Lists of Bests: The Times Literary Supplement "Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War" List http://www.listsofbests.com/list/36512 (including sixteen "seminal works published before the Second World War but which have had a major influence since the war") Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00:48 GMT en-us 0 50 116 50 0 The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972198 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972198"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679420169.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone De Beauvoir</div> Historian's Craft http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2731723 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2731723"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/071903292X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marc Bloch</div> Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2808688 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2808688"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01J4GBCC62L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fernand Braudel</div> The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1853317 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1853317"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0837156785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Burnham</div> The Myth of Sisyphus (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82619 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82619"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182008.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/470776 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/470776"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182504.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Idea of History: With Lectures 1926-1928 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51953 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51953"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192853066.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. G. Collingwood</div> The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/569364 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/569364"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415253888.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erich Fromm</div> Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Cultural Memory in the Present) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24433 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24433"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0804736332.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Max Horkheimer</div> The Perennial Scope of Philosophy. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753069 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Jaspers</div> Darkness at Noon: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2186057 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2186057"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416540261.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Koestler</div> Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/916037 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/916037"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679725741.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andre Malraux</div> Behemoth : the Structure and Practice of National Socialism 1933-1944 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1663166 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1663166"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E39JD2.01-A3O1P8RHHD8EPM._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Neumann</div> Animal Farm: Centennial Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968557 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968557"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452284244.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> 1984 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185302 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185302"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451516753.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43083024_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Great Transformation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24846 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24846"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080705643X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Polanyi</div> Open Society and Its Enemies, The (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2365469 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2365469"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415290635.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56298804_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Popper</div> Economics: The Original 1948 Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2808710 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2808710"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01TRD93T85L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul A. Samuelson</div> Existentialism & Humanism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2082321 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Paul Sartre</div> Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494535 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494535"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415107628.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph A. Schumpeter</div> Power Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753127 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Wright</div> The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354163 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354163"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805242252.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> The Opium of the Intellectuals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/574013 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/574013"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0765807009.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Aron</div> Social Choice and Individual Values, Second edition (Cowles Foundation Monographs Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1657334 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1657334"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300013647.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth J. Arrow</div> Mythologies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8581 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8581"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374521506.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roland Barthes</div> Winston S. Churchill: The Second World War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839325 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839325"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1597641944.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winston Churchill</div> Pursuit of the Millennium http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753147 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753147"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0712656642.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Cohn</div> The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System (Harvest/Hbj Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753155 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753155"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/015665489X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milovan Djilas</div> Images and Symbols http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320813 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320813"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/069102068X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mircea Eliade</div> Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (Austen Riggs Monograph, No 4) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/292208 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/292208"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393310361.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik H. Erikson</div> The Struggle for History (Combats pour l'Histoire) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753180 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucien Febvre</div> The Affluent Society (Penguin Business) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934509 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934509"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140285199.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kenneth Galbraith</div> The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962855 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erving Goffman</div> The God That Failed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839342 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839342"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0231123957.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056426697_.jpg" /></a></div> If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479855 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479855"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857152220.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44185380_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Primo Levi</div> A World on The Wane http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753208 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Levi-Strauss. C.</div> The Captive Mind (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2706589 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Czeslaw Milosz</div> Doctor Zhivago http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781210 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781210"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01780S8BYGL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Boris Pasternak</div> The Lonely Crowd http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/334596 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/334596"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000DZG18W.01-A1DI3XXAD7CH18._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Riesman</div> Models of man : social and rational http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/308598 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herbert Alexander Simon</div> The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753252 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. P. Snow</div> Natural Right and History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753257 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Strauss</div> The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1507192 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacob Leib Talmon</div> The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/364835 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/364835"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198812701.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan J. P. Taylor</div> A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X (Study of History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/695261 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/695261"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195050819.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arnold J. Toynbee</div> Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753272 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl A. Wittfogel</div> Philosophical Investigations: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17336 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17336"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0631231277.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ludwig Wittgenstein</div> Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with "The Resumption of History in the New Century" http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155895 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155895"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674004264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Bell</div> Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800383 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800383"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11ECE5D57GL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaiah Berlin</div>