Lists of Bests: artlover's "Most Important Books on the Planet"

Send to Printer artlover's "Most Important Books on the Planet" These books are ones that I believe need to be widely read and taught in order for our species to survive the various threats to our existence that are on the horizon – most of which we pose to ourselves. These books are necessary, but probably not sufficient.
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	1.		Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
	2.		Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
	3.		The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
	4.		The Hydrogen Economy by Jeremy Rifkin
	5.		American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury by Kevin Phillips
	6.		Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
	7.		Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Daniel Goleman
	8.		Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
	9.		Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition by Jared Diamond
	10.		Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
	11.		The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler
	12.		The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz
	13.	?	When Society Becomes an Addict by Anne Wilson Schaef
	14.		The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy by Rudy Rucker
	15.		Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
	16.		Living My Life (Penguin Classics) by Emma Goldman
	17.		Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
	18.		When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten
	19.		Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by William Golding
	20.		Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays by Albert Camus
	21.		Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
	22.		The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
	23.		Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains by Ernest Callenbach
	24.		The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
	25.		Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies) by Stephen Schlesinger
	26.		Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions by Matthew Fox
	27.		The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story by Brian Swimme
	28.		Answer to Job (Routledge Classics) by C.G. Jung
	29.		Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis
	30.	?	The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior by Helen E. Fisher
	31.		Siddhartha (Modern Library) by Hermann Hesse
	32.		Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg
	33.		Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
	34.		Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus
	35.		The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston
	36.	?	The Stand by Stephen King
	37.		People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
	38.		Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
	39.		Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics by Starhawk
	40.		Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition by Lao Tsu
	41.		Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
	42.		How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber
	43.		Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala by Vaclav Havel
	44.		The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.) by Edward Abbey
	45.		Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh
	46.		The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu by Mike Davis
	47.	?	Dead Cities
	48.		Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
	49.		Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
	50.		Jonathon Livingston Seagull a story by Richard Bach
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