry Holt 8¼x5½ pb [6/90] for $12.60 Peter Smith 8½x5½ hardcover [12/92] for $28.00 |
 | "The Abolition of Man" [1943 classic] by C.S. Lewis [1898-1963] a defense of objective value & natural law against subjectivism in education and science HarperSanFrancisco 8x5¼ pb [3/2001] for $9.95 Touchstone 8¾x5¾ pb [6/96] out of print/used book review at Wikipedia |
 |  "Man's Search For Meaning" [1946] by Viktor E. FranklExtremely influential book; the first part details experiences of Frankl and others in Nazi concentration camps; the second part examines the possible meanings for an individual after such an experience. Beacon Press 8x6 pb [6/2006] for $7.47 Beacon Press mass pb [6/2006] for $6.99 book entry at Wikipedia |
"Man’s Search For Meaning" [Straight Up Films - in development 2017]
Announced 2/2016: Director Kimberly Peirce is set to direct a film based on Viktor Frankl’s international
best-selling memoir and psychiatristic analysis • not yet listed at IMDb
 | "The Lonely Crowd: A Study of The Changing American Character" [1950 classic] by David Reisman [1909-2002], with Nathan Glazer & Reuel Denney Yale Univ Press 7¾x5 pb [3/2001] for $12.21 |
 | "More Than Human" [1953 novel] by Theodore Sturgeon [1918-85] Most speculative fiction is merely science fiction; this work is considered a classic, and asks questions about the definition of human being. Vintage 8x5 pb [12/98] for $11.01 Del Rey mass pb [4/85] out of print/used |
 | "Journey Into A Strange Land: A Metaphysical Exploration of Ultimate Truth" [Richard R. Smith Publng 1956] by Eloise Franco many popular editions, but info is scarce: seems to be about The Afterlife Kessinger Publng 9x6 pb [9/2010] for $22.36 Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [9/2010] for $34.36 1958 edition available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive |
 | "The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life With Special Reference To Publications & Entertainments" [1957 classic] by Richard Hoggart
Transaction Publrs 9x6 pb [2/98] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press pb [1/70] out of print/used |
 | "The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Logik der Forschung)" [Germany 1934, English 1959] by Karl R. Popper [1902-94] the 1959 English edition was translated by Karl Popper, with 150 new pages Kindle Edition from Routledge [2005 edition] for $27.49 Martino Fine Books 9¼x6¼ pb [12/2014] for $15.95 Routledge 7¾x5 pb [3/2002] for $29.50 Routledge 9¼x6¼ pb [10/92] out of print/used Routledge 8½x5½ hardcover [3/2002] for $105.44 {sic} book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Stranger In A Strange Land" [1961] by Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88] counter-culture classic & winner of the Hugo Award 1962 Ace pb [8/95] for $7.99 Putnam hardcover [6/61] out of print/used Blackstone UNABR audio [4/96] for $83.95 |
 | "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" [1962 classic] by Thomas S. Kuhn [1922-96] "If ever there were a true classic on the history & development of science that is must reading for each new generation, it is Kuhn's benchmark work." 3rd edition for Kindle from Univ Chicago Press [10/2010] for $8.77 Univ Chicago Press 8x5¼ pb [12/96] for $9.23 Univ Chicago Press 8x5½ hardcover [12/96] for $30.00 |
 | "The Image: A Guide To Pseudo-Events In America" [1962 classic] by Daniel J. Boorstin Vintage 8x5¼ pb [9/92] for $10.47 Vintage pb [11/71] out of print/many used Peter Smith Publng hardcover [12/84] out of print/used Blackstone audio [8/97] 7 tapes for $49.95 |
 | "The Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo To Hegel" [1962] by Jacob Bronowski [1908-74] & Bruce Mazlish a compelling overview of Western thought from the XVth to the XIXth centuries Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [9/62] for $18.00 Marboro Books 8½x5½ hardcover [6/86] out of print/used SM's Jacob Bronowski fansite |
"Sex and The Single Girl" [1962] by Helen Gurley Brown
sold 2M copies in three weeks; LA Times, NY Times & TIME bestseller lists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_Single_Girl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_Single_Girl_(film) [1964]
"The Feminine Mystique" [Feb 1963] by Betty Friedan
six weeks on the New York Yimes bestseller list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique
 | "Anti-Intellectualism In American Life" [1963 classic] by Richard Hofstadter won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction Vintage 8x5 pb [2/66] for $12.24 Knopf 9½x7 hardcover [5/63] out of print/used |
