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| Philosophy and other topics | The Problems of Philosophy B. Russell The Worldly Philosophers R. Heilbroner The Religions of Man H. Smith The Republic Plato A History of Western Philosophy B. Russell The Social Contract J. J. Rousseau |
The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle Democracy in America A. de Tocqueville Genesis, Exodus, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, & Amos Old Testament Luke, John, Acts, Galatians, & Ephesians New Testament The Prince N. Machiavelli Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed P. Hallie The Theory of Social and Economic Organization M. Weber |
Utilitarianism On Liberty J. S. Mill Purposes of Art, Second Edition A. Elsen The Varieties of Religious Experience W. James Pragmatism W. James Meaning in Western Architecture C. Norberg-Schulz Witness W. Chambers |
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals I. Kant The Federalist Hamilton, Madison, & Jay; Ed. B. F. Wright The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis The Road to Serfdom F. Hayek The Road to Wigan Pier G. Orwell A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy K. Marx |
| Science | The Double Helix J. Watson Awakenings O. Sacks The Lives of a Cell L. Thomas The Discoverers D. Boorstin The Panda's Thumb S. Gould King Solomon's Ring K. Lorenz |
Microbe Hunters P. De Kruif Science and the Modern World A. N. Whitehead The First Three Minutes S. Weinberg The Creative Explosion J. Pfeiffer Knowledge and Wonder V. Weisskopf Einstein J. Bernstein |
A Mathematician's Apology G. Hardy The Rise of Scientific Philosophy H. Reichenbach The Cosmic Code H. Pagels One Human Nature E. O. Wilson The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution C. P. Snow Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems J. Ravetz |
Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus M. Gardner The Structure of Scientific Revolution T. Kuhn Mankind Evolving T. Dobzhansky The Growth of Biological Thought E. Mayr Chance and Necessity J. Monod The Nature of Light and Color in the Open Air M. Minnaert |
| Literature | The Odyssey Homer (T. E. Lawrence translation) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Sun Also Rises E. Hemingway Antigone Oedipus Rex Sophocles Pride and Prejudice J. Austen Heart of Darkness J. Conrad |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking
Glass L. Carroll Richard II W. Shakespeare Moby Dick H. Melville Paradise Lost J. Milton Tom Jones H. Fielding Brideshead Revisited E. Waugh |
Candide F. Voltaire Hamlet W. Shakespeare The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition Don Quixote M. Cervantes Hard Times C. Dickens To the Lighthouse V. Woolf |
A Midsummer Night's Dream W. Shakespeare The Brothers Karamazov F. M. Dostoyevsky Bread and Wine I. Silone War and Peace L. N. Tolstoy Light in August W. Faulkner The Magic Mountain T. Mann |
| History | The Historian's Craft M. Bloch The American Political Tradition R. Hofstadter Young Man Luther E. Erikson Samuel Johnson J. Wain The Making of the Middle Ages R. Southern The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin B. Franklin |
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada G. Mattingly This Hallowed Ground B. Catton Melbourne D. Cecil The Education of Henry Adams H. Adams History of the Conquest of Mexico W. Prescott Origins of the New South C. Vann Woodward |
The White Nile A. Moorehead The Crisis of the Old Order A. Schlesinger Hitler: A Study of Tyranny A. Bullock Huey Long T. H. Williams The Old Regime and the French Revolution A. de Tocqueville The Raven M. James |
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin G. Kennan Tumultuous Years R. Donovan Stillwell and the American Experience in China B. Tuchman Stalin as Revolutionary R. Tucker The Rebel A. Camus Autobiography of Malcom X M. Little |
Robert D. King, Dean of Liberal Arts
Joseph M. Horn, Committee Chairman
Warner J Barnes
W. Roger Louis
M. Gwyn Morgan
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
William M. Scott
James W. Vick
Paul B. Woodruff