Lists of Bests: Saafir's "Books on my Shelves" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/20065 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. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:55:39 GMT en-us 0 50 105 50 0 Brock Biology Of Microorganisms http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2233822 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2233822"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0132192268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1109096434_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Madigan</div> The Variety of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967259 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967259"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198604262.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Tudge</div> Evolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1286416 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1286416"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1405103450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Ridley</div> The Physics of Chance: From Blaise Pascal to Niels Bohr http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1194740 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1194740"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198539770.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056424802_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Ruhla</div> The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001805 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1001805"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465028020.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Haidt</div> Authentic Happiness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/180347 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/180347"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857883292.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Seligman</div> The Story of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1854706 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1854706"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198607865.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59142770_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Southwood</div> Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24618 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24618"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805070893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Shermer</div> Freedom Evolves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70278 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70278"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283897.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel C. Dennett</div> The Varieties of Religious Experience http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934055 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934055"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1402199031.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William James</div> MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Fifth Edition (Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490085 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490085"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0873529758.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056502844_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Gibaldi</div> Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35313 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35313"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0024288101.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ludwig Wittgenstein</div> The Bhagavad Gita (Element Classics of World Spirituality Editions.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490093 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3624 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3624"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142003344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Pinker</div> Words and Rules (Science Masters) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2473620 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2473620"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0753810255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Pinker</div> This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2026176 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2026176"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0525949690.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel J. Levitin</div> The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10882 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10882"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393315703.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> Calculus: The Elements http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490100 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490100"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/9810249047.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056625644_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Comenetz</div> Writing Philosophy Papers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490108 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490108"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0534585272.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1100214576_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zachary P. Seech</div> The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD: Sixth Edition (Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/245636 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/245636"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140515216.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421498_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Cook</div> The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10690 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10690"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393049515.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Gottlieb</div> Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19317 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19317"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/068482471X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel C. Dennett</div> The Philosophy Gym http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490112 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490112"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0747232717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65567185_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Law</div> Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1389 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1389"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060936649.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414531_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Edmonds</div> Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17127 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17127"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618056734.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51077 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51077"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182458.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The New Humanists: Science at the Edge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584252 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584252"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0760745293.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Rationality in Action (Jean Nicod Lectures) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84586 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84586"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0262692821.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056427691_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John R. Searle</div> Born to Rebel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490127 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490127"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0349111006.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123811962_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank J. Sulloway</div> Atoms, Electrons, and Change: A Scientific American Library Book (Scientific American Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/402128 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P. W. Atkins</div> The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/343704 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/343704"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375413170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1140888655_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Armstrong</div> Consciousness: A User's Guide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1301577 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1301577"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300104979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124981943_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Zeman</div> Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6876 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6876"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316090077.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George E. Vaillant</div> River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14332 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14332"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465069908.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1854667 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1854667"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0231112211.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Avrum Stroll</div> How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18869 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18869"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679742441.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43057143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwin B. Nuland</div> Anxiety Disorders And Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1350040 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1350040"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/046500587X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aaron T. Beck</div> Think http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89005 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89005"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192854259.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Blackburn</div> Nausea: The Wall and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/296341 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/296341"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1567313345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Paul Sartre</div> Good Advice: More Than 2,000 Quotations to help You Live Your Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/500560 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/500560"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0517084732.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056449740_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Safire</div> The Zen Path Through Depression http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88792 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88792"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060654465.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414444_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Martin</div> How to Read a Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/234680 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/234680"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1567310109.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mortimer J. Adler</div> A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Armstrong, Karen) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974099 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974099"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0517223120.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Armstrong</div> The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704874 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704874"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060957603.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin McGinn</div> Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford Paperback Reference S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1135017 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1135017"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198610149.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54940414_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Blackburn</div> Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74915 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74915"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/002353110X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121982830_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles W. Hendel</div> Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2490195 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Waldo Emerson</div> Walden and Civil Disobedience (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002783 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002783"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593082088.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/656664 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/656664"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195177622.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1099474701_.jpg" /></a></div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">50</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>