Book Recommendations
Books flow through our lives, year after year. What we read defines what we think, and vice versa. Our thinking changes probably more as a result of encountering new ideas and arguments, and less as a result of genuine insight and internal processing.
Today, even the idea of a book is in transition: books become electronic files, we have short attention spans, and we live in an avalanche of information and ideas. Books compete with websites and magazines that report news and interpret them for us, like the BBC, the New York Times, the New Yorker Magazine, the London Review of Books, or Scientific American. These opinion-forming websites deliver a continuous stream of interesting articles, papers, and commentary that makes real books almost obsolete. In addition, there is an abundance of information on encyclopedic websites like the Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, the Stanford Encyclopedia, or the Encyclopedia Britannica.
So why do we still need books? Because we seek more than just information, we want to understand and discuss the deeper issues of our times. Unlike magazines, internet news or e-mails, books tell us a richer and more comprehensive story. Reading books is essential if we want to discover new ideas, concepts, movements, or ways of thinking. A good theory defines the way we think about a field; some books lead to paradigm shifts in our thinking.
Reading a whole book is not easy; one needs a culture of reading and a commitment to learning. Research shows that it improves and transforms our thinking process and contributes to improved concentration, active imagination, as well as language capabilities.
The reading suggestions below reflect only my own preferences. I'll suggest a list of 20 books I highly recommend, and then a few more sorted by subject area. At the end, there is a long list of books sorted by author.
I hope you will find something interesting!
Current Selection: 20 Books
(Updated on 6/22/23)
Slezkine, Y. (2019). The Jewish Century, New Edition (New edition). Princeton University Press.
Freeman, M. (2022). Human Rights (Key Concepts) (4th ed.). Polity.
Nurse, P. (2021). What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology. W. W. Norton & Company.
Hertog, Thomas. (2023). On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory. Bantam.
Malesevic, S. (2006). Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism (2006th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.
Smil, V. (2022). How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going. Viking.
Thunberg, G. (2023). The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions. Penguin Press.
Cassirer, E. (1961). The Myth of the State. Yale University Press.
Kimhi, Irad. 2018. Thinking and Being. Harvard University Press.
Grondin, Jean. 2012. Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas. Translated by Lukas Soderstrom. Kindle. Columbia University Press.
Förster, Eckart, 2012. The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy: A Systematic Reconstruction. Translated by Brady Bowman. Harvard University Press.
Spaemann, Robert. Essays in Anthropology: Variations on a Theme. Ed. Guido De Graaff and James Mumford. Eugene, Or: Wipf & Stock Pub, 2010. Print.
Bellah, R. N. (2011). Religion in Human Evolution. Harvard University Press.
Levinas, Emmanuel, and Richard A. Cohen. 2005. Humanism of the Other. Translated by Nidra Poller. Reprint edition. University of Illinois Press.
Lacan, Jacques. 2007. Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English. Translated by Bruce Fink. 1 edition. W. W. Norton & Company.
Lehar, Steven M. 2013. The World in Your Head: A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience. Reprint edition. Hove: Psychology Press.
Lewisohn, Leonard, ed. 2015. The Philosophy of Ecstasy: Rumi and the Sufi Tradition (World Wisdom: The Library of Perennial Philosophy / Spiritual Masters: East & West). Kindle. World Wisdom.
Ney, A., & Albert, D. Z. (Eds.). (2013). The Wave Function: Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (1st ed.). Oxford University Press.
Carse, James P. 1987. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility. Ballantine Books.
Bolaño, Roberto. 2013. 2666: A Novel. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Reprint edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Philosophy
Adorno, T. W. (1990). Negative Dialectics. Psychology Press.
Adorno, T. W. (1995). Kants “Kritik der reinen Vernunft” (1959) (Nachgelassene Schriften / Theodor W. Adorno. Abteilung IV, Vorlesungen) (German Edition) (1st ed.). Suhrkamp.
Aho, Kevin. Existentialism: An Introduction. 1 edition. Polity, 2014. Print.
