Lists of Bests: deupree's "Susan's 50 Non-fiction Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/26523 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:41:15 GMT en-us 0 50 36 0 0 The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11321 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11321"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395500753.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ruth Benedict</div> Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002437 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002437"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380727641.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Jay Lifton</div> The Analects of Confucius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38456 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38456"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722963.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Waley</div> The Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974444 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974444"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0937832383.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niccolo Machiavelli</div> Relativity: The Special and General Theory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766832 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766832"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452287847.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">6</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> Time and Chance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81115 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81115"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674011325.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Z Albert</div> The Great Depression: America 1929-1941 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60277 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60277"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812923278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122578337_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert S. Mcelvaine</div> Ideas and Opinions (Condor Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2477930 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2477930"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0285647253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91759 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/91759"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1577180909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085742508_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Derek Gregory</div> The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1740060 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1740060"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805081488.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Frayn</div> Republic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/630463 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/630463"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872207366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> Brave New World Revisited http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/248710 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45867 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45867"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143034669.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steve Coll</div> Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2270925 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2270925"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805082840.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Noam Chomsky</div> Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88289 <div id="position">16</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 Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/323203 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/323203"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679759484.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helen Prejean</div> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980904 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980904"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060589469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert M. Pirsig</div> The Edge of the Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/460898 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/460898"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0844670146.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11663 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11663"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/041508301X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by B. Russell</div> Out of Africa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491301 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491301"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375508457.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isak Dinesen</div> The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2390211 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2390211"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038583.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45217283_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Pollan</div> Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2021040 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2021040"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061142662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Mitchell</div> The God Delusion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2822407 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2822407"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01vb-tG7pUL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7719 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7719"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345384563.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113602405_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Armstrong</div> Covering: The Hidden Assault on American Civil Rights http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2077873 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2077873"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760210.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenji Yoshino</div> The Interpretation of Dreams (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4249704 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4249704"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DhQfb7j1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sigmund Freud</div> My Life In Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4468694 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83236 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83236"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0349116237.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoff Dyer</div> The Antibiotic Paradox: How the Misuse of Antibiotics Destroys Their Curative Powers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2754653 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2754653"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0738204404.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stuart B. Levy</div> Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4447561 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> A Short History of Nearly Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224291 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> The World Without US http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5407751 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Weisman</div> On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2426714 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> Dress You Family in Corduroy and Denim http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2971066 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7385507 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div>