As for books, I am NOW (or still!) READING:
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution (2007) by Kevin R. C. Gutzman, J.D., Ph.D.
• How Not to F*** Them Up: The First Three Years (2010) by Oliver James
• The Communist Manifesto: A Norton Critical Edition (1848/1988) by Karl Marx, ed. by Frederic L. Bender
• From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory (2009) by Dimitris Milonakis & Ben Fine
• The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War ([1981] 2010 2nd ed.) by Arno J. Mayer
• The Power of Now (1999) by Eckhart Tolle
• The Technological Society ([1954] 1967) by Jacques Ellul
• Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence by Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade
• What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012 by Richard N. Bolles • A Husband After God's Own Heart by Jim George
• God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran
• The Blue Hour by T. Jefferson Parker
• Under the Dome by Stephen King
• Duma Key by Stephen King
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Terror by Dan Simmons
• The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
• Point Omega by Don DeLillo
• Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
• The Nature of the Mind by Peter Carruthers
• Personal Identity by Harold Noonan
• Theory and Truth by Lawrence Sklar
• Philosophical Logic by John P. Burgess
• Philosophy of Logic by W.V.O. Quine
• From a Logical Point of View by W.V.O. Quine
• Everywhere and Everywhen by Nick Huggett
• Thinking about Physics by Roger G. Newton
• Real Essentialism by David Oderberg
• Why Marx Was Right (2011) by Terry Eagleton
• Logic (1985) by Juan Jose Sanguineti
• Nominalism and Realism – Volume 1 of Universals and Scientific Realism (1980) by D. M. Armstrong
• A Theory of Universals – Volume 2 of Universals and Scientific Realism (1980) by D. M. Armstrong
• Couplehood by Paul Reiser
• What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth by Wendell Berry
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D.
• Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More (2010) by John M. Médaille
• Leibniz's Mill: A Challenge to Materialism (2011) by Charles Landesman
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism by Kevin D. Williamson
• In Defence of Global Capitalism (2001) by Johan Norberg
• The "Poisoned Spring" of Economic Libertarianism –– Menger, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard: A Critique from Catholic Social Teaching of the 'Austrian School' of Economics (2011) by Angus Sibley
• Micro (2012) by Michael Crichton w/ Richard Preston
• The Case for Working with Your Hands, Or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good (2010) by Stephen Crawford
• The Conscience of a Liberal (2009) by Paul Krugman
• Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics, Served on a Plate (2003) by David Smith
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (2000) by Hernando de Soto
• Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction & Economics (2005) by Paul Ormerod
• What's Wrong with the World (1910) by G.K. Chesterton
• The Servile State (1912) by Hilaire Belloc
• The Sun of Justice: An Essay on the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church (1938) by Harold Robbins
• Next (2006) by Michael Crichton
[The complete list of all the books I've read in the past 18 years or so is, I think––I hope, still!––mostly on an old hard drive and on a file in my laptop. Let me know if you want it, for some odd reason. -- 6 Dez 09]
• What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012 by Richard N. Bolles • A Husband After God's Own Heart by Jim George
• Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel
• Summa contra gentiles by St Thomas d'Aquino [AVAILABLE ONLINE]
• On Cleaving to God (De adhaerendo Deo) by Albertus Magnus [AVAILABLE ONLINE]
• Covenantal Theology: The Eucharistic Order of History by Fr. Donald Keefe, SJ
• Salz der Erde (Ein Gespräch mit Peter Seewald) von Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger und Peter Seewald
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
…AND SHELVING, IN MEMORIAM:
• The Road of Science and the Ways to God by Stanley L. Jaki
• Very Special Relativity by Sander Bais
• Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge by Konrad Lorenz (tr. Ronald Taylor)
• Thought and World - The Hidden Necessities by James Ross
• Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind by Ronald de Sousa
• Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning by Nancey Murphy
• Peripatetikos #6
• A Gilson Reader: Selections from the Writings of Etienne Gilson (ed., with intro.) by Anton C. Pegis
• 放屁！名利雙收的捷徑 Harry G. Frankfurt/著 (譯者：南方朔)
• Philosophical Theology (1969) by James F. Ross
• A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings of Jacques Maritain (ed., w/ intro.) by Donald and Idella Gallagher
• Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective by David Burrell, C.S.C.
