Tom Lombardo’s Library: Important Books on Philosophy, Religion, Evolution, Science, Psychology, Science Fiction, and the Future A - C • Abrahamson, Vickie, Meehan, Mary, and Samuel, Larry The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997. • Ackroyd, Peter The Plato Papers: A Prophecy. New York: Doubleday, 1999. • Adams, Douglas The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. New York: Ballantine, 1979-2002. • Adams, Fred and Laughlin, Greg The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity. New York: The Free Press, 1999. • Adams, Fred Our Living Multiverse: A Book of Genesis in 0+7 Chapters. New York: Pi Press, 2004. • Adler, Alfred Understanding Human Nature. (1927) Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1965. • Aldiss, Brian Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction. New York: Schocken Books, 1973. • Aldiss, Brian and Wingrove, David Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction. North Yorkshire, UK: House of Stratus, 1986. • Allman, William Apprentices of Wonder: Inside the Neural Network Revolution. Bantam, 1989. • Amis, Kingsley and Conquest, Robert (Ed.) Spectrum Vols. 1-5. New York: Berkley, 1961-1966. • Ammerman, Robert (Ed.) Classics in Analytic Philosophy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. • Anderson, Poul Brainwave. New York: Ballantine Books, 1954. • Anderson, Poul Time and Stars. New York: Doubleday, 1964. • Anderson, Poul The Horn of Time. New York: Signet Books, 1968. • Anderson, Poul Fire Time. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974. • Anderson, Poul The Boat of a Million Years. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1989. • Anderson, Walter Truett Reality Isn’t What It Used To Be. New York: Harper, 1990. • Anderson, Walter Truett (Ed.) The Truth About the Truth: De-Confusing and Re Constructing the Postmodern World. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995. • Anderson, Walter Truett Evolution Isn't What It Used To Be: The Augmented Animal and the Whole Wired World. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1996. • Anderson, Walter Truett The Future of the Self: Inventing the Postmodern Person. New York: Putnam, 1997. • Anderson, Walter Truett All Connected Now: Life in the First Global Civilization. Boulder; Westview Press, 2001. • Anderson, Walter Truett The Next Enlightenment: Integrating East and West in a New Vision of Human Evolution. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003. • Angier, Natalie Woman: An Intimate Geography. New York: Anchor Books, 1999. • Aristotle The Basic Works of Aristotle. Richard McKeon (Ed.) New York: The Modern Library, 2001. • Armstrong, D. M. Perception and the Physical World. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961. • Armstrong, D. M. A Materialist Theory of Mind. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968. • Armstrong, Karen A History of God: The Four Thousand Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1994. • Armstrong, Karen The Battle for God. New York: Ballantine Books, 2000. • Armstrong, Karen The Great Transformation: The Beginning of our Religious Traditions. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2006. • Arnheim, Rudolf Visual Thinking. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1969. • Arthur, W. Brian The Nature of Technology: What is it and How it Evolves. New York: Free Press, 2009. • Ash, Brian (Ed.) The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: Harmony Books, 1977. • Asimov, Isaac I, Robot. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1950. • Asimov, Isaac The End of Eternity. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1955. • Asimov, Isaac (Ed.) The Hugo Winners, Vol. I. Greenwich, Ct.: Fawcett Publications, 1962. • Asimov, Isaac (Ed.) Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. II. Greenwich, Ct.: Fawcett Publications, 1971. • Asimov, Isaac (Ed.) More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. II. Greenwich, Ct.: Fawcett Publications, 1971. • Asimov, Isaac (Ed.) Where Do We Go From Here? Greenwich, Ct.: Fawcett Publications, 1971. • Asimov, Isaac The Gods Themselves. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1973. • Asimov, Isaac The Best of Isaac Asimov. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1973. • Asimov, Isaac Foundation. Foundation and Empire. The Second Foundation. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. • Augros, Robert and Stanciu, George The New Story of Science: Mind and the Universe. New York: Bantam, 1984. • Aune, Bruce Knowledge, Mind, and Nature: An Introduction to Theory of Knowledge and the Philosophy of Mind. New York: Random House, 1967. • Ayer, A. J. Language, Truth, and Logic. New York: Dover, 1946. • Ayer, A. J. (Ed.) Logical Positivism. New York: Free Press, 1959. • Baars, Bernard J. The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology. New York: The Guilford Press, 1986. • Baars, Bernard J. In the Theatre of Consciousness: The Workplace of the Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. • Bakker, Robert The Dinosaur Heresies. New York: William Morrow, 1986. • Ballard, J. G. Chronopolis and Other Stories. