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Book list, introductions and reviews are presented by www.superscholar.org
Link: http://www.superscho
In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years. Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today.
The books we chose required some hard choices. Because influence tends to be measured in years rather than months, it’s much easier to put older books (published in the 60s and 70s) on such a list than more recent books (published in the last decade). Older books have had more time to prove themselves. Selecting the more recent books required more guesswork, betting on which would prove influential in the long run.
We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative. The Grateful Dead and Frank Zappa never sold as many records as some of the “one-hit wonders,” but their music has transformed the industry. Influence and popularity sometimes don’t go together. We’ve tried to reflect this in our list.
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Things Fall Apart
作者 : Chinua Achebe 评语 : Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958), as the most widely read book in contemporary African literature, focuses on the clash of colonialism, Christianity, and native African culture. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
作者 : Hanlon, Michael 评语 : Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979) reinvented the science fiction genre, making it at once sociologically incisive as well as funny. 【心愿单暂缺此书】 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Dr. Atkin's New Diet Revolution
作者 : Atkins, Robert C. 评语 : Robert Atkins’ Dr Atkins’s New Diet Revolution (1992, last edition 2002) launched the low-carbohydrate diet revolution, variants of which continue to be seen in numerous other diet programs. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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The God Delusion
作者 : Dawkins Richard 评语 : Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion (2006), drawing on his background as an evolutionary theorist to elevate science at the expense of religion, propelled the neo-atheist movement. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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The Closing of the American Mind
作者 : Allan Bloom 评语 : Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind (1987) set the tone for the questioning of political correctness and the reassertion of a “canon” of Western civilization.【心愿单暂缺此书】 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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The Da Vinci Code
作者 : Dan Brown 评语 : Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (2003), an entertaining thriller, has been enormously influential in getting people to think that Jesus is not who Christians say he is and that Christianity is all a conspiracy. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
作者 : Dee Brown 评语 : Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) transformed the way we view native Americans as they lost their land, lives, and dignity to expanding white social and military pressures.【心愿单暂缺此书】 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Silent Spring
作者 : Rachel Carson 评语 : Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) more than any other book helped launch the environmental movement. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Syntactic Structures
作者 : Noam Chomsky 评语 : Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures (1957), laying out his ideas of transformational grammar, revolutionized the field of linguistics and at the same time dethroned behaviorism in psychology.【心愿单暂缺此书】 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
作者 : Stephen R. Covey 评语 : Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Successful People (1989) set the standard for books on leadership and effectiveness in business. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Darwin's Black Box
作者 : Michael J. Behe 评语 : Michael Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box (1996), though roundly rejected by the scientific community, epitomizes the challenge of so-called intelligent design to evolutionary theory and has spawned an enormous literature, both pro and con. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
作者 : Jared M. Diamond 评语 : Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), in employing evolutionary determinism as a lens for understanding human history, reignited grand history making in the spirit Spengler and Toynbee. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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The Name of the Rose
作者 : Umberto Eco 评语 : Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose (1980) examines, in the context of a mystery at a medieval monastery, the key themes of premodernity, modernity and postmodernity. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Man's Search for Meaning
作者 : Viktor E. Frankl 评语 : Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning (1962) provides a particularly effective answer to totalitarian attempts to crush the human spirit, showing how humanity can overcome horror and futility through finding meaning and purpose. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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The Feminine Mystique
作者 : Betty Friedan 评语 : Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963), in giving expression to the discontent women felt in being confined to the role of homemaker, helped galvanize the women’s movement. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Capitalism and Freedom
作者 : Milton Friedman 评语 : Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom (1962) argued that capitalism constitutes a necessary condition for political liberties and thus paved the way for the conservative economics of the Reagan years.【心愿单的为中文版】 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Emotional Intelligence
作者 : Daniel Goleman 评语 : Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence (1995) showed clearly how skills in dealing with and reading emotions can be even more important than the cognitive skills that are usually cited as the official reason for career advancement. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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In the Shadow of Man
作者 : Jane Goodall 评语 : Jane Goodall’s In the Shadow of Man (1971), in relating her experiences with chimpanzees in the wild, underscored the deep connection between humans and the rest of the animal world.【心愿单暂缺此书】 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
作者 : John Gray 评语 : John Gray’s Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (1992), in highlighting and elevating the differences between men and women in their relationships, challenged the contention that gender differences are socially constructed. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Roots
作者 : Alex Haley 评语 : Alex Haley’s Roots (1976), by personalizing the tragic history of American slavery through the story of Kunta Kinte, provided a poignant challenge to racism in America. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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A Brief History of Time
作者 : Stephen Hawking 评语 : Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time (1988, updated and expanded 1998), by one of the age’s great physicists, attempts to answer the big questions of existence, not least how the universe got here. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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Catch-22
作者 : Joseph Heller 评语 : Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) etched into public consciousness a deep skepticism of bureaucracies, which in the book are portrayed as self-serving and soul-destroying. 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
作者 : Thomas S. Kuhn 评语 : Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962, last edition 1978) changed our view of science from a fully rational enterprise to one fraught with bias and irrational elements.【心愿单暂缺此书】 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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When Bad Things Happen to Good People
作者 : Harold S. Kushner 评语 : Harold Kushner’s When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1981) transformed people’s view of God, exonerating God of evil by making him less than all-powerful.【心愿单暂缺此书】 加入购书单已在购书单 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
作者 : Harper Lee 评语 : Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) served as prelude to the civil rights advances of the 1960s by portraying race relations from a fresh vantage—the vantage of an innocent child untainted by surrounding racism and bigotry. 加入购书单已在购书单 |