Lists of Bests: beeniebag12's "Non-Fiction Reading List" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/64978 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:26:11 GMT en-us 0 50 27 0 0 Atheism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67195 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67195"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192804243.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julian Baggini</div> Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5654898 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5654898"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61uUab-1DhL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Alterman</div> A Short History of Nearly Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22692 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22692"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/076790818X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> The Great Movies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79064 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79064"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767910389.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Ebert</div> Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17769 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17769"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671203231.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056463378_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bertrand Russell</div> The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10882 <div id="position">6</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> Understanding Movies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3342651 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis Giannetti</div> The Great Movies II http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283686 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283686"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767919866.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Ebert</div> The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2922167 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2922167"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11GLuttfJKL.jpg" /></a></div> The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6319614 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Weisbrot</div> Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion Of Freedom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1004900 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1004900"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586482823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1093041026_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Conrad Black</div> Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2767613 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James W. Loewen</div> Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061234001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven D. Levitt</div> Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14515 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14515"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0471409766.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip C. Plait</div> The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2789609 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2789609"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ebV8Qoh1L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas L. Friedman</div> Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3301384 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3301384"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11oU5lPrGvL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cait Murphy</div> The Conscience of a Liberal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369283 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369283"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d59nHJG3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Krugman</div> People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Zinn</div> The Political Mind: The Science Behind American Politics or, Why You Can't Understand 21st Century Politics with an 18th Century View of the Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2930089 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Lakoff</div> The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3354040 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Toobin</div> My Life and My Films (Da Capo Paperback) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/468293 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/468293"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0306804573.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Renoir</div> Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24960 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24960"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0809058405.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Allen Paulos</div> How to Lie With Statistics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10832 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10832"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393310728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439826_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Darrell Huff</div> The God Delusion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2822407 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2822407"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01vb-tG7pUL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dawkins</div> The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19037 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19037"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679763996.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464997_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Wright</div> Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1965016 <div id="position">26</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> Consciousness Explained http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6933 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6933"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316180661.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134529146_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel C. Dennett</div>