Some Good Reading
Classic SciFi:
The
First Immortal. By James Halperin
Del Rey
Books Info/Order
In the
Country of the Blind. By Michael Flynn
Baen
Books Info/Order
The Boat
of a Million Years. By Poul Anderson
TOR
Books Info/Order
Guns of
the South. By Harry Turtledove
Del Rey
Books Info/Order
Pallas. By L. Neil Smith
TOR
Books Info/Order
Dooms
Day Book. By Connie Willis
Bantam
Books Info/Order
Ender's
Game.
By Orson Scott Card
TOR
Books Info/Order
A Bridge
of Years. By Robert C. Wilson
Bantam/Spectra Info/Order
Non-Fiction:
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
A politically incorrect explanation of who we are and how we got that way.
The War of the World:Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
The origins of the major military conflicts of the past one hundred years.
Good Calories, BAD CALORIES: Challenging the Conventional Wisdon on Diet, Weight Control and Disease
A fact packed attack on the medical dogma driving public health policy and advice.
The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food
Soy is ubiquitous in the American diet and dangerous to your health.
Fantastic Voyage: How to Live Long Enough to Live Forever
A radical approach to health and longevity by one of the foremost inventors since Thomas Edison.
Nourishing Traditions
A cookbook that challenges politically correct nutrition and diet.
A Different Kind of Teacher:
Solving the Crisis of American Schooling
Rebel educator with a cause takes on government schools.
Education Myths: What Special
Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So
Inconvenient data that contradicts education myths parading as common sense.
Fortune's Formula
How a group of math geeks (including Claude Shannon the father of information theory) invented arbitrage and made a killing in Las Vegas and on Wall Street.
On Intelligence
An alternative theory concerning human intelligence and how it might be applied to developing machine intelligence (AI).
Redesigning Humans
by Gregory Stock Info/Order
An intriguing examination of the prospects for genetic engineering and other biotechnological possibilities.
Takeover: The Return of the
Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
Subverting the U.S. Constitution for presidential command and control of government under the Bush administration.
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal
Democracy at Home and Abroad
The conditions that need to be met to make attempts at establishing democratic government likely to succeed.
What Went Wrong: Western Impact
and Middle Eastern Response
An historic examination of relations between the west and the middle east.
Why Geography Matters: Three
Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global
Terrorism
How where one lives and the prevailing conditions across time shape our world and our lives.
Fewer: How the New Demography
of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future
The population bomb is imploding and moving the world toward a smaller future.
Myths, Lies and Downright
Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know is Wrong
by John Stossel Info/Order
Libertarian writer exposes a plethora of canards.
The Neuroscience of Fair
Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
by Donald W. Pfaff Info/Order
How biological evolution laid the foundation for moral and ethical behavior.
Plague
Time: How Stealth Infections are Causing Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other
Deadly Ailments.
The deadly implications for health of low level chronic inflammation.
Emancipating
Slaves, Enslaving Free Men.
How the Civil War transformed the U.S. from a federation into a centrally controlled nation state.
Freedom
in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen.
The use
of coercion as a tool to grow the reach and grasp of big government.
The
Shadow University.
Universities as re-education camps for instilling politically correct
dogma.
Evil:
Inside Human Violence and Cruelty.
Violence arises from the same sources as other
behavior: Ambition, lust, fear, pride and idealism.
Separating
School and State.
How to get politics out of education and restore educators to their proper role.
Engines
of Creation.
The Technology Classic that Launched the Nanotechnology Revolution.
Free to
Choose.
Nobel Prize Economics for Everyone.
The
Fabric of Reality.
Solving Quantum Conundrums with Parallel Universes.
