Tuesday, August 23, 2011

How many of these 'Books That Changed The World' have you read?

On Tuesday of last week, I posted a recommended reading list called the “Easton Press Greatest Adventure Books of All Time,” and today I’m presenting you with a similar list called “Books That Changed The World,” also by Easton Press.

Easton Press is a book publisher based in Norwalk, Conn. that specializes in high-quality, leather-bound books. They offer a number of book collections, ranging from classics to works of modern literature and science fiction. Their longest running and most popular series is “The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written.”

The Easton Press “Books That Changed The World” series includes 47 volumes and features “books that set the world on a different course, for better or for worse. They encompass the classics of philosophy, politics, sociology, science and religion. These books brought about reforms and revolutions; toppled governments; started wars. They changed people’s hearts and minds; altered people’s lives. Even today, these books continue to stir passions and cause controversy.”

Selected by the Editorial Advisory Board of the Easton Press, the list includes the following titles.

1. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
2. Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther
3. Utopia by Thomas More
4. The Ghagavad Gita by Anonymous
5. The Koran by Anonymous
6. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
7. The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein
8. The Principia: Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton
9. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus
10. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
11. The State and Revolution by V.I. Lenin
12. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich William Nietzsche
13. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
14. The Social Contract and The Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
15. Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
16. Magna Carta by J.C. Holt
17. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
18. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
19. The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor
20. Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
21. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
22. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft
23. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
24. The Journal of Christopher Columbus (during His First Voyage, 1492-93) and Documents Relating to the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real by Christopher Columbus
25. The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian by Marco Polo
26. The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
27. Discourse on Method and Related Writings by Rene Decartes
28. An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus
29. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
30. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
31. Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas: God and the Order of Creation by Saint Thomas Aquinas
32. Psychology of the Unconscious by C.G. Jung
33. The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
34. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
35. Non-Violent Resistance by Mohandas K. Gandhi
36. Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Mao Tse-Tung
37. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written By Himself by Frederick Douglass
38. The Republic by Plato
39. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
40. The Torah
41. The New Testament
42. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
43. Euclid’s Elements by Euclid
44. The Art of War by Sun-Tzu
45. Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
46. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
47. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

In the end, how many of these books have you had a chance to read? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend and why? Which is your favorite and why? Which books do you think deserve to be on the list but aren't? Let us know in the comments section below.

For more information about Easton Press and the books mentioned above, visit their Web site at www.eastonpress.com.

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