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Attached is a substantial bibliography of books that I have found to be noteworthy. Although it is an eclectic list, there are themes that bind these works together; there are may on intellectual culture, the uses and forms of literature, macro studies of world history and demography and treatises on evolutionary psychology. While some are easily accessible for those with a social science, humanities background, this is not really 'easy reading,' and some of the works are very advanced. All are non-fiction and most can be easily found in a public library or on an Internet purchasing service.

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Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power

The Evolution of Racism by P. Shipman

The Lands of Charm and Cruelty: Travels in South East Asia by S. Sesser

Garden of the Brave in War: Recollections of Iran by J. O扗onell

Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity: A Prologue to a Political Theory

Morality and Independence by J. Moore

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Borderlands: Nation and Empire by S. Malcomson

Basin and Range by J. Mcphee

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Power in a Northern Landscape by B. Lopez

Roads and Rivals: The Political Uses of Access in the Borderlands of
Asia by M. Isphahani

Mapping the Next Millenium

The Warrior Heritage: A Psychological Perspective of the Cambodian Trauma

Archetypes: A Natural History of the Self by A. Stevens

Aesthetic Judgement of Arosal: An Experamental Contribution to
Psycho-Aesthetics by G. Snets

Archetecture: The Natural and the Man Made by V.J. Sclili

Food of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Science Fiction Literature by E. Radin

Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts by F. Turner

A Blessed Rage for Order: Deconstruction, Evolution and Chaos

The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms by M.A. Dorden

Homo Aesthetics: Where Art Comes From and Why

What is Art for by E. Dissanayake

The Culture of Hope: A New Birth of the Classical Spirit

Beauty: The Value of Values

Natural Classisism: Essays on Literature and Science by F. Turner

The Foundations of Primitive Thought by C.R. Hallpike

A Sociology of Sociology

Foundations of Socil Theory by J.S. Coleman

The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture
by M. Harris

The Human Career: The Self in the Symbolic World by W.R. Goldschmidt

The Search for Society: The Quest for a Biosocial Science and Morality

In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Rivival of Darwinism in
American Social Thought by C.E. Degler

Naturalist by E.O. Wilson

Einstein, History and Other Passions

Fin De Sicle Vienna: Politics and Culture by C.E. Schorske

Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through The Lives of
Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham and Ghandi by H.
Gardner

The Renaissance Philosophy of Man by E. Cassia

Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought

The Writers Journey: Mythic Structures for Screenwriters and
Storytellers by C. Vogler

The Passion of Michael Foucault by J. Miller

The Cult of the Serpent: A Interdisciplinary Survey of It抯
Manifestations and Origins

Human Universals by D.E. Brown

Color: Art and Science by J. Mollon

Man and Beast: Comparative Social Behavior

The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Acadame by R. Jacoby

Intellectuals, Aesthetics, Politics and Academics by B. Robbins

Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture

Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Comtemperary America by J. Gamson

Incorrect Thoughts: Notes On A Wayward Culture by J. Leo

The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America by J. Ellis

Anti-Americansm by P. Hollander

A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America by S. Steele

Hidden Rhythems: Schedules and Calenders in Social Life

The Priniting Revolution by E. Eisenstein

The Renaissance Discovery of Linear Perspective by S. Edgarton

Sweetness and Power: The Place Of Sugar in Everyday Life by S. Mintz

Extraodinary Origins of Everyday Things by C. Panti

The Social Life of Things: Commodties in Cultural Perspective by A. Appadurai

On Intellectuals by P. Reif

The Revolutionary Aesthetic by B. Mazlich

The Shape of the World: The Mapping and Discovery of Earth by S. Brethon

Maps and Politics by J. Black

Mapping the Millenium by S. Hall

Maps and Man by P. Wolff

Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections by J. Snyper

A History of Polar Exploration by L. Klein

The Edge of an Unfamilliar World: A History of Oceanography by S. Schuchee

The Western Cannon by H. Bloom

Performing Rites by S. Frith

The Archetypes of the Universl Uncouncous by C.G. Jung

The Carting of the Oceans: Ten Centuries of Maritime Maps by P. Whitfeild

The Mapping of the Heavens

The Ethic of Travel from Marco Polo to Kafka by S.M. Islam

The Beginnings of Modern Colonization by C. Verlinden

The Heaven Finding Art: The History of Navigation from Odyssus to
Captain Cook by E.G. Tylor

From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers by G. Ifrah

Defenders of the Text: The Tradition of Scholarship in an Age of
Science by A. Grafton

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man抯 Changing Vision of the Universe by
A. Koestler

Maps and Their Makers: An Introduction to the History of Cartography
by G.R. Crone

Art and Cartography: Six Historical Essays by S. Edgarton

Number Words and Number Systems: A Cultural History by K. Metzinger

The Cognative Revolution in Western Culture by D. Lepan

Time in History: The Evolution of our General Awareness of Time and
Temporal Perspective by G.J. Withrow

Miracles and the Midievel Mind; Theory, Record and Event by B. Ward

Measuring the Universe: Cosmic Demensions from Aristicus to Haley by A.V. Helden

A History of Technology (5 Volumes) by P. Singer

Guns, Sailes and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early
Phases of European Expansion by C. Cipolla

Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals 1944-1956 by T. Judt

The Opium of the Intellectuals by R. Aron

Mideivel Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition by M. Colish

Arguing the World: New York Intellectuals in their Own Words by J. Dorman

Radical Enlightenment: Philisophy and the Making of Modernity by J. Israel

The Sociology of Philisophies: A Global History of Intellectual Change
by R. Collins

Ideas the Conqured the World: Peace, Democracy and Free-Markets in the
21st Century by M. Mandelbaum

Public Intellectuals: A Study In Decline by R. Posner

Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophy: Toword the Rivival of Higher
Education by J.P. Hart

The New Radicalism in America: The Intellectual as Social Type by C. Lasch

The Cousins Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo America
by K. Phillips

Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power by
V.D. Hanson

Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study by O. Patterson

The Mountains of the Mediteranian World: An Envioronmental History by
J.R. Malnell

The Scructure of Scientific Revolutions by T. Kuhn

An Intellegent Persons Guide to Modern Culture by R. Scrunton

The Age of Gunpowder Empires by W. McNeil

The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change
950-1350 by R. Bartlett

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by P. Kennedy

From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by D. Hess

The End of History and the Last Man by F. Fukuyama

Political and Social Upheaval by W.L. Langer

The Coming of the Book by E. Febure

Art and the Industrial Revolution by F. Kingender

The Collapse of Ancient Socities by N. Yoffe

The World That Trade Created by K. Pomeranz

Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe by S. Pollard

The Eurpeans Miracle: Envioronments, Economies and Geopolitics in the
History of Europe and Asia by E.L. Jones

Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Society by D. Crosby

The Collapse of Complex Societies by J. Tainter

The Idea of Progress: Its Origin and Growth by J.B. Bury

Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, 1420-1625 by B. Penrose

Piracy in the Ancient World by H. Ormfrod

The History of Piracy by P. Goose

The Freedom of he Seas in History, Law and Politics by P. Potter

The Mapmakers by J. Wilford

Maps and Man: Cartography in Relation to Culture and Civilization by N. Throner

Guide to the History of Cartography by W. Ristlow

Mapping by D. Greenwood

Longitude by D. Sobel

Atlas of Global Geography by E. Raisz

Life of Captain James Cook by J.L. Begenole

Essential Tension: Selected Essays in Scientific Studies and Change by T. Kuhn

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by K. Popper

The Copernical Revolution: Planetary Astronomy and the Development of
Thought by T. Kuhn

Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope and Heritage of Astronomy by M. Harwitt

The History of the Telescope by H. King

The Evolution of the Microscope by S. Bradbury

The Development of Medicine as a Profession by V. Bullough

Public Knowledge by J.M. Ziman

The Force of Knowledge by J.M. Ziman

Fear of Science, Trust in Science by A. Markovitz

A Search for Structure by C. Smith

Utopian Thought in the Western World by F. Manuel

The Renassance Discovery of Time by R. Quinones

Games, Gods and Gambling by F.N. David

A History of Economic Thought by R. Lekachman

Archeology in Society by G. Clark

The Voices of Time by J. Frazier

The Exact Sciences in Antiquity by G. Sarton

Primitive Time Reckoning by M. Nelson

Time Measurement by B. Ward

Origins of Astrology by J. Lindsey

Astrology: It抯 History and Influence in the Western World by F. Mcaffey

Politics and Script by S. Morrison

Animals, Men and Myths by R. Lewishohm

A History of the Barometer by K. Middleton

A History of the Thermometer by K. Middleton

A History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Descartes

The World Encompassed: The First European Maritime Empires C. 800-1650

The Sea Around Them: The Atlantic Ocean AD 1250

Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World by L. Casson

Crusades, Commerce and Culture by A. Attiya

The Crusades: Motives and Achievements by J. Brundage

The Frame of Ancient Greek Maps by W. Heidel

A History of Ancient Geography by E.H. Bunbury

Human Nature in Geography

History of Cartography by L. Bagron

The Story of Maps by L. Brown

Greenwich Time and the Discovery of Longitude by D. House

The Romance of the Calender by P.W. Wilson

Time Measurement and Calender Construction by B. Richmond

Time and Calenders by J. Macdonald

The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man by H. Frankfort

Clocks for the Ages: How Scientists Date the Past by R. Silverburg

Dictator Clock: 5000 Years of Telling Time by R. Burlingame

Astrology and Prediction by R. Russell

Publishing and Bookselling: From The Earliest Times to the Present Day
by F. Mumby

A Short History of the Printed Word by W. Chappell

Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward by T. Carter

The Arabic Language: Its Role in History by A. Chejne

Moses by M. Buber

The First Dissident: The Book of Job and Todays Politics by W. Safire

Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World by J. Bowker

The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology

The Greek Experience by C.M. Bowra

The Growth of Political Thought in the West

The Mideivel Mind by H.O. Taylor

The Rise of Universities by C.H. Raskins

The Renaisance of the 12th Century

A History of the Science of Politics by F. Pollack

Descartes: Life and Times by E. Haldale

The Intellectual Development of Voltaire by I. Wade

The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the
Encyclopedia 1775-1800 by R. Damton

