Further Reading 2

This list supplements the lists "Prime Reading" and "Further Reading 1". It includes many works that are less technical and more accessible, some of historical interest, and many of the great works of literature.

Basic Skills

Christopher Kirwan, Logic and Argument, New York: New York U. Press, 1978.
Stephen Kent Campbell, Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1974.

Philosophy and Religion

Dagobert D. Runes ed, Treasury of World Philosophy, Patterson, NJ: Littlefield, Adams, 1959.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Moral Essays, tr. John W. Basore, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1970-79, 3 vol.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cicero's "Offices", Essays on Friendship and Old Age, and Select Letters, New York: Dutton, 1909.
Epicurus, The Philosophy of Epicurus, tr. George Strodach, Evanston: Northwestern U. Press, 1963.
Sixtus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, tr. R.G. Bury, Buffalo: Prometheus, 1990.
Arnold Schopenhauer, Works, ed. & abr. Will Durant, New York: Ungar, 1963.
Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations, Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1972.
Herbert Spencer, Herbert Spencer: Structure, Function, and Evolution, ed. Stanislav Andreski, New York: Scribner, 1971.
Martin Buber, I and Thou, tr. Walter Kaufmann, New York: Scribner, 1970.
Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, tr. Howard & Edna Hong, Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1987.
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, tr. John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, New York: HarperCollins, 1962.
Jean Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, tr. Hazel E. Barnes, New York: Philosophical Library, 1956; The Philosophy of Existentialism, ed. Wade Baskin, New York: Philosophical Library, 1965.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, tr. Colin Smith, London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1981.
John Henry Melzer, Functionalism: An Outline of a Philosophy for Today, New York: Philosophical Library, 1965.
Paul Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, New York: Schocken, 1978.
Anatol Rapoport, Operational Philosophy, New York: Harper, 1954.
George R. Lucas, The Genesis of Modern Process Thought, Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1983.
Joel Kupperman, The Foundations of Morality, Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1983.
Robert Stalnaker, Inquiry, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984.
Carol Harding ed, Moral Dilemmas: Philosophical and Psychological Issues in the Development of Moral Reasoning, Chicago: Precedent Pub., 1985.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Moral Dilemmas, New York: Blackwell, 1988.
Shelly Kagan, The Limits of Morality, New York: Oxford U. Press, 1989.
Edward L. Ericson, The Humanist Way, New York: Continuum, 1988.
Corliss Lamont, The Philosophy of Humanism, New York: Philosophical Library, 1957.
Paul K. Moser, Knowledge and Evidence, New York: Cambridge, 1989.
Colin Hausson & Peter Urbach, Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach, New York: Open Court, 1989.
Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, The Hermeneutics Reader, New York: Continuum, 1989.
Richard Harland, Superstructuralism, London: Routledge, 1987.

History, Biography and Futurics

Livy, The Early History of Rome, tr. Aubrey de Selincourt, Baltimore: Penguin, 1975.
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography and Other Writings, ed. Kenneth Silverman, New York: Penguin, 1986.
John Masefield ed, Essays, Moral and Polite, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
Willy Ley, The Conquest of Space, New York: Viking, 1949.
Milovan Djilas, Conversations with Stalin, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962.
Joseph Stalin, The Essential Stalin: Major Theoretical Writings, ed. Bruce Franklin, Garden City: Anchor, 1972.
Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956-58.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, New York: Harper & Row, 1974-78.

