#title A Selection of Ted Kaczynski's Reading Material
#date 2024
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#authors Ted Kaczynski
#topics Ted's reading interests & influences, original texts
This list mainly focuses on Ted’s interest in psychology & societal development. So, it excludes texts such as language learning books & foraging guides.
The list includes reading material from his cabin collection, books he requested from librarians in Montana, books mentioned in his letters & books he referenced in his books written from prison, etc.
For the most complete list of books found in Ted's cabin upon his arrest [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/most-complete-fbi-list-of-ted-s-books][click here]].
*** Anthropology
- The Australian Aborigines — A. Elkin
- The Aborigines of South-Eastern Australia: As They Were — A. Massola
- The Arapaho — Alfred L. Kroeber
- Nomads of the Long Bow: The Siriono of Eastern Bolivia — Allan Holmberg
- Environment and Cultural Behavior — Andrew Vayda (ed.)
- The Hunting Peoples — Carleton Coon
- Indians of the United States — Clark Wissler
- Very Bad News — Clifford Geertz
- The Forest People — Colin Turnbull
- The Mbuti Pygmies: Change and Adaptation — Colin Turnbull
- The Mountain People — Colin Turnbull
- Wayward Servants: The Two Worlds of the African Pygmies — Colin Turnbull
- Civilización y Barbarie — Domingo Sarmiento
- Comments on Headland, Current Anthropology — Dominique Legros
- The Nuer; an ethnological study — E. Evans-Pritchard
- An Anthropological Approach to the Evaluation of Preschool Children Exposed to Pesticides in Mexico — Elizabeth A. Guillette
- Hunters and Gatherers: Economic Behavior in Bands — Elizabeth Cashdan
- The Harmless People — Elizabeth Thomas
- Dominant Mammal — Frank MacFarlane Burnet
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed — Jared Diamond
- The Emergence of Society — John E. Pfeiffer
- Manners and Customs of Several Indian Tribes — John Hunter
- The Emergence of Man — John Pfeiffer
- Nomads of South Persia — Little Brown
- Stone Age Economics — Marshall Sahlins
- Longevity Among Hunter-Gatherers — Michael Gurven and Hillard Kaplan
- On Recent Trends in the Anthropology of Foragers — Michael J. Shott
- Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of Gender — N. Bonvillain
- Pedro Martinez — Oscar Lewis
- Among Congo Pigmies — Paul Schebesta
- Die Bambuti-Pygmäen vom ituri, Vol. 1 — Paul Schebesta
- Die Bambuti-Pygmäen vom Ituri, Vol. 2 — Paul Schebesta
- !Kung Bushman Subsistence — Richard B. Lee
- The Making of Mankind — Richard E. Leakey
- Economic Anthropology — Stuart Plattner (ed.)
- Revisionism in Ecological Anthropology — Thomas N. Headland
- My life with the Eskimos — Vilhjalmur Stefansson
- Cultural Anthropology — William A. Haviland
*** Anti-Technology
- Primitive Affluence — Bob Black
- Endgame — D Jensen
- Strangely Like War — D Jensen
- Welcome to the Machine — D Jensen
- Confronting Technology — David Skrbina (ed.)
- Future Primitive and Other Essays — John Zerzan
- Whose Future? — John Zerzan
- "Back to the Future Primitive” (interview with John Zerzan) — Julien Nitzberg
- After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination — K. Sale
- Rebels Against the Future — K. Sale
*** Archeology
- La comida y las cosas: una vision arqueologica de la campaiia bonaerense de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX [Food and things: an archaeological vision of the Buenos Aires countryside of the second half of the 19th century] — Fernando Rafael Brittez
- Under the Canopy: The Archaeology of Tropical Rain Forests — Julio Mercader (ed.)
- Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful — Steven A. LeBlanc
*** Astronomy
- Meanwhile, on a Planet Nearby... — Bruce Lieberman
- Of Men and Galaxies — Fred Hoyle
- The Sun and stars as the primary energy input in planetary atmospheres — Ignasi Ribas
*** Autobiography
- To Hell and Back — Audie Murphy
- Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini — Benvenuto Cellini
- The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography — Henry Brooks Adams
- Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings — Kenneth Silverman (ed.)
*** Biography
- Mandela: The Authorized Biography — Anthony Sampson
- John Adams — David McCullough
- Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas [Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas] — John Lynch
- George Washington: A Biography — John R. Alden
- Mark Twain: The Bachelor Years — Margaret Sanborn
- I am a Mathematician — Norbert Wiener
- King of the Gypsies — Peter Maas
- John Maynard Keynes, Vol. Three, Fighting for Freedom — Robert Skidelsky
- Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow
- Churchill: A Biography — Roy Jenkins
- Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux: A Biography — Stanley Vestal
- Kissinger: A Biography — Walter Isaacson
- Thomas Jefferson: A Life — Willard Sterne Randall
*** Campaigns
- From Tree-Hugger to Terrorist — Bruce Barcott
- Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse — Martha F. Lee
- Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement — R. Scarce
- Rules for Radicals — Saul Alinsky
- Guilty pleas unveil the tale of eco-arson on Vail summit — Steve Lipsher
- Understanding Social Movements: Theories from the Classical Era to the Present — Steven M. Buechler
*** Crime
- Mobster myths revisited — Dan Vergano
- Narco-states: Africa's next menace — Davin O'Regan
- Termites at Work: A Report on Transnational Organized Crime and State Erosion in Kenya—Comprehensive Research Findings — Peter Gastrow
- Termites at Work: Transnational Organized Crime and State Erosion in Kenya — Peter Gastrow
- Mexico's Meth Warriors — Tim Padgett and loan Grillo
- Seeking the Criminal Element — W. Wayt Gibbs
*** Ecology
- The Bug That's Eating America — Anita Hamilton
- Planet of Weeds — David Quammen
- Invasive species blighting the landscape — Elizabeth Weise
- Only One World: Our Own to Make and to Keep — Gerard Piel
- After the apocalypse — Henry Shukman
- E.O. Wilson's Theory of Everything — Howard W. French
- Solar plans pit green vs. green: Renewable energy projects could threaten species, habitat — Keith Matheny
- Instant Expert 9: Mass Extinctions — Michael J. Benton
- Causes and Consequences of Species Extinctions — Navjot S. Sodhi, Barry W. Brook, and Corey J.A. Bradshaw,
- The Medea Hypothesis — Peter Ward
- World Without Ice — Robert Kunzig
- Princeton Guide to Ecology — Simon A. Levin (ed.)
