The Power of Scale: a Global Historical Approach, John H. Bodley *
Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
The Professor’s House, Willa Cather
Going Nucular, Geoff Nunberg
The Old Beauty & other stories, Willa Cather
Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin *
Genetic & Cultural Odyssey: the Life & Work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza,
Linda Stone & Paul F. Lurquin
Tingo
The Sea the Sea, Iris Murdoch
It’s’ Hard to Talk about Yourself, Natalia Ginzburg
Ether
Vermeer
Totem and Taboo, Freud *
Husband and Wife, Zeruya Shalev
Born to Buy The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture, Juliet B. Schor **
We agonize over the terrors of drugs and hijackings, bullies and perverts, yet seem to have resigned ourselves to the multimillion-dollar marketing blitz aimed at children. Schor's book is a lucid enquiry into the mechanics and effects of this legalized brainwashing, an informed and passionate call for action.
The Genius of Language, Wendy Lesser
The Way of All Flesh: the Romance of Ruins, Midas Dekkers
Purity and Danger, Mary Douglas **
Alexandria City of Memory, Michael Haag
The Mercy Room, Gilles Rozier
Views from the Real World, Gurdjieff (early talks)
The Garden of Secrets, Juan Goytisolo
Encyclopedia of Stupidity
The Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Harmonious Circle: Gurdjieff, Ouspensky & followers
Graphs, Maps & Trees, Franco Moretti (abstract models for a literary theory)
Life is Real Only When I am, Gurdjieff (autobiography)
The Trial of Eichmann (Dutch journalist)
The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930s, William Wiser
Atlas of the Year 1000, Paul Man
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusack
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
Henri Lefebre, Merryfield
Fantasia: an Algerian Cavalcade, Assia Djebar
The Wake, Margo Glantz (novel/Mexico)
Firsts Things to Hand, Robert Pinsky
Petrolio, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Envisioning Information, Tufte (rr) *
Tibetan Art
Chinese Buddhist Cave Painting
The Ice Shirt, William Vollman
The Voice Imitator, Thomas Bernhard
Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Amy Wallace (Life with Carlos Castaneda)
Exuberance
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann (rr)
Ten Laws of Simplicity, John Maeda
Introducing Fractal Geometry
The Luminous Ground Christopher Alexander (The Nature of Order, book 4) **
Lost, Hans-Ulrich Treichel
The Evolutionary Mind, Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham
House of Windows, Adina Hoffman (Jerusalem) *
Lovelock and Gaia, Jon Turney
Reading Checkov, Janet Malcolm *
The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk *
The Crisis: The Shah the Ayatollah & the President, David Harris
Deep River, Shusake Endo
Swallows of Kabul, Yasmina Khadra
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman, Stefan Zweig
Twenty Years at Hull House, Jane Addams **
Promise is Ahead, Duane Elgin
Hashish, Walter Benjamin
Lend me Your Character, Drakulica Ugreshic
Berlusconi book
Chinese Letter, Svetislav Basara (Serbian)
My Michael, Amos Oz