Lists of Bests: Seymour-Smith's "100 Most Influential Books Ever Written" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/3962 From "The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: From the Zend Avesta of Zarathustra to B.F. Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity":http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/367538 by Martin Seymour-Smith Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:42:56 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The I Ching or Book of Changes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20082 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20082"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/069109750X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C.F. Baynes</div> A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/984407 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/984407"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1419103849.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60641958_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Berkeley</div> The Old Testament http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002097 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> New Science (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298884 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298884"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140435697.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65732449_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giambattista Vico</div> Iliad and Odyssey boxed set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3760 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Treatise of Human Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968415 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968415"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1421923351.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1133333954_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Hume</div> Upanishads http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65359 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> L'Encyclopedie - 2 volumes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002660 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denis Diderot</div> Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19099 <div id="position">9</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> A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179678 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel, Johnson</div> Avesta: The Religious Books of the Parsees. Volumes 1-3 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002156 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002156"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1421205009.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Henry Bleeck</div> Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14658 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14658"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486266893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Voltaire</div> The Analects of Confucius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38456 <div id="position">13</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> Common Sense http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979538 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979538"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420922513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110302667_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Paine</div> The History Of The Peloponnesian War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002184 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002184"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1414239300.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thucydides</div> An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: 2 Volumes (The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002676 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Smith</div> The genuine works of Hippocrates; http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/937651 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hippocrates</div> The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3218 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3218"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140437649.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Gibbon</div> Critique of Pure Reason (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/733670 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/733670"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447474.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39751849_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Immanuel Kant</div> The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60715 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60715"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757996.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Herodotus: The Histories : New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199558 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199558"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393959465.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002691 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> The Republic (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3334 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3334"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449140.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4334 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4334"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839780.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund Burke</div> Euclid's Elements http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673271 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673271"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1888009195.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euclid</div> A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/211662 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/211662"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441259.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Wollstonecraft</div> The Koran (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/271845 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/271845"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449205.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Experiments With Plant Hybrids http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002870 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregor Mendel</div> The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/370243 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/370243"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192836137.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46972811_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Ross Carter</div> The Guide for the Perplexed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002376 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002376"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486203514.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114027904_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Moses Maimonides</div> War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4266 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4266"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192833987.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110473537_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Enquiry Concerning polit Justice Its Influence mod Morals Happiness (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/670732 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Godwin</div> The Kabbalah http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002386 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism: Volume 1 (Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980106 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980106"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0198503733.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Clerk Maxwell</div> The Aenid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/487848 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/487848"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1587261693.01-A37EDCND5WO4A6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div> St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province) (5 Volume Set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26685 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26685"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0870610635.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Aquinas</div> Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14727 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14727"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486406636.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056448937_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich Nietzsche</div> An Essay on the Principle of Population http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002716 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002716"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0009CBUWG.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Robert Malthus</div> The Divine Comedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451208633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> The Interpretation Of Dreams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200863 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200863"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1566195764.01-AHYFIEJ2WTD9G._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45451576_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sigmund Freud</div> The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5161 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5161"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/025320125X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucretius</div> In Praise of Folly http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002389 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002389"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1417908998.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60641568_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erasmus</div> Pragmatism and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/410054 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/410054"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140437355.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William James</div> Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674059 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674059"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198245971.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056424497_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. W. F. Hegel</div> The Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974444 <div id="position">45</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 the General Theory (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882581 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882581"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039822.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002319 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philo of Alexandria</div> On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002405 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Luther</div> The Mind and Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002955 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vilfredo Pareto</div> Arthur Schopenhauer: The World As Will and Idea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002728 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002728"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1425471749.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138537338_.jpg" /></a></div>