Stephen's book list...

The Secret Life of Bees

Alice Walker:
We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

Kim recs
Wodenhouse

Serious/Political Fic:
Bookseller of Kabul

Dr Miller recs
It Didn't Happen Here
335 L668i

Sci Fi:
Dune
Kim Stanley Robinson
Spin
A Deepness in the Sky + A Fire Upon the Deep
Scalzi -- Old Man's War
Iain Banks, The Player of Games

Econ and Sci from random piece of paper
Hierarchy in the Forest
Luxury Fever -- Robert Frank
Social Dominance --
Authoritarian Specter
Darwin's Cathedral
The End of Poverty -- Jeffrey Sachs
God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It

Science:
some book on space-time and black holes.

6 easy pieces : essentials of physics, explained by its most brilliant teacher / Richard P. Feynma
31913014736810 DUE 05-07-07 TOO MANY RENEWALS

Conservatives without conscience / John W. Dean
31913019852240 DUE 05-03-07 ON HOLD 320.52 D345c

The bookseller of Kabul / Ã…sne Seierstad ; translated by Ingrid Christopher
31913019309621 DUE 05-08-07 RENEWED

The constant gardener [videorecording] / Potboiler Productions ; Scion Films Limited ; UK Film Counc
31913021074551 DUE 05-12-07 RENEW NOT ALLOWED DVD Feature Constant 2005

About 2/3 of the way through Godel, Escher, Bach, which is excellent. -Mark E.

Lib/Cons Books:
"The Authoritarian Specter" by Robert Altemeyer,

"Social Dominance" by Jim Sidanius and
Felicia Pratto.
"his focuses on prejudice
> of all forms,
> again studying variations in prejudice between
> people. " "prejudice" is
> really associated
> with a personality that sees the world as a
> hierarchy of competing
> groups,

> "Hierarchy in the Forest". Christopher Boehm

Econ:

> 3. "Luxury Fever" by Robert H. Frank

> > 3. I've read a couple of good Federal-Reserve-Conspiracy-Theory books
> > (Secrets of the Temple & The Creature from Jekyll Island) that have
> taught rec by R.

pro-Free-Trade
Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism

enviro-econ
Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant
Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop them All

> "The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington and the Subversion of
> American Democracy," by John R. MacArthur, New York: Hill and Wang, a
> Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

Fiction

The Resurection of the Son of God
by Wright
recommended by Anne Rice

Wodenhouse, rec by Kim H.

Margaret Atwood's recent
dystopia / post-apocolyptic novel _Oryx and Crake_. (grep)

From a book club I generally liked:

33. The Dancing Wu-Li Masters - Gary Zukav
32. Bias - William Goldberg
31. The Art of Travel - Alain de Botton
30. The Power of Babel - John McWhorter
29. Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
28. Evil - Roy Baumeister
27. Complexity - Mitchell Waldrop
26. Confessions - Saint Augustine
25. The Moral Animal - Robert Wright
24. Why Religion Matters - Huston Smith
23. The Metaphysical Club - Louis Menand
22. About Looking - John Berger
21. Eight Little Piggies - Stephen Jay Gould
20. Founding Brothers - Joseph Ellis
19. The Mind's I - Douglas Hofstadter
18. The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
17. The Republic - Plato
16. The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin
15. Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
14. Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
13. Consilience - Edward O. Wilson
12. Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
11. The Battle for God - Karen Armstrong
10. Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
9. Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek - Annie Dillard
8. How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker
7. Legal Alchemy - David Faigman
6. The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Thomas Friedman
5. The March of Folly - Barbara Tuchman
4. Sex, Art, and American Culture - Camille Paglia
3. The Gutenberg Elegies - Sven Birkerts
2. The Uses of Literature - Italo Calvino
1. The Presence of the Past - Rupert Sheldrake