*** Economics
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Home Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis — Christopher L. Peterson
- From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation — David Ramsay Steele
- The National Consensus in German Economic History — Frank B. Tipton
- The Theory of Price — George J. Stigler
- A Primer on Organizational Behavior — James L. Bowditch, Anthony F. Buono and Marcus M. Stewart
- Relation Between Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement — Karl White
- Catastrophe: Risk and Response — Richard A. Posner
- The Economic Transformation of America Since 1865 — Robert Heilbroner and Aaron Singer
- The Subprime Mortgage Market Collapse: A Primer on the Causes and Possible Solutions — Ronald D. Utt
- The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto — W.W. Rostow
*** History
- Ochrana — A. Wassiliew
- Tiananmen ghosts — Adi Ignatius
- A Different View of Poland — Agnieszka Napierala-Cowen
- Massai-Broncho Apache — Alberta Begey
- New England Frontier Puritans and Indians 1620–1675 — Alden Vaughan
- The Influence of Sea Power upon History — Alfred Thayer Mahan
- Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections — Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner (eds.)
- Henry VIII- The King and His Court — Alison Weir
- The Log of a Cowboy — Andy Adams
- Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place — Angie Debo
- The Fall of Berlin — Anthony Read and David Fisher
- The Wives of Henry VIII — Antonia Fraser
- The Fate of Empires — Arthur J. Hubbard
- The Age of Metternich 1814–1848 — Arthur May
- Latin America and the Enlightenment — Arthur Whitaker
- The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America — Axtell James
- Livy Books I and II — B. Foster
- A Distant Mirror — Barbara Tuchman
- Napoleon Buonaparte Builder or Wrecker — Beatrice Becker
- The Conquest of New Spain — Bernal Díaz del Castillo
- The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery — Bernard Law, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
- The Arabs in History — Bernard Lewis
- Estancia y sociedad en la Pampa (1740-1820) [Ranch and society in the Pampas] — Carlos A. Mayo
- Vivir en la frontera: La casa — Carlos A. Mayo (ed.)
- In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English — Carmel McCaffrey and Leo Eaton
- Sabores de la pampa: Dieta y habitos de consumo en la frontera bonaerense — Carolina Correa and Matfas Wibaux
- The Origins of Greek Civilization, 1100-650 B. C. — Chester G. Starr
- Great Feuds in History — Colin Evans
- The Medici — Colonel G. F. Young
- The Americans: The Colonial Experience — Daniel J. Boorstin
- Stolen by the Indians — David McKay & Dorothy Heiderstadt
- Cien afos de vaivenes: La frontera bonaerense (1776-1870) — Diana Duart
- Alfred the West Saxon, King of the English — Dugald MacFadyen
- The Elizabethan World Picture — E.M.W. Tillyard
- The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II — Edvard Radzinsky
- A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana — Edward Livingston
- Pole saved 2,500 Jewish kids in WWII — Elaine Woo
- The Dixie Frontier: A Social History — Everett Dick
- Napoleon — Felix Markham
- Labor in America: A History — Foster Rhea Dulles
- The Conspiracy of Pontiac — Francis Parkman
- The Old Regime in Canada — Francis Parkman
- Villa and Zapata — Frank McLynn
- Imperial China, 900-1800 — Frederick W. Mote
- The Road to Wigan Pier — G. Orwell
- Das Neunzehnte Jahrhundert: Geschichtlicher und Kulturhistorischer Riickblick [The Nineteenth Century: Historical and Cultural-Historical Review] — G.A. Zimmermann
- Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War — Gaius Sallustius
- The Cambridge History of Warfare — Geoffrey Parker (ed.)
- Robert Bruce & The Community of the Realm of Scotland — Geoffrey W.S. Barrow
- The Crowd in History, 1730-1848 — George Rude
- The End of the Golden Age — Gordon A. Craig
- The Norse Discovery of America — Graenlendinga Saga
- Los tramperos del Arkansas — Gustavo Aimard
- A Handbook of Greek Mythology — H. Rose
- Rats, Lice, and History — Hans Zinsser
- Medieval Cities — Henri Pirenne
- Mohammed and Charlemagne — Henri Pirenne
- Histories — Herodotus
- Minds and Machines — Hilary Putnam
- Our Southern Highlanders — Horace Kephart
- Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives — Hugh Davis Graham and Ted Robert Gurr (eds.)
- The History of Violence in America — Hugh Graham
- The Last Days of Hitler — Hugh Trevor-Roper
- The Sallres of Juvenal — Humphries
- Baroque Times in Old Mexico — Irving Leonard
- Historia de la Literatura Espanola — J. Garda Lopez
- My Life as an Indian — J. Schultz
- The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into its Origin and Growth — J.B. Bury
- Felled on the Field of Honor — Jack Lynch
- Grijalva's Revenge on the Apaches — Jacqueline Meketa
- A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 — James Cook
- A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 2 — James Cook
- The Pacific War Encyclopedia — James F. Dunnigan, and Albert A. Nofi,
- America in the Twentieth Century: A History — James T. Patterson
- A Concise History of Mexico: From Hidalgo to Cardenas, 1805-1940 — Jan Bazant
- Daily Life in Ancient Rome — Jerome Carcopino
- A Concise History of Poland — Jerzy Lukowski and Hubert Zawadzki
- Sylva, Vol. 1; Or A Discourse of Forest Trees — John Evelyn
- The Second World War — John Keegan
- Understanding Japanese Society — Joy Hendry
- The Gallic Wars — Julius Caesar
- The Ancient Engineers — L. Sprague de Camp
- Vida material en la frontera bonaerense (1736-1870) — Laura Leonor Cabrejas
- Many Mexicos — Lesley Simpson
- Gilded Age, Gilded Cage — Leslie T. Chang
- The Transformation of the Roman World AD 400 900 — Leslie Webster and Michelle Brown (eds.)
- Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey — Lillian Schlissel
- The Year of Battles: A History of the Franco-German War of 1870–71 (portion) — Linus Brockett
- History warns of lraq's fall — Lionel Beehner
- Plutarch: Selected Lives and Essays — Louise Loomis
- A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century — Margaret Labarge
- The Ancient Near East History — Mario Liverani
- My Lives in Russia — Markoosha Fischer
- Ancient and Medieval Coins — Marshall Faintich
- The European Powers — Martin Gilbert
- Combat Missions of American Airmen to Poland in World War II: A Story of Charles Keutman — Martin Wolk
- Livro de Ouro da Historia do Brasil — Mary del Priore and Renato Pinto Venancio
- Islam Confronts its Demons — Max Rodenbeck
- Daily Life in the Inca Empire — Michael A. Malpass
- The Aztecs: A History — Nigel Davies
- Journal of a Trapper — Osborne Russell
- The World of the Huns — Otto Maenchen-Helfen
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of China — Patricia Buckley Ebrey
- Images of American Radicalism — Paul Buhle and Edmund B. Sullivan
- A Popular History of the Reformation — Philip Hughes
- Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen — Pierre Goubert
- The Templars — Piers Paul Read
- Sociabilidad, espacio urbano y politizacion en la ciudad de Buenos Aires (1820-1852) [Sociability, urban space and politicization in the city of Buenos Aires (1820-1852)] — Pilar Gonzalez Bernaldo
- The Agricola and the Germania — Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus
- The Annals — Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus
- The Making of the Middle Ages — R. Southern
- Size and Duration of Empires: Systematics of Size — Rein Taagepera
- English Gentleman — Richard Brathwait
- White Savage: The Case of John Dunn Hunter — Richard Drinnon
- The Czech Republic: A Nation of Velvet — Rick Fawn
- Violence in America, Vol I & II, 1979 — Robert Gurr
- The Ancient Maya — Robert J. Sharer
- The Colditz Story — RR. Reid
- The Confessions, trans. by Maria Boulding — Saint Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus)
- Admiral of the Ocean Sea; A Life of Christopher Columbus — Samuel Morison
- A History of Middle Ages — Sidney Painter
- French Chivalry — Sidney Painter
- History of the Middle Ages 284-1500 — Sidney Painter
- Routes of change: Production and distribution in the West (5th-8th century) — Stephane Lebecq
- A History of the Crusades, Vol. III, The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades — Steven Runciman
- The Twelve Caesars — Suetonius
- A Short History of 20th Century England 1868–1962 — T.L. Jarman
- Annals of Imperial Rome — Tacitus
- The Making of a Counter Culture — Theodore Roszak
- Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer — Thomas B. (interpreter) Marquis
- A History of the Vikings — Thomas Downing Kendrick
- The Peloponnesian War — Thucydides
- The Course of the South to Secession — Ulrich Phillips
- The Russian people; A reader on their history and culture — V. Bill
- The Folklore and History of the Oregon Fever — Verne Bright
- The Fog of a Jack Tar; Or, the Life of James Choyce, Master Mariner — V.L. Cameron (ed.)
- World of the Maya — Victor Wolfgang von Hagen
- The Geography Behind History — W. Gordon East
- Alexander II and the Modernization of Russia — W.E. Masse
- The Polish Peasant in Europe and America — W.I. Thomas and F. Znaniecki
- Life in the Rocky Mountains — Warren Ferris
- The Peasant in Nineteenth Century Russia — Wayne S. Vucinich (ed.)
- A Moral History of Indian-White Relations — Wilcomb E. Washburn
- The Story of Civilization — Will Durant
- India: The War Over History — William Dalrymple
- History of the Conquest of Mexico — William Prescott
- The Conquest of Mexico — William Prescott
- The Conquest of Peru — William Prescott
- A History of the English-Speaking Peoples — Winston Churchill
- Ancient World
- Celts
- History of England
- Roman Imperial Coins
- Russia, A History
- Russian People
*** Literature
- The Stranger — Albert Camus
- Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
- Comes the Comrade! — Alexandra Orme
- Darkness at Noon — Arthur Kursler
- Libros y Autores Cldsicos — Cesar Barja
- A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
- Hard Times — Charles Dickens
- The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
- Sabre La Libertad Humana en el Reino Asturleones — Decimus Juvenalis
- Maximina — Don Armando Palacio Valdez
- Riverita — Don Armando Palacio Valdez
- Crime and Punishment — Dostoyevski
- The Myth of Erk — E=m.c2
- The Monkey Wrench Gang — Edward Abbey
- To a Nose — Francisco Quevedo
- The Octopus: A Story of California, Doubleday — Frank Norris
- Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life — Geir Kjetsaa
- Silas Marner — George Eliot
- Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell
- The Notebooks of Samuel Butler — Henry Festing Jones (ed.)
