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Saafir's "Books on my Shelves"

These are the books on my shelves as of December 2006. Someday I will read all of these books. Until then, I will keep them on my shelves to give me a burst of joy whenever I pick one up and thumb through it. Books are wonderful things, full of magic and wonder.

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1. Brock Biology Of Microorganisms
by Michael Madigan
  
2. The Variety of Life
by Colin Tudge
  
3. Evolution
by Mark Ridley
  
4. The Physics of Chance: From Blaise Pascal to Niels Bohr
by Charles Ruhla
  
5. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by Jonathan Haidt
  
6. Authentic Happiness
by Martin Seligman
  
7. The Story of Life
by Richard Southwood
  
8. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by Michael Shermer
  
9. Freedom Evolves
by Daniel C. Dennett
  
10. The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James
  
11. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Fifth Edition (Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers)
by Joseph Gibaldi
  
12. Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition)
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  
13.
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 The Bhagavad Gita (Element Classics of World Spirituality Editions.)  
14. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
  
15. Words and Rules (Science Masters)
by Steven Pinker
  
16. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
  
17. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by Richard Dawkins
  
18. Calculus: The Elements
by Michael Comenetz
  
19. Writing Philosophy Papers
by Zachary P. Seech
  
20. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD: Sixth Edition (Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD)
by Richard Cook
  
21. The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
by Anthony Gottlieb
  
22. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by Daniel C. Dennett
  
23. The Philosophy Gym
by Stephen Law
  
24. Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
by David Edmonds
  
25. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
by Richard Dawkins
  
26. Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
  
27. The New Humanists: Science at the Edge  
28. Rationality in Action (Jean Nicod Lectures)
by John R. Searle
  
29. Born to Rebel
by Frank J. Sulloway
  
30.
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 Atoms, Electrons, and Change: A Scientific American Library Book (Scientific American Library)
by P. W. Atkins
  
31. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
by Karen Armstrong
  
32. Consciousness: A User's Guide
by Adam Zeman
  
33. Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development
by George E. Vaillant
  
34. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series)
by Richard Dawkins
  
35. Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy
by Avrum Stroll
  
36. How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
by Sherwin B. Nuland
  
37. Anxiety Disorders And Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective
by Aaron T. Beck
  
38. Think
by Simon Blackburn
  
39. Nausea: The Wall and Other Stories
by Jean-Paul Sartre
  
40. Good Advice: More Than 2,000 Quotations to help You Live Your Life
by William Safire
  
41. The Zen Path Through Depression
by Philip Martin
  
42. How to Read a Book
by Mortimer J. Adler
  
43. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Armstrong, Karen)
by Karen Armstrong
  
44. The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy
by Colin McGinn
  
45. Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford Paperback Reference S.)
by Simon Blackburn
  
46. Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by Charles W. Hendel
  
47.
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 Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
48. Walden and Civil Disobedience (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Henry David Thoreau
  
49. Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology  
50. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
  
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Created by Saafir on Dec 06, 2006.