Throughout the research and writing of Anti-Social Engineering the Hyper-Manipulated Self, I have had the opportunity to learn much from the objects of this bibliography, even if it was only to discover what to ignore. Thus, these entries are not necessarily to be considered recommendations, but every one of them will teach you something.
PRINT: Including books, papers, articles, essays, etc. By Author
A
Ackrill, J.L., Aristotle on Eudaemonia, Lecture, Oxford University Press, 1974
Aristotle, the Nicomachean Ethics, as translated by W.D. Ross, internetarchive.org
B
Bakan, Joel, The Corporation: The pathological pursuit of profit and power, Penguin, 2004
Baudrillard, Jean, Fatal Strategies, Semiotext(e) MIT Press, 2008
Bowler, John, World Religions, Discovery, 2009
C
Camus, Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus,Penguin, 1955
Cooper, John M., Reason and Human Good, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1975
D
Debord, Guy, Society of the Spectacle, Zone Books, 1995
E F
Feinberg, Joel, Doing Philosophy,Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005
Ferguson, Niall, The Ascent of Money: The financial history of the world, Penguin, 2008
Fresco, Jacques, Designing the Future, thevenusproject.com
Fuller, R. Buckminster, Earth Inc., Anchor, 1973
G H
Haidt, Jonathan, The Happiness Hypothesis, Basic Books, 2005
Hawking, Stephen, A brief history of time, Bantam, 1988
Horgan, John, The End of Science,Broadway, 1987
I
Iserbyt, Charlotte Thompson, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, Conscience, 1999
J K
Kelly, David R., The Art of Reasoning, W. W. Norton, 1990
Kristol, William et al, the Project for a New American Century, www.newamericancentury.org
L M
McGraw, Phil, Dr., Self Matters, Free Press, 2001
N O P
Packard, Vance, the Hidden Persuaders, Pocket Books, 1957
Perkins, John, Confessions of an economic hitman, Berrett-Koehler. 2004
Popper, Karl, The Open Society and its Enemies: Vol. One: The Spell of Plato, Princeton, 1971
Q R
Rand, Ayn, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Signet, 1967
Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton, 1980
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, The Social Contract, Penquin, 2003
Russell, Bertrand, The Problems of Philosophy,Oxford, 1967
S
Sagan, Carl, The Demon Haunted World, Random House, 1997
Sagan, Carl, Pale Blue Dot, Random House, 1997
T
Tolle, Eckhart, The Power of Now: A new Earth, Plume, 2008
U V W
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Philosophical Investigations, Blackwell, 1974
Wolfe, Naomi, The End of America, Chelsea Green, 2004
The following list contains mostly films, some are classes you can purchase from The Teaching Company. Google it!
(in no particular order)
“Manufacturing Consent”
“What we still don't know.”
“A quest beyond the limits of the ordinary.”
“Beyond Belief 1, 2 and 3”, the Science Network,
“Philosophy: A guide to happiness”
“Why we fight”
“No end in sight”
“War made easy”
“Quest for the lost civilization”
“Islam: Empire of Faith”
“China from the inside”
“What a way to go: Life at the end of Empire”
“Expelled: No intelligence allowed”
“The century of the self”
“Commanding Heights: The battle for the world economy”
“Flooded Kingdoms”
“What is Enlightenment?”
“Denial Stops Here”
“The Corporation: The pathological pursuit of power”
“Zeitgeist: Moving Forward"
“The Hawking Paradox”
“Collapse”
“Life at the end of Empire”
“September Clues”
“Endgame”
PBS's “Frontline: The Dark Side, Frontline:Karl Rove The Architect”
“Esoteric Agenda”
“Global warming or global governance?”
“Evidence of Revision”
“Zero: An investigation into 9-11”
“Rumsfeld's War”
“Fields of Armour”
CBC - “The War on Drugs”
“The Money Masters”
“Loose Change”
“Afghanistan Unveiled”
David Icke “Secrets of the Matrix”
“An inconvenient truth”
“The power of nightmares”
“What is Enlightenment?”
“Religulous”
“Crude Awakening”
“Stop Loss”
“Captive Minds”
“Constantine's Sword”
“Game Theory: In life, business and beyond” TTC, Prof. Scott Stevens
“The Psychology of human behaviour” TTC, Prof. David W. Martin
“Understanding the world through experience and reason” TTC, Prof. James Hall
“Argumentation: The study of effective reasoning” TTC, Prof. David Zarefsky
“The self under siege” TTC, Prof. Rick Roderick
“Philosophy of Mind” TTC, Prof. John Searle
“The Conservative Tradition” TTC, Prof. Patrick Allitt
“No excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life” TTC, Prof. Robert Solomon
“Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language” TTC, Prof. John McWhorter
