Lists of Bests: artlover's "Most Important Books on the Planet" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/19938 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. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:37:51 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26605 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26605"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0865475873.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William McDonough</div> Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88289 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88289"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> The Future of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1143395 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1143395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0349115796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward O. Wilson</div> The Hydrogen Economy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32177 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32177"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1585422541.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeremy Rifkin</div> American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/620135 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/620135"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067003486X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139884204_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kevin Phillips</div> Fast Food Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55258 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55258"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838582.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Schlosser</div> Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74828 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74828"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553381059.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Goleman</div> Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1657825 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1657825"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0713997893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel C. Dennett</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393061310.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> Ishmael http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1146015 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1146015"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553078755.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Quinn</div> The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2021505 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2021505"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/084466734X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Riane Eisler</div> The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33548 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33548"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1878424319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119307777_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Miguel Ruiz</div> When Society Becomes an Addict http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1825906 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Wilson Schaef</div> The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/675010 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/675010"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1560258985.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudy Rucker</div> Chaos: Making a New Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2584 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2584"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140092501.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Gleick</div> Living My Life (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980325 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980325"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437859.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emma Goldman</div> Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20103 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20103"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691116253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth S. Deffeyes</div> When Corporations Rule the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33835 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33835"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1887208046.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David C. Korten</div> Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1467065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19038 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19038"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679764011.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Stranger in a Strange Land http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337784 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337784"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340837950.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Heinlein</div> The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2471172 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2471172"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340837942.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Heinlein</div> Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1455028 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1455028"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520224078.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Callenbach</div> The Revolt of the Masses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479856 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479856"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393310957.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Ortega y Gasset</div> Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202765 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202765"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067401930X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Schlesinger</div> Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32145 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32145"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1585420670.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Fox</div> The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167775 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167775"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0939680149.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian Swimme</div> Answer to Job (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2474369 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2474369"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415289971.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1108160171_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C.G. Jung</div> Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499336 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499336"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1859847390.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056531475_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mike Davis</div> The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107399 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helen E. Fisher</div> Siddhartha (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/600362 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/600362"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679643362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hermann Hesse</div> Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80174 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/80174"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060609176.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus J. Borg</div> Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/154070 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/154070"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195182499.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bart D. Ehrman</div> Hope for the Flowers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/321656 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/321656"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0809182491.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Trina Paulus</div> The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81401 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81401"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385495226.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Preston</div> The Stand http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/363352 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen King</div> People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Zinn</div> Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962799 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962799"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/156584100X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James W. Loewen</div> Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24822 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24822"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807010375.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Starhawk</div> Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19099 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19099"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776192.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lao Tsu</div> Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/326936 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/326936"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/055380491X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Goleman</div> How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2474431 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2474431"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1853407054.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adele Faber</div> Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/131060 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/131060"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679734023.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vaclav Havel</div> The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2357150 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2357150"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061129763.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Abbey</div> Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/716656 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/716656"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573221872.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056521582_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thich Nhat Hanh</div> The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1112925 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1112925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805081917.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mike Davis</div> Dead Cities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2474501 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Annals of the Former World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66456 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66456"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374518734.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John McPhee</div> Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968031 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968031"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394756827.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Hofstadter</div> Jonathon Livingston Seagull a story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/536621 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/536621"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000ENO57C.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Bach</div>