Books! (building blocks & wrecking balls)

In development / in no particular order / look-up these authors on You Tube or Vimeo for talks
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Also see the health books section at the health link-bomb page.

[ Truth & Justice Beyond Homo Economicus! ]

• The Master & His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist – author site
• Ultrasocial: The Evolution of Human Nature and the Quest for a Sustainable Future by John Gowdy
• Neurobiology and the Evolution of Human Morality by Darcia Narvaez – link
• The Cosmic Serpent: DNA & the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby – link | video talk
• Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano – link | videos | PirateBay (audio)
• Earth Detox: How & Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet by Julian Cribb – link
• Books by Douglas Valentine
• Books by Peter Dale Scott | The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire & the Future of America (audio) is at YouTube | CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade’, talk, Q&A with Alfred McCoy and Peter Dale Scott at Tufts University | Interview with Aaron Good on “deep politics”
• Lansky by Hank Messick (Meyer Lansky bio, 1971) – archive.org
• Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America by Robert I. Friedman (2000) – link
• Interlock : art, conspiracy, and the shadow worlds of Mark Lombardi by Patricia Goldstone – link
• Forbidden Bookshelf series
• Books by William Blum
• Books by Seymour Hersh
• Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain by Greg Colby – Archive.org (1974) | Forbidden Bookshelf re-issue from 1984 (archive.org)
• Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds – link
• American Exception by Aaron Good – author website | interview with Jeffrey Sachs | publisher
• Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford – link
• Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy, from Truman to Trump
• Giants: The Global Power Elite – link/publisher
• The Real Odessa: How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe by Uki Goni – link | author website
• Nazis after Hitler: How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice & Truth by Donald McKale
  Quote from book: “The critical issue of how the world could stand by during the war and allow the Holocaust to happen, one could add a new, closely related, and similarly crucial issue about the post-war era: how the world stood by with such callous disregard for the Holocaust and survivors that nation’s permitted most perpetrators to receive lenient or no punishment at all while it’s survivors continued to endure discrimination, and in some instances, even death.” – link
• Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and Soviet Intelligence by Mark Aarons & John Loftus
  and Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and The Swiss Banks – link
• All Honorable Men by James Stewart Martin (Nazis, industry, law) – archive.org | author@wikipedia | forbidden bookshelf
• The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot – link | book talk
• Gore Vidal – American Chronicles | Inventing a Nation – interview with author
• Books by Joan Mellen | Talks/interviews@YouTube
• Books by Sally Denton / The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America
• Books by John Prados (official/old website dead/gone)
• Books by Roger Morris
• Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science After the Second World War by Douglas O’Reagan
• The House of Krupp: The Steel Dynasty That Armed the Nazis by Peter Batty – link
• Hell’s Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine by Diarmuid Jeffreys – link
• Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen – link | video talk
• An Act of State: The Assassination of Martin Luther King by William Pepper (See WilliamPepper.com / R.I.P.)
• The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World by Fletcher Prouty – link | piratebay
• JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia by Greg Poulgrain (2020) – link
• The Dark Side of Camelot (Kennedy family related) by Seymour Hersh – archive.org
• Books by Sarah Kendzior – link
• Books by Christopher Simpson – link
• Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the 60’s by Tom O’Neill (2019) – link
• The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces by Seth Harp – link
• Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire by Michael Hudson – author website | interview
• The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto (R.I.P.) – link | huge audio/video series
• The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets by Matthew Connelly – link | author video | History Lab notes
• Books by Chalmers Johnson
• Deadly Betrayal The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq by Dennis Fritz | related interview with author collaborator
• Sideshow : Kissinger, Nixon, and the destruction of Cambodia
• Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina by Peter Dale Scott – link
• The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia by Alfred McCoy (1972) – link | author/professor webpage | CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade’, talk, Q&A with Alfred McCoy and Peter Dale Scott at Tufts University
• DuPont: Behind the Nylon Curtain by Gerard Colby – archive.org
• Into the Buzzsaw: leading journalists expose the myth of a free press – link