- Juan Darién — Horacio Quiroga
- Our First Cigarette — Horacio Quiroga
- The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories — Horacio Quiroga
- The Fast Driver — Horacio Quiroga
- The Flies — Horacio Quiroga
- The Wild Colt — Horacio Quiroga
- Grijalva’s Revenge on the Apaches — Jacqueline Meketa
- The Deerslayer — James Cooper
- The Last of the Mohicans — James Cooper
- The Leatherstocking Tales — James Cooper
- Companion to Caesar — James Pearl
- Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
- Tragicomedia Mexicana [Mexican Tragicomedy] — Jose Agustin
- The Romance of Tristan and Iseult — Joseph Bédier
- The Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell
- Great Short Works of Joseph Conrad — Joseph Conrad
- The Nigger of the Narcissus — Joseph Conrad
- The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale — Joseph Conrad
- The Shadow-Line — Joseph Conrad
- Three Short Novels: Heart of Darkness, Youth, Typhoon — Joseph Conrad
- Victory — Joseph Conrad
- Companion to Vergil — Joseph Pearl
- The Fort of Tacquil — Juan Davalos
- Siete Cuentos — Julio Cortázar
- The Cossacks and The Raid — Leo Tolstoy
- Don Quijote — Miguel Cervantes
- The Pocket Book of O’Henry Stories — O. Henry
- The Metamorphoses — Ovid
- La Vida es Suefio [Life Is a Dream] — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Self-Reliance and Other Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Hatchet Man — Richard Dillion
- The Revelation of John — Richard Lattimore
- Red October — Robert Daniels
- Treasure Island — Robert Stevenson
- Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy
- Stories of the East — W. Maugham
- The Razor’s Edge — W. Maugham
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl — Willa Cather
- As You Like It — William Shakespeare
- Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare
- The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare
*** Mathematics
- The Essence of Chaos — Edward N. Lorenz
- Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort. US Department of Education — M. Dynarski
*** Medical Science
- The Spatial Dynamics of Poliomyelitis in the United States: From Epidemic Emergence to Vaccine-Induced Retreat, 1910-1971 — Barry Trevelyan, Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew D. Cliff
- How Animals and Humans Exchange Disease — David Quammen
- Epidemiology — H. Divan
- Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy — M. Greaves
- Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction — Michael L. McKinney and Julie L. Lockwood
- The Epidemiology of Poliomyelitis: Enigmas Surrounding its Appearance, Epidemicity, and Disappearance — Neal Nathanson and John R. Martin
- Parasitic worms and inflammatory diseases — P. Zaccone and Z. Fehervari
- Epidemiology of migraine among students from randomly selected secondary schools in Lodz — W. Split and W. Neuman
*** Nature Writing
- Paradise Below Zero — Calvin Rutstrum
- Selkirk’s Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe — Diana Souhami
- Walden; or, Life in the Woods — Henry Thoreau
- The Book Of Camping And Woodcraft — Horace Kephart
- The Desert Year — Joseph Krutch
- My Neck of the Woods — Louise Dickinson
- The Land of Little Rain — Mary Austin
- Driftwood Valley — Thedora C. Stamwell-Fletcher
- An Island To Oneself — Tom Neale
- A Cruising Voyage Round the World — Woodes Rogers
*** Philosophy
- The Analects — Confucius
- Darwin’s Dangerous Idea — Daniel C. Dennett
- Mirror Worlds — David Gelernter
- Der Waldgang (The Way of the Forest) — E Junger
- The Yale Book of Quotations — Fred R. Shapiro (ed.)
- Intellectual Foundations of China — Frederick Mote
- The Anti-Christ — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Twilight of the Idols — Friedrich Nietzsche
- One Dimensional Man — H. Marcuse
- Energy and Equity — Ivan Illich
- Tools for Conviviality — Ivan Illich
- Anarchy and Christianity — Jacques Ellul
- Propaganda — Jacques Ellul
- Emile, or On Education — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Singularity — Lev Grossman
- Knowledge Among Men — Lewis Mumford
- The Myth of the Machine — Lewis Mumford
- The Prince and The Discourses — Niccolo Machiavelli
- Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist — Paul Arthur Schilpp (ed.)
- The Singularity is Near — R. Kurzweil
- El Perfil del Hombrey la Cultura en Mexico — Samuel Ramos
- The Portable Plato — Scott Buchanan (ed.)
- Animals Make Us Human — Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
- The Neo-Primitivist Turn — V. Li
- End of Nature — W. McKibben
- The Portable Nietzsche — Walter Kaufmann (ed.)
*** Phyiscs
- Zu Max Plancks sechzigstem Geburtstag. Ansprachen, gehalten am 26. April 7978 in der Deutschen Physikallschen [On Max Planck's sixtieth birthday. Speeches given on April 26, 7978 in the German Physics Society] — E. Warburg, M. von Laue, A. Sommerfeld, and A. Einstein,
- The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein — Robert Schulmann, AJ. Kox, Michael Janssen and Jozsef Illy (eds.),
*** Poetry
- John Barbour's The Bruce — A.A.M. Duncan (ed.)
- The Poems of Jonathan Swift — William Ernst Browning (ed.)
