God is not Great
"How Religion Poisons Everything"
Finally a kick in the groan to the relentless mind numbing drivel we have had to endure from the sanctimonious world of organized religion. Thank you mister Hitchens; now we can officially think as a species again.

Holy Blood and the Holy Gail
The original assembly of ideas chronicling the history of the lineages of houses of Europe from the House of David to the Windsor. Speculating on the Grail legends and Christian myths.

The Jesus Papers
The back story to the writing of the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail with updated information

Civilization One

Uriel's Machine

Both books explore the origins of our civilizations from beginnings back well beyond 5000 years by looking at what is around us today from Stone Hedge to our systems of measurement and tracing back.

Gödel Escher and Bach
 If Lewis Carroll and Carl Sagan wrote a literary fugue exploring how we perceive and exist in our minds I. The poetry of AI.

Peeping Thomas
Great spoof on the detective novel and the learned world. Organized crime, pornography, women's movement, higher education and politics all get beat'in into a fun read.

Boom Bust and Echo
They got it right; and every government and institutions couldn't see the forest for the tree - great read and a must for us aging boomers.

The Last Sorcerer
A great history of Isaac Newton; readable and unapologetically exploring his experiments in Alchemy and Politics.

Fakes Frauds and Flimflammery
The great stories that Andreas told on the Author Black show, on CBC radio Saturday morning, to enjoy at your leisure.

The Aryan Christ
A great biography of Carl Jung, surrounded by the story of the times; the wealthy families of Europe and the Americas, free love, sex in the hay under the life giving Sun, Freud and Adler.

Atlantis Found          Atlantis Lost World Site
My favourite Dirk Pitt novel - He pulls together the myths of Atlantis into a fun adventure pulp fiction novel.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch  (Ein gutes Omen (German))

(1990) is a fantasy novel written in collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

The book is a comedy and a quasi-parody of the 1976 film The Omen (as well as other books and films of the genre), concerning the birth of the son of Satan, the coming of the End Times and the attempts of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley to avert them, having become accustomed to their comfortable situations in the human world. A subplot features the gathering of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse—War, Famine, Pollution (Pestilence having retired in 1936 following the discovery of penicillin), and Death—the last of whom is characterised in a manner reminiscent of the personification of Death in Pratchett's Discworld novels and calls himself Azrael before his final exit.

-Above is Quoted from Wikepedia-

***Crowley:  ( the fallen Angel)

"[Humans] were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse."

***Aziraphale:  (Heaven's Angelic representative on earth)

"On the orders of Head Office I will encourage the belief in Intelligent Design – despite the fact that the human airway crosses the digestive tract. Who thought that was intelligent?"

Gollancz (UK) / Workman (U.S.) Ace, 1996

ISBN 0-575-04800-X

Guns,Germs, and Steel

The Fate of Human Societies

“Fasinating ... Lays a foundation for understanding human history”  -Bill Gates
 

Worth reading even if you've watched the PBS series based on the book. It gets the wheels turning and gives a new context to see history in. Whether right or wrong, it I feel, is a must know filter to revisit where we have been and where we are going.

The Cash Nexus

Money and POWER in the MODERN WORLD 1700-2000

A different perspective on the evolution of our economic system and timely given its' present demise

THE ISLAND of SEVEN CITIES

Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America

“If it is true, the find would rank among the greatest archeological discoveries of all time, [and] turn much of modern history upside down.”  National Post

Using aerial and site photographs, maps and drawings, and his own expertise as an architect, Chiasson re-creates how he pieced together the clues to one of the world’s great mysteries: a large Chinese colony existed and thrived on Canadian shores well before the European Age of Discovery. He addresses how the ruins had been previously overlooked or misunderstood, and how the colony was abandoned and forgotten, in China and in the New World. And he discovers the traces the colony left in the storytelling and culture of the Mi’kmaq, whose written language, clothing, technical knowledge, religious beliefs, and legends, he argues, expose deep cultural ties to China.

The gripping, marvel-filled account of how a native son took a casual walk up a mountain on Cape Breton Island and made an archeological discovery of world-shaking proportions.

-Above is Quoted from Wikepedia-

http://www.islandofsevencities.com

A rather damming critic of the books facts:

http://www.1421exposed.com/html/exposed.html