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The reading roomMy reading room is primarily a listing of the books I have read for domestication cycles research from the last 10 years. A few of the books I read before at the University of Maryland for some of the history classes I had taken. In some of those cases the books are now out of print and this is why some of the books have no hyperlink. The listing is organized by the historical economic age they address. For those that span more than one age I have filed under current long wave heading as that's when they were written. The hyperlinks take you to the books and the hyperlinks for the authors take you to listings of all the books that they have written.
Archeology texts & history
The Origin of Humankind By: Richard Leakey
Origins Reconsidered By: Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art By: David Lewis-Williams
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods. By: David Lewis-Williams, David Pearce
Patterns in Prehistory. By: Wenke & Olszewski
Journey Through the Ice Age. By: Paul G. Bahn, Jean Vertut
After the Ice. A global human history 20,000-5000BC By: Steven Mithen
Shamanism and the Ancient Mind : A Cognitive Approach to Archaeology By: James L. Pearson
Archaeology, Ritual, Religion (Themes in Archaeology S.) By: Timothy Insoll
A Cosmos In Stone: Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art. By: David Lewis-Williams
Chauvet Cave. By: Jean Clottes
Return to Chauvet Cave. By: Jean Clottes
Lascaux. Movement, Space and Time By: Norbert Aujoulat
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art (Cambridge Illustrated Histories) By: Desmond Morris (Foreword), Paul G. Bahn (Author)
Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind By: Randall White
Hunter-gatherer worldview specific
Teaching Spirits : Understanding Native American Religious Traditions. By: Joseph Epes Brown, Emily Cousins
Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing By: Robert Wolf & Thom Hartmann (Foreword), et al
Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup'Ik Eskimo Oral Tradition (The Civilization of the American Indian, Vol. 212). By: Ann Fienup-Riordan
Rock Engravings of Southern Africa By: Thomas Dowson
The Four Agreements. By: Miquel Ruiz
Agricutural Era archeology & history
Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began. By: Colin Tudge
Last Hunters-First Farmers: New Perspectives on the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture By: School of American Research, et al
The Dawn of Human Culture. By: Richard G. Klein
First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies By: Peter Bellwood
They Wrote on Clay By: Edward Chiera. Edited by: George G. Cameron
When God was a Woman By: Merlin Stone
Tacitus: The Agricola and the Germania Translated by: H. Mattingly and revised by: S.A. Handford
The History of God. By Karen Armstrong
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible By: Kohn C. Collins
Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations. By: Norman Yoffee
Classical Religions and Myths of the Mediterranean Basin. By: Dr. Jon David Solomon
A history of Greece. By: Cyril Robinson
The Greek Experience By: C.M. Bowra
The Romans and their world By: Peter D. Arnott
A history of Rome. By: Cyril Robinson
The Great Transformation : The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions By: Karen Armstrong
The Gnostic Gospels By: Elaine Pagels
The Early Church By: Henry Chadwick
Pagan & Christian in an Age of Anxiety By: E.R Dodds
Constantine and Eusebius By: Timothy D. Barnes
Arius: Heresy and Tradition By: Rowan Williams
Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire By: Timothy D. Barnes
Islam: A Short History By: Karen Armstrong
The Teachings of Rumi. By: Andrew Harvey
Thought & Letters in Western Europe AD500 to 900 By: M.L.W. Laistner
The Carolingian Empire By: Heinrich Fichtenau
Heroes of History. By: Will Durant
Medieval Cities. Their origins and the Revival of Trade By: Henri Pirenne
Medieval technology and social change By: Lynn White Jr.