• The Wages of War: When America’s Soldiers Came Home – From Valley Forge to Vietnam by Richard Severo & Lewis Milford – archive.org
• Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil by by Gerard Colby & Charlotte Dennett – archive.org
• NATO’s Secret Armies Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe by Daniele Ganser – link
• Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein – link
• Large archive of audio books worth exploring (The Pirate Bay / use AdBlockPlus.org) – link
• MAPS.org online bookstore – link
• Plankton: a worldwide guide – link
• 500 years of Chicana Women’s History by Elizabeth Betita Martinez – link
• Books by Vaclav Smil – VaclavSmil.com
• Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma – link
• Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouckl
• A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of Sullivan & Cromwell (corporate lawyers + money + connections) – link
• The Brothers; John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, And Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer – ;link (note about Kinzer history of dishonesty/failure to disclose)
• Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman – link
• The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire – archive.org
• Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins – link | 10min interview | 29 min interview
• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor – link
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• Cure: A journey into the science of mind over body by Jo Marchant – link
• Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni – link
• Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn – link
• Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott – link
• Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
• Viral: The search for the origins of COVID-19 by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley (archive.org) – audiobook | text
• Books by Susan Griffin
• (audio & text) No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, by Lysander Spooner (1869) – audio (archive.org) | text  (archive.org) | and HERE 
• (audio & text) A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present, by Howard Zinn – torrents
• (audio)  An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Du – torrent 
• Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, by Radley Balko (2013) – torrents 
• The Underground History of American Education  | online book (404 error) | various versions at Archive.org
• VICE: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency by Lou DuBose & Jake Bernstein – link | authors talk
• Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici – link | audio
• Books by neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett – link
• Mother and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (“Without alloparents I there never would have been a human species.”) – link
• Our Final Invention by James Barrat (about artificial intelligence)
• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben – link
• Wisdom: from philosophy to neuroscience by Stephen Hall – link
• How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 By Joanna Faber and Julie King – official site | archive.org | PirateBay
• The Heart of Parenting: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman – link
• The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller – link
• Flash Wisdom by Russ Kick – link
• Born to Run by Christopher McDougall – link
• Nature’s Clocks by Doug Macdougall
• (audio) Walden by Henry David Thoreau – Librivox | Thoreau website
• The Science Delusion by Rupert Sheldrake | Sheldrake.org
• Very Short Introductions (series) – link
• The Folly of Fools: the logic of deceit & self-deception in human life by Robert Trivers
• The Nature of Liars and the Liars of Nature by Lixing Sun
• Joseph Campbell works
• The Way of the Psychonaut by Stan Grof – link
• Killing Hope – US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II [2nd Edition] (2003) by William Blum
• CIA and the Cult of Intelligence by Victor M
• IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance with Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black (see IBMandtheHolocaust.com)
• (audio & text) Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA by Tim Weiner – torrents   
• (audio) Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner – torrent 
• The Burglary: The Discovery of J Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI by Betty Medsger – torrent 
• The Ghost: The Secret Life of Spymaster James Jesus Angleton by Jefferson Morley
• Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile
• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
• Inside the Company: CIA Diary, by Phillip Agee (former CIA, published in 1975)
• Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude, by Robert Baer
• See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism by Robert Baer
• In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story by John Stockwell – archive.org
• Oxford book of aphorisms by John Gross – link
• Sudbury Valley “school” online bookstore
• The philosophical baby : what children’s minds tell us about truth, love, and the meaning of life by Alison Gopnik – link
• The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon: The True Story of the Japanese Fishermen Who Were the First Victims of the H-Bomb (1957) by Ralph E. Lapp
• The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among Primates by Frans De Waal – linkd
• Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
• The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson – link | author interview/mini-documentary
• Cure Tooth Decay by Ramiel Nagel – link
• The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There by Paul Connett Ph.D.James Beck Ph.D., M.D.Spedding Micklem Ph.D. – link
• The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome – link
• SurveillanceValley.com
• (audio) King Leopold’s Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa – torrents 
• American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011) by Colin Woodard – torrents 
• The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the  Origin of Its Sacred Texts, by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman – torrents (Also see the video series)
• Bart Ehrman books (many books): + his non-profit blog vs. homelessness
  • Misquoting Jesus – The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
  • Jesus Before the Gospels
• 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill – torrent
• American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011) by Colin Woodard – torrents
• Sand Talk: how Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta – torrent
• Books by Antonio Damasio: Descartes’ Error, The Strange Order of Things
• Books by Tim Weiner: Legacy of Ashes, Enemies, One Man Against the World, The Folly and the Glory | author (1990)
• Deep Survival by Lawrence Gonzales
• John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve J. Heims
• Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff – link
• J.D. Bernal: The Sage of Science by Andrew Brown
• Science in History by J.D. Bernal
• Staying Alive by Maurice and Maralyn Bailey (survived 170 days at sea!)
• Augustine’s Laws by Norman Augustine
• Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik
• Children and Play in the Holocaust: games among the shadows by George Eisen
• How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
• The Complete Investor (Charlie Munger based)
• The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann
• The Anthropology of Childhood by David F. Lancy
• The intelligent investor by Benjamin Graham
• The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska by John DeCamp – torrent | youtube interview
• The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant – official site | torrent
• A Sexual Profile of Men in Power by Sam Janus, Ph.D., Barbara Bess, M.D., Carol Saltus (1977)
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk – torrents
• Beyond Words by Carl Safina
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
• An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Nature and Madness by Paul Shepherd
• Future Primitive (Revisited) by John Zerzan
• Animal Wise: How We Know Animals Think and Feel by Virginia Morell
• Griftopia by Matt Taibi
• Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives by Patricia Stuart-Macadam – link
• The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher – torrent
• Apocalypse Culture, edited by Adam Parfrey – torrent
• Origins: A John Zerzan Reader – archive.org
• Luddite.com by Chellis Glendinning
• Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C. Scott (audio book) – link (youtube)
• Pacifism as Pathology by Ward Churchill – link
• Books by Layla Abdel Rahim – link
• Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver (audiobook) – youtube
• Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party by Bobby Seale – torrent
• Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins
• Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane
• How the Brain Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
• How the Brain Heals Itself by Norman Doidge
• Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman – link
• Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, by Antony Sutton – online | also see torrents
• Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, by Antony Sutton – online  | also see torrents
• The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, by Antony C. Sutton – link  | also see torrents
• Introduction to Skull & Bones, by Antony C. Sutton – pdf  | also see torrents
• Secrets of the Tomb by Alexandra Robbins – link
• The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men by Eric Lichtblau – link
• The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals by Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H. Ehrlich, Paul R. Ehrlich
• Genesis (photography) by Sebastião Salgado (he inspired the documentary, The Salt of the Earth)
• The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
• Miller’s Review of Critical Vaccine Studies 400 Important Scientific Papers Summarized for Parents and Researchers by Neil Z. Miller
• Malignant Medical Myths by Joel Kaufmann
• Vitamin C: the master nutrient by Sandra Goodman
• Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries
• Overshoot by William Catton
• Carnivore Minds by G. A. Bradshaw
• Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity Paperback by G. A. Bradshaw
• The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care by Sally Fallon and Thomas Cowan
• The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book by Shari Lieberman and Nancy Bruning
• Light Radiation And You (also) Health And Light by John Nash Ott
• Army Surveillance in America, 1775–1980 by Joan Jensen
• Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity by Lorenzo C. Simpson
• Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy D. Snyder