The Enlightenment: An Interpretation of the Rise of Modern Paganism by P. Gay

Counterrevolution of Science: Studies in the Abuse of Reason by F.A. Hayek

Karl Marx: His Life and Environment

Decline of the West by O. Spengler

Outline of History by H.G. Wells

The Theatre of the Absurd by M. Esslon

How The Reformation Happened by H. Belloc

Printing and the Mind of Man: The Impact of Print on Five Centuries of
Western Civilization by J. Carter

The Eternal Present: The Begginigs of Art by S. Gideon

The Idea of Historical Recurrance in Western Thought

Space, Time and Archetecture: The Growth of a New Tradition by S. Gideon

Before Civilization: The Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe
by C. Renfew

Origin and Growth of Archeology by G. Daniels

The Revolutions of Civilization by Petrie

The Rape of The Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists and Archeologists in
Europe by B. Fagan

Beethoven: The Biography of a Genius by G. Martek

Sticks and Stones by L. Mumford

The Pencil: A history of Design and Circumstance by H. Petrosky

From Hunters to Farmers: The Causes and Consiquences of Food
Production by J.D. Clark

Privitization in the Ancient Neart East and the Classical World by B. Levine

The Alphabet Affect by R. Logan

From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307

Agricultural Origins and Dispersals by C. Sauer

The Modern Rise in Population by T. Mackeon

The Agrarian History of Western Europe, AD 500-1850 by B.H. Von Bath

Family and Inheritance; Rural Society in Western Europe by J. Goody

Foraging and Farming by D. Harris

From Seed to Civilization: The Story of Food by C. Heiser

Cheifdoms and Early States in the Ancient Near East by M.S. Rothman

The Walking Larder: Patterns of Domestication, Pastoralism and
Predation by J. Block

The Legacy of Mesopotania by S. Dalley

Man and Horse in History by M. Kust

The Peloponessian War by D. Kagan

Villiage Life in Ancient Egypt by A.G. Macdowell

Rats, Lice and History by H. Zinner

Midieval Prostitution by J. Rossland

Plagues and Peoples

A Natural History of Infectious Disease by M.F. Burnett

Mummies, Diseases and Infections by E. Cockburn

Everything in its Path by K. Erikson

Modern Organizations by A. Etzioni

Time and The Other by J. Fabian

An Alternative Sociology by F. Ferrarotti

Divided we Stand by W.H. Form

Madness and Civilization by M. Foucault

Professional Powers by E. Freidson

Totem and Taboo by S. Freud

Interpretation of Dreams by S. Freud

The Masters and the Slaves by G. Freyre

The Frankfurt School Reader by D. Frisby

Contemporary Sociological Theory by G. Ritzer

Diffusion of Innovations by E.M. Rogers

Conceiving the Self by M. Rosenberg

Mirrors and Masks A.L. Straus

The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches

The Ritual Process by V. Turner

Decline of the Sacred in Industrial Society by S.S. Acquaviva

Language and Power by B. Anderson

Culture and Agency by M. Archer

Realist Social Theory by M. Archer

Between Past and Future by H. Arendt

In the Beginning: The Origin of Civilization by G.E. Smith

Agricultural Origins and Dispersals by C.O. Sauer

The History of Ethnological Theory by R. Larie

Man and Culture. An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski by R. Firth

Social Structure by M. Fortes

Culture and Personality

Patterns of Culture
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by R. Benedict

Totem and Taboo by Freud

Aspects of Culture and Personality

The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall
of Rome by L. White

How Chiefs Come to Power by T. Earle

The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State J. Allen

Rubish! The Archaeology of Garbage R. Rathje

Diversity and Homogeneity in World Societies by E. Bourginon

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by E.L. Eisenstein

Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth Century
Atlantic Economy by K.H. O扲ourke

The Transperent Society by D. Brin

Over the Wine-Dark Sea: A Sea Adventure of the Ancient World by H.N. Turteltaub

Turbulence in World Politics: a Theory of Change and Continuity by J.N. Roseneu

The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity by M. Albrow

The Rise of the Network Society by M. Castels

The Gutenberg Galaxy: the Making of Typographic Man by M. McLuhan
The Invention of Tradition by T.O. Ranger

Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies by L. Jameson

Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies by J. Appleby

Modern Historiography: An Introduction by M. Bently

Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, Modern by E. Breisach

New Perspectives on Historical Writing by P. Burke

Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity
to the Postmodern Challenge by J. Iggers

History: A Very Short Introduction by J. Arnold

The Historian抯 Craft by M. Bloch

From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods by M. Powell

The Writing of History by M. de Certeau

Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in
American Life by C. Tuomy

God and Nature: Historical Perspectives on the Encounter Between
Science and Christianity by D. Lindburg

From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western
Literature by R. Haynes

How Superstition Won and Science Lost: Popularizing Science and Health
in the United States by J. Burnham

The Norton History of Science in Society by L. Pyenson

Controlling Human Heredity by D. Paul

Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
by E. Larsen

In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by D. Kevles

Totalitarian Science and Technology by P. Josephson

Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West by M. Jacob

The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of
Experts by E. Herman

The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 by P. Theodore

Origins of American Social Science by D. Ross

The Epic History of Biology by A. Serafini

A History of Geology by G. Goheau

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by P. Boyer

Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965

The View from Within: Jazz Writings, 1948-1987 by O. Keepnews

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by H. McGee

Understanding Comics by S. McCloud

Influence: Science and Practice by R.B. Ciadini

The Petroglyph Calendar: An Archaeoastronomy Adventure
Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate
Year by D.E. Duncan

