Lists of Bests: Intercollegiate Studies Institute's &quot;50 Worst Books of the 20th Century&quot; (Non-fiction) http://www.listsofbests.com/list/92 Earlier this year, the Modern Library published a list styled The Hundred Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century. A list of significant books can make a compelling statement about how we are to understand an age. In judging the quality of a book, one necessarily judges the perception and the profundity which the book displays, as well as the character of the book's influence. Yet many were dissatisfied with the several "Best" lists published in the past year, finding them biased, too contemporary, or simply careless. So the Intercollegiate Review (IR) set out to assemble its own critically serious roster of the Best—and the Worst—Books of the Century. To assist us in this task, we relied on the advice of a group of exceptional academics from a variety of disciplines. 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Ehrlich</div> Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Love and Pain, the Sexual Impulse in Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66646 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66646"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0898755883.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Havelock Ellis</div> Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66647 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66647"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410%2BbSn2k6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley Fish</div> The Affluent Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11400 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" 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