Ecology, Arcology and Nanonics

Albert Gore Jr, Earth in the Balance, New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1992.
Garrett Hardin, Exploring New Ethics for Survival, New York: Viking, 1972.
Colin W. Clark, Mathematical Bioeconomics: The Optimal Management of Renewable Resources, New York: Wiley, 1990, 2nd ed.
Marc Mangel & Colin W. Clark, Dynamic Modeling in Behavioral Ecology, Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1988.
Leah Edelstein-Keshet, Mathematical Models in Biology, New York: Random House, 1988.
J.D. Murray, Mathematical Biology, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989.
Robert May, ed, Theoretical Ecology, Sunderland, MA: Sinauer, 1981.
S.E. Jorgensen, Fundamentals of Ecological Modeling, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1988.
Bernard C. Patten ed, Systems Analysis and Simulation in Ecology, New York: Academic, 1976.
Josef Hofbauer & Karl Sigmund, The Theory of Evolution and Dynamical Systems: Mathematical Aspects of Selection, Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1988.
Leslie A. Real & James H. Brown, Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries, Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 1991.
Jean Gottmann, Megalopolis, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1967.
Richard L. Rubenstein, The Age of Triage: Fear and Hope in an Overcrowded World, Boston: Beacon Press, 1983.
Reyner Banham, Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976.

Government, Law and International Relations

Hedrick Smith, The Russians, New York: Times Books, 1983.

Mathematics and Logic

Ian Stewart, The Problems of Mathematics, London: Oxford U. Press, 1987.
Ilene Greif ed, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings, Los Altos: M. Kaufmann, 1988.
Ernest Nagel & James Newman, Gödel's Proof, New York: NY U. Press, 1958.

Cybernetics and Information Theory

Lawrence Davis ed, Handbook of Genetic Algorithms, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.
Allen Newell, Unified Theories of Cognition, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1990.
E. Bender, An Introduction to Mathematical Modeling, New York: Wiley, 1978.
Fahiem Bacchus, Representation and Reasoning with Probabilistic Knowledge, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.

Physics, Cosmology and Electronics

Jonathan J. Halliwell, Quantum Cosmology, New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1991.

Molecular Physics, Chemistry and Biology

Bruce Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, New York: Garland, 1989.
Ulrich Burkert & Norma L. Allinger, Molecular Mechanics (ACS Monograph 177), Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1982.
Tim Clark, A Handbook of Computational Chemistry, New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1985.

Economics, Management, Society and Cognition

P.S. Dasgupta & G.M. Heal, Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources, New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1979.
A.C. Fisher, Resource and Environmental Economics, New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1981.
Emile Durkheim, Durkheim: Essays on Morals and Education, Boston: Routledge & K. Paul, 1979.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, New York: Vintage, 1974; The Coming of Age, New York: Putnam, 1972.
Yukichi Fukuzawa, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization, Tokyo: Sophia U., 1973.
G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, New York: Sheed & Ward, 1956.
Joseph Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development, tr. Redvers Opie, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1934.
C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1959.
Arthur R. Jensen, Educability and Group Differences, New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Garth S. Jowett & Victoria O'Donnell, Propaganda and Persuasion, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1986.
Howard Kahane, Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1971.
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, New York: Viking, 1985.
Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders, 1957, The Status Seekers, 1959; The Waste Makers, 1960; A Nation of Strangers, 1972 (all New York: McKay).
Thomas P. Carney, Instant Evolution: We'd Better Get Good At It, London: Notre Dame Press, 1980.

Geology, Paleontology and Natural History

Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan, Origins of Sex, New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1986.
Stephen Jay Gould, Bully for Brontosaurus, New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.

Mysteries

Kevin D. Randle & Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell, New York: Avon, 1991.
Timothy Good ed, The UFO Report, New York: Avon, 1989.
Budd Hopkins, Intruders, New York: Random House, 1987.
Linda Howe, An Alien Harvest, Littleton, CO: Linda Howe, 1987.
Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, New York: Ballantine, 1988.
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, New York: Garland, 1975.
Nostradamus, The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus, Oyster Bay, NY: Nostradamus Co., 1982.

