Top Twenty Non-Fiction Books
Submitted by keg173 on Wed, 04/19/2006 - 02:57
Tags:
- The Rhetoric—Aristotle (~324 BC)
- Federalist Papers—Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1788)
- On Liberty—John Stuart Mill (1859)
- Roughing It—Mark Twain (1871)
- Jesus the Christ—James Talmage (1915)
- Attitudes Toward History—Kenneth Burke (1937)
- The Two Cultures—C.P. Snow (1959)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions—Thomas Kuhn (1962)
- Six Easy/Not-So-Easy Pieces—Richard Feynman (1963)
- Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student—Edward P.J. Corbett (1965)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach—Douglas Hofstadter (1979)
- Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace—Joseph Williams (1981)
- Cultural Literacy—E.D. Hirsch (1988)
- Paradigms Lost—John Casti (1989)
- The Emperor’s New Mind—Roger Penrose (1989)
- Dave Barry Slept Here—Dave Barry (1990)
- The Way Things Ought to Be—Rush Limbaugh (1993)
- All the Trouble in the World—P.J. O’Rourke (1994)
- The End of Science—John Horgan (1996)
- The Skeptical Environmentalist—Bjorn Lomborg (2001)
The E.D. Hirsch book looks interesting based on title alone. Will be checking the local library for that selection.