books of note

Addison, Joseph and Sir Richard Steele.  Henry Morley, ed.  The Spectator:  Volumes 1, 2 & 3.  1712.

Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles Van Doren.  How To Read A Book:  The Classic Guide To Intelligent Reading.  1940, 1972.

Allman, Greg with Alan Light.  My Cross To BearNew York:  William Morrow, 2012.

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, The.  1969.  5th ed.  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

Andrews, Andy.  How Do You Kill 11 Million People?:  Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think.  Thomas Nelson, 2012.

Ayral-Clause, Odile.  Camille Claudel:  A Life.  Harry N. Abrams, 2002.

Bierce, Ambrose. ” An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge”.  1890-1892.

Boehme (Bohme), Jakob.  Mysterium Magnum.  1623.

Boykin, Lt. General William, Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. and 17 others.  Shariah:  The Threat To America:  An Excercise in Competitive Analysis (Report of Team B II).  Center For Security Policy, 2010.

Bradbury, Ray.  Fahrenheit 451.  1953.

Bradford, Richard.  Red Sky At Morning.  1968.

Brockman, John.  Is The Internet Changing The Way You Think?:  The Net’s Impact On Our Minds And Future.  Harper Perennial, 2011.

Brower, David.  For Earth’s Sake:  The Life And Times Of David Brower.  Gibbs Smith, 1990.

Burnford, Sheila.  The Incredible Journey.  1961.

Callenbach, Ernest.  Living Cheaply With Style:  Live Better And Spend Less.  Ronin Publishing, 1993.

Carnegie, Dale.  Lincoln The Unknown.  1932.

Casey, Nell, ed.  Unholy Ghost:  Writers On Depression.  HarperCollins, 2001.

Crow, Charles L., ed.  American Gothic:  An Anthology, 1787-1916.  Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 1999.

——-  A Companion To The Regional Literatures Of America.  Wiley-Blackwell, 2003.

Davies, Glyn.  A History Of Money:  From Ancient Times To The Present Day.  1994.  University of Wales Press, 1997.

de Chardin, Teilhard.  The Phenomenon Of Man.  tr.  Bernard Wall.  1955.  Harper & Brothers, 1959.

Dickens, Charles.  A Christmas Carol: In Prose Being A Ghost Story Of Christmas.  1843.  Penguin, 1946, 2000.

Dillard, Annie.  For The Time Being.  Knopf, 1999.

Dion.  Dion:  The Wanderer Talks Truth:  Stories, Humor and Music.  Servant Books, 2012.

Doherty, Brian.  Ron Paul’s R3VOLUTION:  The Man and the Movement He Inspired.  Broadside Books, 2012.

Dumas, Alexandre.  Twenty Years After.  1845.  Oxford University Press, 1993, 1998.

Dylan, Bob.  Chronicles:  Volume One.  Simon and Schuster, 2004.

——-  Lyrics: 1962-2001.  Simon and Schuster, 2004.

East, W. Gordon.  The Geography Behind History:  How physical environment affects historical events, with illustrative examples from early times to the present.  1965.  W. W. Norton, 1967.

Edwards, Betty.  Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain:  A Course In Enhancing Creativity And Artistic Confidence.  Tarcher, 1979, 1999.

Folger, Tim, ed.  The Best American Science And Nature Writing.  [published annually.]  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000-2010.

Forster, E. M.  “The Machine Stops”.  1909.

Franklin, Benjamin.  The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin.  1771.

Freedman, Ralph.  Hermann Hesse:  Pilgrim of Crisis:  A Biography.  Pantheon, 1978.

Gawain, Shakti.  Creative Visualization.  1982.  Whatever, 1979

Ghaemi, Nassir.  A First-Rate Madness:  Uncovering The Links Between Leadership And Mental Illness.  The Penguin Press, 2011.

Ghiselin, Brewster.  The Creative Process:  A Symposium.  University of California Press, 1952.

Golding, William.  Lord Of The Flies.  1954.

Graves, Robert and Alan Hodge.  The Reader Over Your Shoulder:  A Handbook For Writers Of English Prose.  1943.  Vintage, 1979.

Greenwood, James.  An essay towards a practical English grammar:  describing the genius and nature of the English tongue; giving likewise a rational and plain account of grammar in general, with a familiar explanation of its terms.  1711.

Gutkind, Lee, ed.  Surviving Crisis:  Twenty Prominent Authors Write About Events That Shaped Their Lives.  Tarcher/Putnam, 1997.

