My Stack of Books
Since last summer or so, I've been purchasing new and used books. Instead of trying to find a place for them on the shelves of my library, I got into the habit of stacking them up on the first shelf just inside the door of my office. This has created a precarious stack that could fall. As I finally sat down to dismantle it, I thought it would be fun to finally share my recent purchases and explain how they fit in with the rest of my library. (Short on time? Watch the 1 minute preview by clicking here.)
Two of these books were purchased because of interviews I heard on the WILL-AM program, Focus. You can listen to either of those interviews by following the links below:
Two of these books were purchased because of interviews I heard on the WILL-AM program, Focus. You can listen to either of those interviews by following the links below:
- Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason / Russell Shorto, Director of the John Adams Institute, Amsterdam; Contributing Writer at the New York Times
Listen here
- So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers And The First Great Battle Over Church and State / Forrest Church, Ph.D., writer and Minister of All Souls Church of Manhattan
Listen here - If that link is missing please try one of these:
The Book List
(in order of appearance)
(in order of appearance)
- Our country's presidents: all you need to know about the presidents, from george washington to barack obama / by Ann Bausum
ISBN 978-1-4263-0375-3 (3rd Trade Edition)
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- U.S. Presidents Flash Facts: From George Washington to George W. Bush / by National Geographic
Printed by RoseArt — UPC 072348319359
See it on Amazon.com - To kill a mockingbird / by Harper Lee
Popular Library Edition, Published in March 1962
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60007847
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- The color of justice: race, ethnicity, and crimie in America / by Samuel Walker, Cassia Spohn, Miriam DeLone
ISBN 0-534-52364-5 (2nd edition)
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- The ethnic factor: how America's minorities decide elections / by Mark R. Levy and Michael S. Kramer
ISBN 671-21527-2 (pbk.)
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- Why Darwin matters: the case against intelligent design / by Michael Shermer
ISBN-10: 0-8050-8306-5
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- Reviews of creationist books / edited by Liz Rank Hughes
ISBN 0-939873-52-4
See it on Google Books - Living with Darwin: evolution, design, and the future of faith / by Philip Kitcher
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-531444-1
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- The hunting apes: meat eating and the origins of human behavior / by Craig B. Stanford
ISBN 0-691-01160-5
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- Human: the science behind what makes us unique / by Michael S. Gazzaniga
ISBN 978-0-06-089288-3
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- How to become CEO: the rules for rising to the top of any organization / by Jeffery J. Fox
ISBN 978-0-7868-6437-9
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- The success system that never fails / by W. Clement Stone
ISBN 013-859363-9
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- Career tests: twenty-five psychological tests to help you find the career that is right for you / by Louis Janda
ISBN 1-58062-142-2
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- Another monster at the end of this book / by Jon Stone
ISBN 978-0-307-98769-3
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- The monster at the end of this book / by Jon Stone
ISBN 0-307-01085-6
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- Where do kisses come from? / by Maria Fleming
ISBN-10: 0-307-99503-8
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- The Vanishing Adolescent / by Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Published by Dell Publishing Co., Inc. (7th printing—1966)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 59012321
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- Moral minority: our skeptical founding fathers / by Brooke Allen
ISBN 978-1-4351-2122-5
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- So help me God: the Founding Fathers and the first great battle over church and state / by Forrest Church
ISBN 978-0-15-101185-8
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- Pilgrims in their own land: 500 years of religion in America / by Martin E. Marty
ISBN 0-140-08268-9 (pbk.)
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- God on trial: landmark cases from America's religious battlefields / by Peter Irons
ISBN 978-0-14-311375-1 (pbk.)
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- The godless constitution: a moral defense of the secular state / by Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore
ISBN 0-393-32837-6
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- Backstabbers: the reality of politics / by Rickey Hendon
ISBN 978-0-89733-602-4
See it on Google Books - Back Stabbers (album) / by The O'Jays
Produced by Philidelphia International Records, 1972
Listen on Google - Take it back: our party, our country, our future / by James Carville and Paul Begala
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-7752-5
See it on Google Books - Rubik's Cube / originally by Ideal Toy Corporation, 1980
(item shown is probably a "Magic Cube" key chain)
See the current Hasbro version on Google Products - The Ideal Solution: Rubik's Cube / by Ideal Toy Corporation
Published by The Ideal Toy Corporation, 1981.
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- Moyers on democracy: title / by Bill Moyers
ISBN 978-0-385-52380-6
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- The American way of war: guided missiles, misguided men, and a republic in peril / by Eugene Jarecki
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-4456-2
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- The secret destiny of America / by Manly P. Hall
ISBN 978-1-58542-662-1
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- Amusing ourselves to death: public discourse in the age of show business / by Neil Postman
ISBN 978-0-14-303653-1
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- Future shock / by Alvin Toffler
Published by Bantam Books, 1971
Library of Congress Card Catalog Number: 67012744
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- Teach yourself the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / by Stewart Ross
ISBN 978-0-07-174767-7
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- Teach yourself politics / by Peter Joyce
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-148462-6
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- The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy / by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-17772-0
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- Descartes' bones: a skeletal history of the conflict between faith and reason / by Russell Shorto
ISBN 978-0-385-51753-9
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- 50 philosophy ideas you really need to know / by Ben Dupré
ISBN-13: 978-1-84724-149-8
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- Basic teachings of the great philosophers / by S. E. Frost, Jr.
ISBN 0-385-03007-X
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