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971 • Banks, Iain The Algebraist. San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2004. • Barber, Benjamin Jihad vs. McWorld. New York: Ballantine Books, 1995, 2001. • Barbour, Ian Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. • Barr, Marleen S. Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. • Barrett, William Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1958. • Barrow, John, and Tipler, Frank The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. • Barrow, John Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. • Barzun, Jacques From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life - 1500 to the Present. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. • Bateson, Gregory Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Ballantine, 1972. • Bateson, Gregory Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. New York: Bantam Books, 1979. • Baxter, Stephen Vacuum Diagrams. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. • Baxter, Stephen Manifold Time. New York: Ballantine, 2000. • Baxter, Stephen Manifold Space. New York: Ballantine, 2001. • Baxter, Stephen Manifold Origin. New York: Ballantine, 2002. • Baxter, Stephen Evolution. New York: Ballantine, 2003. • Bear, Greg Blood Music. New York: iBooks, 1985. • Bear, Greg Queen of Angels. New York: Warner Books, 1990. • Bear, Greg Darwin’s Radio. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. • Bear, Greg Darwin’s Children. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. • Beare, Hedley and Slaughter, Richard Education for the Twenty-First Century. Routledge, 1993. • Beck, Don Edward and Cowan, Christopher Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. • Becker, Ernest The Denial of Death. New York: Free Press, 1973. • Bell, Daniel (Ed.) Toward the Year 2000: Work in Progress. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1968. • Bell, Daniel The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. New York: Basic Books, 1973. • Bell, Daniel The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 1976. • Bell, Wendell Foundations of Future Studies: Human Science for a New Era. Volumes I and II. New Brunswick: Transactions Publishers, 1997. • Benford, Gregory Timescape. New York: Bantam Books, 1980. • Bentov, Itzhak Stalking the Wild Pendulum. New York: Bantam, 1977. • Berman, Morris The Reinchantment of the World. New York: Bantam, 1981. • Berman, Morris Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West. New York: Bantam, 1989. • Berman, Morris The Twilight of American Culture. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. • Bernal, J. D. Science in History. (3rd Edition) New York: Hawthorn Books, 1965. • Berne, Eric Games People Play. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1964. • Berry, Adrian The Next 500 Years: Life in the Coming Millennium. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1996. • Bertalanffy, Ludwig von General Systems Theory. New York: George Braziller, 1968. • Bertman, Stephen Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1998. • Best, Steven and Kellner, Douglas Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations. New York: The Guilford Press, 1991. • Best, Steven and Kellner, Douglas The Postmodern Turn. New York: The Guilford Press, 1997. • Bester, Alfred The Demolished Man. New York: Signet, 1953. • Bester, Alfred The Stars, My Destination. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1956. • Bester, Alfred Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester - The Light Fantastic and Star Light, Star Bright. Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1976. • Blackmore, Susan Consciousness: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. • Blish, James A Case of Conscience. New York: Ballantine Books, 1958. • Bloom, Allan The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1987. • Bloom, Howard The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. • Bloom, Howard Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2000. • Bloom, Howard The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2010. • Bohm, David and Peat, F. David Science, Order, and Creativity. New York: Bantam, 1987. • Bondi, Hermann The Universe at Large. Garden City, New York: Anchor, 1960. • Boorstin, Daniel The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination. New York: Random House, 1992. • Borges, Jorge Luis The Library of Babel. Boston: Godine, 1941, 2000. • Borges, Jorge Luis Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. New York: