Books for 2009

Philosophy (Ethics):

• Getting Even, Jeffrie Murphy
• True to Our Feelings, Robert Solomon
• The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce
• Primates and Philosophers, Francis de Waal and et al.
• The Autonomy of Morality, Charles Larmore
• Reasons and the Good, Roger Crisp
• The Good in the Right: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value, Robert Audi
• Moral Value and Human Diversity, Robert Audi
• Moral Literacy, Barbara Herman
• Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments, R. Jay Wallace
• Reconciling Our Aims: In Search for Bases for Ethics, Allan Gibbard
• Ethics without Principles, Jonathan Dancy
• Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame, T.M. Scanlon

Philosophy (Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy, Legal Philosophy):

• Inventing Human Rights, Lynn Hunt
• Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Michael Freeman
• Frontiers of Justice, Martha C. Nussbaum
• The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S. Military, Martin L. Cook
• In the Beginning Was the Deed, Bernard Williams
• Thick and Thin: Moral Argument Here and Abroad, Michael Walzer
• Stoic Warriors, Nancy Sherman
• Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Jack Donnelly
• Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Guess

Philosophy (General):

• Donald Davidson, Simon Evnine
• A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, W.H. Newton-Smith (editor)
• Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith
• Theory and Truth, Lawrence Sklar
• Epistemic Justification, Laurence Bonjour and Ernest Sosa
• Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Daniel Dennett
• Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, Alva Noe
• A Place for Consciousness, Greg Rosenberg
• Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity, Michael Tye
• Philosophy of Science, Alexander Bird
• Mind: A Brief Introduction, John R. Searle

Philosophy (History and Biography):

• Marx: His Life and Environment, Isaiah Berlin
• Mill on Liberty, Jonathan Riley
• Wittgenstein’s Vienna, Allan Janik
• Rousseau, Robert Wokler
• The Best of All Possible Worlds, Steven Nadler
• A Companion to Plato’s Republic, Nicholas White
• The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism, Bernard Reginster
• Descartes, A.C. Grayling
• Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen, Harry Frankfurt

Social Science and Psychoanalysis:

• Understanding Psychoanalysis, Matthew Sharpe and Joanne Faulkner
• On Dreams, Sigmund Freud
• Pragmatics, George Yule
• Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, Tom Vanderbilt
• Discover Your Inner Economist, Tyler Cowan
• Exploring Social Psychology, David G. Myers
• Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, David Rothkopf
• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker
• Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets, Sudhir Venkatesh
• The Return of Depression Economics (Second Edition), Paul Krugman

Fiction, Drama, Literary Criticism, and Literary History:

• 2666, Roberto Bolano
• Difficult Loves, Italo Calvino
• The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
• The Monkey’s Wrench, Primo Levi
• Marxism and Literary Criticism, Terry Eagleton
• First Fig and Other Poems, Edna St. Vincent Milay
• Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle
• The Unconsoled, Kuzuo Ishigura
• People of the Book, Madelaine Brooks
• End Zone, Don DeLillo
• The Inheritance of Loss, Kerian Desai
• A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson
• Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lawahiri
• The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Michael Chadon
• Jeeves and the Tie that Binds, P.G. Wodehouse
• Lush Life, Richard Price
• The Children of Hurin, J.R.R. Tolkein
• The Girl in Blue, P.G. Wodehouse
• Netherland, Joesph O’Neill
• 1599: A Year in the Life of Shakespeare, James Shapiro
• Loser Take All: An Entertainment, Graham Greene
• Laughing Gas, P.G. Wodehouse
• A Room with a View, E.M. Forester
• On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
• The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

History and Biography:

• A History of the Middle-East, Peter Mansfield and Nicolas Pelham
• Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture, Carl E. Schorske
• Justinian’s Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire, William Rosen
• The Rest is Noise: Listening the 20th Century, Alex Ross
• Polio: An American Story, David M. Oshinsky
• The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Movement, and the Awakening of a Nation, Gene Robert and Hank Klibanoff
• Vermeer’s Hat: the 17th Century and the Dawn the Global World, Timothy Brooks
• Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?, David Fromkin
• The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, Annette Gordon-Reed
• The Germania, Cornelius Tacitus (Translated by H. Mattingly, Revised by S.A. Hanford)
• The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece, Jonathan Harr
• The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It, David A. Bell
• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848, Daniel Walker Howe
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Drew Gilpin Faust
• The Oxford History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan (editor)
• The Agricola, Cornelius Tacitus (Translated by H. Mattingly, Revised by S.A. Hanford)
• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Jon Meacham
• The Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird

Current Events and Political/Legal Affairs:

• Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq, Linda Robinson
• Terror and Consent: Wars for the 21st Century, Philip Bobbitt
• The American Future, Simon Schama
• The Post-American World, Fareed Zakarea
• Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, Ahmed Rashid
• The World without Us, Alan Weisman
• The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, Thomas Ricks
• The Forever War, Dexter Filkins

Odds and Ends:

• Ways of Seeing, John Berger
• A Brief History of Infinity, Brian Klegg
• Darwin – Marx – Wagner: Critique of a Heritage, Jacques Barzun
• Cultural Amnesia, Clive James
• Clausewitz, Michael Howard
• The Good Book, David Plotz
• Travels with Herodotus, Ryszard Kapuscinski
• God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens
• I Am America, and So Can You, Stephen Colbert

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