Reading List
(below are books I want to read. Seems like every book I read just leads to three more for the list.)
Computers:
David Weinberger
david holmgren netizens
Tim Oreilly in a Nut Shell
Henry Jenkins Convergence Culture
ray kurtweil
madeline stanionis mercifully short
revolution in the valley Herztfeld
essay: "as we may think" Vannevar Bush
essay: software design manifesto Lanier
essay: software aspects of strategic defense systems david lorge parnas
inmates are running the asylum alan cooper
Tim Berners Lee
*This Is Not A Game: A Guide to Alternate Reality Gaming by Dave Szulborski
*Through the Rabbit Hole by Dave Szulborski
Heather Chaplin Smart Bomb
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Hardcover) by Clay Shirky
Economics:
Myth of the Market Jeremy Seabrook
Market Economy Adam Smith
‘Atlas Shrugged’ Ayn Rand
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Peter Drucker
milton friedman free to choose (pbs series)
galbrath an age of uncertainty (pbs series)
benjamin friedman The moral consequences of economic growth
happiness Richard Layard
branded nation james twitchell
22 Immutable Laws of Branding al ries
michael milkin
snakes in suits
John Zerzan Against Civilization: A Reader
Jeffrey Sachs The End of Poverty and Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered
Adam Smith Wealth of Nations
Out of Poverty Paul Polak
In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington Robert Rubin
Robert Shiller "Irrational Exuberance"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith
World Accumulation 1492-1789 by Andre Gunder Frank
grover norquist
paul krugman who was milton friedman (ny review of books)
frank chodorov
albert jay nock
How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present Thomas Dilorenzo
Payback Margaret Atwood
Future Imperfect
**"Leave Us Alone" Grover Norquist
Robert Kaiser "So Damn Much Money"
Against the Dead Hand Brink Lindsey
Leadership Pipeline
Farming:
Invisible Giant
allan nation stockman grass farmer
Homeopathic Medicines Stephen cummings
Fiction:
Harlan Ellison
-The Game Neil Strauss
White light rudy rucker
>Graham Greene
>norman mailer
cosmic trigger R. Anton Wilson
illuminatus R. Anton Wilson
>Philip Roth
Richard Matheson
go tell it on the mountain james baldwin
>Greg Egan
Peter Watt Blindsight
Harry Turtledove
dan marlowe name of the game is death
Anti-GRAV Unlimited Duncan Long
Jack London
his dark materials
Blind faith ben elton
Jack Vance
dying light
tartan noir
scandanavia noir
Steven Charles Gould
alfred bester "the demolished man"
Bringing down the House
Seymour: An Introduction jd Salinger
ghost in the machine Arthur Koestler
The Dispossessed: A Novel Ursula K. Le Guin
>Haruki Murakami
Donald Goines
Jane Smiley Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Blind Date Jerzy N. Kosinski
Ecotopia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia)
Robert A Heinlein The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
In the Beauty of the Lilies John Updike
Too Far to Go John Updike
John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever and The Falconer
Colin Turnbull The Mountain People
Halting State by Charles Stross
Food:
Bread Alone
Eric Toensmeier. Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow Edibles
Stalking the Wild Asparagus
Carrots and Tomatoes
>Wendell Berry
**Ratio Michael Ruhlman
Fundraising:
Fundraising for Social Change
Future:
Singularity is near Ray kurtzweil
Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years Bruce Sterling
louis rossetto (founder of wired)
History:
Afghan/Soviet War
Iran/Iraq war
Israeli/arab wars
Alexis de Tocqueville
Spandau Albert Speer
The day of St. Anthony's fire John G. Fuller.
