| 1. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | 
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By: Jared Diamond
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
July 11, 2005
Tremendous study of the origins of Geopolitical Power and Why the West Became Dominant on the World Stage... more
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| 2. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures | 
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By: Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 30, 1997
Never a problem with this bookseller. Quality is as advertized or better--arrival is timely... more
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| 3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |
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By: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
December 27, 2005
Collapse is an info-dense look at why societies collapse. The cover seems to suggest that the environmental abuse is the sole reason for these particular collapses. However, Diamond makes it clear that this is only one cause, interconnected with others. But apparently many have ignored this particular cause which is quite evident in many of Diamond's examples such as Easter Island. His discussion of... more
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| 4. Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) |
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By: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Thorndike Press
March 17, 2010
Happiness. Who wouldn't want that? Philosophers and spiritual leaders have examined happiness and prescribed habits of thought and behavior to achieve it - from Aristotle, who identified it with the practice of virtue, to the Buddha, who advocated the elimination of suffering by eliminating desire. In the middle of the 19th century there arose a movement in this country, in reaction to the suppressive... more
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| 5. "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity |
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By: Beverly Daniel Tatum, Beverly Daniel Tatum
Publisher: Basic Books
January 07, 2003
The book is in great condition, and arrived very promptly. I would definitely buy from this seller again... more
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| 6. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community |
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By: Robert D. Putnam
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
August 07, 2001
Americans have become less connected to social networks than they once were in virtually every corner of our society. Putnam's mountain of data confirms this shift, and points to pressures of time and money, high levels of divorce, television, urban sprawl and differing generational values.
In the workplace, this disconnection equates to higher job insecurity, less opportunities for better... more
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| 7. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature |
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By: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
August 26, 2003
First of all, this is one of the best science books I have read. It is very long and detailed, and some have complained about the thoroughness of the work, but as such, it reminded me of how it was to read "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin. It is that well argued, with copious references, and places the idea of the human brain as a blank slate in the trash bin where it belongs with flat... more
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| 8. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4) |
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By: Paul Farmer
Publisher: University of California Press
November 22, 2004
This book is a collection of several essays that Dr. Farmer wrote while he was on-site in several of the areas where Partners in Health (an org he co-founded, which provides healthcare for the poor, regardless of ability to pay, including case management of complex diseases such as HIV and multidrug resistant TB) operate. From Haiti to Chiapas to the TB colonies in Russia's prisons to Boston's slums... more
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| 9. The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition) |
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By: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: Broadway
April 01, 1988
An approach to personal mythology/collective consciousness. Outstanding development of universal questions such as: Why are we here/ Whats it all about/ Whats my role in all this/ Do we matter?
Campbell, is a master at drawing these philosophical musings from history and traditions. ... more
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| 10. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History) |
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By: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
March 14, 1989
I'm not a history major - I'm just a seasoned business manager confused and frustrated by the evident and 'in-your-face' social and governmental destruction of our American culture and our historically successful way of life. We have become so conflicted as a people in recent years - we have become so divided in our politics and in our views of government. On the one hand we have the traditionalists... more
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