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theadvancedapes  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kleinbl00's Red Pill Reading List: Geopolitic

Thanks for the mention lil. I have replicated the list from that article below, along with some additional books that I either A) forgot to mention last time, or B) have since read and feel worthy of inclusion:

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The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred Crosby (1972)

Orientalism by Edward Said (1979)

Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan (1985)

The Global Brain by Peter Russell (1985)

Hyperspace by Michio Kaku (1994)

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan (1994)

History of God by Karen Armstrong (1994)

The Major Transitions in Evolution by John Smith & Eors Szathmary (1995)

The Demon-Hauned World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (1996)

The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm (1996)

Beyond art: Pleistocene image and symbol by Margaret Conkey (1997)

The Symbolic Species by Terrance Deacon (1997)

Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins (1998)

The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behaviour by Craig Stanford (1999)

The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil (2000)

The Origins of LIfe: From the Birth of Life to the Origins of Language by John Smith & Eors Szathmary (2000)

Global Brain by Howard Bloom (2000)

A Devil’s Chaplain by Richard Dawkins (2003)

On The Shoulders of Giants by Stephen Hawking (2003)

The unbound Prometheus: technological change and industrial development by David Landes (2003)

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson (2004)

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)

The Epic of Evolution by Eric Chaisson (2005)

Holistic Darwinism by Peter Corning (2005)

Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean Carroll (2006)

The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe by Chris Impey (2007)

The Extended Mind by Robert Logan (2007)

The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker (2007)

History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer (2007)

Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku (2008)

The Wayfinders by Wade Davis (2009)

The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester (2009)

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shuban (2009)

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham (2009)

Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe by Jane Goodall (2010)

The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker (2011)

Big History and the Future of Humanity by Fred Spier (2011)

Evolution: The First Four Billion Years ed. by Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis (2011)

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene (2011)

The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch (2011)

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson (2012)

Masters of the Planet by Ian Tattersall (2012)

Debt: The first 5,000 years by David Graeber (2012)

Wild Cultures: A Comparison of Chimpanzee and Human Cultures by Christophe Boesch (2012)

The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking (2012)

Lone Survivors: How We Came To Be The Only Humans On Earth by Chris Stringer (2012)

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Hope you find it useful thundara





OftenBen  ·  2166 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I guess I'm gonna start on this one next.

humanodon  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Please tell me that you didn't just rattle that off from memory. I'd be so jealous.

I've started History of God several times, though it was about 10 years ago that I last tried to read it. I'll give it another shot.

theadvancedapes  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha, I'd be impressed too - but no I copy and pasted from my old list and added a few extra books from a bibliography on my hard drive.

thundara  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That also works, thanks!