{"id":5755,"date":"2013-08-12T08:34:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T08:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2024-12-11T12:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T12:37:21","slug":"influential-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/influential-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Influential Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a list of non-fiction books and articles which have greatly influenced me &#8211; making me see the world differently or act in it differently.  They are listed chronologically according to when I first encountered them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2024 &#8211; Nikki Mark [2023]:  <em>Tommy&#8217;s Field: Love, Loss and the Goal of a Lifetime.<\/em> Union Square.<\/li>\n<li>2023 &#8211; Clare Carlisle [2018]:  &#8220;Habit, Practice, Grace: Towards a Philosophy of Religious Life.&#8221; In:  F. Ellis (Editor): <em>New Models of Religious Understanding.<\/em> Oxford University Press, pp. 97&#8211;115.<\/li>\n<li>2022 &#8211; Sean Hewitt [2022]: <em>All Down Darkness Wide.<\/em>  Jonathan Cape.<\/li>\n<li>2022 &#8211; Stewart Copeland [2009]: <em>Strange Things Happen: A Life with &#8220;The Police&#8221;, Polo and Pygmies.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2019 &#8211; Mary Le Beau (Inez Travers Cunningham Stark Boulton, 1888-1958) [1956]: &nbsp;<em>Beyond Doubt: A Record of Psychic Experience.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2019 &#8211; Zhores A Medvedev [1983]: <em>Andropov: An Insider\u2019s Account of Power and Politics within the Kremlin.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2016 &#8211; Lafcadio Hearn [1897]: <em>Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East.<\/em> London, UK: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner &amp; Company Limited.<\/li>\n<li>2015 &#8211; Benedict Taylor [2011]: <em>Mendelssohn, Time and Memory. The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form. <\/em> Cambridge UP.<\/li>\n<li>2010 &#8211; Hans Kundnani [2009]: <em>Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany\u2019s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust.<\/em> London, UK: Hurst and Company.<\/li>\n<li>2009 &#8211; J. Scott Turner [2007]:&nbsp; <em>The Tinkerer&#8217;s Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself<\/em>.  Harvard UP. (Mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/01\/of-quacking-ducks-and-homeostasis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>2008 &#8211; Stefan Aust [2008]: <em>The Baader-Meinhof Complex.<\/em> Bodley Head.<\/li>\n<li>2008 &#8211; A. J. Liebling [2008]: <em>World War II Writings<\/em>.  New York City, NY, USA: The Library of America.<\/li>\n<li>2008 &#8211; Pierre Delattre [1993]:&nbsp; <em>Episodes<\/em>. St. Paul, MN, USA: Graywolf Press.<\/li>\n<li>2006 &#8211; Mark Evan Bonds [2006]: <i>Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven.<\/i> Princeton UP.<\/li>\n<li>2006 &#8211; Kyle Gann [2006]: <i>Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice.<\/i>  UCal Press.<\/li>\n<li>2005 &#8211; Clare Asquith [2005]: <em>Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare.<\/em> Public Affairs.<\/li>\n<li>2004 &#8211; Igal Halfin [2003]: <em>Terror in My Soul: Communist Autobiographies on Trial.<\/em> Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard UP.<\/li>\n<li> 2002 &#8211; Philip Mirowski [2002]:  <em>Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science.<\/em> Cambridge University Press. <\/li>\n<li>2001 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2010\/02\/vale-george-leonard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Leonard<\/a> [2000]: <i>The Way of Aikido: Life Lessons from an American Sensei.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>2000 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/12\/vale-stephen-toulmin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen E. Toulmin<\/a>&nbsp;[1990]:&nbsp; <em><em>Cosmopolis<\/em><\/em><em>:&nbsp; The Hidden Agenda of Modernity<\/em>.  University of Chicago Press.<\/li>\n<li>1999 &#8211; Michel de Montaigne [1580-1595]: <em>Essays<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1997 &#8211; James Pritchett [1993]:&nbsp; <em>The Music of John Cage<\/em>. Cambridge UP.