Pinker, Steven. 2018. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Reprint edition. Penguin Books.
Förster, Eckart, 2012. The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy: A Systematic Reconstruction. Translated by Brady Bowman. Harvard University Press. Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that it had been completed. This book reconstructs the philosophical movement between these dates.
Beyer, B., & Förster, E. (2022). Grenzen der Erkenntnis?: Untersuchungen zu Kant und dem Deutschen Idealismus (Spekulation und Erfahrung) (J. Haag & D. Emundts (eds.); 1st ed.). frommann-holzboog.
Levinas, Emmanuel. 1969. “Totality and Infinity.” Duquesne University Press..
———. 1998a. Otherwise Than Being: Or Beyond Essence. Pittsburgh, Pa: Duquesne Univ Pr.
———. 1998b. Of God Who Comes to Mind. Translated by Bettina Bergo. 2nd edition. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.
———. 2000a. God, Death, and Time. Translated by Bettina Bergo. 1 edition. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.
———. 2000b. Alterity and Transcendence. Translated by Michael B. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press.
Levinas, Emmanuel, and Richard A. Cohen. 2005. Humanism of the Other. Translated by Nidra Poller. Reprint edition. University of Illinois Press.
Hadot, Pierre, and Michael Chase. 2004. What Is Ancient Philosophy? New Ed edition. Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press.
Hadot, Pierre, and Arnold I. Davidson. 1995. Philosophy As a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault. Illustrated Edition. Blackwell Pub.
Simondon, Gilbert. 2012. Two Lessons on Animal and Man (Univocal). Translated by Drew S. Burk. Univocal Publishing.
Miles, Margaret R. 2018. Recollections and Reconsiderations. Cascade Books.
McLeod, Alexus, ed. 2019. The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese Ethics and Political Philosophy (Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy). 1st ed. Bloomsbury Academic.
Chai, D. 2019. “Nothingness and Selfhood in the Zhuangzi.” In: The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese.
Fung, Yu-Lan. 2017. A Short History of Chinese Philosophy: A Systematic Account of Chinese Thought from Its Origins to Present Day. Edited by Derk Bodde. Free Press.
Habermas, Jürgen. 2018. Philosophical Introductions: Five Approaches to Communicative Reason. 1 edition. Polity.
Smith, Justin E. H. 2015. Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy. 1 edition. Princeton University Press.
Jonas, Hans. 1966. The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology; [Essays]. New York: Harper & Row.
Vlastos, Gregory. 1991. Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher. 1 edition. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press.
Wright, G. H. Von. 2004. Explanation and Understanding. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press.
Evans, Jonathan St B. T. Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction. 1 edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. Print.
Miller, David. 2013. Justice for Earthlings: Essays in Political Philosophy.Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Inwagen, Peter van. 2014. Metaphysics. 4 edition., Westview Press.
Western Philosophy: An Anthology. 2nd Edition by John G. Cottingham. 2007.
Ruben, David-Hillel. 2012. Explaining Explanation. Second edition. Boulder: Routledge. A philosophical analysis of the concept of explanation.
Spaemann, Robert: Happiness and Benevolence. Edinburgh: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2005. Print.
Spaemann, Robert, and David L. Schindler. Love and the Dignity of Human Life: On Nature and Natural Law. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2012. Print.
A Robert Spaemann Reader: Philosophical Essays on Nature, God, and the Human Person. 1 edition. Oxford University Press, 2015. Print.
Zizek, Slavoj. 2012. Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. 1 edition. Verso.
Politics /Critical Theory
Bilgrami, Akeel. 2014. Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (Convergences: Inventories of the Present). Harvard University Press.
Ferguson, Thomas. 2011. Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems (American Politics and Political Economy Series). 1 edition. University of Chicago Press.
Schwab, -Ing Klaus. 2017. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Kindle. Currency.
Wright, Robert, Fred Sanders, and Simon &. Schuster Audio. n.d. Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. Simon & Schuster Audio.
Gessen, Masha. 2017. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. First Edition. Riverhead Books.