Surviving the Depression
History of the Middle East Peter Mansfield
george duby (medieval life)
inquisitions (4 of them)
history of mercantilsm
The Prize
Rand Corp
alexis de tocqueville
collapse of complex societies joseph tainter
history of amish
the alcoholic republic WJ Rorabaugh
appetite for change warren belasco
Berens, Lewis Henry. The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth
Prohibition in the US
The Wrecking Crew Thomas Frank
A Brief History of Neoliberalism david harvey
***Bill Ayers Fugitive Days
Hot town: Summer in the City: I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more Bill Ayers
Teaching the Personal and the Political: Essays on Hope and Justice William Ayers
Tom Gitlin
the prison letters of george jackson
Alan Adelson "SDS"
***Kirkpatrick_Sale SDS
Cathy Wilkerson "Flying Close to the Sun"
Growing Up Underground by Jane Alpert
With the Weathermen Susan Stern
Mark Rudd Truth and Consequences: The Education of Mark Rudd
Jonathan Schell The Unconquerable World: Power, Non-violence, and the Will of the People
"Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism"
Notes on Tibet Öser (also written Woeser; full name: Tsering Woeser)
The Fourth Turning William Strauss and Neil Howe
Bio of Jefferson
*Forever War Dexter Filkins
where do we go from here mlk
Francis Fukyama America at the Crossroads
Daniel Yergin "The Prize"
In search of History Theodore White
The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama Melvyn C. Goldstein
A History of Warfare John Keegan
The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set) Shelby Foote
The Conservative Mind russel kirk
Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History
Hamiltons curse Thomas Dilorenzo
Exterminate all the Brutes Sven Lindqvist
The Ayotallah Begs to differ
The soul of Iran
***the irony of american history reinhold niebuhr
Glimpses of World History Nehru
**"What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?" Kevin Mattson
Military
Streets without Joy
Counterinsurgency Warfare David Galula
Modern Warfare Roger Trinquier
***Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization john robb
Sarah Chayes “The Punishment of Virtue”
Steve Coll “Ghost Wars”
Non-Fiction
*Making Your Case Scalia
Solutions for Black America Jawanza Kunjufu
*Susan Cheever drinking stories
*Agee, Philip . Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Agee, Philip On the Run
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture by Paul Krassner
Politics:
irving howe world of our fathers
Andrew Roberts (neocon historian)
square dancing in the ice age Abbie Hoffman
Confrontation Bell and Kristol
Neoconservatism Kristol
Conscience of a Conservative Barry Goldwater
Francis Fukuyama America at the Crossroads
Future 21 Paul Weyrich
Arguing the World
selling of the president joe mcginniss
bruce bartlett imposter
Thomas Edsel (journalist on neocons)
eugene debs
Morton Blackwell (neocon)
Tom Hayden
howard phillips
terry dolan
U.S. Senators and Their World by Donald R. Matthews
norman glazer
*Prairie Fire
*rules for radicals
the occupation of iraq: losing the war, losing the peace
Conservative Mind Russel Kirk
Naton___ Democracy
Presidential Courage Michael_____
*The Neocon Reader
Who Rules America? G. William Domhoff
Changing The Powers That Be: How The Left Can Stop Losing and Win G. William Domhoff
The Pentagon's New Map
*Chris Hedges American Fascists
bio of bob moses parris
CORE
The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol
what it means to be a libertarian charles murray
it usually begins with ayn rand Tuccille
jack wheeler (bio?)