*** Policing
- Committee of Vigilance — George Stewart
- The Vigilantes of Montana — Thomas Dimsdale
- Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving — Tim Kane
*** Politics
- Ecology, Community and Lifestyle — A. Naess
- The Ochrana: The Russian Secret Police — A.T. Vassilyev
- Making it in America — Adam Davidson
- Democracy in America (2 Vols.) — Alexis de Tocqueville
- Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist (2 Vols.) — Allan Nevins
- Founders would dump Trump — Andrew Trees
- El Politico, Primera edici6n, Fondo de Cultura Econ6mica — Azorin (Jose Martinez Ruiz)
- Below the Line — Barbara Kiviat
- Poland's Government I — Beata Stur
- Handmaking America: A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy — Bill Ivey
- Why the Future Doesn't Need Us — Bill Joy
- Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age — Bill McKibben
- Welcome to Doomsday — Bill Moyers
- Hack Attack — Bill Saporito
- Trump exposes climate deal — Bjorn Lomborg
- Hactivist group seeks 'satisfaction — Byron Acohido
- The Ghostwriter: How to Spin Pharmaceutical Research — Carl Elliot
- What's made from oil goes way beyond the gas pump — Charisse Jones
- What if We Never Run Out of Oil? — Charles C. Mann
- The Next Catastrophe: Reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters — Charles Perrow
- Notes Toward a Neo-Luddite Manifesto — Chellis Glendinning
- Chinese Political Thought in the Twentieth Century — Chester Tan
- Immigrants' home life makes trip worth the risk — Christal Hayes
- The Pity of War — Christopher Hitchens
- Globalization Bites Back — Chrystia Freeland
- The American Presidency — Clinton Rossiter
- Jet Race: In 1956, the Soviets held first place—briefy — Craig Mellow
- The Information War — Dale Minor
- Democracy in Mexico: Peasant Rebellion and Political Reform — Dan La Botz
- Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition — Daniel Okrent
- The Talk of the Town — David Remnick
- The Little State That Could — David von Drehle
- Argentina, sociedad de masas [Argentina, mass society] — Di Tella, Torcuato S. - Germani, Gino - Graciarena, Jorge y colaboradores
- Trying to 'Salvage' Nation, Nigeria's President Faces a Crisis in Every Direction — Dionne Searcy
- The Founding of Zegota — Douglas W. Jacobson
- How Machiavelli made Trump into a virtue — E. H. Buckley
- Veiled Rebellion — Elizabeth Rubin
- Letter from China: Angry Youth — Evan Osnos
- Roman Political Ideas and Practice — F.E. Adock
- True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society — Farhad Manjoo
- The End of History? — Francis Fukuyama
- Mexico's Revenge — Franklin Foer
- State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability — Gary Gardner, Tom Prugh and Michael Renner (project directors)
- Germans — George Bailey
- Simon Bolivar: Escritos Politicos — Graciela Soriano (ed.)
- Can Anyone run a city? — Gus Tyler
- New Understandings of Administration — Harleigh Trecker
- La vida politica en la Argentina de! siglo XXIX: Armas, votosy voces — Hilda Sabato and Alberto Lettieri (eds.)
- As free-market democracies flail, China is the rare 'success' — Ian Bremmer
- History of American Socialisms — J. H. Noyes
- Bolivar and the Independence of Spanish America — J.B. Trend
- Fuel for thought — James Surowiecki
- Monarch in the Middle — Jeffrey Goldberg
- The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right — Jeffrey Kaplan and Leonard Weinberg
- Containing Trump — Jonathan Rauch
- The Revolt of the Masses — José Ortega y Gasset
- Getting Past the Troubles — Joshua Hammer
- 'Social Risk' Test Ordered By China for Big Projects — Keith Bradsher
- Franco: Cronica de un tiempo. Victoria frente al bloqueo. Desde 1945 hasta 1953 — Luis Suarez
- There are no Threats to Democracy in Poland — Lukasz Szelag
- La visibilidad del consenso. Representaciones en torno al sufragio en la primera mitad del siglo XIX [The visibility of consensus. Representations of suffrage in the first half of the 19th century] — Marcela Ternavasio
- Torture and Truth — Mark Danner
- The Organizational Weapon — Martin Krygier & Philip Selznick
- Our Final Hour: A Scientist’s Warning — Martin Rees
- Parties and Politics in the Early Republic — Morton Borden
- Lives in the Balance: The Cold War and American Politics, 1945-1991 — Moti Nissani
- Skid Road — Murray Morgan
- Review of “Only One World” (by G. Piel) — N. Keyfitz
- Capitalism vs. the Climate — Naomi Klein
- Theory of Collective Behavior — Neil Smelser
- The Great Forgetting — Nicholas Carr
- The Eviction Curse — Patrick Sharkey
- The Survival of the Adversary Culture — Paul Hollander
- The Population Bomb — Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich
- Trump's Intellectuals — Peter Beinart
- The American President: The Human Drama of Our Nation's Highest Office — Philip B.,Jr. Kunhardt, Philip B. Kunhardt III, and Peter W. Kunhardt,
- The Border of Madness — Philip Caputo
- Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia — R. Thurston
- Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India’s Maoist Movement — Rahul Pandita
- What Happened to Upward Mobility? — Rana Foroohar
- Land, Liberties and Lordship in a Late Medieval Countryside — Richard C. Hoffmann
- Poland Under Fire — Robert Strybel
- Coming Dark Age, The — Roberto Vacca
- In the Thick of Things — Roger Shattuck
- Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans — Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities
- PiS: Savior or Ruin of Poland? — Stanislaw Bokota
- More Jobs Predicted for Machines, Not People — Steve Lohr
- Tony Blair fears danger ahead for democracies ofthe West — Susan Page
- The Pattern of a Successful Political Movement — Theodore Abel
- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads — Tim Wu
- Science Under Siege: The Politicians’ War on Nature and Truth — Todd Wilkinson
- How Frackers Beat OPEC — Vauhini Vara
- The Outlawed Party: Social Democracy in Germany, 1878-1890 — Vernon L. Lidtke
- Deep Ecology — W and G Sessions Devall
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal — William E. Leuchtenburg
- The Pentagon Labyrinth — Winslow T. Wheeler (ed.)