Discoveries: The Calendar History, Lore, and Legend

History of the Hour : Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders by T. Dunlap

Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition by N. Dershowitz

The Pursuit of Destiny: A History of Prediction by P. Halpern

Time's Arrow/Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of
Geological Time by S.J. Gould

Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia by G. Benford

A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt by T. Wicker

Going Up the River : Travels in a Prison Nation by J. Hallinian

From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors
by L.J. Vale

Streets of Hope : The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood by H. Sklar

Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy by A.J. Scott

Urban World/Global City by D. Clark
The world cities by P.G. Hall

World Cities in a World-System by P. Knox

Pan Am : An Airline and it's Air by R.E.G. Dilies

Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land by M. Warhaus

Carchitecture: When the Car and the City Collide by J. Bell

Driving Passion: The Psychology of the Car by P. Marsh

Driving Me Wild: Nitro-powered Outlaw Culture by L.M. Kerr

Car Culture By F. Basham

The Corner : A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by D. Simon

In Search of Respect : Selling Crack in El Barrio by P. Bougouis

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner
City by E. Anderson

NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court by E. Humes

Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know by M.S. Fliesher

Among the Thugs by B. Buford
Football Hooligans : Knowing the Score by G. Armstrong

Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings : Youth Gangs in Postwar New
York E.C. Schneider

No Shame in My Game : The Working Poor in the Inner City by K. Neuman

Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday by R. Cintron

The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager by T. Hine

A Tribe Apart : A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence by P. Hersh

East Side Stories: Gang Life in East LA by J. Rodrequiz

Down These Mean Streets by P. Thomas

My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King by R. Sanchez

8 Ball Chicks by G. Sikes

Locas by Y. Murray

The Republic of East L.A. by J. Rodregez

The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the
Transformation of a New York City Gang by L. Barrios

Speed Tribes : Days and Night's with Japan's Next Generation by K.T. Greenfeld
Wallbangin' : Graffiti and Gangs in L.A by S.A. Phillips

Tongs, Gangs, and Triads: Chinese Crime Groups in North America by P. Huston

Gangs and Gang Behavior by G.L. Mays

Street Kingdom : Five Years Inside the Franklin Avenue Posse by D. Century

Prison Tattoos by D.K. Hall

Skinhead by N. Knight

The White Separatist Movement in the United States: White Power White
Pride by B. Dobratz.

The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America by L. Menand

The Gifts of Civilization by O.A. Bushnell

Death by Migration by P. Curtain

Writing by D. Diringer

History and Geography of Human Genes by L. Cavelli Svfoza

The Great Human Diaspora: The History and Diversity of Evolution

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by J. Diamond

Why Is Sex Fun by J. Diamond

Culture and Reproduction: Reconstructing the Demographic Paradigm by
W. Handwerker

Population, Ecology and Social Change by S. Polgar

Population and Technological Change by E. Bosrup

How Humans Adapt: A Biocultural Odyssey

Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt by A.R. David

Evolutionary Behavior and Human Social Behavior: An Anthropological
Perpective by N. Chagnon

Patterns of Sexual Behavior by C. Ford

Production and Repoduction by J. Goody

Sex Differences: Social and Biological Differences by J. Lancaster

Food and Drink in History by R. Forster

Gods, Preists and Men by A. Blackman

War; The Anthropology of Armed Conflict and Aggression by M. Harris

Bones of Contention: Contraversies in the Search for Human Origins by R. Lewin

Origins of Humans and Humanness by T. Rasmussen

The Great Journey by B, Fagen

People of the Sea by M. Dothan

Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archeology
and Prehistory by P. Kirch

The Origins or Agriculture by D. Rindos

Visable Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems by J. Defrances

The House of Intellect by J. Barzun

The Art and Archetecture of Islam by S.S. Blair

Islam and the Integration of Society by W.M. Watson

Agricultural Innovation of the Islamic World by W.M. Watson

Garrets and Pretenders: The History of Bohemianism in America by A. Perry

Ideology and Utopia by K. Mannheim

The Rise of French Liberal Thought by K. Martin

The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge by F. Zneiki

Conquest and Empire by A.B. Botsworth

The Story of Decipherment by M. Pope

Before Writing: From Counting to Cuneiform by D.S. Besserat

Magic in the Middle Ages by R. Kleickheifer

Early History of the Alphabet by J. Naveh

Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel by J. Gies

Inquisition by E. Peters

Torture by E. Peters

The History of Invention by T. Williams

The Lever of Riches by J. Mokyr

A History of the University in Europe

Primitive Social Organization: An Evolutionary Perpective by E. Service

Origins of State and Civilization: An Evolutionary Perspective by E. Service

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the New World Order by
S. Huntington

Soldiers of the Faith: Crusaders and Muslims at War

Ancient Civilizations by B. Fagen

Genghis Khan

The Evolution of Political Society by H.M. Freid

The Evolution of Urban Society by H. Chudakoff

The Indian Ocian: A History of the People and the Sea by K. McPherson

Money and It抯 Use in Midievel Europe by P. Sufford

Archeology of the Dreamtime by J. Ross

The Colonization of the Pacific: A Gentic Trail by A.V. Hill

Archeology and Language by C. Renfew

In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Langauge, Archeology and Myth by J.P. Mallor