• Ihn will ich suchen, den meine Seele liebt: Gebete und Betrachtungen von Johannes vom Kreuz
• The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
• Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future by Ben J. Wattenberg
• Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology by Mary Douglas
• The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About It by Phillip Longman
• The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind
• The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin
• God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations for Modern Science by James Hannam
• The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto by Pico Iyer
• A Crisis of Saints: The Call to Heroic Faith in an Unheroic World by Fr. George Rutler
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
• Religion in the Making by A. N. Whitehead
• Wittgenstein: Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief (ed.) by Cyril Barrett
• Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology by James K. A. Smith
• The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
• Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal by Robert Fogelin
• The Curious History of Relativity: How Einstein's Theory of Gravity Was Lost and Found Again by Jean Eisenstaedt
• Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped Him by Timothy W. Ryback
• Wittgenstein Reads Weininger (ed.) by David G. Stern & Béla Szabados
• Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger with Douglas Hall Kent
• Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
• Wittgenstein and Modern Philosophy by Justus Hartnack
• Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious by Jacques Bouveresse
• Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus (ed.) by Irving M. Copi & Robert W. Beard
• Hegel's Dialectic and Its Criticism by Michael Rosen
• The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Searle
• The Danger of Words and Writings on Wittgenstein by Maurice O'Connor Drury, David Berman (ed.), Michael Fitzgerald (ed.), John Hayes (ed.)
• From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation by Francis M. Cornford
• How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem by Nicholas Humphrey
• The Evolving Brain: The Mind and the Neural Control of Behavior by C. H. Vanderwolf • Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind and Language by Maxwell Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, John Searle
• Thomas Aquinas: Selected Philosophical Writings (ed.) by Timothy McDermott
• Cultural Movements and Collective History: Christopher Columbus and the Rewriting of the National Origin Myth by Timothy Kubal
• A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth
• The Reality of Time and the Existence of God: The Project of Proving God's Existence (1989) David Braine
• Contemporary Philosophy: Studies of Logical Positivism and Existentialism by Frederick Copleston
• Powers: A Study in Metaphysics (2001) by George Molnar
• Necessity, Cause and Blame: Perspectives on Aristotle's Theory (1980) by Richard Sorabji
• Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science (2001) by Peter Pesic
• "Gavagai!" Or the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy (1986) by David Premack
• Darwin Among the Machines (1997) by George Dyson
• The Grand Design (2010) by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
• Are Quanta Real? A Galilean Dialogue (1973) by Josef M. Jauch
• Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius (2004) by William R. Shea & Mariano Artigas
• Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness (2005) by John S. Rigden
• Scientist and Catholic: Pierre Duhem (1990) by Stanley L. Jaki
• What Distinguishes Human Understanding? (2002) by John Deely
• The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics (2010) by David Harriman, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction)
• A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will (2005) by Robert Kane
• Kant (Blackwell Great Minds) (2005) by Allen W. Wood
• The Soul of the Person: A Contemporary Philosophical Psychology (2006) by Adrian Reimers
• The Logic Manual (2010) by Volker Holbach (incl. associated webpage!)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (1958) by Truman Capote
• Pure Drivel (1999) by Steve Martin
• Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar (1989) by Edwin G. Pulleyblank
• The Concept of Mind (1947) by Gilbert Ryle
• The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe (2007) by Michael Frayn
• Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World (2001) by Robert Nozick
• Cosmos in Transition: Studies in the History of Cosmology (1990) by Stanley L. Jaki
• War of the Worlds: The Assault on Reality (1996) by Mark Slouka
• How Real is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication (1976) by Paul Watzlawick
• The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods (1920/1934) by A. G. Sertillanges, O.P.
• Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide (2009) by Edward Feser
• De Rationibus Fidei (ca. 1264) by St. Thomas Aquinas
• Schopenhauer (1967) by Patrick Gardiner
• On Cleaving to God (De adhaerendo Deo) by Albertus Magnus [AVAILABLE ONLINE]
• Covenantal Theology: The Eucharistic Order of History by Fr. Donald Keefe, SJ
• Salz der Erde (Ein Gespräch mit Peter Seewald) von Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger und Peter Seewald
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
…AND SHELVING, IN MEMORIAM:
• The Road of Science and the Ways to God by Stanley L. Jaki
• Very Special Relativity by Sander Bais
• Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge by Konrad Lorenz (tr. Ronald Taylor)
• Thought and World - The Hidden Necessities by James Ross
• Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind by Ronald de Sousa
• Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning by Nancey Murphy
• Peripatetikos #6
• A Gilson Reader: Selections from the Writings of Etienne Gilson (ed., with intro.) by Anton C. Pegis
• 放屁！名利雙收的捷徑 Harry G. Frankfurt/著 (譯者：南方朔)
• Philosophical Theology (1969) by James F. Ross
• A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings of Jacques Maritain (ed., w/ intro.) by Donald and Idella Gallagher
• Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective by David Burrell, C.S.C.
• Ihn will ich suchen, den meine Seele liebt: Gebete und Betrachtungen von Johannes vom Kreuz
• The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
• Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future by Ben J. Wattenberg
• Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology by Mary Douglas
• The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About It by Phillip Longman
• The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind
• The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin
• God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations for Modern Science by James Hannam
• The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto by Pico Iyer
• A Crisis of Saints: The Call to Heroic Faith in an Unheroic World by Fr. George Rutler
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
• Religion in the Making by A. N. Whitehead
• Wittgenstein: Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief (ed.) by Cyril Barrett
• Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology by James K. A. Smith
• The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
• Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal by Robert Fogelin
• The Curious History of Relativity: How Einstein's Theory of Gravity Was Lost and Found Again by Jean Eisenstaedt
• Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped Him by Timothy W. Ryback
• Wittgenstein Reads Weininger (ed.) by David G. Stern & Béla Szabados
• Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger with Douglas Hall Kent
• Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
• Wittgenstein and Modern Philosophy by Justus Hartnack
• Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious by Jacques Bouveresse
• Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus (ed.) by Irving M. Copi & Robert W. Beard
• Hegel's Dialectic and Its Criticism by Michael Rosen
• The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Searle
• The Danger of Words and Writings on Wittgenstein by Maurice O'Connor Drury, David Berman (ed.), Michael Fitzgerald (ed.), John Hayes (ed.)
• From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation by Francis M. Cornford
• How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem by Nicholas Humphrey
• The Evolving Brain: The Mind and the Neural Control of Behavior by C. H. Vanderwolf • Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind and Language by Maxwell Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, John Searle
• Thomas Aquinas: Selected Philosophical Writings (ed.) by Timothy McDermott
• Cultural Movements and Collective History: Christopher Columbus and the Rewriting of the National Origin Myth by Timothy Kubal
• A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth
• The Reality of Time and the Existence of God: The Project of Proving God's Existence (1989) David Braine
• Contemporary Philosophy: Studies of Logical Positivism and Existentialism by Frederick Copleston
• Powers: A Study in Metaphysics (2001) by George Molnar
• Necessity, Cause and Blame: Perspectives on Aristotle's Theory (1980) by Richard Sorabji
• Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science (2001) by Peter Pesic
• "Gavagai!" Or the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy (1986) by David Premack
• Darwin Among the Machines (1997) by George Dyson
• The Grand Design (2010) by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
• Are Quanta Real? A Galilean Dialogue (1973) by Josef M. Jauch
• Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius (2004) by William R. Shea & Mariano Artigas
• Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness (2005) by John S. Rigden
• Scientist and Catholic: Pierre Duhem (1990) by Stanley L. Jaki
• What Distinguishes Human Understanding? (2002) by John Deely
• The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics (2010) by David Harriman, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction)
• A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will (2005) by Robert Kane
• Kant (Blackwell Great Minds) (2005) by Allen W. Wood
• The Soul of the Person: A Contemporary Philosophical Psychology (2006) by Adrian Reimers
• The Logic Manual (2010) by Volker Holbach (incl. associated webpage!)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (1958) by Truman Capote
• Pure Drivel (1999) by Steve Martin
• Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar (1989) by Edwin G. Pulleyblank
• The Concept of Mind (1947) by Gilbert Ryle
• The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe (2007) by Michael Frayn
• Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World (2001) by Robert Nozick
• Cosmos in Transition: Studies in the History of Cosmology (1990) by Stanley L. Jaki
• War of the Worlds: The Assault on Reality (1996) by Mark Slouka
• How Real is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication (1976) by Paul Watzlawick
• The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods (1920/1934) by A. G. Sertillanges, O.P.
• Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide (2009) by Edward Feser
• De Rationibus Fidei (ca. 1264) by St. Thomas Aquinas
• Schopenhauer (1967) by Patrick Gardiner
• Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy (2009) by Walter Ott
• God's Existence. Can it be Proven? A Logical Commentary on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas (2010) by Paul Weingartner
• Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (2002) by Christopher Janaway
• Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings (1998) (ed.) Ralph McInerny
• An Introduction to Philosophical Logic (1982; 1st ed.) by A. C. Grayling
• Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking (2009) by Harwood Fisher
• The Development of Logic (1962) by William Kneale & Martha Kneale
• Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking (2009) by Harwood Fisher
• The Development of Logic (1962) by William Kneale & Martha Kneale
• God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran
• The Blue Hour by T. Jefferson Parker
• Under the Dome by Stephen King
• Duma Key by Stephen King
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Terror by Dan Simmons
• The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
• Point Omega by Don DeLillo
• Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
• The Nature of the Mind by Peter Carruthers
• Personal Identity by Harold Noonan
• Theory and Truth by Lawrence Sklar
• Philosophical Logic by John P. Burgess
• Philosophy of Logic by W.V.O. Quine
• From a Logical Point of View by W.V.O. Quine
• Everywhere and Everywhen by Nick Huggett
• Thinking about Physics by Roger G. Newton
• Real Essentialism by David Oderberg
• Why Marx Was Right (2011) by Terry Eagleton
• Logic (1985) by Juan Jose Sanguineti
• Nominalism and Realism – Volume 1 of Universals and Scientific Realism (1980) by D. M. Armstrong
• A Theory of Universals – Volume 2 of Universals and Scientific Realism (1980) by D. M. Armstrong
• Couplehood by Paul Reiser
• What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth by Wendell Berry
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D.
• Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More (2010) by John M. Médaille
• Leibniz's Mill: A Challenge to Materialism (2011) by Charles Landesman
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism by Kevin D. Williamson
• In Defence of Global Capitalism (2001) by Johan Norberg
• The "Poisoned Spring" of Economic Libertarianism –– Menger, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard: A Critique from Catholic Social Teaching of the 'Austrian School' of Economics (2011) by Angus Sibley
• Micro (2012) by Michael Crichton w/ Richard Preston
• The Case for Working with Your Hands, Or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good (2010) by Stephen Crawford
• The Conscience of a Liberal (2009) by Paul Krugman
• Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics, Served on a Plate (2003) by David Smith
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (2000) by Hernando de Soto
• Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction & Economics (2005) by Paul Ormerod
• What's Wrong with the World (1910) by G.K. Chesterton
• The Servile State (1912) by Hilaire Belloc
• The Sun of Justice: An Essay on the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church (1938) by Harold Robbins
• Next (2006) by Michael Crichton
• Before I Go to Sleep (2011) by S. J. Watson
• A Stab in the Dark (1981) by Lawrence Block
• Goliath (2002) by Steve Alten
• Now Wait for Last Year (1966) by Philip K. Dick
• Meditations (tran. Maxwell Staniforth, 1964) by Marcus Aurelius
• End the Fed (2009) by Ron Paul
[The complete list of all the books I've read in the past 18 years or so is, I think––I hope, still!––mostly on an old hard drive and on a file in my laptop. Let me know if you want it, for some odd reason. -- 6 Dez 09]
