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Basic Texts

Marshall McLuhan

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Marshall McLuhan

The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time

Marshall and Eric McLuhan

Laws of Media: The New Science

Marshall and Eric McLuhan

Media and Formal Cause

Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan

The New Languages

Edmund Carpenter 

They Became What They Beheld

Edmund Carpenter 

Oh, What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me

Norbert Weiner

Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Norbert Weiner

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

Norbert Weiner

God & Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion

Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechen

Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth

Merlin Donald

Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition

Julian Jaynes

The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Carlota Perez*

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

Digital

Stuart E. Madnick & John J. Donovan

Operating Systems

Allen Newell, Daniel Siewiorek & Gordon Bell

Computer Structures: Principles and Examples

Richard Grusin (Ed.)

The Nonhuman Turn

Bruno Latour

"Irreductions"

Bruno Latour

Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in an Age of Brilliant Technologies

Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee

Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy

Merritt Roe Smith & Leo Marx

Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism

George Dyson*

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

Kevin Kelly

What Technology Wants

McKenzie Wark*

A Hacker Manifesto

Fred Turner

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Cyber-Utopianism

Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls* & David Weinberger

The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual

Doc Searls*

The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge

Douglas Rushkoff*

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

Douglas Rushkoff*

Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commandments for a Digital Age

Spheres

Samuel P. Huntington

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Carroll Quigley

The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis

Carroll Quigley

The Anglo-American Establishment

Carroll Quigley

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in our Time

Arnold J. Toynbee

A Study of History (12 Volumes plus a 2 volume Abridgement)

John Ralston Saul

The Collapse of Globalism

Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen

The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses and our Lives

China

Richard Wilhelm & Cary F. Baynes (Translators)

The I Ching, or, Book of Changes

E. Bruce Brooks & A. Taeko Brooks (Translators)

The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucious and His Successors

Fabrizio Pregadio

The Seal of the Unity of the Three: A Study and Translation of the Cantong qi, the Source of the Taoist Way of the Golden Elixir

George Minamiki

The Chinese Rites Controversy: From Its Beginning to Modern Times

Michael J. Puett

To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice and Self-Divination in Early China

A.C. Graham

Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China

Ronald Coase & Ning Wang

How China Became Capitalist

Sterling Seagrave

Lords of the Rim: The Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese

François Jullien

The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China

Max Weber

The Religion of China

Joseph Needham

Science and Civilization in China (7 Volumes in 27 books)

Catholicism (Latin/Roman)

St. Augustine of Hippo

On the Trinity

St. Augustine of Hippo

City of God

St. Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologiae (5 volumes)

St. Thomas Aquinas

Summa Contra Gentiles (4 volumes)

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)

Giambattista Vico

The New Science

Hilaire Belloc

Europe and the Faith

Hilaire Belloc

Survivals and New Arrivals

Hilaire Belloc

The Servile State

G.K. Chesterton

St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox

G.K. Chesterton

St. Francis of Assisi

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

Étienne Gilson

The Philosophy of Saint Bonaventure

Étienne Gilson

History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages

Henri de Lubac

Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture (3 Volumes)

Charles Homer Haskins

The Rise of Universities

Pope Leo XIII

Rerum Novarum

Pope Francis

Laudato Si

Romano Guardini

The End of the Modern World & Power and Responsibility

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

The Paradoxical Structure of Existence

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

The War in Man: Media and Machines

Protestants

King James I

The Bible

Otto J. Scott

James I: The Fool as King

G.W. Leibniz

Theodicy

G.W. Leibniz

Writings on China

Maria Antognazza

Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography

Michael White

Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer

Bernard Mandeville

The Fable of the Bees Or Private Vices & Publick Benefits

James H. Billington

Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

James H. Billington

The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture

Terry Melanson

Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati

Tobias Churton

The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians: The World's Most Mysterious Secret Society

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust: Parts I & II

Hans Christian ​Binswanger

Magic and Money: A Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of Goethe's Faust

Ronald Douglas Gray

Goethe the Alchemist: A Study of Alchemical Symbolism in Goethe's Literary and Scientific Works

Karl Marx & Frederick Engels

The Communist Manifesto

Max Weber

The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism

Max Weber

Science as a Vocation

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music

Martin Heidegger

The Question Concerning Technology

Carl G. Jung

Seven Sermons to the Dead

Richard Noll

The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung

Jane Jacobs

Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Politics and Commerce

H.G. Wells

Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought

H.G. Wells

A Modern Utopia

H.G. Wells

The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution

Aldous Huxley 

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

The Doors of Perception

Eric Voegelin

The New Science of Politics: An Introduction

Fred Polak

The Image of the Future: Enlightening the Past, Orienting the Present, Forecasting the Future (2 Volumes)

Peter Collier & David Horowitz

The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty

Kai Bird

The Chairman: John J McCloy & the Making of the American Establishment

* a Member of the Center's Research Advisory Board