- My Early Life: A Roving Commission — Winston Churchill
- John Adams and the Prophets of Progress — Zoltán Haraszti
*** Psychology
- Individual Differences: Traits and Factors — Allan Buss
- Personality Similarity in Twins Reared Apart and Together — Auke Tellegen
- Journal of Clinical Psychiatry — B. Grant
- Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders — C. Rice
- Early television exposure and subsequent attentional problems in children — D Christakis
- On Being Sane in Insane Places — D.L. Rosenhan
- Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minessota Study of Twins Reared Apart — David T. Lykken Thomas J. Bouchard Jr, Matthew McGue, Nancy L. Segal and Auke Tellegen
- The Human Zoo — Desmond Morris
- Genes, Drives, and Intellect — Donald Hebb
- Major Disorders of Mind and Brain — Elliot S. Gershon and Ronald O. Rieder
- Associations Between Media Viewing and Language Development in Children Under Age 2 Years — F. Zimmerman
- The Coddling of the American Mind — Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Sense and Nonsense in Psychology — H. Eysenck
- Studies of Stressful Interpersonal Disputation — Henry Murray
- Behavior of captive white-footed mice — J.L. Kavanau
- The Psychologically Battered Child — James Garbarino
- Toward a New Psychology of Women — Jean Miller
- Psychology of Women — Juanita WIlliams
- Human Helplessness: Theory and Application — Judy Garber & Martin E. P. Seligman
- Psychology of adolescence — Karl Garrison
- Genes, Culture and Personality — L. Eaves
- Does Television Cause Autism? — M. Waldman
- Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death — Martin E. P. Seligman
- Power Therapy — Michael Aleksiuk
- Growing Up Absurd — Paul Goodman
- Behavior Control — Perry London
- Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization ‘World Mental Health’ surveys — R Kessler
- Motivation reconsidered: The concept of competence — R. W. White
- Quality of Life in Childhood Migraines — S. Powers
- How People Make Their Own Environments: A Theory of Genotype -> Environment Effects — Sandra Scarr
- A Twice Told Tale: Twins Reared Apart — Thomas Bouchard
- Genetic and Rearing Environmental Influences on Adult Personality: An Analysis of Adopted Twins Reared Apart — Thomas Bouchard
- Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind — Timothy D. Wilson, David A. Reinhard
- Sensory Thresholds And the Concept of ‘Subliminal’ — Tom Bourbon
- Mental Health Brochure
*** Religion
- Die Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten, zweite neu durchgearbeitete Aufage, II. Band [The Mission and Spread of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, Second Revised Edition, Volume II] — Adolf Harnack and Christian Hornung
- A New History of Early Christianity — Charles Freeman
- Navaho Religion: A Study of Symbolism — Gladys A. Reichard
- The God Project — H. Allen Orr
- Gods and Myths of Northern Europe — H. R. Ellis Davidson
- Asimov’s Guide to the Bible — Isaac Asimov
- Altruism in World Religions — Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton (ed.s)
- Psychology and Near-Death Experiences — James Adock
- The Ultra-Holy City — Karl Vick
- The Struggle Within Islam — Rafiq Zakaria
- Eastern Mysticism Vol. 1; The Near East and India — Raymond Over
- The Prose Edda — Snorri Sturluson
- John Calvin: A Sixteenth Century Portrait — William J. Bouwsma
- Holy Bible Dictionary Concordance
*** Revolutions
- The Rise of Italian Fascism, 1918-1922 — A. Rossi
- Stalin: The Man and His Era — Adam B. Ulam
- My New Order — Adolph Hitler
- Hitler: A Study in Tyranny — Alan Bullock
- The French Revolution — Albert Goodwin
- Inside the Third Reich — Albert Speer
- Spandau: The Secret Diaries — Albert Speer
- The Old Regime and the French Revolution — Alexis Henri C M Clerel Tocqueville
- German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach — Andreas Dorpalen
- Gaitan y el problema de la Revolucion Colombiana — Antonio Garcia
- Essentials Works of Marxism — Arthur Mendel
- Aus meinem Leben [My life] — August Bebel
- Road to Revolution: Benjamin Franklin in England 1765-1775 — Cecil B. Currey
- Historia def Franquismo, Vol. I — Daniel Sueiro and Bernardo Diaz Nosty
- Rebellion, Revolution, and Armed Force: A Comparative Study of Fifteen Countries with Special Emphasis on Cuba and South Africa — Diana E.H. Russell
- Marx, Engels Lenin: Historical Materialism — Engels & Lenin Marx
- Die deutsche Opposition gegen Hitler zwischen Polen-und Frankreichfeeldzug [The German opposition to Hitler between Poland and France] — Erich Kosthorst
- Diario de Bolivia — Ernesto Che Guevara
- The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations — Frank Kafker
- Peace by Revolution: Mexico After 1910 — Frank Tannenbaum
- Letter to Joseph Bloch — Friedrich Engels
- Revolution and Reaction 1848–1852 — Geoffrey Bruun
- The United Front — Georgi Dimitrov
- Deutsche Opposition gegen Hitler: Eine Wurdigung [German Opposition to Hitler: A Tribute] — Hans Rothfels
- Essential Works of Lenin — Henry M. Christman (ed.)
