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Reading List 2023
I’m Always Reading Something
Believe it or not, this list isn’t complete. But these are most of the books I’m referencing for either personal or professional use. I use these books to teach from, to be inspired from, and to just gain more knowledge as well as to keep up the practice of reading in general. For articles that I’m reading, see here.
- Adas — Dominance by Design - Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission
- Adas — Machines As the Measure of Men - Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
- Ager — Faith, Secularism, and Humanitarian Engagement
- al-Attas — Islam and Secularism
- Al-I Ahmad — Occidentosis - A Plague From the West
- Allawi — The Crisis of Islamic Civilization
- Amin — Eurocentrism
- Amin — Imperialism and Unequal Development
- Amin — The Liberal Virus - Permanent War and Americanization of the World
- Arnold — Imposing Values - An Essay on Liberalism and Regulation
- Barnett — The Enlightenment and Religion - The Myth of Modernity
- Berger — Modernity Pluralism and the Crisis of Meaning - The Orientation of Modern Man
- Berger — The Many Altars of Modernity-Toward A Paradigm For Religion in a Pluralist Age
- Berlinski — The Devil's Delusion - Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
- Blaut — 1492 The Debate on Colonialism, Eurocentrism, and History
- Blaut — The Colonizer's Model of the World
- Bromwich — On Liberty
- Brosnan — Technophobia - The Psychological Impact of Information Technology
- Brown — Regulating Aversion Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
- Burgess — A World Without Values
- Callero — The Myth of Individualism - How Social Forces Shape Our Lives
- Cappelørn — Between Nihilism and Faith - A Commentary on Either-Or
- Carter — Race - A Theological Account
- Cavanaugh — The Myth of Religious Violence - Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict
- Dawson — The Gods of Revolution
- Dodge — Muslim Education in Medieval Times
- Dreher — The Benedict Option-A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
- Durr — Behind the Backlash
- Ellingson — The Myth of the Noble Savage
- Flanagan — The Really Hard Problem - Meaning in a Material World
- Fountain — Slavery Civil War and Salvation
- Fox — Against the Machine - The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives
- Fox — Urban Farming - Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World
- Fukuoka — The One-Straw Revolution - An Introduction to Natural Farming
- Garrard — Counter-Enlightenments - From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
- Geurts — Culture and the Senses
- Gilroy — Against Race - Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line
- Gilroy — The Black Atlantic - Modernity and Double-Consciousness
- Harris — Do Hard Things - A Teen Age Rebellion Against Low Expectations
- Hendricks — The Limits of Logical Empiricism
- Hitchens — The Rage Against God
- Holmgren — Permaculture-Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
- Horne — The Counter-Revolution of 1776
- Howard — The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy-Information Technology and Political Islam
- Hunter — The Death of Character-Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil
- Hunter — To Change the World-The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
- Ikenberry — Liberal Leviathan - The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order
- Jaffe-Walter — Coercive Concern - Nationalism Liberalism and the Schooling of Muslim Youth
- Jerónimo — Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century
- Kahn — Divine Discontent - The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. DuBois
- Kane — Beyond Timbuktu-An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
- Kekes — A Case for Conservatism
- Kekes — Against Liberalism
- Kernohan — Liberalism Equality and Culture
- Kozai — Plant factory - An Indoor Vertical Farming System For Efficient Quality Food Production
- Latour — Laboratory Life - The Construction of Scientific Facts
- Lewis — Mere Christianity
- Lipsitz — The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
- Machen — Christianity and Liberalism
- McCutcheon — Manufacturing Religion
- McMahon — Enemies of the Enlightenment
- Muhammad — Message To The Blackman In America
- Neal — Liberalism and Its Discontents
- O'Connor — Beyond Reasonable Doubt - Reasoning Processes in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Disorders
- Ong — Orality and Literacy - The Technologizing of the Word
- Pahl — Empire of Sacrifice - The Religious Origins of American Violence
- Placher — Unapologetic Theology
- Powell — A Different Shade of Colonialism
- Powell — Ethnomathematics - Challenging Eurocentrism in Mathematics Education
- Robinson — Marked Men - White Masculinity in Crisis
- Rogoff — A Decade of Debt
- Roszak — The Making of a Counter Culture-Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
- Roy — The Revival of Islam in the Balkans-From Identity to Religiosity
- Sala-Molins — Dark Side of the Light
- Sandel — Liberalism and Its Critics
- Sandel — Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
- Sassoon — Gramsci and Contemporary Politics - Beyond Pessimism of the Intellect
- Schaie — Religious Influences on Health and Well - Being in the Elderly
- Schivelbusch — Disenchanted Night-The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
- Sennett — Practising Culture
- Sennett — The Craftsman
- Sennett — The Fall of Public Man
- Shapiro — The Hidden Cost of Being African American - How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
- Shengold — If You Can’t Trust Your Mother, Who Can You Trust-Soul Murder, Psychoanalysis and Creativity
- Siedentop — Inventing the Individual - The Origins of Western Liberalism
- Silvertown — Demons in Eden - The Paradox of Plant Diversity
- Smith — Hegels Critique of Liberalism - Rights in Context
- Stamenov — Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology
- Stetson — Human Dignity and Contemporary Liberalism
- Ten — Mill's On Liberty A Critical Guide
- Tannenbaum — Slave and Citizen - The Negro in the Americas
- Tilly — Durable Inequality
- Thomas — Life for Us Is What We Make It - Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915-1945
- Turkle — The Inner History of Devices
- Vincent — Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism
- Williams — Negroes With Guns
- Zuboff — The Age of Surveillance Capitalism-The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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