001.01 WIL Consilience: the unity of knowledge

001.01 WIL Consilience: the unity of knowledge by Edward O. Wilson

Now I just love a book whose blurb has quotes, one of which formidably states: 

"Consilience is an enormous intellectual adventure from one of the most eminent thinkers of the century."  Wow!  so where to start... it seems like a bit of a TOK book with a heavy science bent.

In this work, the author argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition of the principles governing every branch of learning. Edward O. Wilson, pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, breaks from the conventions of current thinking. He shows how our explosive rise in intellectual mastery of the truths of our universe has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos vision. This vision found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment, then gradually was lost in the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge in the last two centuries.

001 FAD The new lifetime reading plan

001 FAD The new lifetime reading plan

This is a magic book, another new discovery and one that just makes me melt in happiness.  Booklists.  What librarian doesn't love them?  Bloom's is the one we were sent to as Reference Librarians, this is some ways is a narrower version, minus the World Lit. (that Bloom's includes)  I am taking this one home and like all great lists, am going to go through it and tick off what I have read.  I will attach the list here for like minded biblio-listophiles!

	The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature by Clifton Fadiman; John S. Major (Preface by); Fadiman This is the contents:  I will highlight what I have read (in red) I will highlight books or authors that I have partially read or dipped into (in blue) Part One Anonymous, ca. 2000 BCE. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Homer, ca. 800 BCE. The Iliad. Homer, ca. 800 BCE. The Odyssey. Confucius, 551-479 BCE. The Analects. Aeschylus, 525-456/5 BCE. The Oresteia. Sophocles, 496-406 BCE. Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone Euripides, 484-406 BCE. Alcestis; Medea; Hippolytus; Trojan Women;Electra; Bacchae. Herodotus, ca. 484-425 BCE. The Histories. Thucydides, 470/460-ca.400 BCE. The History of the Peloponnesian War. Sun-tzu, ca. 450-380 BCE. The Art of War. Aristophanes, 448-388 BCE. Lysistrata; The Clouds; The Birds. Plato, 428-348 BCE. Selected Works. Aristotle, 384-322 BCE. Ethics; Politics; Poetics. Mencius, ca. 400-320 BCE. The Book of Mencius. Valmiki, ca. 300 BCE. The Book of Ramayana. Vyasa, ca. 200 BCE. The Mahabharata. Anonymous, ca. 200 BCE. The Bhagavad Gita. Ssu-ma Ch'ien, 145-86 BCE. Records of the Grand Historian. Lucretius, ca. 100-ca. 50 BCE. Of the Nature of Things. Virgil, 70-19 BCE. The Aeneid. Marcus Aurelius, 121-180. Meditations. Part Two Saint Augustine, 354-430. The Confessions. Kalidasa, ca. 400. The Cloud Messenger; Sakuntala. Revealed to Muhammad, ca. 650. The Koran. Hui-neng, 638-713. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch. Firdausi, ca. 940-1020. Shah Nameh. Sei Shonagon, ca. 965-1035. The Pillow Book. Lady Murasaki, ca. 976-1015. Tale of Genji. Omar Khayyam, 1048-? The Rubaiyat. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. The Divine Comedy. Luo Kuan-chung, ca. 1330-1400. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342-1400. The Canterbury Tales. Anonymous, ca. 1500. The Thousand and One Nights. Niccolò Macchiavelli, 1469-1527. The Prince. François Rabelais, 1483-1553. Gargantua and Pantagruel. Wu Cheng-en, 1500-1582. Journey to the West. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592. Selected Essays. Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra, 1547-1616. Don Quixote. Part Three William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. Complete Works. John Donne, 1573-1631. Selected Works. Anonymous, 1618. The Plum in the Golden Vase (Chin P'ing Mei) Galileo Galilei, 1574-1642. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679. Leviathan. René Descartes, 1596-1650. Discourse on Method. John Milton, 1608-1674. Paradise Lost; Lycidas; On the Morning of Christ's Nativity; Sonnets; Areopagitica. Molière, 1622-1673. Selected Plays. Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662. Thoughts (Pensées). John Bunyan, 1628-1688. Pilgrim's Progress. John Locke, 1632-1688. Second Treatise of Government. Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745. Gulliver's Travels. Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731. Robinson Crusoe. Voltaire, 1694-1778. Candide and Other Works. David Hume, 1711-1776. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Henry Fielding, 1707-1754. Tom Jones. Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in, 1715-1763. The Dream of the Red Chamber (also called The Story of the Stone). Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778. Confessions. Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768. Tristram Shandy. James Boswell, 1740-1795. The Life of Samuel Johnson. Thomas Jefferson and others. Basic Documents in American History, edited by Richard B. Morris Hamilton, Madison, and Jay. The Federalist Papers, edited by Clinton Rossiter. Part Four Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832. Faust. William Blake, 1757-1827. Selected Works. William Wordsworth, 1770-1850. The Prelude; Selected Shorter Poems; Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1800). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834. The Ancient Mariner; Christabel;Kubla Khan; Biographia Literaria; Writings on Shakespeare. Jane Austen, 1775-1817. Pride and Prejudice; Emma. Stendhal, 1783-1842. The Red and the Black. Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850. Père Goriot; Eugénie Grandet. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882. Selected Works. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864. The Scarlet Letter; Selected Tales. Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805-1859. Democracy in America. John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873. On Liberty; The Subjection of Women. Charles Darwin, 1809-1882. The Voyage of the Beagle; The Origin of Species. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1809-1852. Dead Souls. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849. Short Stories and Other Works. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863. Vanity Fair. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Hard Times; Our Mutual Friend; Little Dorrit. Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882. The Warden; The Last Chronicle of Barset; The Eustace Diamonds; The Way We Live Now; Autobiography. The Brontë Sisters 79A. Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre 79B. Emily Brontë, 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862. Walden; Civil Disobedience. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, 1818-1883. Fathers and Sons. Karl Marx, 1818-1883, and Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895. The Communist Manifesto. Herman Melville, 1819-1891. Moby Dick; Bartleby the Scrivener. George Eliot, 1819-1880. The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch. Walt Whitman, 1819-1892. Selected Poems; Democratic Vistas; Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass (1855); A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads. Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880. Madame Bovary. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821-1881. Crime and Punishment;The Brothers Karamazov. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910. War and Peace. Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906. Selected Plays. Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886. Collected Poems. Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass. Mark Twain, 1835-1910. Huckleberry Finn. Henry Adams, 1838-1918. The Education of Henry Adams. Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928. The Mayor of Casterbridge. William James, 1842-1910. The Principles of Psychology; Pragmatism; Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth; The Varieties of Religious Experience. Henry James, 1843-1916. The Ambassadors. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900. Thus Spake Zarathustra; The Genealogy of Morals; Beyond Good and Evil; and other works. Part Five Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939. Selected Works, including The Interpretation of Dreams; Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality; andCivilization and Its Discontents. George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950. Selcted Plays and Prefaces. Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924. Nostromo. Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904. Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; Selected Short Stories. Edith Wharton, 1862-1937. The Custom of the Country; The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth. William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939. Collected Poems; Collected Plays;The Autobiography. Natsume Soseki, 18676-1916. Kokoro. Marcel Proust, 1871-1922. Remembrance of Things Past. Robert Frost, 1874-1963. Collected Poems. Thomas Mann, 1875-1955. The Magic Mountain. E. M. Forster, 1879-1970. A Passage to India. Lu Hsün, 1881-1936. Collected Short Stories. James Joyce, 1882-1941. Ulysses. Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; Orlando;The Waves. Franz Kafka, 1883-1924. The Trial; The Castle; Selected Short Stories. D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930. Sons and Lovers; Women in Love. Tanizaki Junichiro, 1886-1965. The Makioka Sisters. Eugene O'Neill, 1888-1953. Mourning Becomes Electra; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day's Journey into Night. T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965. Collected Poems; Collected Plays. Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963. Brave New World. William Faulkner, 1897-1962. The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying. Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1962. Short Stories. Kawabata Yasunari, 1899-1972. Beauty and Sadness. Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986. Labyrinths Dreamtigers. Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977. Lolita; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory. George Orwell, 1903-1950. Animal Farm; Nineteen Eighty-Four;Burmese Days. R. K. Narayan, 1906- . The English Teacher; The Vendor of Sweets. Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989. Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape. W. H. Auden, 1907-1973. Collected Poems. Albert Camus, 1913-1960. The Plague; The Stranger. Saul Bellow, 1915- . The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog;Humboldt's Gift. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 1918- . The First Circle; Cancer Ward. Thomas Kuhn, 1922-1996. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Mishima Yukio, 1925-1970. Confessions of a Mask; The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1928- . One Hundred Years of Solitude. Chinua Achebe, 1930- . Things Fall Apart.

