The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000

5 best books like The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000 (David Quammen): River of Gods, Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda, Basic Writings of Existentialism, German Ideology, The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress

River of Gods

Author	Ian McDonald
ISBN	1591024366

As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business--a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj--the waif, the mind reader, the prophet--when she one day finds a man who wants to stay...

Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda

Author	Robert Wallace
ISBN	0525949801

From two men who know better than anyone how espionage really works, an unprecedented historyaheavily illustrated with neverbefore- seen imagesaof the CIAas most secretive operations and the gadgets that made them possible. It is a world where the intrigue of reality exceeds that of fiction. What...

Basic Writings of Existentialism

Author	Gordon Daniel Marino
ISBN	0375759891

Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino

Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must...

German Ideology

Author	Karl Marx
ISBN	0717803015

2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...

The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress

Author	Virginia Postrel
ISBN	0684862697

Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by popular culture, and insecure in the face of economic change. The future, they tell us, is...