Your Holiday Shopping (Book)list - Non-fiction

James McWorther
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care

Gopnik, Meltzoff and Kuhl
The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About The Mind

Marjorie Kelly
The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy


Shock and Awe: War on Words
Bregje van EekelenJennifer GonzálezBettina StötzerAnna Tsing
http://www.literaryguillotine.com/npp/shock.html
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20306/


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060938455/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520240677/ref=pd_sim_books_2/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
Marion Nestle: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0071402500/ref=pd_sim_books_2/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
Food Fight : The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It by Kelly D. Brownell, Katherine Battle Horgen


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618164723/ref=pd_sim_books_1/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0761986286/qid=1081347304/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375421890/ref%3Dnosim/billgreershomepa/104-3987017-0540704
Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/against_love/


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060936460/qid=1081347835/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060565349/ref=cm_custrec_gl_acc/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
The Bastard on the Couch : 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom by Daniel H. Jones


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393051099?v=glance
Eco-Economy: Building a New Economy for the Environmental Age by Lester R. Brown


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316353000/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books&st=*
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195156048/qid=1081384887/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
Win-Win Ecology: How The Earth's Species Can Survive In The Midst of Human Enterprise by Michael L. Rosenzweig


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393020118/qid=1081385215/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change by Stephen R. Palumbi


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559634847/qid=1081386050/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679746749/qid=1081386432/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
Why We Get Sick : The New Science of Darwinian Medicine by Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688162185/ref=pd_sim_books_5/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are by Steven R. Quartz, Terrence J. Sejnowski


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1578517095?v=glance
Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds by Howard Gardner


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226467961/ref=pd_sim_books_1/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't by George Lakoff


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595293514/ref=cm_custrec_gl_acc/103-9988108-8286258?v=glance&s=books
Justice and Equality : A Dialogue on the Philosophies of Conservatism and Liberalism by E. Robert Morse


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1564741028/qid=1081102706/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-9988108-8286258?v=glance&s=books
The Great Limbaugh Con: And Other Right-Wing Assaults on Common Sense by Charles M. Kelly


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553067494/qid=1081392422/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
With God on Our Side : The Rise of the Religious Right in America by William Martin


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1877733075?v=glance
Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist by Dan Barker, Annie L. Gaylor, Daniel E. Barker


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/087975124X/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books&st=*
Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671203231/ref=pd_sim_books_3/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
Why I Am Not a Christian : And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805075208/qid=1081391556/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
The Science of Good and Evil : Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805074791/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books&st=*
How We Believe, Second Edition : Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God by Michael Shermer


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805070893/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books&st=*
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195143264/ref=pd_sim_books_3/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345409469/ref=pd_sim_books_5/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
Demon-Haunted World by Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226901343/qid=1081392006/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
Darwin's Cathedrals: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674930479/ref=pd_sim_books_1/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior by Elliott Sober, David Sloan Wilson


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879759402/qid=1081392304/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-2987426-1097463?v=glance&s=books
Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays by Clarence Darrow


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674008251/ref=pd_sim_books_5/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller, L. L. Winship


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674006771/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance
The Triple Helix by Richard C. Lewontin


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0940322951/ref=pd_sim_books_1/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions by Richard C. Lewontin


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060975199/ref=pd_sim_books_3/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
Biology as Ideology : Doctrine of DNA, The by Richard C. Lewontin


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822324660/ref=pd_sim_books_3/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution by Susan Oyama, Richard C. Lewontin


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067420283X/ref=pd_sim_books_4/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
The Dialectical Biologist by Richard Levins, Richard C. Lewontin


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394728882/ref=pd_sim_books_4/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
Not in Our Genes by Steven Rose, Richard Lewontin and Leon Kamin


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262650630/ref=pd_sim_books_1/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
Cycles of Contingency : Developmental Systems and Evolution by Susan Oyama


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0716730499/ref=pd_sim_books_5/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
The DNA Mystique: The Gene As a Cultural Icon by Dorothy Nelkin, M. Susan Lindee