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001 AGN Agnotology: the making & unmaking of ignorance

Wonderful starting point.

001 AGN Agnotology

I am already feeling that my ignorance is showing. 
Titlewave review:

Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance by Robert Proctor (Editor); Londa Schiebinger (Editor) Preface p. vii 1   Agnotology: A Missing Term to Describe the Cultural Production of Ignorance (and Its Study)   Robert N. Proctor p. 1 Part I Secrecy, Selection, and Suppression 2   Removing Knowledge: The Logic of Modern Censorship   Peter Galison p. 37 3   Challenging Knowledge: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War   Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway p. 55 4   Manufactured Uncertainty: Contested Science and the Protection of the Public's Health and Environment   David Michaels p. 90 5   Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance   Nancy Tuana p. 108 Part II Lost Knowledge, Lost Worlds 6   West Indian Abortifacients and the Making of Ignorance   Londa Schiebinger p. 149 7   Suppression of Indigenous Fossil Knowledge: From Claverack, New York, 1705 to Agate Springs, Nebraska, 2005   Adrienne Mayor p. 163 8   Mapping Ignorance in Archaeology: The Advantages of Historical Hindsight   Alison Wylie p. 183 Part III Theorizing Ignorance 9   Social Theories of Ignorance   Michael J. Smithson p. 209 10   White Ignorance   Charles W. Mills p. 230 11   Risk Management versus the Precautionary Principle: Agnotology as a Strategy in the Debate over Genetically Engineered Organisms   David Magnus p. 250 12   Smoking Out Objectivity: Journalistic Gears in the Agnotology Machine   Jon Christensen p. 266 List of Contributors p. 283 Index p. 289   What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology--the study of ignorance--provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don't we know what we don't know? The essays assembled in Agnotology show that ignorance is often more than just an absence of knowledge; it can also be the outcome of cultural and political struggles. Ignorance has a history and a political geography, but there are also things people don't want you to know ("Doubt is our product" is the tobacco industry slogan). Individual chapters treat examples from the realms of global climate change, military secrecy, female orgasm, environmental denialism, Native American paleontology, theoretical archaeology, racial ignorance, and more. The goal of this volume is to better understand how and why various forms of knowing do not come to be, or have disappeared, or have become invisible.   Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and the author of The Nazi War on Cancer (1999) and Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don't Know (1995). Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Her recent books include Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004) and Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering (forthcoming from Stanford).