 | "Self-Renewal: The Individual & The Innovative Society" [1964] by John W. Gardner "...should be required reading for any person wondering just where he is going on life's long journey." — Los Angeles Times review 1964 W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [8/95] for $8.80 |
 | "The Boys In The Band: A Play In Two Acts" [1968] off-Broadway play by Mart Crowley A revelation back then, it still astounds; a poignant & enlightening view into a world perhaps unknown to you Alyson Books 40th anniv edition 8x5½ pb [4/2008] for $10.92 Samuel French pb [6/68] out of print/used 1970 film adaptation directed by William Friedkin Paramount widescreen color DVD [11/2008] for $19.99 Fox color VHS [12/80] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
Books To Ponder, 1971 to 2005
"The Second Stage" [1980] by Betty Friedan
 | "Sincerity and Authenticity" [1972] by Lionel Trilling [1905-74] Harvard Univ Press 8x5¼ pb [2/2005] for $16.95 Harvard Univ Press hardcover [1972] out of print/used |
 | "Myths To Live By: How We Re-Create Ancient Legends In Our Daily Lives To Release Human Potential" [1972] by Joseph Campbell [1904-87] Arkana 8½x5½ pb [2/93] for $11.20 Viking hardcover [4/72] out of print/used |
 | "Dictionary of The History of Ideas" 5-volume set [1973] Edited by Philip P. Wiener slipcover case with 5 volumes: Volume I: Abstraction to Design Argument; Volume II: Despotism to Law, Common; Volume III: Law, Concept of to Protest Movements; Volume IV: Psychological Ideas to Zeitgeist; Volume 5: Index Macmillan Publng Co. pb set [6/80] out of print/overpriced! Macmillan Publng Co. pb set [6/80] out of print/many used Scribner's pb set [1973] out of print/used Scribner's 9½x6½x7½" pb slipcover set [1973] out of print/used Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover set [6/74] overpriced! |
 | "New Dictionary of The History of Ideas" 6-volume set [2004] Edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz Thomson Gale hardcover set [2004] out of print/used |
 | "Denial of Death" [S&S 1973] by Ernest Becker [1925-74] won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 Free Press 8½x5½ pb [5/97] for $10.65 Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [3/85] out of print/used Peter Smith Publrs 8¾x5¾ hardcover [11/98] for $31.75 |
 | "Escape From Evil" [1975] sequel to "Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker [1925-74] Free Press pb [3/85] for $17.95 Free Press hardcover [11/1975] out of print/used |
 | "How Real Is Real?: Confusion, Disinformation, Communication - An Anecdotal Introduction To Communications Theory" [1976] by Paul Watzlawick Vintage pb [1/77] out of print/used Random House hardcover [76] out of print/used |
 | "The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination" [1978] text of lecture series by Jacob Bronowski [1908-74] Yale Univ Press 8x5 pb [9/79] for $16.00 Yale Univ Press hardcover [1/78] out of print/used SM's Jacob Bronowski fansite |
 | "A Guide For The Perplexed" [1978] by E.F. Schumacher (author of "Small Is Beautiful" below) HarperCollins 8x5¼ pb [6/78] for $9.60 |
 | "Culture of Narcissism: American Life In An Age of Diminishing Expectations" [1979] by Christopher Lasch
W.W. Norton 8x5½ pb [5/91] for $11.16 W.W. Norton hardcover [1/79] out of print/used |
 | "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" [1979] by Douglas R. Hofstadter won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 'A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll' • book applies Gödel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence • Kindle edition not found on Amazon (10/2023) Vintage Books 9½x6½ pb [5/89] out of print/used Basic Books 9x6 pb [1/99] for $14.99 Basic Books hardcover [5/79] out of print/many used Spanish edition: Booket Libros 8x5 pb [4/2015] for $31.42 German edition: Klett-Cotta Verlag 9x6 pb [3/2016] for $46.03 German edition: Klett-Cotta Verlag hardcover [1985] out of print/used |
 | "Realism and The Aim of Science: Postscript To The Logic of Scientific Discovery" [1982] by Karl Popper Routledge pb [4/92] for $34.95 |
 | "Ten Philosophical Mistakes: Basic Errors In Modern Thought - How They Came About, Their Consequences & How To Avoid Them" [1985] by Dr. Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001] Touchstone 8¼x5½ pb [4/97] for $9.75 Scribner 7¾x9¾ hardcover [3/85] out of print/used Blackstone audio [7/94] for $32.95 |
 | "Distinction: A Social Critique of The Judgement of Taste" [1987] by Pierre Bourdieu; translation by Richard Nice Harvard Univ Press 9.2x6 pb [9/87] for $25.00 |
