Lists of Bests: Vaunella's "A Rationalist's Required Reading List - by T. Fuller Dean" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/51761 A collection of books originally found as a collection of Listmania! recommendations on Amazon.com, by another user. I am creating the list on listsofbests.com for my own reference, but please feel free to make use of it. The original lists are here: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/AT4JXYYYFYGAY/ref=cm_lm_fullview_name/104-3957281-7859943">T. Fuller Dean's Listmania</a> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:05:34 GMT en-us 0 50 154 50 0 The Roving Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81416 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81416"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573921815.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide for Young Skeptics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578894 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/578894"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879756071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121183990_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Barker</div> Maybe Right, Maybe Wrong: A Guide for Young Thinkers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065696 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065696"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879757310.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056503998_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Barker</div> The Twilight of American Culture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/736816 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/736816"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/039332169X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Morris Berman</div> Dictatorship of Virtue: How the Battle over Multiculturalism Is Reshaping Our Schools, Our Country, and Our Lives http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065704 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065704"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679763988.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Bernstein</div> The Closing of the American Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/384328 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/384328"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613185110.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allan Bloom</div> Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (8th Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1213006 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1213006"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0132203049.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Browne</div> The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065715 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065715"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0300097182.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. W. Burrow</div> Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71883 <div id="position">10</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 Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10882 <div id="position">11</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> River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14332 <div id="position">12</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> Climbing Mount Improbable http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10894 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10894"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393316823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17127 <div id="position">14</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> A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17289 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17289"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618485392.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> The Illusions of Postmodernism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44811 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44811"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0631203230.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terry Eagleton</div> The Monkey Business: A Scientist Looks at Creationism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065736 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niles Eldridge</div> The Triumph of Evolution: and the Failure of Creationism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/109109 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/109109"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0805071474.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056493037_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niles Eldredge</div> Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69620 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69620"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0300075790.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54778840_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John M. Ellis</div> Against Deconstruction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69623 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69623"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691014841.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45121474_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John M. Ellis</div> The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America (American Political Thought) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1257449 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1257449"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0700610308.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard J. Ellis</div> Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065747 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065747"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195107179.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60599468_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel A. Farber</div> Science Confronts the Paranormal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69487 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69487"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879753145.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056503986_.jpg" /></a></div> Paranormal Borderlands of Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1089793 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kendrick Frazier</div> Encounters With the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84602 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84602"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/157392203X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057197911_.jpg" /></a></div> The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28919 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28919"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Freeman</div> Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065754 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065754"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0878931848.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056503830_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas J. Futuyma</div> Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27129 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27129"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879755733.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Gardner</div> Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67296 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67296"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486203948.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Gardner</div> The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89279 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89279"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879756446.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63004386_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Gardner</div> Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81773 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81773"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573920967.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Gardner</div> The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5846 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5846"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312169493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056430440_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Gardner</div> How We Know What Isn't So http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/196 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/196"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0029117062.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122023581_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Gilovich</div> Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/869308 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/869308"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393050904.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V38639646_.jpg" /></a></div> Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84537 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84537"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195168909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. C. Grayling</div> Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/432792 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/432792"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0801857074.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491606_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul R. Gross</div> The Flight from Science and Reason (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371864 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371864"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0801856760.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> In Defense of Elitism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1844715 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1844715"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385479433.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William A. Henry</div> Pseudoscience and the Paranormal: A Critical Examination of the Evidence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065814 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065814"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0879754192.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terence Hines</div> Science and Anti-Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160175 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160175"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0674792998.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464438_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gerald Holton</div> Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/863083 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/863083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0387987207.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas Humphrey</div> The Possible and the Actual (Jessie and John Danz Lectures) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1526585 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francois Jacob</div> Dogmatic Wisdom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065861 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Jacoby</div> The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065871 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065871"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374521751.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Jacoby</div> Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/373613 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/373613"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679758860.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wendy Kaminer</div> Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/633150 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/633150"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/156663430X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114683954_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Kimball</div> Tenured Radicals, Revised: How Politics has Corrupted our Higher Education http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/633155 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/633155"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1566631955.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Kimball</div> Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/406082 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/406082"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/026261037X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123001903_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Kitcher</div> Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/226966 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/226966"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195096533.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Kitcher</div> Science, Truth, and Democracy (Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/406081 <div id="position">51</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/406081"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195165527.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Kitcher</div> Ufos: The Public Deceived http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065874 <div id="position">52</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2065874"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879753226.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip J. Klass</div>