How The West Grew Rich by N. Rosenburg

The Modern World System by I. Wallerstein

Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe by S. Pollard

Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the Worlds
Cultures by T. Cowen

The East in the West by D. Blythell

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
by R.E. Dunn

Renaissance Thought

Invertebre Spain by O. Gasett

Gifts of Athena by J. Mokyr

The Beginings of Rome by T. Cornell

American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty by M. Cuneo

Peace Games by T. Caplon

The Rise of Puritanism by W. Haller

A Revolution in Time by D. Landes

London Labour and London Poor

Understanding War by P. Peret

The World of Late Antiquity by J. Pellikan

The Triumph of the Middle Classes by C. Moraze

Citizens by S. Schema

Science and Hypothesis by H. Pencare

The Harried Leisure Class by S. Linder

1848: The Story of a Year

The Railway Revolution by C. Meeks

Metropolis and Hinterland by N. Morley

Europe: A Geographical History by R. Milur

History of the Cost of Living by J. Burnett

The Economic Decline of Empires by C. Cipolla

History of the Cost of Living by J. Burnett

A Historical Geography of Europe by N.J.G Polnas

A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development and Global Governance by M. Moore

The Anthropology of Art by D. Nutall

So Noble A Captain: The Life and Times of Ferfanand Magellen

The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death by T. Talylor

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by D. Yergin

The Geographic Factor: It抯 Role in Life and Civilization

Clocks and Culture 1300-1700 by C. Cipolla

A Devils Chaplin by R. Dawkins

Society at War by C. Paine

Redemption by War: The Intellectuals and 1914

The Death of Common Sense by P. Howard

The Transformation of the School by L. Cremin

Losing the Race: Self Sabotage in Black America by J. McWhorter

Theatre and its Double by A. Artaud

The Hour of Our Death by P. Aries

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by E. Auerbach

The Poetics of Space by G. Bachlard

Eroticism: Death and Sensuality by G. Bataille

Other Institutions by J. Borges

The Development of an Aesthetic by B. Becht

Manifestoes of Surrealism by A. Breton

Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacraficial Myth by W. Burkert

Man, Play and Games by R. Callois

Towards a New Archetecture by Le Corbusier

The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by S. Dali

The Society of the Spectacle by G. DeBord

Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology by M. Detienne

Stranglehold on Africa by R. Dumont

Film Form by S. Eisenstein

Archetecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt by H. Fathy

History of Art by E. Faure

How We Won The War by V.N. Giap

Travels in the Congo by A. Gide

Mechanization Takes Command by S. Gideon

How New York Stole The Idea of Modern Art by S. Guibalt

Art and Illusion by E.H. Gombich

Seven Years in Tibet by H. Harrer

The Social History of Art by H. Hauser

Autumn of the Middle Ages by J. Huizinga
The Gardens of Japan by T. Itoh

The Conquest of Bread by P. Kropotkin

Russia: The Architecture for World Revolution by E. Lissitsky

Ornament and Crime by A. Loos

Man Meets Dog by K. Lorenz

Luxenburg Speaks by R. Luxenburg

Black Elk Speaks by B. Elk

A History of Russian Literature: From its Beginnings to 1900 by D.S. Mirsky

Perspective and Symbolic Form by E. Panofsky

The Mind and Society by V. Pareto

Morphology of the Folktale by V.A. Propp

Worlds in Collision by I. Vekovsky

The Complete Letters by V. Van Gogh

Reflections on Violence by G. Sorel

Letters from Prison by M. de Sade

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by E.A. Abbot

Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present: A Short History by
M.C. Beardsley

Beethoven抯 Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture by W.L. Benzon

Against the Gods: The Remarkable History of Risk by P. Bernstein

Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons by C. Tilly

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by H. Bloom

Staring into Chaos: Explorations in the Design of Western Civilization
by B.G. Brander

From Mobilization to Revolution by C. Tilly

The Day the Universe Changed by J. Burke

The Mythic Image by J. Campbell

European Urbanization by J. Devreis

The Early Mental Traits of 300 Geniuses by C.M. Cox

Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics by H.P. Chipp

Cities in Civilization by P. Hall

A History of Western Music by B.J. Grout

Cradles of Eminence by V. Goetzel

The Creative Process: Reflection on Invention in the Arts and Sciences
by B. Ghislen

Age and Achievement by H.C. Lehmen

Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences by D.C. Geary

Extraordinary Minds by H. Gardner

The Social Psychology of Music by H.R. Farnsworth

Our Oriental Heritage by W. Durant

Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in an Anthropological
Perspective by L. DuMont

The Dawn of Human Culture by P.G. Klein

The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunellschi to
Seurat by M. Kemp

Music, the Brain and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination by R. Joudain

Aesthetics: The Classic Readings by D. Hume

The Visual Arts: A History by H. Honour

The Jewish Mind by R. Patai

Technology in World Civilization by A. Paley

Before the Gates of Genius: The Determinants of Creative Genius by R. Ochese

The Geography of Thought: How Westerners and Asians Think Differently
and Why by P.E. Nisbett

Voices from the Ruins: A Scientist Looks Catastrophes and Ancient
Civilizations by R.M. Sloch