 | "Wittgenstein’s Mistress" [1988] by David Markson [1927-2010], Afterword by Steven Moore The story has nothing to do with Ludwig Wittgenstein [1889-1951], except in the abstract; recommended by David Foster Wallace [1962-2008]. A woman types stream-of-consciousness thoughts on a typewriter at a beachhouse, believing that she is the only person left on the planet. Dalkey Archive Press 8½x5¾ pb [3/2006] for $11.89 • book entry at Wikipedia Dalkey Archive Press hardcover [2/90] out of print/used |
 | "The Closing of The American Mind" [1988 bestseller] by Allan Bloom Touchstone 8¼x5¼ pb [5/88] for $11.20 Blackstone UNABR audio narrated by Christopher Hurt [1/93] for $76.95 |
 | "Time's Arrow / Time's Cycle: Myth & Metaphor In The Discovery of Geological Time" [1988] by Stephen Jay Gould Harvard Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/88] for $10.62 |
 | "The Evolution of Technology" (Cambridge History of Science Series) [1989] by George Basalla Cambridge Univ Press 8½x6¾ pb [2/89] for $31.99 Cambridge Univ Press hardcover [2/89] out of print/used |
 | "Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths" [1990] by Lawrence J. Hatab An interpretive study, inspired by Nietzsche and Heidegger, of the historical relationship between myth and philosophy in ancient Greece Open Court Publng 8¾x6 pb [1/90] for $45.00 Open Court Publng 9¼x6½ hardcover [1/90] out of print/used |
 | "Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero" [1993] by Brian Rotman Stanford Univ Press 9x6 pb [6/93] for $12.76 |
 | "Ad Infinitum – The Ghost In Turing's Machine: Taking God Out of Mathematics & Putting The Body Back In" [1993] An essay in corporeal semiotics by Brian Rotman "astonishing in its elegance & satisfaction" Stanford Univ Press 9x5½ pb [6/93] for $14.36 Stanford Univ Press hardcover [6/93] for $45.00 Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore's Alan Turing [1912-54] Page |
 | "The Last Book You'll Ever Read: And Other Lessons From The Future" [1993] by Canadian futurist Frank Ogden [1920-2012] MW&R 10x6½ hardcover & CD-ROM [6/93] out of print/used author's website |
 | "Race Matters" [1993] by Cornel West
Kindle Edition from Beacon Press [2001 edition] for $11.49 Vintage 8¼x5 pb [3/94] for $13.15 Beacon Press hardcover [4/2001] for $16.65 Audio Partners UNABR audio [6/94] out of prodn/used |
 | "An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't" [orig 1987, rev 1995 & 2006] by Judy Jones & William Wilson
"surprise hit & instant classic" Ballantine 3rd edition hardcover [4/2006] for $23.10 RH/Ballantine 9½x7¾ hardcover [11/95] for $21.45 Random House pb [4/97] out of print/used |
 | "Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato To Darwin" [1996] by Stephen Jay Gould Random House 9x6 pb [10/97] for $11.20 Three Rivers hardcover [9/96] out of print/used |
 | "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize The 21st Century" [1997] by Dr. Michio Kaku Bantam 8x5½ pb [5/98] for $11.20 Doubleday 10x6½ hardcover [1/97] out of print/used author's website |
 | "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts On The Business of Life" [1997] by editors of Forbes Magazine
Black Dog & Leventhal 9½x8¼ hardcover [4/97] for $40.00 |
 | "Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" [1997 bestseller] by Jared Diamond Two years on the N.Y. Times bestseller lists; won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton [3/2017] for $9.18 Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton [1999 edition] for $9.18 W.W. Norton 9¼x6 pb [3/2017] for $13.38 W.W. Norton 9¼x6 pb [4/99] for $14.99 W.W. Norton 9½x7 hardcover [7/2005] for $16.35 book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Guns, Germs, and Steel" TV mini-series [P.B.S. July 2005] three 55-minute episodes: 'Out of Eden', 'Conquest', and 'Into The Tropics' Co-produced & co-directed by Cassian Harrison & Tim Lambert; narrated by Peter Coyote; featuring Jared Diamond National Geographic Video color DVD [7/2005] for $0.00 full credits at IMDb • official movie homepage |
 | "Future of The Self: Exploring The Post-Identity Society" [1997] by Walter Truett Anderson Tarcher 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/97] out of print/used author website |
 | "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge" [1998] by Edward O. Wilson Random House 8x5 pb [4/99] for $11.20 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [4/98] for $19.25 Audio Scholar ABRIDGED cassette [10/99] for $24.95 |
