Monday, December 31, 2012

Reading in Style

I'm giving serious thought to subscribing to the Easton Press "Books That Changed the World" series in order to receive a leather-bound copy of one of the following in sequence monthly:


  • The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Basic Writings ofThomas Aquinas
  • Das Kapital by Karl Marx
  • Discourse on Method and Related Writings by RenĂ© Descartes
  • An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus
  • Euclid’s Elements by Euclid
  • Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
  • Common Sense by Thomas Paine
  • The Journal of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus
  • Magna Carta
  • Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Thomas Aquinas
  • Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
  • While England Slept, Winston Churchill
  • The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
  • New Testament
  • The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  • The 95 Theses by Martin Luther
  • Non-Violent Resistance by Mahatma Gandhi
  • On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
  • Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
  • The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • Psychology of the Unconscious by Carl Jung
  • The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Principia by Isaac Newton
  • Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Mao Zedong
  • The Republic by Plato
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  • The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Revolutionibus by Nicolaus Copernicus
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
  • Torah
  • The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
  • Utopia by Thomas More
  • The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
  • The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
  • The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor
  • The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  • State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
  • Tao Te Ching by Laozi
  • Politics & Poetics, Aristotle
  • The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Hippocrates

I'm currently inquiring into the specifics of the subscription, but this seems like an ideal way to further my goals and build a quality book collection. It will also provide something of value to pass on to my daughter in years to come.

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