Old list / needs sorting: >> I’m not a fan of “textbooks,” but here’s a list of textbooks on “every subject” by LessWrong.com  Also see +this link for a list of “books that need to circulate throughout America.” America / United States

robert baer

• American Indian Genocide Museum recommended books – link
• (audio & text) Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA by Tim Weiner – torrents   
• (audio) Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner – torrent 
• The Anglo-American Establishment, by Carroll Quigley – PDF (Quigley seems to have been misunderstood by many people circulating information about him online. This work should help clarify more than what people say about him and his book “Tragedy & Hope.”)
• Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time, by Carroll Quigley – torrents 
• (audio) The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes – torrent
• (audio & text) The Lessons Of History, by Will & Ariel Durant – torrents 
• (audio) The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass – torrent 
• (audio) The Origins Of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt – torrents 
• (audio) Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835 & 1840) – torrents 
• ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism, by Yves Smith – torrents 
• Democracy Incorporated, by Sheldon Wolin – torrents 
• America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy by William Blum – torrent 
• (audio & text) Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines by Richard Heinberg – ebook | audio 
• ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism, by Yves Smith – torrents 
• Wolf Nation: The Life, Death and Return of Wild American Wolves – torrent 
• Pocket Birds of North America – torrent 
• Democracy Incorporated, by Sheldon Wolin – torrents 
• (audio) Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835 & 1840) – torrents 

Schooling

• The Underground History of American Education  | online book (404 error) | various versions at Archive.org
• +Notes/highlights of the book  The Underground History of American Education
• Dumbing Us Down  by John Taylor Gatto (a short book)
• The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It – torrents 
• (not linked) 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education – official website 

