28 Good Books

Astronomy, Cosmology

Arp, Halton; Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies, Insteller Media, 1987

Arp, Halton; Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology, and Academic Science, Apeiton, 1998

Contopoulos, G., Kotsakis, D.; Cosmology, Springer-Verlag 1987

Unsold, A., Baschek, B., The New Cosmos, Springer-Verlag 1991, 4th ed.

Biology, Evolution

Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene, Granada 1978

Dawkins, Richard, The Ancestor's Tale, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 2004

Dennett, Daniel C., Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Smon & Schuster, 1995

 Dennett, Daniel C., Breaking the Spell, VIKING Penguin, 2006

Pinker, Steven - How the Mind Works, W. W. Norton, New York, London 1997 

Sagan, Carl and Druyan, Ann, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Ballantine 1992

 Sagan, Carl - The Demon-Haunted World, Random House, New York 1995 

Wilson Edward O. - The Diversity of Life, W. W. Norton, New York, London, 1992 

Wright, Robert, The Moral Animal", Vintage Books, 1994

Economics, History, Sociology

Bernstein, Peter L., Against the Gods - the Remarkable Story of Risk, Wiley 1996

Evans. Richard J., The Third Reich in Power 1933 - 1939, Penguin New York 2005 

Figes, Orlando, A People's Tragedy - The Russian Revolution 1891-1924, Pimlico, 1996 

Friedman, Milton & Rose - Free to Choose, Harcourt Brace, New York and London, 1979

Grossman, Vasily, Life and Fate, NYRB Classics, 2006, 896 pages

Greenblatt, Stephen, The Swerve, How the World Became Moden, W. W. Norton, 2011. 

Hitchens, Christopher, Arguably, Essays by, Signal/McClelland & Stewart, 2011

Levitt, Steven D. and Dubner, Stephen J, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Morrow, 2005

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (trans. H. A. J. Munro) Great Books of the Western World, Robert M. Hutchins, Encyclopedia Britannica.

Ridley, Matt, The Rational Optimist, Harper Collins 2010

Steil, Benn and Hinds, Manuel, Money, Markets and Sovereignty, Yale University Press, 2009

Wolf, Martin, Fixing Global Finance, John Hopkins University Press, 2010

Music

Lee, M. Owen, First Intermissions, Oxford University Press, 1995

Lee, M. Owen, A Season of Opera, University of Toronto Press, 1998

Loesser, Arthur, Men, Women and Pianos, Simon & Schuster, 1954