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The Purple Decades - A Reader

10 best books like The Purple Decades - A Reader (Tom Wolfe): Stranger in a Strange Land, The Gift, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, Scarlett, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine, The Truth about Dogs: An Inquiry into Ancestry Social Conventions Mental Habits Moral Fiber Canis fami, The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation, The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality, Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

Stranger in a Strange Land
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0441788386
Apparently a classic of the sci-fi cannon, I'd never heard of this book until it came up on a book club here. It took me a long time to read only because of lack of time, and a rather annoying trait the author has that I'll go into later.

This is one of those books that tells us more about the period it...
The Gift
AuthorHafez
ISBN0140195815
More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the "Tongue of the Invisible."

With this stunning collection of 250 of Hafiz's...
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0525560378
The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire

What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation,...
Scarlett
AuthorAlexandra Ripley
ISBN0446363251
The timeless tale continues... The most popular and beloved American historical novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is unparalleled in its portrayal of men and women at once larger than life but as real as ourselves. Now bestselling writer Alexandra Ripley brings us back to...
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
AuthorJon Kabat-Zinn
ISBN1401307787

Dear Brother,

When you first asked me about how to practice meditation (was it last week?), I gave you a few vague answers and then dismissed it from my mind, thinking that while it is impressive that you consider it seriously, it is not really vital to you right now. But, yesterday when you...
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
AuthorThomas Hager
ISBN1419734407
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does...
The Truth about Dogs: An Inquiry into Ancestry Social Conventions Mental Habits Moral Fiber Canis fami
AuthorStephen Budiansky
I really didn't enjoy this book at all. Which is a surprise, since I adore to read about dogs. But this book didn't offer any new information (other than offering an explanation for why my dog peed around Mary D.- because she's so tall!); what was the most upsetting was that the author didn't actually seem...
The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation
AuthorSandra Mackey
ISBN0452275636
The Iranians explores Iran in the context of its old and complex culture, for throughout its history Iran has struggled with two warring identities-one evolving from the values, social organization, and arts of ancient Persia, the other from Islam. By examining the relationship between these two...
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
AuthorBhaskar Sunkara
ISBN1541617398
From one of the most prominent voices on the American Left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today
With the stunning popularity of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Americans are embracing the class politics of socialism. But what, exactly, is...
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
AuthorJoseph Menn
The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom -- even democracy itself

Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly...
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