- Fidel Castro — Herbert L. Matthews
- The Napoleonic Revolution — Holtn
- El Comunismo Cubano: 1959-1979 — Irving Louis Horowitz
- Cuba: A Revolution in Motion — Isaac Saney
- Autopsy of Revolution — Jacques Ellul
- The Prague Spring 1968 — Jaromir Navratil, Antonin Bencik, Vaclav Kural, Marie Michalkova, and Jitka Vondrova (eds.),
- The Nazi Revolution — John Snell
- Zapata and the Mexican Revolution — John Womack
- Foundations of Leninism — Joseph Stalin
- History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course — Joseph Stalin
- Sociology and Psychology of Communism — Jules Monnerot
- The Communist Manifesto — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel — Lee Lockwood
- History of the Russian Revolution — Leon Trotsky
- Cartas del Presidio: Anticipo de una Biografia de Fidel Castro [Letters from the Prison: Advance of a Biography of Fidel Castro] — Luis Conte Aguero
- Selected Readings from the Works of Mao Tsetung — Mao Zedong (Tsetung)
- Origins of the Latin Amer. Revolutions 1808–1826 — R.A. Humphreys
- The Origins of the Latin American Revolutions — RA. Humphreys andJohn Lynch (eds.)
- The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive — Richard Pipes (ed.)
- The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 — Robert Daniels
- The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism — Robert Kee
- Midcentury Revolution, 1848 — Robert Lougee
- Eurocomunismo y Estado — Santiago Carrillo
- El Franquismo, Segunda Parte, 1950-1959. Apertura exterior y planes de estabilizacion, Arlanza Ediciones — Stanley G. Payne
- Postcard: Berlin — Stephanie Kirchner
- Let's Go Take Back Our Country — Stuart A. Reid
- The French Revolution: A History Vol. 1 & 2 — T. Carlyle
- Leonid I. Brezhnev: Pages from His Life — The Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- Why Lenin? Why Stalin?: A Reappraisal of the Russian Revolution, 1900–1930 — Theodore H. Von Laue
- History of the French Revolution V.1 — Thomas Carlyle
- Dance of the Millions: Military Rule and the Social Revolution in Colombia (1930-1956) — V. L. Fluharty
- Collected Works of Lenin — Vladimir Lenin
- Lenin on Organization — Vladimir Lenin
- A Plague of Insurrection — William H. TeBrake
*** Science
- An Introduction to the World's Oceans — Alyn C. and Alison B. Duxbury
- The New Science of Bad Science — Bourree Lam
- Life Goes to Extremes in the Deep Earth—and Elsewhere? — Richard A. Kerr
- Life in extreme environments: Hydrothermal vents — Robert A. Zierenberg, Michael W.W. Adams, and Alissa J. Arp,
- On the Infuence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground — Svante Arrhenius
- An obligately photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent — Thomas J. Beatty
- Backward Masking, and Other Backward Thoughts About Music — Tom Mclver
*** Sociology
- The True Believer — Eric Hoffer
- The Uncommitted — Eric Hoffer
- Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus [The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism] — Max Weber
- The Civilizing Process — Norbert Elias
- The Organization Man — William Whyte
*** Technology
- The Nanotechnology Revolution — Adam Keiper
- A revolution gone awry — Aditya Batra
- To Catch a Drone — Amanda Ripley
- Merely Human? So Yesterday — Ashlee Vance
- Meet Shaky, the frst electronic person — Brad Darrach
- Mind vs. Machine — Brian Christian
- Power Surge: The U.S. is undergoing an energy revolution — Bryan Walsh
- The Gas Dilemma — Bryan Walsh
- China sees unfulfilled potential in wind — Calum MacLeod
- Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies — Charles Perrow
- Small Town Nukes — Chris Carroll
- South African Company to Build U.S. Plant to Convert Gas to Liquid Fuels — Clifford Krauss
- Letter to editor — Curt Woodall
- Readings in the Philosophy of Technology — D. Kaplan (ed.)
- Learning to Live With Fossil Fuels — Daniel Sarewitz and Roger Pielke Jr.
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science — David Freedman
- U.S. faces technology crisis — David Gelernter
- How Technology is Destroying Jobs — David Rotman
- A World Without Work — Derek Thompson
- They're Watching You at Work — Don Peck
- Meet the architects of data theft — Donna Leinwand and Anna Arutunyan Leger
- Potential Markers for Problematic Internet Use — E. Aboujaoude
- Crash Course: Can a seventeen-mile-long collider unlock the universe? — Elizabeth Kolbert
- U.S. Is Forecast to be No. 1 Oil Producer — Elizabeth Rosenthal
- DIY 'biopunks' want science in hands of people — Elizabeth Weise
- The Failure of Technology (Die Perfektion der Technik) — F. Junger
- A History of Western Technology — Friedrich Klemm
- Means Without End — G Davis
- The Nuclear Tourist — George Johnson
- Moving Heaven and Earth — Graeme Wood
- Technology and Human Destiny — H Skolimowski
- The Silicon Valley Suicides — Hanna Rosin
- A Dream Machine — Henry Fountain
- The Technological Society — Jacques Ellul
- Survivor: China — James Fallows
- Silicon Valley and Spy Agency Bound by Strengthening Web — James Risen and Nick Wingfield
- The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think — James Somers
- Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation?” — Jean M. Twenge
- Wildlife Conservation and Solar Energy Development in the Desert Southwest, United States — Jeffrey E. Lovich and Joshua R. Ennen
- The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World — Jeremy Rifkin
- The End of Plenty — Joel K. Bourne Jr.
