Lists of Bests: Books That Changed The World (Easton Press) http://www.listsofbests.com/list/5867 "These are the books that set the world on a different course, for better or for worse. They encompass the classics of philosophy, politics, sociology, science, and religion. These books brought about reforms and revolutions; toppled governments; started wars. They changed people's hearts and minds; altered people's lives. Even today, these books continue to stir passions and cause controversy. This collection includes 47 titles as chosen by the Editorial Advisory Board of the Easton Press." Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:05:39 GMT en-us 0 50 47 0 0 The Origin Of Species http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13977 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13977"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> Luther's Ninety-Five Theses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1101561 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1101561"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0800612655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Luther</div> Utopia (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76839 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76839"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas More</div> The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60717 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60717"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449183.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Koran (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/271845 <div id="position">5</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> Democracy in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/531218 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/531218"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226805360.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexis de Tocqueville</div> The Meaning of Relativity, Fifth Edition: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field (Princeton Science Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86730 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86730"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691120277.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/172312 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/172312"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520088174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Newton</div> De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1074858 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1074858"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1891788140.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056536217_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicolaus Copernicus</div> Common Sense http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979538 <div id="position">10</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 State And Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1273936 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1273936"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419183478.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V53965178_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V. I. Lenin</div> Beyond Good and Evil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/121303 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/121303"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1421806223.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche</div> On Liberty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002796 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Stuart Mill</div> The Social Contract and The Discourses (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/699252 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/699252"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679423028.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> Two Treatises Of Government http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1273964 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1273964"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419191543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Locke</div> Magna Carta: Second Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/374340 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/374340"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521277787.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.C. Holt</div> Das Kapital, Gateway Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60719 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60719"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/089526711X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1125453552_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Marx</div> The Wealth of Nations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16194 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16194"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553585975.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Smith</div> The Principles of Scientific Management http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968153 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968153"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1421803402.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1141275768_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Winslow Taylor</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly (Signet Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1145978 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1145978"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451526708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Beecher Stowe</div> Silent Spring http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618249060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002701 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002701"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Wollstonecraft</div> The Interpretation Of Dreams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/990009 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/990009"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419167510.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59163338_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sigmund Freud</div> The Journal of Christopher Columbus (during His First Voyage, 1492-93) and Documents Relating to the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1172082 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1172082"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/140219501X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Columbus</div> The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1216894 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1216894"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1421248573.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V52438344_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marco Polo</div> The Affluent Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11400 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11400"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395925002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077665851_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kenneth Galbraith</div> Discourse on Method and Related Writings (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/447540 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/447540"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Descartes</div> An Essay on the Principle of Population (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274000 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192837478.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Malthus</div> The Theory Of The Leisure Class http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274008 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274008"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419185098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thorstein Veblen</div> Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19099 <div id="position">30</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> Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas: God and the Order of Creation (Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/640066 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/640066"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872203808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aquinas, Saint Thomas</div> Psychology of the Unconscious (Dover Value Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274025 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274025"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424995.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. G. Jung</div> The Jewish State http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274034 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274034"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1599869985.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodor Herzl</div> The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31327 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31327"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573921394.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Maynard Keynes</div> Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274054 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mohandas K. Gandhi</div> Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132727 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132727"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/083512388X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mao Tse-Tung</div> Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5496 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5496"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300087012.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Douglass</div> The Republic (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3334 <div id="position">38</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> The Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974444 <div id="position">39</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> The Torah http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274064 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274064"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805048200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The New Testament http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002340 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3296 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3296"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140444955.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672761_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Hamilton</div> Euclid's Elements http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673271 <div id="position">43</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> The Art of War: The oldest military treatise in the world (Miniature book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22120 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22120"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0762415983.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sun-Tzu</div> Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70396 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70396"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067182449X.01-A3O0LYUUM5Z9G6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Walden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11355 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11355"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395720427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Thoreau's Classic Essay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5332254 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5332254"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31X61HSOvVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div>