The Making Of The Middle Ages By: R.W. Southern
Feudal Society By: Marc Bloch. Translated by L.A. Manyon
India: A History By: John Keay
China : A New History, Enlarged Edition By: John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman
The Earthly Republic Edited by: Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt
The Pursuit of the Millenium By: Norman Cohn
The Age of Religious Wars 1559-1715 By: Richard S. Dunn
Collapse. By: Jared M. Diamond
The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan
Agricultural Era religious texts
The Holy Vedas By: Pandit Satyakam Vidyalankar
The Upanishads. By: Alistair Shearer (Translator), Peter Russell (Translator)
The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison (Penguin Classics)
The Book of the Dead By: E.A. Wallis Budge
The Homeric Hymns By: Apostlos N. Athanassakis
Myths of the Greeks and Romans By: Michael Grant
Greek Tragedies: Volume 2 David Greene and Richard Lattimore editors
Books of the Dead By: Stanislav Grof
Forgotten Truth : The Common Vision of the World's Religions By: Huston Smith
The World's Wisdom : Sacred Texts of the World's Religions By: Philip Novak
Mahabharata By: Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan (Translator)
Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition. By: Lao Tzu, Jonathan Star (Translator)
Bhagavad Gita By: T. Nikhilananda (Translator)
Niddah (Hebrew-English Edition of the Babylonian Talmud)
Avesta: The Religious Books of the Parsees. Volumes 1-3 By: Arthur Henry Bleeck
The Torah. By: Rodney Mariner
The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha). By: Maurice Walshe
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha) By: Bhikkhu Nanamoli
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya. By: Bikkhu Bodhi
Nag Hammadi Scriptures, The: The International Edition
Isis in the Ancient World By: R. E. Witt
The Roman Cult of Mithras By: Manfred Clauss
The Secret Book Of John: The Gnostic Gospel / Annotated & Explained By: Stevan L. Davies
Early Christian Writings Translated by: Maxwell Stanisforth
Pistis Sophia : The Gnostic Tradition of Mary Magdalene, Jesus, and His Disciples By: G. R. S. Mead
Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ. By: Tau Malachi
Holy Bible King James Version Study Bible
Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History By: Isaac Boyle
Saint Augustine Confessions Translated by: R.S. Pine-Coffin
The Rule of St. Benedict Translated by: Anthony C. Meisel and M.L. Mastro
The Qur'an: Text, Translation & Commentary By: Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Editor)
Thomas A Kempis. The Imitation of Christ Translated by: Leo Sherley-Price
Machine Era
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. By: Jared M. Diamond
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology By: Ray Kurzweil
The first Industrial Revolution. By: Phyllis Deane
A Concise History of World Populations By: Livi-Bacci
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. By: David S. Landes
From Dawn to Decadence - 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to Present. By: Jacques Barzun
The other side of western civilization: Readings in everyday life. Edited by: Peter N. Stearns
European Society in Upheaval. Social history since 1750 By: Peter N. Stearns
A history of British trade unionism 1770-1990 By: Keith Laybourn
Industrializtion in 19th century Europe By: Kemp
Nineteenth century European civilization. By: Geoffrey Bruun
The Age of Capital 1848-1875. By: Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Empire 1875-1914. By: Eric Hobsbawm
The decline of Laissez Faire 1897-1917. By: Harold U. Faulkner
The End of the European Era 1890 to present By: Gilbert
The search for order 1877-1920. By: Robert H. Wiebe
The Great Transformation. The political and economic origins of our time. By: Karl Polanyi
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages By: Carlota Perez
As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution By: Chris Freeman
The First Industrial Revolution By: Phyllis Deane
A History of Computing Technology, 2nd Edition By: Michael R. Williams
Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries, with a new preface (Harvard Studies in Business History) By: Alfred D., Jr. Chandler
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age By: Michael A. Hiltzik
Chaos: Making a New Science By: James Gleick
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture By: Jamshid Gharajedaghi
Complexity: the Emerging Science At the Edge of Order and Chaos. By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
Technological Forecasting and Long-Range Planning By: Ayres, Robert U.
