Reading, 2007

Science:

The Intelligibility of Nature, Peter Dear

What We Believe But Cannot Prove, John Brockman

The Birder’s Handbook [essays], Ehrlich, Dobkin, and Wheye

The Blank Slate, S. Pinker

Origins of Life, J. M. Smith and E. Szathmary

Philosophy of Science, S. Okasha

Origins, N. deG. Tyson and D. W. Goldsmith

Evolution for Everyone, D. S. Wilson

Darwinism and Its Discontents, M. Ruse

The Science of Good and Evil, M. Shermer

Darwinian Detectives, N. A. Johnson

The Third Chimpanzee, J. Diamond

Voodoo Science, R. Park

Cultural and Intellectual History:

The Western Intellectual Tradition, J. Bronowski and B. Mazlish

History as Mystery, M. Parenti

Politics:

Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Gore Vidal

The Assault on Reason, A. Gore

Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man, C. Hitchens

Religion:

American Fascists, Chris Hedges

Why I Am Not a Christian, Bertrand Russell

God is Not Great, C. Hitchens

The Portable Atheist, C. Hitchens (ed.)

Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris

Religion and Science:

Religion and Science, Bertrand Russell

The Varieties of Scientific Experience, Carl Sagan

Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, M. Shermer

General Non-Fiction:

What is Your Dangerous Idea?, John Brockman

A Man Without a Country, K. Vonnegut

Fiction:

The Twenty-One Balloons, W. P. duBois