 | "Give Me Liberty!: Freeing Ourselves In The Twenty-First Century" [1998] by Gerry Spence Griffin 9.2x6 pb [10/99] for $10.47 St Martin 9½x6.4 hardcover [10/98] for $17.47 author's website |
 | "Life: The Movie - How Entertainment Conquered Reality" [1998] by Neal Gabler "The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour, and melodrama has turned everything of importance – from news and politics to religion and high culture – into one vast public entertainment." Vintage 8x5¼ pb [2/2000] for $11.20 Knopf hardcover [11/98] out of print/used |
 | "Soul of A Citizen: Living With Conviction In Challenging Times" [orig 1999, rev 2010] by Paul Rogat Loeb Kindle Edition from St. Martin's Griffin [3/2010] for $9.99 St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [3/2010] for $11.55 official book site |
 | "Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything" [1999] by James Gleick Vintage 8x5 pb [9/2000] for $11.20 Random House 9¼x6 hardcover [9/99] out of print/many used |
 | "Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered – 25 Years Later . . . With Commentaries" [1999] by E.F. Schumacher
Hartley & Marks 9¼x7½ pb [rev 12/99] for $19.95 original edition [1974] HarperCollins 8x5¼ pb [8/89] for $10.50 |
 | "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference" [2000 classic] by Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2002] for $14.95 Little, Brown 8¼x5¾ hardcover [2/2000] for $15.72 TimeWarner ABR audio CD [1/2005] for $16.31 TimeWarner ABR audio [2/2000] for $12.23 |
 | "The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life Is A Paid-For Experience" [2000] by Jeremy Rifkin
Tarcher 9x6 pb [3/2001] for $10.17 Tarcher 9x6¼ hardcover [3/2000] out of print/used |
 | "Leading The Revolution: How To Thrive In Turbulent Times By Making Innovation A Way of Life" [2000] by Gary Hamel
Plume 9x6¼ pb [8/2002] for $11.20 Harvard Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2002] for $23.10 Harvard Press 9½x7 hardcover [8/2000] out of print/used Highbridge audio CD [9/2000] 2 disks for $17.53 |
 | "The Twilight of American Culture" [2000] by Morris Berman W.W.Norton 8¼x5½ pb [6/2001] for $10.74 W.W.Norton hardcover [12/2000] out of print/used author's website |
 | "Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy" [2001] by Christopher Phillips W.W.Norton 8¼x5½ pb [4/2002] for $17.46 W.W.Norton 7¾x5½ hardcover [2/2001] for $16.77 author's website |
 | "QBQ! The Question Behind The Question: Practicing Personal Accountability At Work and In Life" [2001] by John G. Miller
Penguin 7½x5 pb [4/2005] out of print/used Putnam 8¾x6 hardcover [9/2004] for $13.57 Denver Press 7¾x5 hardcover [4/2001] out of print/many used Denver Press Spanish-language 7½x5 pb [4/2003] for $12.50 |
 | "The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage & The Quest To Build The First Computer" [2001] by Doron Swade
Viking 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $17.46 |
 | "Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and The Facts That Support It" [2002] by Craig Biddle A lucid and elegant discussion of the principles, values, and virtues that are essential to human life and happiness, defining and defending the social & political conditions required for people to live together as civilized beings. His conclusion: the essence of moral virtue defines laissez-faire capitalism as the only moral social system. Kindle Edition from Glen Allen Press [2002 edition] for $9.95 Glen Allen Press 8½x5½ pb [2002] for $12.95 author's official website |
 | "A New Kind of Science" [2002 bestseller] by Stephen Wolfram Instant hit: the initial printing of 50,000 sold out in just weeks! 1280 pages! Wolfram Media 9¾x8 hardcover [5/2002] for $44.95 |
 | "Web Thinking: Connecting, Not Competing For Success" [2002] by Dr. Linda Seger Inner Ocean Publg 7.4x5.4 hardcover [6/2002] for $13.27 |
 | "The Hunt For Zero Point: Inside The Classified World of Anti-Gravity Technology" [2002] by Nick Cook
Broadway Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2003] for $10.17 Broadway Books 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2002] for $17.16 |
 | "The Politics of Stupid" [2002] by Susan Powter Powter's style may be tough to take (for some) but underneath that, what she has to say about power & women in America is both accurate & inspiring Crone 8½x5½ pb [11/2002] for $11.96 author website |
 | "The Constants of Nature: From Alpha To Omega - The Numbers That Encode The Deepest Secrets of The Universe" [2003] by John D. Barrow
