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Lindsay's "Best Non-Fiction Books"

Best of non fiction from a wide range of fields. Any suggestions for additions?
1. People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn
  
2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
  
3. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science)
by Tor Norretranders
  
4. At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
by A. Roger Ekirch
  
5. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
  
6. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
  
7. The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome
by Michael Parenti
  
8. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett
  
9. Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages (Perennial Library)
by Frances Gies
  
10. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
by Harold Bloom
  
11. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
  
12. The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
by Howard K. Bloom
  
13. Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
by Eric Foner
  
14. The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
  
15. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley
  
16. Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human
by Matt Ridley
  
17. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan
  
18. Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser
  
19. The Great Movies
by Roger Ebert
  
20. Last Chance to See
by Douglas Adams
  
21. Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by Laurie Garrett
  
22. The Greek Myths (Lives & Letters: the Millennium Graves)
by Robert Graves
  
23. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
by Leonard Shlain
  
24. Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine
by Harold Bloom
  
25. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Plus)
by Bart D. Ehrman
  
26. The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
by Desmond Morris
  
27. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by Richard Dawkins
  
28. Medieval Technology and Social Change (Galaxy Books)
by Lynn White
  
29. Cosmos
by Carl Sagan
  
30. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by Carl Sagan
  
31. The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by Carl Sagan
  
32. Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
by Greil Marcus
  
33. The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
by Francine Prose
  
34. Escape from Freedom
by Erich Fromm
  
35. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
by George Lakoff
  
36. Genes, Peoples, and Languages
by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
  
37. The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
by Robert Graves
  
38. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
  
39. Words and Rules (Science Masters)
by Steven Pinker
  
40. Seven Ages of Paris
by Alistair Horne
  
41. How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science)
by Steven Pinker
  
42. On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
  
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Created by Lindsay on May 03, 2007.