Variety

• 190 encyclopedias 
• Classics 
• Death by Government by RJ Rummel – torrent 
• Against His-Story, Against Leviathan by Fredy Perlman – torrent 
• Extinct Animals: An Encyclopedia of Species that Have Disappeared by Ross Piper – torrent 
• A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman – torrent 
• Plagues and Peoples by William McNeil – torrent 
• The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners by Rob Dunn – torrent 
• Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Pandemic by David Quammen – torrent 
• (audio) The Lakota Way – Native American Wisdom on Ethics and Character – torrent 
• Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism by Ozzie Zehner – torrent  [ Greenillusions.org ]
• Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot – torrent 
• Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of the Earth by George Wuerthner and Eileen Crist – torrent 
• (audio) Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud – torrent 
• Theodor W. Adorno – Philosophical Works (30 books) – torrent 
• How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, by Mortimer J. Adler – torrents 
• Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn – torrents (author of the highly-acclaimed novel, Ishmael )
• (audio) Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! by Fredy Perlman – youtube 
• What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz – torrent 
• The Encyclopedia of Birds (9 volumes) – torrent 
• Snake Oil: Fracking’s False Promise by Richard Heinberg – torrent 
• (audio) Light at the Edge of the World by Wade Davis – torrent
• The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond – torrent 
• (audio) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond – torrent 
• (audio) Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond – torrent 
• The Woman’s Bible, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898) – free from Amazon (Surprisingly, this has not been uploaded to Archive.org)
• When God was a Woman by Merilin Stone – torrents 
• The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (journal entries translated) – torrents 
• Cecil Rhodes by Sarah Gertrude Millin (1933) – torrent 
• Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO (2nd edition) – torrent 
• (audio) Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language by Christopher Stevens – torrents 
• Bamboo: The Plant and its Uses by Walter Liese and Michael Köhl – torrent 
• The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander by Thames and Hudson – torrents 
• America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy by William Blum – torrent 
• Zygmunt Bauman [Collection] in Spanish, Portuguese, English – torrent 
• (audio & text) Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell – torrents (Orwell put down the pen and took up the fight against Franco’s facists)
• Evil Media by Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey – torrent 
• (audio and text) The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, by Samuel Huntington – torrents 
• The Open Society and Its Enemies, by Karl Popper – torrents 
• (audio & text) A Short History of Myth, by Karen Armstrong – torrents 
• (audio) A Short History of Islam, by Karen Armstrong – torrents 
• (audio) The Bible: Unabridged, by Karen Armstrong – torrents 
• Karen Armstrong books (16 books on Myth, God and religion) – torrents 
• (audio & text) Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World by William Cohan – audio  | text 
• (audio & text) Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story by Greg Smith – audio  |  text 
• Plato (36 books) – torrents 
• Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer – torrents (audio & text)
• Empire of Illusion by Christopher Hedges – torrents 
• Adventures in Paleontology (HUGE amount of paleo books) – torrents 
• Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, by David Montgomery – torrents 
• The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska, by John DeCamp – torrents 
• Noam Chomsky (60 books, 983MB) – torrents 
• (audio) The a Man Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks – torrents 
• Language and Mind, by Noam Chomsky – torrents 
• The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to quit school and get a real life and education, by Grace Llewellyn – torrents 
• Walden & Civil Disobedience, by  Henry D. Thoreau – torrents 
• Crowds and Power (1978), by Elias Canetti  – torrents 
• Against Empire by Michael Parenti – torrent  |  other Parenti books
• Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 (NPR overview), by Yang Jisheng – torrent
• Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China – torrents 
• (audio) Musicophilia – Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks –  torrent
• The Missionary Position (scandalous writing on Mother Theresa), by Christopher Hitchens – torrents  (both audio & text)
• Against Civilization, by John Zerzan (archive.org)
•  Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Philosophical Works (6 books) – torrents
• The Party’s Over – Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies,  by Richard Heinberg – torrents 
• How the Mind Works, by Stephen Pinker – torrents 
• The Age of Insight, by Eric Kandel – torrents 
• In Search of Memory: A New Science of Mind, by Eric Kandel – torrents 
• Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, by Thomas Nagel – torrents 
• (audio & text) God is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens – torrents
• God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions, by Stephen Prothero – torrents 
• (audio) Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway – torrents 
• Criticism of the Bible – Collection – torrents 
• (audio) Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison, by Michael Daly – torrents 
• The Naked Capitalist; a Review and Commentary on Dr. Carroll Quigley’s  Book: Tragedy and Hope, a History of the World in Our Time, by W. Cleon Skousen – torrent –  Also see this debate  about the book (PDF)
• (audio & text) Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, by Neal Gabler – torrents 
• Albert Hirschman Collection – torrents 
• Bertrand Russell books – torrents  | Bertrand Russell Collection – torrents 
• Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky – torrents 
• Allies and Enemies, How the World Depends on Bacteria, by Anne Maczulak – torrents 
• The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, by Legs McNeil & Jennifer Osborne & Peter Pavia – torrents 
•  Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, by Gail Dines – torrents 
• The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America’s Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam, by Tom Mangold, John Penycate – torrents 
• Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson – torrents 
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, by Edward O. Wilson – torrents 
• Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology, by Neil Postman – torrents (audio and text)
• Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman – torrents 