Historical Fiction

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1941; Les Miserables, 1980 (both New York: Modern Library).
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, 1971; Robinson Crusoe, 1972 (both New York: Oxford U. Press).
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte-Cristo, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1946; The Man in the Iron Mask, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1944; The Three Musketeers, New York: Penguin, 1982.
Walter Scott, Waverly Novels, Edinburgh: Constable, 1901-03.
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Cleveland: Fine Editions Press, 1948.
Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, New York: Macmillan, 1963.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Best Known Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
Stephen Crane, Complete Novels, Garden City: Doubleday, 1967.
Edgar Allen Poe, The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allen Poe, New York: Knopf, 1946.
Jack London, Novels and Stories, New York: Viking, 1982.
George Sand (Amandine Dupin), Lelia, Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1978; Lucrezia Floriani, Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1985.
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936.
Maxim Gorki, A Book of Short Stories, New York: Octagon, 1973.

Contemporary Fiction

Albert Camus, Collected Fiction, London: Hamilton, 1960.
Stephen Vincent Benet, Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969, 2 vol.
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1936; Complete Short Stories, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952.
Andre Maurois, The Collected Stories of Andre Maurois, New York: Washington Square Press, 1967.
Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, New York: Heritage Press, 1954.
Pearl Buck, Letter from Peking, 1957; All Under Heaven, 1973 (both New York: John Day).
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, London: Collins & Harvill, 1958.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, New York: Dutton, 1963.
C.P. Snow, Strangers and Brothers, New York: Scribner, 1972.
John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, New York: Penguin, 1986; Of Mice and Men, New York: Modern Library, 1965; The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, 1972; Cannery Row, New York: Viking, 1973.

Science Fiction

Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, Voyages to the Moon and the Sun, tr. Richard Aldington, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923.

Plays

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Three Tragedies, tr. Frederick Ahl, Ithaca, NY: Cornell U. Press, 1986.
Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts, tr. Christopher Fry, New York: Oxford U. Press, 1975.
Oscar Wilde, Plays, Prose Writings, and Poems, New York: Dutton, 1960.
William Butler Yeats, Collected Plays, New York: Macmillan, 1953.
Noel Coward, Plays, London: Methuen, 1979.
W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Plays, London: Heinemann, 1952.
Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of our Teeth, The Matchmaker, New York: Harper, 1957.
Archibald MacLeish, Six Plays, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980; J.B., A Play in Verse, New York: S. French, 1958.
Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller's Collected Plays, New York: Viking, 1957-81.

Poetry

Ovid, Metamorphoses, tr. A.D. Melville, New York: Oxford U. Press, 1986.
Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, tr. Edward Fitzgerald, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1946.
Song of Roland, tr. C.H. Sisson, Manchester: Carcanet, 1983.
Alexander Pope, Selections from Alexander Pope, New York: Nelson, 1929.
John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
John Donne, The Complete English Poems of John Donne, London: Dent, 1985.
William Blake, The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman, Berkeley: U. Cal. Press, 1982.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Complete Poems, ed. Morchard Bishop, London: Macdonald, 1954.
Robert Burns, The Poetical Works of Burns, ed. Raymond Bentman, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
John Keats, Complete Poems, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1982.
George Gordon Byron, The Complete Poetical Works, New York: Oxford U. Press, 1980.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
Robert Browning, The Complete Works, Athens: Ohio U. Press, 1969-81, 9 vol.
Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry and Collected Prose, New York: Viking, 1982.
Stephen Crane, Collected Poems, New York: Knopf, 1965.
Alfred Tennyson, Poems and Plays, ed. T. Herbert Warren, London: Oxford U. Press, 1975.
Rudyard Kipling, Kipling, A Selection of his Stories and Poems, ed. John Beecroft, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems, New York: Harper, 1956.
William Butler Yeats, Collected Poems, New York: Macmillan, 1956.
John Masefield, In Glad Thanksgiving, New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore, New York: Macmillan, 1949.
Robert Frost, Complete Poems, New York: Holt, 1956.
Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems, 1971-1982, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Reference Sets and Collections

Encyclopaedia Britannica. The ultimate of its kind. Same publisher as The Great Books of the Western World.
The Book of Knowledge, Grolier Co. Perhaps best edition was 1950. Subsequent editions have become more like an encyclopedia, less in-depth and less of a collection of original works. Good set for young people.

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