Education and the Social Order

6 best books like Education and the Social Order (Bertrand Russell): What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, Japanese Fairy Tales, Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

Author	Richard Nelson Bolles
ISBN	1580087949

I had imagined this would be a simple guide helping people to gain employment, little did I realise that this was all to the greater glory of God and would have nothing to do with parachutes.

"God loves a Trinity", the particularly irritating little kid who used to regularly beat me at chess when...

Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

Author

Robert H. Lustig

Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video Sugar: The Bitter Truth, has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years.

In the late 1970s when the government...

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Author	Will Durant
ISBN	0671739166

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write...

Japanese Fairy Tales

Author	Yei Theodora Ozaki
ISBN	4805308818

Things I learnt from Japanese Fairy Tales
-Never trust a monkey.
-Never trust a stepmother.
-Never trust a stepmother with your monkey.
-Almost every boy in Japan is named Taro, or a variant of that name: Kintaro, Urashima Taro, Momotaro...
-If an old man wants to wrestle your...

Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals

Author	Frans de Waal
ISBN	0674356616

To observe a dog's guilty look.

to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf--to catch animals in certain acts is to wonder what moves them. Might there he a code of ethics in the animal kingdom? Must an animal...

The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

Author	Ayesha Jalal
ISBN	0674052897

Established as a homeland for India's Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history that has unfolded in the vortex of dire regional and international conflicts. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often...