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East – torrents 
• The Archaeology of Animals, by Simon Davis – torrents 
• The Honourable Company; a History of the English East India Company, by John Keay – torrents 
• Teaching as a Subversive Activity, by Neil Postman – link  (PDF, Oregon State Univ.)
• Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future, by Neil Postman – torrents 
• The Tyranny of Experts – Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, by William Easterly – torrents 
• The Ascent of Man, by Jacob Bronowski – torrents 
• Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Arts – torrents 
• The Encyclopedia of Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Ornament From Prehistoric Times to the Twentieth Century – torrents 
• The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology – torrents 
• The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, by Lierre Keith – torrents
• (audio & text) Bill Bryson collection – torrents 
• (audio & text) Chris Hedges collection (includes American Fascists & War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning) – torrents 
• (audio & text) 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric Cline – torrents (Also see an earlier book, The Chalice & the Blade)
• (2 books) 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus  |  1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles Mann – torrents (Columbus created the new world?)
• (audio) 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann – torrents 
• (audio) 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles C. Mann – torrents 
• Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA, by Mumia Abu-Jamal – torrents 
• (online book) The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, by Joost A. M. Meerloo (1956) – link (He escaped from the Nazis)
• (online book) Delusion and Mass Delusion, by by Joost A. M. Meerloo (1949) – link 
• (online summary) The Invention of the White Race, by Theodore Allen – link 
• The American Indians: People of the Lakes – torrents 
• (audio) The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, by Amy Stewart – torrents 
• Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army & Other Diabolical Insects, by Amy Stewart – torrents (both Wicked Plants & Wicked Bugs together)
• Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities, by Amy Stewart – torrents (both Wicked Plants & Wicked Bugs together)
• (audio) Advanced Bird Language (series) by Jon Young – torrent 
• (audio) Seeing Through Native Eyes (series) by Jon Young – torrent 
• The Memory of the World: The Treasures That Record Our History from 1700 BC to the Present Day (UNESCO) – torrents 
• The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia – torrents 
•  Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape – torrents 
• The Arrow Impossibility Theorem, by Eric Maskin – torrents 
• Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams, Joy James  – torrents 
• Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, by Radley Balko (2013) – torrents 
• (audio & text) Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman – torrent  (large file)  |  torrent  (smaller file)
• (audio & text) Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, by Mason Currey – torrents 
• (audio & text) Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, by Peter Kropotkin – torrents (The 520 meg audio version is terrible) | free for Kindle | other PDF 
• The Fourth Turning by W Strauss and N Howe – torrents (about cycles in history, with America as a focus)
• (audio & text) Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman – torrents 
• (audio) The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons – torrents 
• (audio & text) Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (Revised and Expanded Edition) – torrents 
• (audio & text) The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley – torrents 
• (audio & text) The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – torrents 
• (audio & text) Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson – torrent 
• (audio & text) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander – official site | study guides  | torrents 
• Totally Incorrect: Conversations with Doug Casey – PDF 
• (audio & text) The Market for Liberty by Morris Tannehill – torrents | Mises.org files
• (audio & text) The Machinery of Freedom: A Guide to a Radical Capitalism by David Friedman – torrents (audio version stops after chapter 40)
• Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul – torrents 
• The Darwin Awards by Wendy Northcutt (stupid people accidentally killing themselves) – Torrents: books 1,2,3   |  books 1-6 
• To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov – torrents 
• Murray Rothbard 10 Books on Libertarianism, Ethics, etc – torrents 
• The Law that Never Was (Volumes one & two) by Bill Benson – torrents | read the summary at TPB 
• The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad – torrents 
• Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen – torrent 
• The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler – torrent 
• (audio & text) What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe – torrents 
• The Origin and History of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment (1881) – archive.org 
• Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker – torrents 
• The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide by James Fadiman – torrents 
• On the Shortness of Life by Seneca – torrents 
• Judicial Tyranny and Your Income Tax by Jeffrey Dickstein – PDF 
• Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts – torrents 
• Seeking Wisdom From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin – torrents 
• Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights by Gary Klein – torrents 
• Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley by Eric Weiner – torrents 
• (audio & text) The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan – torrents 
• The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware – torrents 
• (audio & text) 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class The Thought Processes, Habits and Philosophies of the Great Ones by Steve Siebold – torrents 
• (audio & text) The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson – torrents 
• (audio) As A Man Thinketh by James Alden – torrent  / Text version is here 
• (audio & text) Gandhi: An Autobiography – The Story of My Experiments with Truth – torrents 
• (audio & text) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey – torrents 
• (audio) The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey – torrents 
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg – torrents 
• The Whole Earth Catalog (2 books, 1968 and 1984) – torrents 
• Cool Tools: a catalog of possibilities by Kevin Kelly – torrents 
• (audio) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – torrents 
• (audio) Age of Reason by Thomas Paine – torrents
• (audio) Common Sense by Thomas Paine – torrents
• On the Natural History of Destruction by W. G. Sebald – torrent 
• Jacques Ellul Collection – torrent 

