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I've been a compulsive reader all my life. Some years, I wrote down the names of the books I was reading.

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ARCHAEOLOGY & LANGUAGE: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins, by Colin Renfrew.

VAMPS AND TRAMPS: New Essays by Camille Paglia.

THE VISION OF THE ANNOINTED: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, by Thomas Sowell.

THE DESCENT OF THE CHILD: Human Evolution from a New Perspective, by Elaine Morgan

DIGERATI: Encounters with the Cyber Elite, by John Brockman

GROOMING, GOSSIP, AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE, by Robin Dunbar

JOB: A Comedy of Justice, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein

THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History, by Howard Bloom.

CREATING COOL HTML 3.2 WEB PAGES, by Dave Taylor. A MacWorld book.

BEFORE THE BEGINNING: Our Universe and Others, by Martin Rees

BEYOND ENGINEERING: How Society Shapes Technology, by Robert Pool

WHY THINGS BITE BACK: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, by Edward Tenner

CONSILIENCE: The Unity of Knowledge, by Edward O. Wilson.

A REASONABLE WORLD, a science fiction novel,by Damon Knight

WHY DO BIRDS, A Comic Novel of the Destruction of the Human Race,by Damon Knight

THE OBSERVERS, a novel by Damon Knight

MAROONED IN REALTIME, a science fiction novel,by Vernor Vinge

HOW BRAINS THINK: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now, by William H. Calvin

HOW I FOUND FREEDOM IN AN UNFREE WORLD, by Harry Browne

THE ORIGIN OF HUMANKIND,by Richard Leakey

ARE WE UNIQUE? A Scientist Expores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind, by James Trefil

HOW THE MIND WORKS, by Steven Pinker

A FIRE UPON THE DEEP, an SF novel by Vernor Vinge

AT THE WATER'S EDGE: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life, by Carl Zimmer

MAN'S SEARCH FOR HIMSELF, by Rollo May

THE HEART OF THE ORDER: baseball essays by Thomas Boswell

MIND MATTERS: Exploring the World of Artificial Intelligence, by James P. Hogan

THE MEANING OF IT ALL: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist, by Richard Feynman

THE LARGE, THE SMALL, AND THE HUMAN MIND, by Roger Penrose

MACHINE BEAUTY: Elegance and the Heart of Technology, by David Gelernter

THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE: The Evolution And Future Of The Human Animal, by Jared Diamond

THE DEEP BLUE GOODBYE, a Travis McGee novel by John D. MacDonald

THE TURQUOISE LAMENT, a Travis McGee novel by John D. MacDonald

THE FOREVER WAR, a science fiction novel by Joe Haldeman

THE WISDOM OF THE BONES: In Search of Human Origins, by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman

NIGHTMARE IN PINK, a Travis McGee novel by John D. MacDonald

THE LONG LAVENDER LOOK, a Travis McGee novel by John D. MacDonald

THE ALPHABET VERSUS THE GODDESS: The Conflict Between Word and Image, by Leonard Shlain

GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond

THE FABRIC OF REALITY: A Leading Scientist Interweaves Evolution, Theoretical Physics, and Computer Science to Offer a New Understanding of Reality, by David Deutsch.

ROBOT: Mere Machine To Transcendent Mind, by Hans Moravec