thomas sowell Knowledge and decisions
anarchy, state, utopia robert nozick
benjamin tucker
*heroic conservatives dan bertlett
leo strauss of the american right Shadia Drury
(essay) despoiling of america Katherine Yurica
John Dewey
-Bulldozer and the Big Tent Todd Gitlin
the law frederic bastiat
the closing of the american mind Allan Bloom
Slouching towards gomorrah robert bork
up from liberalism Bill buckley
witness wittaker chambers
the conservative revolution lee edwards
the theme is freedom m. stanton evans
imposter bruce bartlett
free to choose milton friedman
conscience of a conservative barry goldwater
road to surfdom F A Hayek
economics in one lesson henry hazlitt
when character was king peggy noonan
atlas shrugged ayn rand
rise of the right william rusher
a choice, not an echo phyllis schlafly
time for truth william simon
mainspring of human progress henry grady weaver
ideas have consequences richard weaver
Abortion Dr JC Willke
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class And How They Got There
animal liberation peter singer
-RECLAIMING CONSERVATISM Mike edwards
-GRAND NEW PARTY Ross Douthat
-Nixonland and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus - by Rick Perlstein
***http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zerzan
T-he strange death of republican america Sidney Blumenthal
-Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement Justin Raimondo
-An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard Justin Raimondo
** temporary autonomous zone Hakim Bey
“The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s" Allen Matusow
politics style in american politics richard hofstadter
target america james tyson
irving kristol neoconservative persuasion
robert taft
FDR's madison square garden sppech (online)
Reagan's "A Time for Choosing"
The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril Eugene Jarecki
**Left Right State Lew Rockwell
The Federalist Papers (1970) Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Theory of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith
douglas feith (political memior of bush admin)
**Blowback chalmers johnson
Robert Kagan (neocon writer)
**Saul Alinsky Book Rules For Radicals
++Dead Right David Frum
++How We Got Here David Frum
Frum, David Comeback: Conservatism that can win again
Conservatve Soul Andrew Sullivan
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party Max Blumenthal
The Death of Conservatism Sam Tanenhaus
Random
dharma punx
-captains of consciousness
-John Hubner Bottom Feeders
-Origins of a Nonfiction Writer gay talese
-David Moody Autumn
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy Orson Scott Card
the secret history of slaves
-Daniel Pinchback 2012
-From Hire to Liar
-Doomsday C Buckley
-american project venkatesh
cult of the amateur
Chalice and the Blade
because i stutter: wendell johnson
Wikinomics
The 100th Monkey
-A Perfect Mess
jane jacobs
The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source Family
Babylon is Burning Clinton Heylan
-Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness jon ronson
cranston jones architecture
bio of hank williams
bio of alan freed
edward Bernays (propaganda)
-Frederick Brooks The mythical Man month
getting things done david allen
-What It Used To Be Like Maryann Burk Carver
-Ben Mezrich
-The Big Player Ken Uston
-The Ethical Slut
OurSpace, Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture Christine Harold
-Songs from the Black Chair Charles Barber
giordano bruno and the hermetic tradition frances yates
-story as sharp as a knife douglas and mcintyre
starflight handbook eugene mallove
How to Get Rich book Felix Dennis
Nayan Chanda Bound Together
Storytelling as Best Practice
Religion:
*Movement Brian Doherty
George Fox Quakerism
The Multi-Site Church Revolution
The Myth of a Christian Nation
Fogel, Robert William The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
Christians Will Go Through the Tribulation, and How To Prepare For It Jim McKeever
The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley Daniel R. Jennings
Brian McLaren everything must change
unChrsitian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity… and Why It Matters
thomas merton
thich nhat hanh
james twitchell
Confessing Conscience: Churched Women on Abortion phyllis tickle
Azusa_Street_Revival (Charles Parham, William J. Seymour)
James Dobson
Phyllis Tickle
dreaming with open eyes: the shamanic spirit in twentieth century art and culture by michael tucker
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart bill bishop
Stealing Sheep: The Church's Hidden Problems of Transfer Growth William Chadwick
The End of Faith sam harris
Karen Armstrong
how shall we now live? Francis Schaeffer (maybe find bio?)
a christian manifesto Francis Schaeffer
Second Coming: The Great Awakening
CS Lewis Mere Christianity
The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists Barry Hankins
michelle goldberg kingdom coming
Robert Wright "The Evolution of God"
***sarah diamond roads to dominion
God's Daughters R. Marie Griffith
***Mark Noll
jim wallis The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America
Founding Faith Stephen Waldman
Evangelicals and Democracy in America, Vol. 2: Religion and Politics
R.J. Rushdoony
Spectulative Fiction:
Pat Cadigan Mind players
Poul Anderson
Isaac Asimov
Stephen Baxter
http://www.sfbooklist.co.uk/authorsa.html
Greg Bear
Gregory Benford
Ben Bova
David Brin
Arthur C. Clarke
C.J. Cherryh
Hal Clement
Greg Egan
Robert L. Forward
Joe Haldeman
Robert A. Heinlein
Geoffrey A. Landis
Larry Niven
Frederik Pohl[4]
Jerry Pournelle
Alastair Reynolds
Kim Stanley Robinson
Charles Sheffield
George O. Smith
Bruce Sterling
Jules Verne
Vernor Vinge
Night Sessions, by Ken MacLeod
Stone Canal Ken Macleod
mission of gravity hal clement
timescape gregory benford
rendezvous with rama arthur clarke
flight of the dragonfly robert forward
the stars are my destination alfred bester
bios robert charles wilson
deception well linda nagata
shockwave rider john brunner
city come a-walking john shirley
William Olaf Stapledon
*alastair reynolds
*John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar The Shockwave Rider The Jagged Orbit The Sheep Look Up
Max Barry Jennifer Government
L. Neil Smith The Probability Broach
John C. Wright The Golden Age.