Hanff, Helene.  84, Charing Cross Road.  1970.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  “Earth’s Holocaust”.  1844.

————–  “Young Goodman Brown”.  1835.

Hellman, Lillian.  The Children’s Hour.  1934.

Hillsdale College Politics Faculty, ed.  The U.S. Constitution:  A Reader.  Hillsdale College Press, 2012.

Hobbs, Charles R.  How To Manage Your Time More Effectively With A Day Timer.  The Charles R. Hobbs Corp., 1976, 1985.

Holler, Michael.  The Constitution Made Easy:  The United States Constitution Compared Side by Side with The United States Constitution in Modern English.  Friends of Freedom, Inc., 2008.

Homer.  The Odyssey.  Tr. Robert Fitzgerald.  1961.  Anchor, 1963.

Horowitz, David and Richard Poe.  The Shadow Party:  How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party.  Thomas Nelson, 2006.

James, William.  The Principles of Psychology.  “Habit.”  1891.

Kern, Stephen.  The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918.  Harvard U.P., 1983.

King James Version, The New Testament:.  1611.  Everyman’s Library, 1999.

King James Version, The Old Testament:.  1611.  Everyman’s Library, 1996.

Kowalski, Gary.  The Souls Of Animals.  1991.  Stillpoint, 2006.

——————  Revolutionary Spirits:  The Enlightened Faith of America’s Founding Fathers 2008.  BlueBridge, 2010.

Kurzweil, Ray.  The Age Of Spiritual Machines:  When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence.  1999.  Penguin, 2000.

Kurzweil, Ray.  The Singularity is Near:  When Humans Transcend Biology.  Penguin, 2005.

Larson, Erik.  In The Garden Of Beasts:  Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin.  Crown, 2011.

Lehrer, Jonah.  Imagine:  How Creativity Works.  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

Levy, Steven.  In The Plex:  How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.  Simon & Schuster, 2011.

Locke, Louis G., William M. Gibson and George Arms, ed.  Readings For Liberal Education:  Vol. 1. Toward Liberal Education:  Vol. 2.  Introduction to Literature.  Rinehart & Company, 1948.

Loker, Chris.  One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature.  The Grolier Club, 2014.

Lord, James.  A Giacometti Portrait.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965, 1980.

——  Giacometti:  A Biography.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,  1985.

Lowenthal, David and Martyn J. Bowden, ed.  Geographies Of The Mind:  Essays In Historical Geosophy.  Oxford University Press, 1976.

Lundberg, Ferdinand.  The Rich And The Super-Rich:  A Study In The Power Of Money Today.  Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1968, 1988.

MacNeil, Robert.  Wordstruck:  A Memoir.  Viking Penguin, 1989.

Malcolm X with Alex Haley.  The Autobiography of Malcolm X.  1965.  Penguin, 2010.

Martin, Malachi.  The Keys Of This Blood:  The Struggle For World Dominion Between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev & The Capitalist West.  Simon and Schuster, 1990.

Matheson, Richard.  The Shrinking Man.  1956.

McLuhan, Marshall and Quentin Fiore.  The Medium Is The Massage:  An Inventory of Effects.  1967.

Melzer, Arthur M.  Philosophy Behind The Lines.  Chicago, 2014.

Metzger, Bruce M. and Michael D. Coogan, ed.  The Oxford Companion To The Bible.  Oxford University Press, 1993.

Mills, C. Wright.  The Power Elite.  Oxford University Press, 1956.

Montaigne, Michel de.  The Complete Essays of Montaigne.  1585, 1588.  Tr.  Donald M. Frame.  Stanford University Press, 1957, 1976.

Naifeh, Steven and Gregory White Smith.  Van Gogh:  The Life.  Random House, 2011.

Nearing, Helen and Scott.  The Good Life:  Helen And Scott Nearing’s Sixty Years Of Self-Sufficient Living.  1970, 1979.  Schocken, 1989.

Nguyen, Andrea.  Asian Dumplings:  Mastering Gyoza, Spring Rolls, Samosas, and More.  Ten Speed Press, 2009.

———  Asian Tofu:  Discover the Best, Make Your Own, and Cook It at Home.  Ten Speed Press, 2012.

———  Into the Vietnamese Kitchen:  Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors.  Ten Speed Press, 2006.

Norris, Kathleen.  Acedia & Me:  A Marriage, Monks And A Writer’s Life.  Riverhead, 2008.

Oliver, Garrett, ed.  The Oxford Companion To Beer.  Oxford University Press, 2011.

Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version With The Apocrypha, The New.  1946-1957, 1989.  4th ed.  Oxford University Press, 2010.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically (in slipcase with reading glass) , The Compact Edition of the.  1928-33, 1989.  2nd ed.  Oxford University Press, 1991.

Pollack, John.  Shortcut:  How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas.  Gotham, 2014.

Paul, Ron.  Liberty Defined:  50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom.  Grand Central, 2011.

——  The Revolution:  A Manifesto.  Grand Central, 2008.

Penzler, Otto, ed.  The Best American Mystery Stories.  [published annually.]  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997-2011.

Perrin, Noel.  First Person Rural:  Essays Of A Sometime Farmer.  1978.  Penguin, 1980.

Pollan, Stephen M. and Mark Levine.  Die Broke:  A Radical, Four-Part Financial Plan.  HarperCollins, 1997.

Prose, Francine.  Reading Like A Writer:  A Guide For People Who Love Books And For Those Who Want To Write Them.  HarperCollins, 2006.

Rilke, Rainer Maria.  Tr.  M. D. Herter Norton.  Letters To A Young Poet.  1934.

——  Tr. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.  Rilke’s Book Of Hours:  Love Poems To God.  1905.  Riverhead, 2005.

Rogers, Ann.  A Cookbook for Poor Poets and Others.  1966.  Scribners, 1970.

Rossetti, Christina.  Goblin Market.  1862.  Dover, 1994.

Rostand, Edmond.  Cyrano de Bergerac.  1897.  Tr. Christopher Fry.  Oxford University Press, 1975, 1996.

Rotolo, Suze.  A Freewheelin’ Time:  A Memoir Of Greenwich Village In The Sixties.  Broadway Books, 2008.

Sagan, Carl.  Contact:  A Novel.  Simon and Schuster, 1985.

Scharffenberger, John and Robert Steinberg.  The Essence Of Chocolate:  Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate.  Hyperion, 2006.

Schwalbe, Will.  Books For Living.  Knopf, 2016. Engaging, becoming and understanding through reading books  30 November 2016

Selye, Dr. Hans.  Stress Without Distress.  J. B. Lippincott, 1974.

——  The Stress Of Life.  McGraw-Hill, 1956, 1978.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.  Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales: Volume II.  “Epistle LXXI:  On The Supreme Good.”  ca. 4 B.C. – 65 A.D.  Tr. Richard M. Gummere, Ph.D.  1920.  Harvard University Press, 1962.]

Sherwood, Ben.  The Survivors Club:  The Secrets And Science That Could Save Your Life.  Grand Central, 2009.

Snavely, Henry E.  The Constitution of the United States:  How To Know It’s Provisions:  Study Guides and Comprehensive Tests.  Star Publishing Co., 1938.

Steindl-Rast O.S.B., David with Sharon Lebell.  The Music Of Silence:  Entering The Sacred Space Of Monastic Experience.  HarperCollins, 1995.

Stevenson, Robert Louis.  A Child’s Garden Of Verses.  1895.

Suarez, Michael and H. R. Woudhuysen, ed. The Oxford Companion To The Book.  Two Volumes.  Oxford University Press, 2010.

Toffler, Alvin.  Future Shock.  Random House, 1970.

Vogler, Christopher.  The Writer’s Journey:  Mythic Structure For Storytellers & Screenwriters.  1992.  3rd ed.  Michael Wiese, 2007

Wagner, Richard.  The Flying Dutchman.  1843.

Wells, H. G.  The Time Machine:  An Invention.  1895.  Seven Science Fiction Novels Of H. G. Wells.  Dover Publications, —-.

White, Stewart Edward.  The Mountains.  1904.

Williams, Mark, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn.  The Mindful Way Through Depression:  Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness.  Guilford Press, 2007.

Wilson, Jason, ed.  The Best American Travel Writing.  [published annually.]  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000-present.

Wolfe, Tom.  Hooking Up.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

Wright, Will.  Sixguns & Society:  A Structural Study Of The Western.  University of California, 1975.

Wyche, Richard Thomas.  Some Great Stories And How To Tell Them.  1910.

Xenophon.  Memorable Things Of Socrates (The Memorabilia).  ca. 425-386 BC.

Zaleski, Philip and Paul Kaufman.  Gifts Of The Spirit:  Living The Wisdom Of The Great Religious Traditions.  1997.  HarperCollins, 1998.

Zaleski, Philip, ed.  The Best Spiritual Writing.  [published annually.]  Penguin, 1998-present.

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