Hecht, Susanna B. 2013. The Scramble for the Amazon and the “Lost Paradise” of Euclides Da Cunha. First Edition. University of Chicago Press.
Hecht, Susanna B., and Alexander Cockburn. 2011. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon, Updated Edition. Updated edition. University of Chicago Press.
Middleton, Nick. 2018. The Global Casino: An Introduction to Environmental Issues. 6 edition. Routledge.
Mishra, Pankaj. 2017. Age of Anger: A History of the Present. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Shaikh, Anwar. 2016. Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises. 1 edition. Oxford University Press.
Appadurai, Arjun, Zygmunt Bauman, Donatella della Porta, Nancy Fraser, Eva Illouz, Ivan Krastev, Bruno Latour, et al. 2017. The Great Regression. Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger. 1 edition. Polity.
Eisenstadt, Shmuel N. 2017. The Political Systems of Empires. 1 edition. Routledge.
Honneth, Axel. 2016. The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal. 1 edition. Polity.
MacLean, Nancy. 2018. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Reprint edition. Penguin Books.
Prashad, Vijay. 2016. The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution. 1 edition. University of California Press.
Snyder, Timothy. 2018. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. First Edition. Tim Duggan Books.
Losurdo, Domenico. 2014. Liberalism: A Counter-History. Translated by Gregory Elliott. Kindle. Verso.
Street, John. Mass Media, Politics and Democracy: Second Edition. 2nd edition. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave, 2011. Print.
Postman, Neil, and Andrew Postman. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. 20 Anv edition. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Penguin Books, 2005. Print.
Gore, Al. 2013. The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. First Edition. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks.
Devji, Faisal. 2013. Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Bear, Laura. 2015. Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt along a South Asian River. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Cameron, David. 2016. Against Corruption: A Book of Essays. The former British Prime Minister writes about the problem of corruption, with contributions from many other politicians. This is a free Kindle book.
Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political. 2014. Pluto Press.
Stuart Hall (Editor), Jessica Evans (Editor), Sean Nixon (Editor): Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. 2013.Second Edition. SAGE Publications Ltd.
Poulantzas, Nicos, and Stuart Hall: State, Power, Socialism. London ; New York: Verso, 2014. Print.
Butler, Judith: Senses of the Subject. First edition. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. Print.
Anthropology / Social Theory
Malesevic, S. (2006). Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism (2006th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.
Slater, P. (1980). Wealth Addiction (1st ed.). E.P. Dutton.
Slater, P. (1990). The Pursuit of Loneliness, 20th Anniversary Edition (3rd ed.). Beacon Press.
Slater, P. (2008). The Chrysalis Effect: The Metamorphosis of Global Culture. Sussex Academic Press.
Slater, P. E. (1966). Microcosm: Structural, Psychological and Religious Evolution in Groups. John Wiley & Sons.
Slater, P. E. (1977). Footholds: Understanding the shifting family and sexual tensions in our culture. Beacon Press.
Slater, P. E. (2014). The Glory of Hera: Greek Mythology and the Greek Family (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology). Princeton University Press.
Koselleck, Reinhart. 2018. Sediments of Time. On Possible Histories (Cultural Memory in the Present). Edited by Sean Franzel and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann. 1st edition. Stanford University Press
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. 2014. Our Broad Present: Time and Contemporary Culture (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture). Columbia University Press.
Donald, M. (2001). A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness. Norton.
Sachs, Jeffrey D. 2020. The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions. Columbia University Press.
Baert, Patrick, and Filipe Carreira da Silva. 2010. Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. 2 edition. Polity.
Baucom, Ian. 2005. Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History. Duke University Press.
Sapolsky, Robert M. 2017. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. Reprint edition. Penguin Books.
Certeau, Michel De. Heterologies: Discourse on the Other. Trans. B. Massumi. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986. Print.
Certeau, Michel de. 2011. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall. Third edition. University of California Press.
Bateson, G. (2000). Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology (1st ed.). University of Chicago Press.