J. Neil Schulman novel Alongside Night
Diamond age
Survivalism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivalism#In_fiction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_(survivalism)
Alas, Babylon Pat Frank
Philip Wylie Tomorrow
Dies the Fire S.M. Stirling (whole series)
Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles
Edward Abbey Good News
*Pulling Through Dean Ing
The Survivalist Jerry Ahern
Life After Doomsday Bruce D. Clayton
Life After Terrorism: What You Need to Know to Survive in Today's World Bruce D. Clayton
How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years Howard J. Ruff
Tappan on Survival by Mel Tappan
Some Will Not Die by Algis Budrys (Plague total wipe out scenario)
No Blade of Grass by John Christopher (Massive crop disease/social breakdown scenario, from the British perspective.)
Vandenburg by Oliver Lange (Invasion scenario) later republished under the title “Defiance”.
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Last of the Breed by Louis L’amour
community technology karl hess
*death of megaloplois Roberto Vacca
*The coming dark age Roberto Vacca
Making the Best of Basics, by James Talmage Stevens
Passport to Survival, by Esther Dicky
Crossing the Rubicon Mike Ruppert
Into the Forest, by Jean Hegland
The Rising, by Tom Pollock and Jack Seybold
"Overshoot" by Mona Clee
***Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse James Wesley Rawles
Unintended Consequences John Ross
Patriot Ficton Forums http://tinyurl.com/6e95ux
Back to Basics
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization Thomas Homer-Dixon
Damnation Alley Roger Zelazny
Daniel Quinn Ishmael
Flight from the city: An experiment in creative living on the land by Ralph Borsodi
*On the Beach Nevil Shute
don stephens retreaters
mel tappan survival guns
Sustainability:
Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age by Michael H. Shuman
Localization: A Global Manifesto by Colin Hines
The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery (information)
Peak Everything Heinberg
**Wise Words for the Good Life: a Homesteader's Personal Collection Helen Nearing
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston Ernest Callenbach
Rocket Mass Heaters - Super efficient Woodstoves you can build (and snuggle up to). Ianto Evans & Leslie Jackson
Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth by Jim Merkel
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on Earth by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees
The Essential Exponential: For the Future of Our Planet by Albert A. Bartlett
In a Perfect Ocean: The State of Fisheries and Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean by Daniel Pauly and Jay Maclean
Christian, D. Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
Is it Utopia Yet? and A Walden Two Experiment by Kathleen (Kat) Kinkade
the rodale book of composting deborah martin
permaculture pathways
The Coming Economic Collapse stephen leeb
When Technology Fails
The Logic of Sufficiency Thomas Pricen
Richard Douthwaite Short Circuit
Paul Gipe Wind Power
Sustainable Capitalism John Ikerd
Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty
Building the Green Economy
rachel carson silent spring
gary snyder earth household
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back to Basics Guide
James Wesley Rawles
changing works douglas harper (oral history of vermont farmers)
earth care manual p. whitefiled
Self-sufficient Gardener John Seymour
Limits to Growth: 30 year update
Let it Rot, The Gardener's Guide to Composting. Stu Campbell
animal, vegetable, miracle Barbara Kingsolver
Permaculture David Holmgren
Joel Salatin You Can Farm
david korten
an agricultural testament sir albert howard
A Walden Two Experiment (Is It Utopia Yet?) Kat Kinkade
Joe Mackall Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among The Amish
Edward Abbey
*Nowtopia Chris Carlsson
Storytellers I like:
Jon Ronson
Adam Curtis
Octavia Butler
Walter Mosley
Follow up:
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Karen Armstrong
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