<\/li>\n<li>1996 &#8211; George Fowler [1995]:&nbsp; <em>Dance of a Fallen Monk: A Journey to Spiritual Enlightenment.<\/em><br \/>\nDoubleday.<\/li>\n<li>1995 &#8211; Chungliang Al Huang and Jerry Lynch [1992]:&nbsp; <em>Thinking Body, Dancing Mind.&nbsp;<\/em> New York: Bantam Books.<\/li>\n<li>1995 &#8211; Jon Kabat-Zinn [1994]: <em>Wherever You Go, There You Are<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1995 &#8211; Charlotte Joko Beck [1993]: <i>Nothing Special: Living Zen.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>1993 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2010\/02\/vale-george-leonard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Leonard<\/a> [1992]: <i><i>Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment.<\/i><\/i><\/li>\n<li>1992 &#8211; Henry Adams [1907\/1918]: <em>The Education.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1990 &#8211; Trevor Leggett [1987]:&nbsp; <em>Zen and the Ways.<\/em> Tuttle.<\/li>\n<li>1989 &#8211; Grant McCracken [1988]:&nbsp; <em>Culture and Consumption.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1989 &#8211; Teresa Toranska [1988]:&nbsp; <em>Them:&nbsp; Stalin\u2019s Polish Puppets<\/em>.&nbsp; Translated by Agnieszka Kolakowska. HarperCollins. (Mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2012\/01\/husak-agonistes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.)<!-- .entry-content --><!-- #post-ID --><\/li>\n<li>1988 &#8211; Henry David Thoreau [1865]:&nbsp; <em>Cape Cod<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1988 &#8211; Rupert Sheldrake [1988]: <i>The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>1988 &#8211; Dan Rose [1987]: <em>Black American Street Life: South Philadelphia, 1969-1971<\/em>. UPenn Press.<\/li>\n<li>1987 &#8211; Susan Sontag [1966]: <em>Against Interpretation<\/em>. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.<\/li>\n<li>1987 &#8211; Gregory Bateson [1972]: <em>Steps to an Ecology of Mind.<\/em> U Chicago Press.<\/li>\n<li>1987 &#8211; Jay Neugeboren [1968]:&nbsp; <em>Reflections at Thirty<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1985 &#8211; Esquire Magazine Special Issue [June 1985]: <em>The Soul of America<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1985 &#8211; Brian Willan [1984]: <em>Sol Plaatje: A Biography.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1982 &#8211; John Miller Chernoff [1979]: <em>African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms.<\/em> University of Chicago Press.<\/li>\n<li>1981 &#8211; Walter Rodney [1972]: <i>How Europe Underdeveloped Africa<\/i>. Bogle-L&#8217;Overture Publications.<\/li>\n<li>1980 &#8211; James A. Michener [1971]: <em>Kent State: What happened and Why<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1980 &#8211; Andre Gunder Frank [1966]:&nbsp; <i>The Development of Underdevelopment<\/i>. Monthly Review Press.<\/li>\n<li>1980 &#8211; Paul Feyerabend [1975]: <i>Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>1979 &#8211; Aldous Huxley [1945]:&nbsp; <em>The Perennial Philosophy<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1978 &#8211; Christmas Humphreys [1949]:&nbsp; <em>Zen Buddhism.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1977 &#8211; Raymond Smullyan [1977]:&nbsp; <em>The Tao is Silent.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1976 &#8211; Bertrand Russell [1951-1969]:  <em>The Autobiography.&nbsp; George Allen &amp; Unwin.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1975 &#8211; Jean-Francois Revel [1972]:&nbsp; <em>Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1974 &#8211; Charles Reich [1970]: <em>The Greening of America<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1973 &#8211; Selvarajan Yesudian and Elisabeth Haich [1953]:&nbsp; <em>Yoga and Health<\/em>. Harper.<\/li>\n<li>1972 &#8211; Robin Boyd [1960]: <em>The Australian Ugliness.<\/em><\/li>\n<p><em><\/em><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a list of non-fiction books and articles which have greatly influenced me &#8211; making me see the world differently or act in it differently. They are listed chronologically according to when I first encountered them. 2024 &#8211; Nikki Mark [2023]: Tommy&#8217;s Field: Love, Loss and the Goal of a Lifetime. 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