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books

A

Jane Alison, The Sisters Antipodes

Hannah Arendt,, Eichmann in Jerusalem

B

J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

J. G. Ballard, Miracles of Life, 2009, Harper Perennial

George Bataille, The Tears of Eros (trans. Peter Connor)

Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary

Walter Benjamin, Reflections

David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue

David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries

C

Robert Cole, A Traveller’s History of Paris

Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Really Are

Simon Critchley, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford

Simon Critchley, How to Stop Living and Start Worrying

D

Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety

E

Terry Eagleton, The Meaning of Life

Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Street: A History of Collective Joy, Metropolitan Books, New York

–, Brightsided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America

Eidse and Sichel, editors., Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing up Global

Barbara Engler, Personality Theories Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2008

F

David Hacket Fischer, Accent of the original settlers of Applachia

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man, New York, 1966

G

Gardaphe, From Wise Guys to Wise Men

Rene Girard, Violence and the Sacred

John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism

H

Christina Hardyment, Dream Babies

Tom Hodgkinson, The Freedom Manifesto

J

Benjamin Jowett, tr., Plato: Laws

K

Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Other, Verso, London

Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York

Milan Kundera, Book of Laughter and Forgetting

J. H. Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere

Sanford Kwinter, ‘The Complex and the Singular,’ Architectures of Time , The MIT Press

L

Jacques Le Goff in Time, Work and Culture in the Middle Ages

Lewis Lapham, Money and Class in America

Lars Lerup, After the City

M

Bill McKibbon, Hope, Human and Wild:  True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth

Suketu Mehta, Maximum City

O

Michael Ondaatje,  The English Patient

Origen and Golan, The Adventures of Unemployed Man,

P

Alberto Perez-Gomez, Built Upon Love

Joseph Chilton Pearce, Magical Child

Lawrence J. Peter, The Peter Principle

R

Alastair Reid, Passwords, Little, Brown (1963)

Jeremy Rifkin, Empathic Civilization:  The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, Tarcher 2009

Jeremy Rifkin, The Third Industrial Revolution

David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd, with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney

Chris Roberts, Heavy Words Lightly Thrown

Salman Rushdie, Shame, New York: Aventura/Vintage, 1984

David Runciman, Why do people often vote against their own interests?, BBC.co.uk

S

Bernard Schlink, The Reader

Roger Scruton, The Uses of Pessimism:  And the Danger of False Hope

Richard Sennett ed., Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities

Paul Smethurst, The Postmodern Chronotope

Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

David Sylvester,  Interviews with Francis Bacon, The Brutality of Fact

V

Margaret Visser, The Gift of Thanks

-, Much Depends on Dinner:  The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal

-, The Rituals of Dinner: The Origin, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners

W

William Whyte, The Organization Man

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