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807004316/ref=pd_sim_books_3/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
Exploding the Gene Myth : How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers by Ruth Hubbard (Author), Elijah Wald


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520226151/ref=pd_sim_books_5/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
What It Means to Be 98 Percent Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes by Jonathan Marks


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393314251/104-3987017-0540704
The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen Jay Gould
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/09/home/gould-mismeasure.html


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312172281/qid=1081434330/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
Measured Lies : The Bell Curve Examined by Joe L. Kincheloe (Editor), et al


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465006930/qid=1081434330/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3987017-0540704?v=glance&s=books
The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America by Steve Fraser (Editor), Steven Fraser (Editor) http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/curveball.html


http://www.isi.edu/~lerman/projects/demos/books/pages/4.html
At Home in the Universe : The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674006135/qid=1081434191/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-3987017-0540704
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/reviews/


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-0440015545-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk: How We Defeat Ourselves by the Way We Talk and What to Do About It


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-0140132317-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
How to Watch TV News


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-0375701273-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
Building a Bridge to the 18th Century : How the Past Can Improve Our Future


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-0140094385-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-0679745408-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
Technopoly : The Surrender of Culture to Technology


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-0679751661-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
The Disappearance of Childhood


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-0679750312-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
The End Of Education : Redefining the Value of School


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-0385290098-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
Teaching As a Subversive Activity


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-0440384869-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
TEACHING AS A CONSERVING ACTIVITY


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-067973421X-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
Conscientious Objections : Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-0440080835-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
The Soft Revolution: A Student Handbook for Turning Schools Around


http://www.oliverwillis.com/amazon/amazon_products_feed-item_id-B00005WRA5-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
The school book; for people who want to know what all the hollering is about


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060505915?v=glance
The True Believer : Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684810468/qid=1082344718/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books
Rising
Tide : The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300054319/qid=1082344835/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books
Narratives of Human Evolution by Misia Landau


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345430093/qid=1082344985/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books
Rocks of Ages by STEPHEN JAY GOULD


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0609601407/qid=1082345134/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox : Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801857074/qid=1082345311/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312204078/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books&st=*
Fashionable Nonsense : Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal , Jean Bricmont


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1893554120/ref=pd_sim_books_3/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books
The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past by Keith Windschuttle


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375414827/ref=pd_sim_books_4/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books
The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by DIANE RAVITCH


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822317133/ref=cm_custrec_gl_rec/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books
The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education by John K. Wilson


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805075208/qid=1082346673/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books
The Science of Good and Evil : Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer


Russia and Soul: an Exploration by Dale Pesmen http://www.pesmen.com/russiaandsoul.html http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801487099/ref=lpr_g_1/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books


The New Military Humanism By Noam Chomsky
http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/oct00hardesty.htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1567511767?v=glance

The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999 by Misha Glenny
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140233776/qid=1082352796/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books


The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War by Misha Glenny http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140257713/qid=1082352796/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_10/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books


Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia by Richard West
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786703326/ref=pd_sbs_b_3/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books


Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War by Susan L. Woodward http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0815795130/qid=1082353871/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books


The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives (this one is good about abuses of power in general, even in the USA!) by Eric D. Gordy http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0271019581/qid=1082354094/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books


The Past in Question : Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation by Keith Brown http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691099952/qid=1082354321/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679754660/qid=1082430137/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-0088560-2076925?v=glance&s=books
Children First : What Society Must Do--and is Not Doing--for Children Today by PENELOPE LEACH


Born to Rebel : Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives -- by Frank J. Sulloway http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679758763/002-9615263-4318433?v=glance


Rocks of Ages : Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/034545040X/qid=1082839620/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/002-9615263-4318433?v=glance&s=books


Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies -- by Jared Diamond http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393317552/qid=1082839677/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-9615263-4318433


The Dependent Gene: The Fallacy of "Nature vs. Nurture" by David S. Moore http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805072802/qid=1082839881/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-9615263-4318433?v=glance&s=books


What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee : Apes, People, and Their Genes by Jonathan Marks http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520240642/qid=1082839992/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-9615263-4318433?v=glance&s=books


Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/026216180X/qid=1082840040/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-9615263-4318433?v=glance&s=books


Biological Exuberance : Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce Bagemihl http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031225377X/qid=1082840168/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_10/002-9615263-4318433?v=glance&s=books


Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001LVH8W/qid=1082840274/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-9615263-4318433?v=glance&s=books


More than Kin and Less than Kind : The Evolution of Family Conflict by Douglas W. Mock http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674012852/002-9615263-4318433?v=glance




The Two Americas : Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It by Stanley B. Greenberg
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465015344/103-2687863-7123025?v=glance
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312318383/qid=1083125254/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-2687863-7123025?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Davison Hunter


Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen: Entropy Law and the Economic Process


Herman Daly: Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics: Essays in Criticism


Joel Kovel: The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World


Paul Hawken: Natural Capitalism


John Bellamy Foster: Ecology Against Capitalism and Marx's Ecology


Keith Bradsher: High and Mighty: SUVs, the World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way


Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children Ann Hulbert http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375401202?v=glance http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=6W327LHQL4&isbn=0375401202&itm=1


Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child by Frank Furedi http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556524641/ref=pd_sim_books_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists, and Advertisers Mislead Us by Benjamin Radford http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591020727/ref=pd_sim_books_5/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591020727/ref=pd_sim_books_5/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


The NURTURE ASSUMPTION: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Harris%2C%20Judith%20Rich/103-6264626-7848657


Nature Via Nurture : Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060006781/ref=pd_sim_books_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


The Myth of the First Three Years : A New Understanding of Early Brain Development and Lifelong Learning by John Bruer
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743242602/ref=pd_sim_books_2/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


The Limits of Family Influence: Genes, Experience, and Behavior by David C. Rowe http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0898621488/ref=pd_sim_books_3/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


Children First by Penelope Leach http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517174855/qid=1083286738/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038548254X/qid=1083286831/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0809058405/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books&st=*


Beyond Numeracy by John Allen Paulos
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067973807X/ref=pd_sim_books_3/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


Once Upon a Number : The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories by John Allen Paulos http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465051596/ref=pd_sim_books_2/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market by John Allen Paulos http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465054803/ref=pd_sim_books_3/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521457300/qid=1008819855/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_11_2/103-2787978-3634216


The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution by John Brockman http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684823446/ref=pd_sim_books_5/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


The New Humanists : Science at the Edge by John Brockman http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0760745293/ref=pd_sim_books_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


The Next Fifty Years : Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century by John Brockman http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375713425/ref=pd_sim_books_5/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox : Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities by STEPHEN JAY GOULD http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400051533/qid=1083290724/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


Hidden Histories of Science by Robert B. Silvers http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/094032203X/qid=1083290802/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge by David N. Livingstone http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226487229/qid=1083290971/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393317552/qid=1083291078/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393318885/ref=pd_sim_books_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038078209X?v=glance


Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy : How Music Captures Our Imagination by R Jourdain
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345409469/ref=pd_sim_books_3/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books


Demon-Haunted World by Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879755733/qid=1083646715/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books

Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus by Martin Gardner
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486203948/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books&st=*
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879751983/ref=pd_sim_books_1/103-6264626-7848657?v=glance&s=books
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi, Isaac Asimov


Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness by Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (Editor), Stephen R. Covey
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0809105543/ref=pd_sim_books_1/104-6136542-6846344?v=glance&s=books



Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future by Michael Barone
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400053064/qid=1084720898/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-2640507-5582247?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


What is marriage for?
by E.J.Graff
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807041351/commondreams-20/ref=nosim/


Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
http://csmonitor.com/2004/0518/p14s01-bogn.html


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0920256368/qid=1085951215/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-1416525-8202341?v=glance&s=books
A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence By Ference Mate


THE WISDOM OF CROWDS: WHY THE MANY ARE SMARTER THAN THE FEW AND HOW COLLECTIVE WISDOM SHAPES BUSINESS, ECONOMIES, SOCIETIES, AND NATIONS By James Surowiecki If you want good information, ask around - a lot Large groups are more accurate that any expert http://csmonitor.com/2004/0525/p15s02-bogn.html


