non-fiction books: I'm looking for a book that makes people think; what book would you recommend me?

Question

It can be any subject.

Answer 1

The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukov


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They're, Their, There - Three Different Words.

Careful or you may wind up in my next novel.

Pax - C

Answer 2

A Long Way Gone--Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Night by Elie Wiesel
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Answer 3

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The appology by Plato

The art of deception by Kevin Mitnik

Answer 4

If your American, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". The story of American expansion from the point of view of the Native Americans who lived through it. A must-read for any American.

Otherwise, look here:
http://www.awardannals.com/wiki/Honor_roll:Genres - pick your genre, find the best books ranked by how many awards they've won.

Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com

Answer 5

I'll go with books by Thomas Friedman--e.g. the World Is Flat. He's not especially uplifting, but he does get one to think about the world's current condition.

Answer 6

The Old ***** and the New ***** by T. Leroy Jefferson, MD
(originally published in 1939 and republished in 2006)

Answer 7

"Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, definitely.

Two others, by psychiatrist Olga Kharitidi, chronicle her helping build an out-of-body-inducing apparatus at a major physics institute, her initiation into Siberian shamanism, which she successfully incorporated into her hospital practice, and her learning of dream healing techniques: "Entering the Circle" and "The Master of Lucid Dreams."

Ted Flynn, a researcher who put together 25 years of public quotes, into his "Hope of the Wicked," presents an amazing connect-the-dots portrait of some leaders' political plans.
Likewise, Daniel Estulin has done similarly in his "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group," which chronicles the secret group of world leaders which meets on a yearly basis.

Dan Sherman's "Above Black" allegedly recounts his experiences in Army Intelligence, including some telepathy experiments trying to contact aliens.

"Red Cocaine" and "Betrayed" by U.S. intelligence officer Joseph Douglass, Ph.D. and professor, documents 1950s Soviet research on street drugs, testing on U.S. POWs, and developing of Latin American drug cartels, with the intent to feed drugs into U.S. military and youth. He testified before Congress, and was well-received.

"Extraordinary Knowing," by psychology professor (U C Berkeley) Dr. Elizabeth Mayer, whose book begins with the theft of her daughter's beloved harp, the inability of the police to locate it, and, in desperation, her following a friend's "Hail Mary" advice to try a leading dowser, some 3,000 miles away. He finds it, to the very street corner, in a big city; the rest of her book describes her journey to at first disprove, then further investigate, what happened.

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck. Funny, witty, and profound, this describes her final year earning her Ph.D. at Harvard, while carrying her unborn child to term. A great book.

All of these are very challenging and thought-provoking, each in their own way.

Best regards,

j.

Answer 8

Night by Elie Wiesel

Answer 9

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
http://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Revised-Expanded-Economist-Everything/dp/0061234001/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198021909&sr=8-1
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393061310/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198021941&sr=1-1
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed/dp/0143036556/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198021987&sr=1-2
The Business of Memory by Frank Felberbaum
http://www.amazon.com/Business-Memory-Fast-Track-Supercharged-Brainpower/dp/B000IOEV12/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198022031&sr=1-2
The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio
http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Ratio-Worlds-Astonishing-Number/dp/0767908163/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198022089&sr=1-1
Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas by Daniel J. Flynn
http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Morons-Ideology-People-Stupid/dp/1400053560/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198022122&sr=1-1

Answer 10

Bohumil Hrabal - Too loud a solitude