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Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
The Matter with Things
Iain McGilchrist
Healthy Pleasures
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution
Robert Ornstein & Paul Ehrlich
The Mountain People
Colin M. Turnbull

Further Reading

The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Peter Adamson & Richard C. Taylor
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
Karen Armstrong
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
Jean Bottéro
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
The Shamans of Prehistory
Jean Clottes & David Lewis-Williams
Our Pagan Christmas
R.J. Condon
The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin
The End of the Bronze Age
Robert Drews
Progress and Poverty
Henry George
Anxious Generation thumbnail
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
The Silent Language
Edward T. Hall
The Hidden Dimension
Edward T. Hall
Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
The Odyssey
Homer
Muhammad, the World-Changer
Mohamad Jebara
Coddling the American Mind book
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites
Lorna J. Marshall
The Matter with Things
Iain McGilchrist
Art and Human Development
Constance Milbrath and Cynthis Lightfoot
Healthy Pleasures
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution
Robert Ornstein & Paul Ehrlich
The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels
Ancient China Simplified
Edward Harper Parker
Losing Earth: A Recent History
Nathaniel Rich
The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography
Barnaby Rogerson
Judaism and Christian Beginnings
Samuel Sandmel
The Passover Plot
Hugh J. Schonfield
Caravan of Dreams
Idries Shah
The Sufis
Idries Shah
The Way of the Sufi
Idries Shah
The Commanding Self
Idries Shah
Tales of the Dervishes
Idries Shah
Reflections
Idries Shah
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
The Forest People
Colin M. Turnbull
The Mountain People
Colin M. Turnbull
Jesus the Jew
Geza Vermes
The Nativity: History and Legend
Geza Vermes
The Evolution of God
Robert Wright

Journey of the Human Mind

The Silent Language
Edward T. Hall
The Hidden Dimension
Edward T. Hall
Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
Reflections
Idries Shah
The Forest People
Colin M. Turnbull

Discovering Our Distant Ancestors

How Humans Evolved
Robert Boyd & Joan B. Silk
Human Universals
Donald E. Brown
The Great Human Diasporas: The History Of Diversity and Evolution
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza & Francesco Cavalli-Sforza
Genes, Peoples, and Languages
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Storza
Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis
Glenn C. Conroy & Herman Pontzer
Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution
Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johanson
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology
David Levinson & Melvin Ember
Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans
Matthew H. Nitecki & Doris V. Nitecki
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
Robert A. Wilson & Frank C. Keil
Race and Human Evolution
Milford Wolpoff & Rachel Caspari

The Evolution of Language

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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Peter Adamson & Richard C. Taylor
Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
Karen Armstrong
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
Jean Bottéro
The Shamans of Prehistory
Jean Clottes & David Lewis-Williams
Our Pagan Christmas
R.J. Condon
Myth, Magic, and Morals
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
Secret Societies
Arkon Daraul
The End of the Bronze Age
Robert Drews
The Upanishads
Hindu Texts
The Odyssey
Homer
Muhammad, the World-Changer
Mohamad Jebara
Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites
Lorna J. Marshall
Art and Human Development
Constance Milbrath and Cynthis Lightfoot
The Study Quran
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels
Ancient China Simplified
Edward Harper Parker
Harappan Civilization
Gregory L. Possehl
The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography
Barnaby Rogerson
Judaism and Christian Beginnings
Samuel Sandmel
The Passover Plot
Hugh J. Schonfield
Selections from the Koran
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
The Commanding Self
Idries Shah
The Way of the Sufi
Idries Shah
Caravan of Dreams
Idries Shah
The Sufis
Idries Shah
Tales of the Dervishes
Idries Shah
Man and his Gods
Homer W. Smith
The Nativity: History and Legend
Geza Vermes
Jesus the Jew
Geza Vermes
Jesus: A Life
A.N. Wilson
How Jesus Became Christian
Barrie Wilson, Ph.D.
The Evolution of God
Robert Wright

Tools and the Development of Contemporary Society

City of God
Saint Augustine
Connections 1
James Burke
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis
Superminds
Thomas W. Malone
Memes to Movements
An Xiao Mina
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking

A Sustainable Planet

The View from the Center of the Universe
Joel R. Primack & Nancy Ellen Abrams
Losing Earth: A Recent History
Nathaniel Rich

The Changing World Economy

The End of Finance
Massimo Amato & Luca Fantacci
Progress and Poverty
Henry George
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

Health and Education in the Modern World

Parkland
Dave Cullen
“Why We Drop Out“
Deborah L. Feldman et al.
Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain
Sandra M. LeFort, Ph.D. et al.
Healthy Pleasures
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover

Our Mind in the Modern World

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin
Anxious Generation thumbnail
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
Coddling the American Mind book
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
The Matter with Things
Iain McGilchrist
New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution
Robert Ornstein & Paul Ehrlich