Alves, Maria Thereza, and Michael Taussig. 2019. Recipes for Survival. University of Texas Press.
Taussig, Michael. 1987. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing. 1 edition. University of Chicago Press.
———. 2010. What Color Is the Sacred? Kindle. University of Chicago Press.
———. 2018. Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses (Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology). 1 edition. Routledge.
Simondon, Gilbert. 2012. Two Lessons on Animal and Man (Univocal). Translated by Drew S. Burk. Univocal Publishing.
———. 2017. On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (Univocal). Translated by Cecile Malaspina and John Rogove. 1 edition. Univ Of Minnesota Press.
Stern, Donnel B. 2015. Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series 26). 1 edition. Routledge.
Zondervan, Antonius A. W. Zondervan. Sociology and the Sacred: An Introduction to Philip Rieff’s Theory of Culture. Reprint edition. Place of publication not identified: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2016. Print
Bateson, Gregory. 1987. “Angels Fear. Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred.” Macmillan.
Harari, Y. N. (2015). Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (1st edition). New York: Harper. A very readable anthropological review of the history of our species.
Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology. (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Gane, Nicholas. The Future of Social Theory. 1 edition. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2004. Print.
Bernstein, Elizabeth: Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex. Chicago, 2007.
Leovy, Jill. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America.Reprint edition. Spiegel & Grau, 2015. Print.
Psychology / Psychotherapy
Kahneman, D., Sibony, O., & Sunstein, C. R. (2021). Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. Little, Brown and Company.
Hastie, R., & Dawes, R. M. (2009). Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making (Second edition). SAGE Publications, Inc.
McRaney, D. (2022). How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion. Portfolio.
Samuel, L. R. (2013). Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America (1st ed.). University of Nebraska Press.
Simon, L. (2000). Psychotherapy: Theory, Practice, Modern and Postmodern Influences. Praeger.
Simon, L. (2003). Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and the Politics of Human Relationships. Praeger.
Simon, L. (2019). Psycho“therapy” and The Stories We Live By (1st ed.).
Teo, T. (2006a). The Critique of Psychology: From Kant to Postcolonial Theory (Library of the History of Psychological Theories) (2005th ed.). Springer.
Wampold, B. E., & Imel, Z. E. (2015). The Great Psychotherapy Debate: The Evidence for What Makes Psychotherapy Work (Counseling and Psychotherapy) (2nd ed.). Routledge.
Neander, Karen. 2017. A Mark of the Mental: In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics. (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology). 1 edition. The MIT Press.
Nachmanovitch, Stephen. 1991a. Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art. Tarcher Perigee.
Jain, Shaili. 2019. The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science. Harper.
Ariely, Dan. 2009. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. Revised and Expanded ed. edition. HarperCollins e-books.
Harris, Sam. 2013. Lying. Edited by Annaka Harris. Four Elephants Press.
Devereux, George, and Basia Miller Gulati, trans. 1980. Basic Problems of Ethnopsychiatry. First Edition. University of Chicago Press.
Wittmann, Marc. 2016. Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time. Translated by Erik Butler. 1 edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Lasswell, Harold D. Psychopathology and Politics. Martino Fine Books, 2016. Print.
Perera, Sylvia Brinton. Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women.First edition. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1989. Print.
Pope, Ken: Ethics in Psychotherapy & Counseling: A Practical Guide (5th edition), Wiley, January 26, 2016.
Bessel van der Kolk. 2015. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin Books.
Styron, William: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. 1992. 1st edition. New York: Vintage. A first-person account of depression.
Bloom, Dan, and Philip Brownell. 2011. Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Steve Silberman: NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. 2015.
John Donvan, Caren Zucker: In a Different Key: The Story of Autism First Edition. 2016
Bloom, Dan, and Philip Brownell. Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. Print.
Brownell, Philip. Gestalt Therapy: A Guide to Contemporary Practice.1 edition. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2010. Print.
Woldt, Ansel L., and Sarah M. Toman. Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice.1 edition. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2005. Print.
