Non-Fiction
The Guns of August (1962)
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation.
Random House, 608 pgs.
The World of Rome (1997)
An Introduction to Roman Culture
Peter Jones & Keith Sedwell (eds.)
The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for students at university and at school as well as for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, it covers all aspects of the city - its rise to power, what made it great, and why it still engages and challenges us today. The first two chapters outline the history and changing identity of Rome from 1000 BC to AD 476.
An Introduction to Ancient Egypt (1979)
The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt provides a lively and accessible introduction to ancient Egyptian life for general readers and students. The nearly independent chapters provide a comprehensive survey of ancient Egypt and its rich and well-documented culture. In addition to individual chapter bibliographies there is a general bibliography, an annotated list of important museum collections, a king list with a selected set of illustrated royal cartouches, and a general index.
History of the Civil War (1917)
This Pulitzer Prize winning book remains one of the best histories on the topic of American Civil War to this day. For the purpose of writing this comprehensive work, the author used the most authoritative documents and sources including Personal Traits of Lincoln, Life and Letters of General Meade, Diary of Gideon Welles, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz and Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies.
MacMillan Company, 523 pgs.
A Treasury of the Buddha's Words (1960)
Khantipālo Nyānamoli
Composed between 3rd century BC - 2nd century CE. This nikaya consists of 152 discourses attributed to the Buddha and his chief disciples.
Mahamakut Rajavidyalaya Press
The Undying (2020)
Ann Boyer
"Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." ―Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
The Power of Now (2004)
Eckhart Tolle
To make the journey into the Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first page of Eckhart Tolle's extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air.
New World Library, 248 pgs.
The Principles of Math (1903)
A 1903 book by Bertrand Russell, in which the author presented his famous paradox and argued his thesis that mathematics and logic are identical. The book presents a view of the foundations of mathematics and Meinongianism and has become a classic reference.
Cambridge
Time and Free Will (1889)
Internationally known and one of the most influential philosophers of his day (and for a time almost a cult figure in France, where his lectures drew huge crowds), Henri Bergson (1859-1941) led a revolution in philosophical thought by rejecting traditional conceptual and abstract methods, and arguing that the intuition is deeper than the intellect.
Library of Philosophy, 276 pgs.
Psychology of the Unconscious
(1912)
In this, his most famous and influential work, Carl Jung made a dramatic break from the psychoanalytic tradition established by his mentor, Sigmund Freud. Rather than focusing on psychopathology and its symptoms, the Swiss psychiatrist studied dreams, mythology, and literature to define the universal patterns of the psyche.
Dover Publications, 624 pgs.
Arab and Jew (1986)
David K. Shipler's Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. It was adapted as a documentary for PBS in 1989 by Robert H. Gardner.
Crown, 768 pgs.
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
Hegel described the work, published in 1807, as an "exposition of the coming to be of knowledge". This is explicated through a necessary self-origination and dissolution of "the various shapes of spirit as stations on the way through which spirit becomes pure knowledge".
Digireads Publishing, 373 pgs.
The House of Morgan (1990)
The House of Morgan is a panoramic story of four generations in the powerful Morgan family and their secretive firms that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan’s empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987, acclaimed author Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the family’s private saga and the rarefied world of the American and British elite.
Grove Press, 1278 pgs.
Night (2006)
Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.
Hill and Wang, 120 pgs.
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them (1984)
Robert L. Wilken
"This gracefully written study . . . draws upon well-known sources--both pagan and Christian--to provide the general reader with an illuminating account . . . [of how] Christianity appeared to the Romans before it became the established religion of the empire."--Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor
Yale University, 244 pgs.
Silent Light (2035)
A Novel
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