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I'm starting on "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis.
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A very good book. (I like every work of his nonfiction I ever read, and much of his fiction.)

I'm reading:

Darwin's Black Box, by Michael Behe

The author is a biochemist; the book is written in a style readily accessible to the layman. An argument not against the common descent of life on Earth, but against the adequacy of known mechanisms as an explanation for the development of certain complex biomolecular systems.

Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization,
by Graham Hancock

A thoroughly heretical challenge to the accepted picture of man's recent prehistory, arguing (among other things) that a) civilization arose thousands of years earlier than is commonly thought, b) it suffered greatly during episodes of flooding at the end of the last Ice Age, and c) that physical evidence for this might well be sought by marine archaeology.

Fiefs and Vassals, by Susan Reynolds

A challenge to the received hierarchical picture of European feudalism. The author says that the previously accepted view of feudalism is an oversimplification arising from early modern historians' construction. Some of the potential oversimplifications involve a) extrapolating from treatment of Church lands to lay lands without sufficient evidence; and b) assuming that a rather theoretical, and rather late, Italian description of feudal law reflects conditions elsewhere and earlier.

The Church Fathers. Right now I'm reading Ignatius.

I have some mysteries and fantasies in my to-read heap (I'm not neat enough to have a list), but I haven't gotten into any of them yet.
 
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What is Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
and... Derailing Democracy by David McGowan

Tend to read the first book before bead, the second book in school with my off-time and the last in the bathroom. Just a little ecclectic..heh. Berkman's book is probably the most down to earth FAQ book I've ever read, great so far. Chomsky is an incredible information of history and philosophy detailing the encounters of America's imperialism. And McGowan has a great fact-book of quotes and statistics about the United State's records in various realms including Human rights, prison population, and military records.

All quite neat for political books, just finished reading "The Portable Henry Rollins" so after all that poetry, I needed something ...educational.
 
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I am currently reading through three books (this is not an unusual situation for me ) :-
"The variety of life"; an overview of all living creatures, the system used to clasify them (domain, kingdom ... genus, spiecies), and their relationship to each other, a fascinating read.

"The paradise of association - Political culture and popular organisations in the Paris commune of 1871"; the title says it all.

And a collection of essays, sermons, articles, etc by C. S. Lewis on "Faith, Christianity and the Church"; absolutely superb, I love C. S. Lewis.
 
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