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Title	Author	Description
The Scientist as Rebel Scientist as Rebel	Freeman Dyson Dyson	An illuminating collection of essays by an award-winning scientist whom the London Times calls "one of the world's most original minds."
The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved Bog People	P.V. Glob Glob	Conceived as a kind of a detective story, this classic of archaeological history—out of print for over thirty years—is a fascinating account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the Iron Age in Europe. Contributors: Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. Barber , Rupert Bruce-Mitford
The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard	W.H. Auden Kierkegaard	Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote.
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions It Ain't Necessarily So (hardcover)	Richard C. Lewontin Lewontin	"Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." —Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions It Ain't Necessarily So (paperback)	Richard C. Lewontin Lewontin	"Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." (Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review)
The Waste Books Waste Books	Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Lichtenberg	The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought. Contributors: R.J. Hollingdale
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics Reckless Mind	Mark Lilla Lilla	How can intellectuals, who should be alert to the evils of tyranny, betray the ideals of freedom and independent inquiry? How can they take positions that, implicitly or not, endorse oppression and human suffering on a vast scale?
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness Memoirs of My Nervous Illness	Daniel Paul Schreber Schreber	The wonderful Schreber . . . ought to have been made a professor of psychiatry and director of a mental hospital. — Sigmund Freud Contributors: Rosemary Dinnage
The Mystery of Consciousness Mystery of Consciousness	John R. Searle Searle	What is consciousness? Is my inner awareness of myself something separate from my body?
Animal Liberation Animal Liberation	Peter Singer Singer	"Singer's documentation is unrhetorical and unemotional, his arguments tight and formidable, for he bases his case on neither personal nor religious nor highly abstract philosophical principles, but on moral positions most of us already accept."—The New York Times Book Review