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Further Reading

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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Peter Adamson & Richard C. Taylor
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Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
Karen Armstrong
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The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Karen Armstrong
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No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Reza Aslan
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art
Paul G. Bahn
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
Paul Bloom
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Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods
Jean Bottéro
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Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
Jean Bottéro
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John Bowlby
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Jesus and the Zealots: A Study of the Political Factor in Primitive Christianity
S.G.F. Brandon
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The Axemaker’s Gift: Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture
James Burke & Robert Ornstein
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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
Robert Cialdini
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
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The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Andy Clark
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Eric H. Cline
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The Shamans of Prehistory
Jean Clottes & David Lewis-Williams
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Our Pagan Christmas
R.J. Condon
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The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization
Michael C. Corballis
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The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin
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The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
Ruth DeFries
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The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society
Frans de Waal
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
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Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition
Merlin Donald
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Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing
Fred Donner
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Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
Fred McGraw Donner
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The End of the Bronze Age
Robert Drews
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How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Robin Dunbar
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The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts
Joe Earle et al.
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The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
William Easterly
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
William Easterly
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Humanity on a Tightrope: Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future
Paul R. Ehrlich & Robert E. Ornstein
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Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
Caleb Everett
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Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind
Clive Gamble et al.
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Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
Lisa Genova
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Progress and Poverty
Henry George
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
Al Gore
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Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
Al Gore
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The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
Al Gore
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Joshua Greene
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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
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The Silent Language
Edward T. Hall
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The Hidden Dimension
Edward T. Hall
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Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
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Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
Marvin Harris
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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
Marvin Harris
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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
Gary A. Haugen & Victor Boutros
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Hawken & Amory B. Lovins
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The Wind Is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman
Bear Heart
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The Weirdest People in the World
Joseph Henrich
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük
Ian Hodder
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The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
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The Odyssey
Homer
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Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
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The Marketing of Christianity: The Evolution of Early Christian Doctrine
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The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion
Thorkild Jacobsen
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Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From The Great Philosophers, Vol. 1
Karl Jaspers
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Muhammad, the World-Changer
Mohamad Jebara
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
Christine Kenneally
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One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
Salman Khan
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Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America’s Schools
David L. Kirp
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Matthew D. Lieberman
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The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Book
Charles C. Mann
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
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The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity
Michael Marmot
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Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites
Lorna J. Marshall
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Money: The Unauthorized Biography–From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies
Felix Martin
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The Matter with Things
Iain McGilchrist
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The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus: The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books about Jesus of Nazareth
Marvin Meyer
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The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels
Marvin Meyer
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Art and Human Development
Constance Milbrath and Cynthis Lightfoot
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell
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Thoughtful Foragers: A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making
Steven J. Mithen
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Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans
Capt. Charles Moore
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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve
Ian Morris
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The Great Courses: Religions of the Axial Age: An Approach to the World’s Religions
Prof. Mark W. Muesse
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Healthy Pleasures
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
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New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution
Robert Ornstein & Paul Ehrlich
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God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God“
Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
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The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think
Robert Ornstein
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Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior
Robert Ornstein
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
Svante Pääbo
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The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels
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Ancient China Simplified
Edward Harper Parker
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Karl Polanyi
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Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
Kate Raworth
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Losing Earth: A Recent History
Nathaniel Rich
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The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography
Barnaby Rogerson
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age: From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
Stephen K. Sanderson
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Judaism and Christian Beginnings
Samuel Sandmel
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Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing – How Evangelists, Psychiatrists, Politicians, and Medicine Men Can Change Your Beliefs and Behavior
William Sargant
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The Passover Plot
Hugh J. Schonfield
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
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Caravan of Dreams
Idries Shah
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The Sufis
Idries Shah
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The Way of the Sufi
Idries Shah
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The Commanding Self
Idries Shah
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The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin
Idries Shah
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Tales of the Dervishes
Idries Shah
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Reflections
Idries Shah
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Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Idries Shah
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder
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What’s the Catch?: How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated
David Sobel, MD
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The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic
John Shelby Spong
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Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Claude M. Steele
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Age of Opportunity: Lessons from The New Science of Adolescence
Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D.
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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
Chris Stringer
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The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Thomas Suddendorf
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Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
James Suzman
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Richard H. Thaler
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
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The Forest People
Colin M. Turnbull
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The Mountain People
Colin M. Turnbull
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Jesus: Nativity-Passion-Resurrection
Geza Vermes
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Jesus the Jew
Geza Vermes
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The Nativity: History and Legend
Geza Vermes
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Nicholas Wade
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Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods
David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce
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The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
David Lewis Williams
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Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods
David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce
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The Evolution of God
Robert Wright
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
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