The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age by P. Pudgley

The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space by J. White

The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have
Shaped Our World View by P. Tarnas

A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and The Renaissance
Portrait of an Age by W. Manchester

Genghis Khan by M. Hoag

Capturing the Horizon: The Historical Geography of Transportation by L.E. Lance

The Making of Economic Society by R. Heilbroner

The Heavens and Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

The Art and Archetecture of the Ancient Orient by H. Frankfort

Art of the Ancient Near East by P. Amiet

Investigating Artistic Environments of the Ancient Near East by A. Gunter

The Persian Empire D. Nardo

Cultural Models in Language and Thought by N. Quinn

Political Pilgrims by P. Hollander

The Human Group by G.C. Homans

Three Worlds of Development by I.L. Horowitz

Men and their Work by E. Huges
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by S.P. Huntington

Political Order in Changing Societies by S.P. Huntington

Culture Shift in advanced industrial Society by R. Inglehart

Becoming Modern by D.H. Smith

Political Development: A General Theory by H. Jagarbe

Military Institutions and Coercion in the Developing Nations' by M. Janowitz

Modern Nature by D. Jarman

The European Miracle by E. Jones

The Art of Conjecture by B. Jouvenel

Small States in World Markets by P. Katzenstein

Industrialism and Industrial Man by C. Kerr

Sociology and Development by R. Keily

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by A.C. Kinsey

Personality in Nature, Culture and Society by H.A. Murray

Work and Personality by M. Kohn

Sociology of Personality by I. Kon

Kritz, Mary M.; Keely, Charles B. and Tomasi, Silvano D.

Global Trends in Migration by M. Kritz

The Logic of Social Systems by A. Kuhn

Genocide by L. Kuper

The Politics of the Family by R.D. Laing

Interpersonal Perception by L. Russell

Political Man by R. Lane
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The Analysis of political Behaviour by H. Lasswell

Power and Society by A. Kaplan

The Problem of Sociology by D. Lee

Sociology After the Crisis by C.C. Lemert

The State and the Revolution by V. Lenin

Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology by G. Lenski

The Passing of Traditional Society by D. Lerner

The Seasons of a Man飐 Life by D. Levison

A Dynamic Theory of Personalit by K. Lewin

A Piece of the Pie by S. Liebson
The Study of Man by R. Linton

Perspectives on Deviance by A. Liska

Religion, Order and Law by D. LIttle

The Blackcoated Worker by D. Lockwood

Widowhood in an American City by H.Z. Lopata

The Differentiation of Society by N. Luhmann

Ecological Communication by N. Luhmann

The Invisible Religion by T. Luckmann

The Destruction of Reason by G. Lukacs

The Ontology of Social Being by G. Lukacs

Knowledge for What? By R.L. Staughton

The Origins of English Individualism by A. Macfarlane

The Sociology of Everyday Life by M. Maffesoli

Argonauts of the Western pacific by B. Malinsowky

Late Capitalism by E. Mandel

The Heritage of Persia by R. Frye

Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning and the Gods by J. Bottero

History of Assyria by A.T. Holmstead

History of the Persian Empire A.T. Holmstead

Ebla to Damascus: Art and Architecture of Ancient Syria by H. Weiss

The Conflict of Interpretations by P. Ricauer

The Sea Peoples: Warriors of the Ancient Mediterranean 1250-1150 BCE
by N.K. Sandars

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by W. Rodney

Early Mesopotamia: Economy and Society at the Dawn of History by N. Postgate

Ancient Iraq by G. Roux

A Teatrise on Social Theory by W.G. Runcimen

The Ancient Sumerian City by M. van de Mieroop

The Oxford History of the Classical World

Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture by P. Green

Progress into the Past: The Rediscovery of Mycenaean Civilization by C. Thomas

The Art of Memory by F. Yates

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West
by D. Worster

Sister of the Road: An Autobiography of Box Car Bertha by B. Thompson

The ABC抯 of Reading by E. Pound

Blues Fell The Morning: Meaning in Blues by P. Oliver

The Culture of Narcisism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing
Expectations by C. Lasch
Blues People: Negro Music in White America by L. Jones

The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times

Persia and the Greeks: Defense of the West by A.R. Burn

A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theatre by G. Ley

Greek Art: Its Development, Character and Influence by R.M. Cook

Art and Experience in Classical Greece by J.J. Politt

One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing by M. Wolfe

The Hajj by F.E. Peters

A Literary History of the Arabs by R. Nicholson

Arabic Literature by H.A.R. Gibb

Makers of Arab History by P.K. Hitti

The Early Islamic Conquests by F. Donner

History of Medieval Islam by D. Sourdel

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

Central Asia in World History by S.A.M. Adshead

An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples by P. Golden

The Sociological Imagination by C.W. Mills

Before European Hegemony: The World System, A.D. 1250-1350 by J. Abu Lughod

Social Theory and Social Structure by R. Merton

Asia Before Europe by K.N. Chaudhuri

Social Theory and the Urban Question by P. Sanders

The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long Distance Trade in the Early Modern
World, 1350-1750 by J. Tracy