Psychoanalysis
Lacan, Jacques. 2007. Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English. Translated by Bruce Fink. 1 edition. W. W. Norton & Company.
Lacan, Jacques. 2013a. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan (Seminar of Jacques Lacan ()). Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller. 1st ed. Routledge.
———. 2013b. The Psychoses: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller. 1st ed. Routledge.
———. 2016. Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Translated by A. R. Price. Book X edition. Polity.
———. 2018. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis. Edited by Jacques Alain Miller. 1st ed. Routledge.
———. 2021. The Object Relation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book IV. Translated by Adrian Price. 1st ed. Polity.
Nancy McWilliams: Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process 2011.
Parker, Ian: Psychology After Lacan: Connecting the Clinic and Research. 2014. 1 edition. London ; New York: Routledge.
Leclaire, Serge: A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive. 1998
Benvenuto, Sergio. 2019. Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan. 1st ed. Routledge.
Copjec, Joan. 2015. Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists (Radical Thinkers). Reprint edition. Verso.
Fink, Bruce. 2004. Lacan To The Letter: Reading Ecrits Closely. First edition. Univ Of Minnesota Press.
———. 2017. The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance. Princeton University Press.
Green, Andre. 2001. Life Narcissism, Death Narcissism. Translated by Andrew Weller. N edition. Free Association Books.
Green, André. 2002. Time in Psychoanalysis : Some Contradictory Aspects. London ; New York: Free Association Books.
Grigg, Russell. 2009. Lacan, Language, and Philosophy (SUNY Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature). SUNY Press.
Ruti, Mari. 2015. Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Academic.
Voruz, Veronique, and Bogdan Wolf, eds. 2012. The Later Lacan: An Introduction (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture). 1st ed. SUNY Press.
Charles, Marilyn: Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan. 2013. Lanham, Md.: Jason Aronson, Inc.
Boyer, Bryce L. 1836. Countertransference and Regression by Bryce L. Boyer (1998-05-01). Jason Aronson, Inc.
Bryce Boyer, L., and Simon A. Grolnick, eds. 1987. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 12: Essays in Honor of George Devereux. 1 edition. Routledge.
Neumann, Erich: Depth Psychology and a New Ethic. 1949. Even though this is an old book, it is worthwhile to read because it opens some important questions. The author reflects from a Jungian point of view about the ethical consequences of the unconscious. Ethics is not just the distinction between right and wrong in a narrow legalistic or moralistic sense, it requires us to rethink the foundations in light of a deeper understanding of the functioning of the human psyche.
Henderson, Robert and Janis. 2008. Living with Jung, Vol. 2: Interviews with Jungian Analysts. Spring Journal, Inc. A look behind the scenes of Jungian psychoanalysis.
Sciences
Carlo Rovelli: “Seven Brief Lessons in Physics.” 2016. Rovelli is one of the founders of “loop quantum gravity.” This book is an excellent overview of the current understanding of the universe from the point of view of a physicist.
Rovelli, Carlo. Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity. Trans. Simon Carnell and Erica Segre. 1st Edition edition. New York: Riverhead Books, 2017. Print.
Albert, David Z: After Physics.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015. Print.
John Polkinghorne: Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction. 1st Edition. 2002. It is short, but not oversimplified, and explains quantum theory really well.
Albert, David Z. 2009. Quantum Mechanics and Experience. Harvard University Press.
Environment / Life Sciences
Schrodinger, E., & Penrose, R. (2012). What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Canto Classics) (Reprint edition). Cambridge University Press.
Smil, V. (2022). How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going. Viking.
Wallace-Wells, David. 2019. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. Kindle. Tim Duggan Books.
Timothy Morton: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence.(The Wellek Library Lectures) Hardcover. 2016
Doudna, Jennifer A., and Samuel H. Sternberg. 2017. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution. Reprint edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Benyus, Janine M., and Alexandra Horowitz. 2014. Secret Language of Animals: A Guide to Remarkable Behavior. Kindle. Black Dog & Leventhal.
