1/24/03 11:53:46 AM, "Noah Stacy" <nstacy at cinci.rr.com> wrote: >> From: Andrew Lias [mailto:anrwlias at hotmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:35 AM >> To: dragaera at dragaera.info >> Subject: Favorite NON-fiction >> >> >> Okay, maybe favorite fiction lists have been done, but no one (that I've >> noticed) has been listing their favorite non-fiction authors or works. >> So... Pretty interesting thread, and one that gives a bit more insight into the individual than the fiction. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation James Gleick, Chaos Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource Ken Hamblin, Pick a Better Country PJ O'Rourke, Give War A Chance (and pretty much anything else he's written) Victor Davis Hanson, Culture and Carnage Larry Elders, The Ten Things You Can't Say In America Shelby Steele, The Content of our Character Winston Churchill's six-volume work on the Long War (covers WWI, interbellum, WWII) Carl Sagan, Science as a Candle in the Dark As for things I'm reluctant to categorize as ficton OR non-fiction, I keep a lot of Scriptures and related materials on hand -- a Bible, a Q'ran, a Spanish-language Popol-Vuh, several works on Kabbala, the indispensable Rabbi Telushkin's _Jewish Literacy_ and a smattering of Zen books. paul e.