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste by P. Bourdieu

Cross-Cultural Trade in World History by P. Curtain

Levant Trade in the Later Middle Ages by E. Ashtor

Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World by R.S. Lopez

Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia by A. Lampton

The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver by R. Mattie

Iran under the Safavids by R. Savory

Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 by P. Sugar

The Ottoman Impact Upon Europe by P. Coles

The Imperial Harem by L.P. Pierce

The Muslim World on the Eve of Europe抯 Expansion by J. Sanders

The Fifteenth Century: The Prospect of Europe by M. Aston

The Agony and Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by I. Stone

Renaissance Thought: The Classic, Scholastic and Humanist Strains by
P.O. Kristeller

Humanism and Renaissance Historiography by E.B. Fryde

Renaissance Humanism by D.P. Kelly

From the Renaissance to the Romanticism: Trends in Style in Art,
Literature, and Music, 1300-1830 by F.B. Artz

The Art of the Renaissance by P. Murray

Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait Panting in the 14th, 15th and
16th Centuries by L. Campbell

The Viewer as Poet: The Renaissance Response to Art by N.E. Land

Renaissance Architecture: Patrons, Critics, Luxury by D. Thompson

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Goffman, Erving

Mind, Self and Society

The Social System by T. Parsons

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Durkheim

The Constitution of Society by A. Giddens

The Modern World-System by I. Wallerstein

Discipline and Punish : the Birth of the Prison by M. Foucault

Prison Notebooks by A. Gramsci

Foundations of Social Theory by J.C. Coleman

Knowledge and Human Interests by J. Habermaa

Social Systems

Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance by H. Becker

The Logic Collective Action by M. Olson

The Division of Labor in Society

Studies in Ethnomethodology by H. Garfinkel

Asylums by E. Goffman

Political Man by S.M. Lipset

The Power Elite

The Consequences of Modernity by A. Giddens

Stigma by E. Goffman

The Phenomenology of the Social World by A. Schultz

Social and Cultural Dynamics by P.A. Sorokin

The Methodology of the Social Sciences by M. Weber

The Logic of Social Action by R. Boudon

The Suicide by E. Durkheim

Escape from Freedom by E. Fromm

Fromm, Erich
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by E. Fromm

Peace and Social Structure by J. Galtung

Members of Two Worlds by J. Galting

Talking Politics by W. Gamson

The Strategy of Social Protest by W. Gamson

The Levittowners by H.J. Gans

The Ever-Present Origin by J. Gebsen

Marx and Human Nature by N. Geras

Realities and Relationships by K. Gergen

Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective by A. Gerchenkron

Character and Social Structure by C.W. Mills

Classical Social Theory and the Origins of Modern Sociology by A.

Central Problems in Social Theory by A. Giddens

Social Theory and Modern Sociology by A. Giddens

Beyond Left and Right by A. Giddenns

Social Mobility by D.V. Glass

Custom and Conflict in Africa by M. Gluckman

The Medieval Imagination by J. le Goff

Relations in Public by E. Goffman

Forms of Talk by E. Goffman

Population, Modernization and Social Structure

The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure by J. Harry

In the Shadow of Man by J. Goodall

Nationalism by L. Greenfield

Social Relations and Spatial Structures by D. Gregory

The Urban Transformation of the Developing World by J. Gurgler

Theory and Practice by J. Habermas

Between Facts and Norms by J. Habermas

Way of Life and Mentality of Our People by I. Hadjiski

Powers and Liberties by J. Hall

Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies by S. Hall

Hard Road to Renewal by S. Hall

Beyond Monopoly by T. Halliday

Beyond the Classics by C. Young

The Family and Industrial Society by CC. Harris

Cannibals and Kings by M. Harris

Cultural Materialism by M. Harris

Rediscoveries in Art by F. Haskell

A Macrosociological Theory of Societal Systems by P. Heinz

Weber, the Ideal Type and Contemporary Social Theory by S. Hekman

The Destruction of the European Jews by R. Hilberg

A Sociology of Religion by M. Hill

The Social Control by A. Hirner

The Sociological Tradition by R. Nisbet

The Lonely Crowd by D. Reisman

The Philosophy of Money

Street Corner Society by W.F. Whyte

Imagined Communities by B. Anderson

The Human Condition by H. Arendt

The Second Sex by S. Beauvoir

Patterns of Culture by R. Benedict

Symbolic Interactionism. Perspective and Method by H. Blumer

The Unintended Consequences of Social Action by R. Bouson

The Urban Question by M. Castells

The Bureaucratic Phenomenon by M.J. Crosier

Actors and Systems by E. Freidberg

The Urban Villagers by H.J. Gans

From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology by H.H. Herth

Modernity and Self-Identity by A. Giddens

Frame Analysis by E. Goffman

The Sociological Eye by E.C. Hugues

The Sources of Social Power by M. Mann
Social and Cultural Mobility by P.A. Sorokin

The Polish Peasant in Europe and America by W.I. Thomas

The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion, 1400-1700 by G.V. Scamell

European Encounters with the New World by A. Pagden

Europe and the People Without History by E.R. Wolfe

Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World by N. Canny

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
by F. Braudel

Europe and the People Without History by E.R. Wolfe

World System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change by B.K. Gills

Asia before Europe : Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from
the Rise of Islam to 1750 by K.N. Chadhuri