Vintage 8x5¼ pb [3/2004] for $10.50 Pantheon 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2003] for $17.68 |
 | "Walking The Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of A Rational Animal" [2003] by Robert J. Fogelin "...[written] with a wonderful sense of danger, as if it matters what philosophers think." — Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review Oxford Univ Press 7½x5¼ hardcover [8/2003] for $15.40 |
 | "Guts: The Seven Laws of Business That Made Chrysler The World's Hottest Car Company" [orig 1998; rev 2003] by Robert A. Lutz
Wiley & Sons rev & updated 9x6½ hardcover [9/2003] for $23.93 Wiley & Sons 8¾x6 pb [10/99] out of print/many used Wiley & Sons 9¼x6 hardcover [9/98] out of print/dozens used |
 | "The Innovator's Solution: Creating & Sustaining Successful Growth" [2003] by Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor Harvard Press 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2003] for $19.77 |
 | "Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity To Solve Problems Big and Small" [2003] by Barry J. Nalebuff & Ian Ayres Harvard Business School Press hardcover [10/2003] for $19.25 |
 | "The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong To Get Ahead" [2004] by David Callahan Harcourt 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2004] for $18.20 Recorded Books UNABR audio CD [1/2004] for $20.99 |
 | "How To Change The World: Social Entrepreneurs & The Power of New Ideas" [orig 2004, updated 2007] by David Bornstein Interviews with fellows of the Ashoka program reveal six qualities of successful social entrepreneurs and four practices of innovative organizations. Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb [9/2007] for $11.16 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2004] for $24.00 |
 | "A Short History of Progress" [2004] by Ronald Wright
Kindle Edition from Da Capo Press [2004 edition] for $9.99 Da Capo Press 8x5½ pb [3/2004] for $13.15 Canongate Books Ltd. 8½x5½ hardcover [3/2005] out of print/used |
 | "The Impossible Will Take A Little While: A Citizen's Guide To Hope In A Time of Fear" [2004] Edited by Paul Rogat Loeb
Basic Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2004] for $10.37 |
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"A Hacker Manifesto" [2004] by McKenzie Wark Draws in equal measure on Guy Debord & Gilles Deleuze and offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyberspace and globalization; examines the realm of intel-lectual property that gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict that pits the creators of information – researchers & authors, artists & bio-logists, chemists & musicians, philosophers & programmers – against a possessing class demanding protection of their patents & copy-rights, and who would monopolize the new information commons. Kindle Edition from Harvard Univ Press [2004 edition] for $12.07 Harvard Univ Press 8½x5½ hardcover [10/2004] for $14.52 |
 | "Guernica: The Biography of A Painting" [2004] by Gijs van Hensbergen "Ingeniously chronicling the last century using Picasso's visionary tableau, van Hensbergen offers a new way of understanding our own history." Bloomsbury hardcover [11/2004] for $23.80 |
 | "Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need To Know About The Greatest Stories In Human History But Never Learned" [2005] by Kenneth C. Davis Harper 8¼x5¼ pb [8/2006] for $10.17 HarperCollins hardcover [11/2005] for $17.79 "Don't Know Much About World Myths" [ages 9-12; 2005] by Kenneth C. Davis HarperTrophy 9x6 pb [4/2005] for $6.99 HarperTrophy 9x6 hardcover [4/2005] for $19.99 |
 | "Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, From Fire To Freud" [2005] by Peter Watson Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [10/2009] for $11.04 Harper Perennial 9½x7 850-page pb [9/2006] for $13.59 Harper 9½x7½ 850-page hardcover [8/2005] out of print/many used |
 | "A Short History of Myth" [2005] by Karen Armstrong Canongate 7½x5 pb [10/2006] for $9.00 Canongate 7½x5¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $12.24 |
 | "Flipping the Switch: Unleash The Power of Personal Accountability Using The QBQ!" [2005] by John G. Miller
Putnam 8¼x5¾ hardcover [12/2005] for $13.57 |
 | "The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth In Ancient Wisdom – Why The Meaningful Life Is Closer Than You Think" [2005] by Jonathan Haidt
Basic Books 7¾x5¼ pb [12/2006] for $10.85 Basic Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [12/2005] for $17.16 official book site |
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