- Agriculture: Ending the World as We Know It — John Feeney
- Return of the killer nanobots — John Leslie
- Ay Robot! Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man — John Markoff
- Pentagon Offers a Robotics Prize — John Markoff
- Skilled Work, Without the Worker — John Markoff
- U.S. Oil Notches Record Growth — Keith Johnson and Russell Gold
- The Danger of Cosmic Genius — Kenneth Brower
- What Technology Wants — Kevin Kelly
- Occupational Environmental Medicine — L. Hardell
- A preliminary assessment of avian mortality at utilityscale solar energy facilities in the United States — Leroy J. Walston Jr.
- Down and Dirty — Lisa Margonelli
- Risk Analysis and Management — M. Granger Morgan
- Our Final Century — M. Rees
- Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy — Martin Lindstrom
- Could a robot steal your job? — Mary Jo Webster
- Nuclear Industry Seeks Interim Site to Receive Waste — Matthew L. Wald
- What Now for Nuclear Waste? — Matthew L. Wald
- Killer Bees — Melinda Blau
- Are we ready to play God? — Mike Feibus
- Extractive Metallurgy of Rare Earths — Nagaiyar Krishnamurthy and Chiranjib Kumar Gupta
- Green Revolution — Naruo Uehara
- Resolving safety issues for a demonstration fusion power plant — Neill Taylor
- Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Tranforming the Industrial State — Nicholas A. Ashford and Ralph P. Hall
- We're Running Out of Antibiotics — Nicole Allan
- Eco-catastrophe — Paul Elrich
- Energy official wants contractor relieved — Peter Eisler
- Silent Spring — R Carson
- Promise and Peril. In Living with the Genie — R Kurzweil
- Science, Technology; and Society — R Mcginn
- Technology as Magic — R Stivers
- Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition — R. and V. Dusek. Scharff
- The Promise and the Peril — Ray Kurzweil
- Solar energy development impacts on land cover change and protected areas — Rebecca R. Hernandez
- The Drone Started Here — Richard Whittle
- Strange Matters: Can Advanced Accelerators Initiate Runaway Reactions? — Russell Ruthen
- Against Technology: From the Luddites to the Neo-Luddites — S. Jones
- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says humans will be robots' pets — Samuel Gibbs
- Shell Bets on a Colossal Floating Liquefied Natural Gas Factory Off Australia — Stanley Reed
- American Journal of Industrial Medicine — T. Nakazawa
- The Secret Ingredients of Everything — Tim Folger
- What Nuclear Reactor Can Teach Us About the Economy — Tim Harford
- Gold Rush days leave toxic legacy — Traci Watson
- The Hidden Persuaders — Vance Packard
- Naked Society — Vance Packard
- Nuclear industry sees new generation of reactors — Wendy Koch
- Bird deaths soar at wind farms — William M. Welch
- The Longitudinal Effects of the 'Green Revolution' on the Infant Mortality Rate in Thailand — Yukinori Okada and Susumu Wakai
- Pesticides: Sowing Poison, Growing Hunger, Reaping Sorrow — Meriel Watts
- Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides: A Leading Cause of Cancer Among Rural People in Pakistan — Sohail Ejaz
*** Terrorism
- Terror and Resistance; A Study of Political Violence — Eugene Victor Walter
- Assassination and Political Violence, Vol. 8 — U.S. Congress
*** Travel
- Al pie de un volcdn te escribo: Cronicas latinoamericanas [At the foot of a volcano I write to you: Latin American Chronicles] — Alma Guillermoprieto
- David Livingstone: Mission and Empire — Andrew C. Ross
- The First Crossing of Greenland — Fridtjof Nansen
- Kabloona — Gontran Poncins
- How I found Livingstone — Henry Stanley
- Song from the Forest — Louis Sarno
- Greenland Lies North — William S. Carlson
*** Warfare
- A History of the First World War — A.J.P. Taylor
- The Real War 1914-1918 — B.H. Liddell Hart
- The Complete War: Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle — Charles de Gaulle
- The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England — Dan Jones
- Command and Control — David Rothkopf
- Secret Agent: The True Story of the Covert War Against Hitler — David Stafford
- Facundo. Civilizacion y Barbarie [Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism] — Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
- The Korean War — Donald Knox
- Colonial Indian Wars — Douglas Edward Leach
- War Goes Viral: How Social Media is Being Weaponized — Emerson T. Brooking and P.W. Singer
- Don't Make Hollow 'Threats — Fareed Zakaria
- Europa bajo los escombros: Los bombardeos aereos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial [Europe under the rubble: Aerial bombings in the Second World War] — Fernando Paz
- The Bitter End — Freeman Dyson
- Knowing the Enemy — George Packer
- The Greatest War: Americans in Combat 1941-1945 — Gerald Astor
- The Making of a Disaster — Gordon S. Wood
- Just Shoot Me — James Dunaway
- La Segunda Guerra Mundial: 50 aftos despues, No. 67: Operacion Walkiria. Objetivo: matar al Fuhrer [The Second World War: 50 Aphthous Later, no. 67: Operation Walkiria. Objective: kill the Fuhrer] — Jose Luis Cebrian
- Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier — Joseph Plumb Martin
- Restoration: 'Hawks Come Home - Two stray Curtiss P-40K Warhawks find a good home in Minnesota — Ken Scott
- Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance — Martin van Creveld
- No Longer a Soldier — Matt Gallagher
- Pilot not included — Michael Milstein
- El Camino de la Paz [The Struggle for Peace] — Oscar Arias Sanchez
- Cat-and-Mouse Games — Patrick Radden Keefe
- The Third Reich at War 1939-1945 — Richard J. Evans
- Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control — Ross Hassig
- Lieutenant Ivan Baranovsky's P-39 — Tim Wright
- The Arms of Krupp — William Manchester
*** Misc.
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations — John Bartlett
- World Book Encyclopedia, The, 2017