CRITICAL MASS: HOW ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER By Philip Ball
Equations for traffic and marriage Philip Ball argues that human behavior follows the laws of physics in surprising and illuminating ways
http://csmonitor.com/2004/0518/p16s01-bogn.html


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0387987207?v=glance
Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation by Nicholas Humphrey


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618335404/ref=pd_sim_books_5/104-1174905-5959927?v=glance&s=books
A Devil's Chaplain : Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618056734/ref=pd_sim_books_2/104-1174905-5959927?v=glance&s=books
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393316823/ref=pd_sim_books_2/104-1174905-5959927?v=glance&s=books
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins


Banana Republicans by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber http://www.bananarepublicans.org/excerpt.html


http://www.bookhills.com/Idiot_Proof_Deluded_Celebrities_Irrational_Power_Brokers_Media_Morons_and_the_Erosion_of_Common_Sense_1586482475.htm
Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense by Francis Wheen


http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/0604/0604_selections.html
Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain-and How It Changed the World by Carl Zimmer


The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought by Gary Marcus Centuries of "experimental philosophy" and cognitive neuroscience have led to a revolutionary understanding of how the brain makes the mind.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691057575/104-4543393-3887108?v=glance
Why Men Won't Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology by Richard C. Francis


Wisdom in those crowds
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~28~2219417,00.html
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2004/06/crowds_are_wise.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0739311956?v=glance
http://www.magportal.com/cgi-bin/rdir.cgi?w=167777
http://www.magportal.com/c/sci/psych/



Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes http://amazon.com/o/asin/0395317045/mockerybird/ref=nosim/
http://allconsuming.net/item.cgi?isbn=0395317045
http://amazon.com/o/asin/0395317045/mockerybird/ref=nosim/
http://www.risk-management.argospress.com/crev-0395317045.htm
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/4110/think.htm
http://www.grailwerk.com/docs/bostonglobe8.htm


POLITICS-US: Chickenhawk Groupthink?
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23698
http://www.tc-forum.org/letters/howtoexp.htm
http://www.why-war.com/news/2002/09/16/isgroupt.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801848903/ref=nosim/travel4-20/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0472096532/qid=1088406327/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/102-6565742-8220164?v=glance&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/1U0W078RLE8EH/ref=cm_bg_dp_l_3/102-6565742-8220164


Novel thoughts for the summer By ELLEN GOODMAN
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/v-printer/story/1460787p-7599816c.html


Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram.html,


Thomas Frank, "What's the Matter with Kansas?"
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/08/int04044.html


NOW THEY TELL US The American Press and Iraq By Michael Massing Preface by Orville Schell http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?product_id=3932


Thomas Powers, The Vanishing Case for War (December 4, 2003)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16813


GLORY AND TERROR The Growing Nuclear Danger By Steven Weinberg Preface by Anthony Lewis http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?product_id=3933


FEAR AND LOATHING in George W. Bush's Washington
By Elizabeth Drew Preface by Russell Baker
http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?product_id=3931


Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931498717/ref=pd_sbs_b_1/002-2326670-8071261?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
by George Lakoff, Howard Dean and Don Hazen


"Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time" by Paul Rogat Loeb
http://www.soulofacitizen.org/index.htm http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312204353/qid=1096166924


"Wake Up, You're Liberal!" by Ted Rall
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1932360220/qid=1096166635


Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business, and Bad Medicine http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=YG5j17BA8E&isbn=0385504543&itm=1


Erich Fromm
Escape from Freedom


Authoritarian Character
by Adorno and Horkheimer


Bernstein, Basil B
Class, codes and control


Talking Politics: the substance of style from Abe to "W"by Michael Silverstein
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/pppress/silversm.htm


The Wimp Factor : Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity by Stephen J. Ducat http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807043443/qid%3D1098218750/sr%3D2-1/ref%3D/102-5686751-6633708
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20343/
http://indyweek.com/durham/current/bookshelf.htm