Lists of Bests: Elderbear is subverting the dominant paradigm.'s "Books I've Read in 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/47257 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:52:30 GMT en-us 0 50 47 0 0 Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching (The Complete Idiot's Guide) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160501 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160501"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592572359.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack W. Peters</div> Wall of Flame: The Heroic Battle to Save Southern California http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3432624 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3432624"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/118HBY1GZZL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erich Krauss</div> The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316346624.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Gladwell</div> Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23701 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Seife</div> The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147406 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465497 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465497"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038257.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45984430_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greg Mortenson</div> Health Care Reform Now!: A Prescription for Change http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518143 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518143"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01MOQrXy6yL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George C. Halvorson</div> Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3424948 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3424948"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01FEA37F1VL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John N. Maclean</div> The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59816 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59816"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/061861916X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> Freedom And Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, And Political Power (Columbia Themes in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1170121 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1170121"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0231137524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45334350_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John R. Searle</div> I And Thou http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19224 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19224"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684717255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Buber</div> Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10345 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10345"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385493703.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kiran Desai</div> How the Irish Saved Civilisation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2668390 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2668390"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340637870.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Cahill</div> I Am a Strange Loop http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3525092 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas R. Hofstadter</div> The Corrections (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216581 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216581"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374100128.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> The Art of Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2802132 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thich Nhat Hanh</div> Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/128805 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/128805"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1859842488.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mike Davis</div> Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71883 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71883"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014303622X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antonio Damasio</div> The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1963003 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1963003"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400063515.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nassim Nicholas Taleb</div> The Transmigration of Timothy Archer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18774 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18774"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679734449.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip K. Dick</div> Drugs, Addiction and Initiation: The Modern Search for Ritual http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2113992 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Luigi Zoja</div> The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88499 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88499"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036491.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John M. Barry</div> The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86829 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Poundstone</div> You Can't Eat Gnp: Economics As If Ecology Mattered http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1573497 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1573497"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0738204870.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric A. Davidson</div> Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18193 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18193"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671888250.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Howard Kunstler</div> Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000280.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Allen</div> Bad Monkeys http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3654533 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3654533"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11uA0AruteL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matt Ruff</div> God: The Failed Hypotheisis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3655514 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3655514"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01G%2B5kMqtlL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor J Stenger</div> Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/142462 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/142462"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060671025.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Huston Smith</div> Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1965016 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1965016"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038338.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44321231_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel C. Dennett</div> Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200999 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200999"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812974409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Alda</div> Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1018866 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1018866"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393327582.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1118157677_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Degrasse Tyson</div> The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4579052 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4579052"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41n%2BxpthrbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John D. Williams</div> Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85888 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85888"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486296725.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114048802_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Morton D. Davis</div> Nature Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3551071 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3551071"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/0104qG1PfRL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Hiaasen</div> Variable Star http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3005985 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3005985"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/110u-1Ca7IL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Heinlein</div> The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4119802 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barack Obama</div> Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13866 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13866"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451459334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by S.M. Stirling</div> Diana Tregarde Investigates http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2593814 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2593814"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/073947703X.01-AKRZ9RWRYXOVZ._SCTHUMBZZZ_V33882986_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mercedes Lackey</div> Manic: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3565231 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3565231"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01GAPGeFw1L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terri Cheney</div> Don Quixote U.S.A. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5418862 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Mathematicians in Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3858438 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3858438"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413uSTrf8WL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudy Rucker</div> Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism Into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood- http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2885082 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2885082"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11KVCWT7DaL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Nunberg</div> Pattern Recognition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94382 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94382"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425198685.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Gibson</div> Fight Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1615259 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> Stranger in a Strange Land, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/492159 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/492159"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786174307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Heinlein</div> Postsingular http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5085451 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5085451"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519zEvGfKnL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudy Rucker</div>