Kelly, Kevin. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future.1st edition. New York, New York: Viking, 2016. Print.
Rees, Martin. Our Final Hour: A Scientist’s Warning. New York: Basic Books, 2004. Print.
Romm, Joseph. Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know. 1 edition. Oxford University Press, 2015. Print.
Jacobs, Jane. Dark Age Ahead. Reprint edition. New York: Vintage, 2005. Print.
—. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Reissue edition. Vintage, 2016. Print.
Lovelock, James. The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity. Basic Books, 2007. Print.
Sachs, Jeffrey D., and Ki-moon Ban. The Age of Sustainable Development. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. Reprint edition. Simon & Schuster, 2015
Cronon, William, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, W. W. Norton & Company, 1996
Freinkel, Susan, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
Manning, Richard, Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization, North Point Press, 2005
McNeill, J.R., Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
Montgomery, David R., Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, University of California Press; With a New Preface edition, 2012
Orlov, Dmitry, The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors’ Toolkit, New Society Publishers, 2013
Stolzenburg, William, Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators, Bloomsbury USA, 2009
Weisman, Alan, Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?, Back Bay Books, 2014
Worster, Donald, Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Studies in Environment and History), Cambridge University Press; 2 edition, 1994
Lynn Margulies: Symbiotic Planet: A New Look At Evolution. (Basic Books, 1999).
Economics
Mazzucato, Mariana. 2018. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy. Kindle. Public Affairs.
Piketty, T. (2022). A Brief History of Equality. Harvard University Press.
Chang, Ha-Joon. Economics: The User’s Guide. Reprint edition. New York; London: Bloomsbury Press, 2015. Print. He explains economic ideas and the common sense behind them. Easy to read, and very informative.
Banerjee, Abhijit V., and Esther Duflo. 2019. Good Economics for Hard Times. Public Affairs.
Harvey, David. 2014. Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. 1 edition. Oxford University Press.
Piketty, Thomas. 2017. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Reprint edition. Harvard University Press.
———. 2020. Capital and Ideology. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Harvard University Press.
Pistor, Katharina. 2019. The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. Princeton University Press.
Postone, Moishe. 1996. Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory. Kindle. Cambridge University Press.
Randall Wray, L. 2016. Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems. 2nd ed. 2015 edition. Palgrave Macmillan.
Morson, Gary Saul, and Morton Schapiro. 2018. Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities. Reprint edition. Princeton University Press.
Lewis, Michael. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. 1 edition. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. Print. Michael Lewis captures the moment where capitalism begins to dissolve into technology and manipulation. He describes corruption in its purest form.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction. 7/28/04 edition. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Print. Another classic book: shows how imperialism and capitalism flow together.
History
Cohn, Norman. n.d. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press; Revised ed. edition (May 15, 1970)
Keegan, John. 2012. A History of Warfare. 1st ed. Vintage.
Scott, James C. 2017. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. 1 edition. Yale University Press.
Kendi, Ibram X. n.d. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. 2016
Koselleck, Reinhart. 1998. Critique and Crises: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought). Reprint edition. MIT Press.
———. 2002. The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts (Cultural Memory in the Present). 1 edition. Stanford University Press.
White, Hayden. 2014. Metahistory. Fortieth Anniversary edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Assmann, Jan. 2005. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Theology / Spirituality
Merton, Thomas. Mystics and Zen Masters. Reissue edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
Kitaro, Nishida. 1993. Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview. Translated by David A. Dilworth. University of Hawaii Press.
Conze, Edward (translator): 1983. “The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines & Its Verse Summary.” San Francisco: The Four Seasons Foundation.
Izutsu, Toshihiko. 1994. “Creation and the Timeless Order of Things." Essays in Islamic Mystical Philosophy.” Ashland, Or: White Cloud Press.
———. 2001. “Toward a Philosophy of Zen Buddhism.” Prajna Press.
Nishitani, Keiji. 1983. “Religion and Nothingness.” University of California Press.
Dogen. 1992. “Shobogenzo.” University of Hawaii Press.
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