Body, Health, Food, Sex, Exercise

• (audio & text) Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health by Gary Taubes torrents  (official page)
• (audio & text) The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith – torrents 
• The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat by Tim Spector – torrents 
• (audio & text) The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz – torrent 
• The Microbiome Diet – torrents 
• Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders  – torrent 
• I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong – torrents 
• Body By Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training – torrents 
• Pure, White and Deadly (and Fat Chance) by John Yudkin (books about sugar and gaining weight) – torrents 
• Know Your Fats by Mary Enig – torrents 
• Grain Brain – torrents 
• Wheat Belly – torrents 
• Disease Proof: The Remarkable Truth About What Makes Us Well by David L. Katz MD – torrents 
• On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee – torrent 
• Pavel Tsatsouline exercise collection (not just kettlebells) – torrents 
• You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises for Men and Women by Mark Lauren; Joshua Clark – torrents 
• Starting Strength – torrents
• The Fasting Cure by Upton Sinclair (1910)
• (audio) The Mood Cure by Julia Ross – torrents 
• 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Time Ferris – torrents 
• (audio) Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price – The author did research in 1930s by traveling to different remote tribes  all over the world and proved how modern food destroys peoples teeth and health in general – torrents 

• (audio & text) The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won’t Prevent Heart Disease by Jonny Bowden, Stephen Sinatra – torrents 
• (audio & text) Slow Sex by Nicole Daedone – torrents 

Science

• (audio & text) How the Brain Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by M.D., Norman Doidge – torrents 
• The Brain’s Way of Healing by Norman Doidge – torrent 
• Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, by Donald Prothero (2007) – torrents 
• Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin – torrent 
• (audio & text) Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne – torrents 
• Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George Church & Ed Regis – torrents 
• (audio & text) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn – torrents 
• Stephen Jay Gould audio books collection – torrents 
• Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and Diet of Worms, by Stephen Jay Gould – torrents 
• Wonderful Life, by Stephen Jay Gould – torrents 
• The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen Jay Gould – torrents 
• Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do by Wallace J. Nichols – torrents 
• Ever Since Darwin, by Stephen Jay Gould – (offline)
• (audio) The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion by Wendy Williams – torrent 

Business / Money

• (audio & text) Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist – torrents 
• (audio & text) The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life – torrents 
• Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickards – torrents 
• The Death of Money by James Rickards – torrents 
• (audio & text) The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone – torrents 
• (audio & text) The Innovators: by Walter Issacson – text torrents | audio torrent 
• Instant – The story of Polaroid by Christopher Bonanos – torrents 
• Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper – torrents 
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber – torrents 
• Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters, by Walter Friedman (2013) – torrents 
• (audio & text) Milton Friedman – Capitalism and Freedom – torrents 
• The Atlas of Economic Complexity – PDF 
• A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World’s Greatest Market by Jim Rogers – torrents (from a man who’s been in China since 1984)

Cannabis / Hemp

• The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer – PDF  |  torrents  |  online text version (Highly recommend buying the print version since it’s loaded with great illustrations)
• Cannabis Pharmacy: The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana – torrents 
• Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana – torrents 
• Smoke Signals – A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific – torrent
• The Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness by Steve DeAngelo
• The Cannabis Health Index  by Uwe Blesching (available December 2015)
• Marijuana: Gateway to Health by Clint Werner – torrents 
• The Gospel of Hemp – torrents  (free at Amazon, too)
• Doug Fine books: Too High to Fail, Hemp Bound, and others – link 
• Marijuana Horticulture – The Indoor & Outdoor Medical Growers Bible – torrrents 
• The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis (many contributors) – torrents 
• Marijuana Legalization: everything you need to know  by Angela Hawken (and 3 other authors) –(2014 c-span discussion)

• The Hempcrete Book: Designing and Building with Hemp Lime by William Stanwix and Alex Sparrow – torrents
• A New Leaf: The End of Marijuana Prohibition by by Alyson Martin & Nushin Rashidian – torrents 

Drugs / Drug War

• Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World by David T. Courtwright – torrent 
• (audio & text) Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari – official site  | torrents 
• (audio & text) Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, by Gary Webb – text | audio | Intercept follow-up on Gary Webb | Gary Webb talk
• Cocaine Politics by Peter Dale Scott
• Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System, by Roberto Saviano – torrents  – This was made into a fiction movie produced by Martin Scorcese. The  author had to go into hiding after he was marked for death by the Naples  Comorra.
• Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction by David T. Courtwright – torrent 
• High  Price: A Neuroscientists Journey of Self Discovery That Challenges  Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart – torrent 
• (audio)  Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge. A  Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution, by Terence  McKenna – torrents 
• (audio) True Hallucinations, by Terence McKenna – torrents 

Political Corruption

• (audio) The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind George Guidall – torrents 
• 935 Lies: the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity, by Charles Lewis (2014) – torrents | audio book 
• The War on Freedom: How & Why America was Attacked, by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – torrents 

Political(other)

• On Politics: A History of Political Thought, by Alan Ryan – torrents 
• Norman Finkelstein – torrents 

Wealth Creation / Generating Wealth / Biz Strategy / Running a Biz / Sales

• (audio & text) Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras – audio  | epub (this is a better audio version, but it’s missing CD5)
• (audio & text) Good to Great by Jim Collins – torrents 
• How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins  – torrents 
• (audio & text) Great by Choice by Jim Collins – torrents 
• (audio & text) How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – audio  | text 
• The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won’t Learn in College About How to Be Successful, by Michael Ellsberg – torrents
• (audio & text) Think and Grow Rich (21st Century Edition), by Napoleon Hill – torrents   (Mr. Hill was around at the time of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford,  Thomas  Edison, Henry Ford, and Alexander Graham Bell. He met them and  used  their life examples and many others for the content of this highly  practical book.
• (audio & text) The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham – torrents 
• (audio & text) Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki – torrents and many of his other works (includes Rich Dad, Poor Dad)
• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, by C.K. Prahalad – torrents 
• (audio) Innovation and Entrepreneurship, by Peter Drucker – torrents 
• (not linked) Millionaire Dropouts: biographies of the worlds most successful failures, by Woody Woodward
• Spin Selling, by Neil Rackham – torrents  “…the best-documented account of sales success ever collected and the result of the Huthwaite corporation’s massive 12-year, $1-million dollar research into effective sales performance…” 35,000 sales calls were used for the content of the research project.
• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman – torrents 
• Warren  Buffett’s Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of  the World’s Greatest Investor by Jeremy C. Miller – torrents 

Also see: + 50 books w/ summary + Best business books by Rob Kelly  + List of favorite investing books posted to Reddit.com/r/investing + Reddit.com/r/investing comments section contains more recommendations  + Books mentioned by economically successful people  ADD (some links from the other books notepad, such as Democracy Inc.)

• History of Money and Banking in the United States by Rothbard Murray
• Aldous Huxley Collection
• Gore Vidal Collection
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali – The Caged Virgin
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Infidel
• In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik
• When Google Met WikiLeaks
• Madness: A Brief History, by Roy Porter
• Mad in America
• Maggie Tallerman – The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution
• Serial Killers Peter Vronsky
• Starting Strength 3rd edition
• The Bible Of Bodyweight Exercises For Men And Women
• Stephen Jay Gould Audiobooks
• (audio) The Filter Bubble
• The Googlization of Everything – And Why We Should Worry
• (audio) The Great Influenza; The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
• The Knowledge Encyclopedia
• The Language of Life DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine by Francis S. Collins
• Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible
• Foundations – Their Power and Influence [1993 Covenant House Edition] (1958) by Rene A. Wormser

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• Respect for Acting – Uta Hagen
• The Popular Handbook of Archaeology and the Bible
• The Routledge Dictionary of Gods, Goddesses, devils and Demons – M. Lurker (Routledge, 2004)
• White Collar Crime – An Opportunity Perspective (2009) – Michael Benson et al
• Dear Leader (N.Korea)
• Enlightenment – Roy Porter
• Plutocrats – The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
• For God Country and Coca Cola
• Spice – Jack Turner
• The Evolution of Useful Things
• The Secret World of Oil
• The Tunnels of Cu Chi
• Godless – How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists
• Book of Woe

Courses, lectures

• Audio: The Great Courses by The Teaching Company (280 courses) – piratebay 
• Noam Chomsky – Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind – torrent