A History of Inner Asia by S. Soucek

The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
The Age of Capital : 1848-1875
Age of Empire: 1875-1914
The Age of Extremes : A History of the World, 1914-1991by E. Hobsbawm

Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age

Cultures in Conflict: Encounters Between European and Non-European
Cultures, 1492-1800 by U. Bitterly

The Demon Haunted World by C. Sagan

Progress and Disillusion by R. Aron

Structures of Social Action by J. Heritage

Logical Positivism by A.J. Ayer

The Politics of Social Solidarity by P. Baldwin

Careers and Identities by M. Banks

Sociologists Economists and Democracy by B. Fagin

Life in Fragments by Z. Bauman

The Coming of Age by S. de Beauvoir

The Denial of Death by E. Becker

Human Capital by H.S. Becker

The Economic Approach to Human Behavior by H.S. Becker
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The other side: Perspectives on Deviance by H.S. Becker

German Youth: Bond or Free by H.S. Becker

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by D. Bell

Foundations of Futures Studies by W. Bell

Beyond Belief by R. Bellah

The Good Society by R. Bellah

Illuminations by W. Benjamin

Sociological Perspectives on Labour Market by I. Berg

Ways of Seeing by J. Berger

The Social Reality of Religion by P.L. Berger

Two Kinds of Liberty by I. Berlin

All that is Solid, Melts into Air by M. Berman

The Unsettling of America by W. Berry

The Possibility of Naturalism by R. Bhaskar

Ideological Dilemmas by M. Billig

Black Families in White America by A. Billinsly

Exchange and Power in Social Life by P.M. Blau

Hubands and Wives by R.E. Blood

The Philadelphia Negro by W.E.B. DuBois

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois

A guide to Problems and Literature by T.B. Bottomore

The Field of Cultural Production by P. Bourdieu

The Rules of Art by P. Bourdieu

In Other Words by P. Bourdeu

Social Sense by P. Bourdeu

Sociology and Modern System Approach by W. Buckley

Dumping in Dixie by R. D. Bullard

The Politics of Production by M. Burawoy

The Family by W. Burgess

Permanence and Change by K. Burke

On symbols and Society by P. Burke
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Man, Decisions, Society by T.R. Burns

The Invasion from Mars by H. Cantil

The Turning Point by C. Frit

Silent Spring by R. Carson

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms by E. Cassirer

Against the American Grain by D. McDonald

Bad Thoughts by J. White

Sex and Social Justice by M. Nussbaum

Women in Greek Myth by M. Lefkowitz

Breaking the Spell of Dharma and Other Essays by M. Nanda

The Flight from Science and Reason by P. Leavett

Generation X Goes to College by P. Sacks

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by R. Hofstadter

In Defence of History by R. Evens

The Rise and Fall of Literature by R. Scholes

The Theory of Communicative Action by J. Habermas

Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays by S. Haack

Markets and States in Tropical Africa. The Political Basis of
Agricultural Policies by R.H. Bates

Industrialization and Society by B.F. Hoselitz

The Good Citizen by M. Schudson
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by J. Schmumter

Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World by J. Goldstone

Macrohistory: Essays in Sociology of the Long Run by R. Collins

The Sources of Social Power by M. Mann

Population and Technological Change: A Study in Long-Term Trends by E. Bosrup

Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
by A. Crosby

Main Currents of Sociological Thought by M. Aron

A History Sociological Analysis by R. Nisbet

Rural India by M. Marriet

Selected Works by K. Marx

Early Writings by K. Marx

Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency by McAdam

McCall, George and Simmons, J. L.

Identities and Interactions by J.L. Simmons

The trend of Social Movements in America by M. Zald

The Archieving Society by D.C. McClellen

Constitutionalism Ancient and Modern
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Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies by G.H. Mead

Male and Female by M. Mead

Challenging Codes by A. Melluci

Phenomenology of Perception by M. Merlau

Sociological Ambivalence by R.K. Merton

Sexual Politics by K. Millett

All of his Work by C.W. Mills

yes, you're very book-smart (if you've actually read all these). you get the gold star.

Seeing as it took me half a minute to scroll down through that entire list, I can only imagine how long it took you to type it up...so I would presume this is your recommendation list, or are you just trying to impress all of us?

This list came from a catalogue I made of books I left with people. It's the non-fiction set.

No, I am recomending these books (all of them or any one one wants to read) because I think they are good and have helped me with my writing and evolution as a thinking adult, know what I mean?

When I was in school had a job working graveyard shift in a place that helped girls with eating disorders. I just watched the place from midnight to eight in the morning, made sure no one killed themselves or escaped.

Anyway, I did nothing but read like a maniac for three years. One book had a bibliography and I would write down the stuff I liked and buy it, those books would have bibliographies of other stuff. It never ends.

Below is a favorite non-fiction book of mine:

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present, 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

I found it extremely captivating.

If anyone is interested in philosophy, a 'dummy' version (although even it can get pretty technical), if you don't have the time or the desire to read every philosophers' own treatises (like me!!), is the 'History of Philosophy' series by Frederick Coppleston. It is 10 volumes, and the books are not short, but you can pick and choose what you want to tackle, and get a general understanding of philosophy and human thought.

I like the little 'diversions' scattered around that book. Little side-bars with tiny facts. Great book. Check out his other stuff too; 'The House of Intellect' is great.