Eboys : The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work By: Randall E. Stross
Deep Ancestry: Inside The Genographic Project By: Spencer Wells
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century By: Thomas L. Friedman
Powerless: Our Children's Future. By: James R. Owen
The 3 P's which drove the 20th century
Physiology
The Journey of Man. By: Spencer Wells
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins. By: Steve Olson
The Evolutionary Neuroethology of Paul MacLean: Convergences and Frontiers By: Gerald A. Cory (Editor), Russell Gardner (Editor)
The Dragons of Eden. By: Carl Sagan
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. By: Eric R. Kandel
Animals in Translation By: Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships By: Daniel Goleman
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ By: Daniel Goleman
Descartes' Error. By: Antonio R. Damasio
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution the Meanings of Life Daniel C. Dennett
Freedom Evolves By: Daniel C. Dennett.
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain. By: Sharon Begley
Psychology/Philosophy
The interpretation of dreams. By: Sigmund Freud
Beyond freedom and dignity. By: B.F. Skinner
The archetypes of the collective unconscious. By: Carl Jung
Understanding human nature By: Alfred Adler
Man's search for meaning. By: Viktor E. Frankl
Conditioned reflexes: An investigation of the physiological activity of the cerebral cortex. By: Ivan Pavlov
The farther reaches of human nature. By: Abraham Maslow
Gestalt therapy: Excitement and growth in the human Personality. By: Fritz Perls
Gifts Differing: Understanding personality type. By: Isabel Briggs Myers
Creativity: Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention. By: Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
Spiral Dynamics By Don Beck & Christopher Cowan
The gift of fear. By: Gavin de Becker
Freakonomics. By: Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Blink: the power of thinking without thinking. By: Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point. By: Malcolm Gladwell
Lateral Thinking: Creativity step by step. By: Edward de Bono
The Moral Animal. By: Robert Wright.
The stages of Faith. The Psychology of human development. By: James W. Fowler
The Passions. Emotions and the meanings of life. By: Robert C. Solomon
Your Erroneous Zones. By Dr. Wayne Dwyer.
The Power of Your Intention. By Dr. Wayne Dwyer.
The Secret. By: Rhonda Byrne.
Physics
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory By: Brian Greene
A Briefer History of Time By: Stephen Hawking
Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics By: Amir D. Aczel
Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics By: Bruce A. Schumm
The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers By: Alan Lightman
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries By: John Gribbin
20th century art and architecture
History of Modern Art By: Robert Arnason
The Triumph of American Painting. A history of abstract expressionism. By: Irving Sandler
Art and Culture By: Clement Greenberg
Mark Rothko: A Retrospective By: Diane Waldman
Barnett Newman. Edited by: Ann Temkin
Tobey's 80. Forward by: Richard E. Fuller
Willaim De Kooning By: Harry F. Gaugh
Franz Kline Forward by: Ida Gianelli
Jackson Pollock By: Ellen G. Landau
Robert Motherwell Reconciliation elegy Presented by: E.A. Carmean Jr.
Hartung By: Rafeal Santos Torroella
Late Modern. The visual arts since 1945 By: Lucie-Smith
Jasper Johns By: Richard Francis
An interview with Robert Rauschenberg By: Barbara Rose
Rauschenberg: Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin Vorwort by: Diter Ruckhaberle
Jim Dine Text by: David Shapiro
American Sculpture in Process 1930/1970. By: Wayne Anderson
Kenneth Noland By: Diane Waldman
Robert Smitson: Sculpture By: Robert Hobbs
Tom Wesselmann By: I. Stealingworth
David Hockney A Retrospective By: Henry Geldzahler
Roy Lichtenstein By: Lawrence Alloway
Andy Warhol By: David Bourdon
The Bride and the Seven Bachelors By: Calvin Tomkins
Art at the turn of the Millennium Editors: Burkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick
The Russian Experiment in Art By: Camila Gray
The Planar Dimension By: Margit Rowell
Art & Physics By: Leonard Shlain
Passages in Modern Sculpture By: Rosalind E. Krauss
Painting in the twentieth century volumes 1 &2 By: Werner Haftmann
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age By: Reyner Banham
Theories of Modern Art By: Herschel B. Chipp
Some of the current individuals whose work is driving towards
For now I will simply list the authors who have writtten the most prolifically
World View Evolution
Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief By: Rodney Stark
Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition By: Luther Martin
Animism: The Seed of Religion By: Edward Clod
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