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Preparation for work that may affect the fate of humanity requires not

just technical studies, but a broad, general background in many fields,

and certain basic skills, to provide a social, philosophic, and

historical perspective.

Basic skills

1990.

York: Harper, 1960, 1994.

Simon & Schuster, 1972, 1997.

1979, 1995.

Cambridge, 1984.

1974.

1988.

Oryx Press, 1988.

The Classics

Read most of the works in the set, A Great Books of the Western World,

in order.

Philosophy and Religion

Schuster, 1945.

the Philosophy of Science, Buffalo: Prometheus, 1988.

Brace, Jovanovich, 1978, 1991.

Foundations of Empirical Knowledge, New York: St. Martins, 1969.

International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Chicago: U. Chicago

Press, 1955.

History, Biography and Futurics

New York: Oxford, 1947-57.

1967.

Ecology and Arcology

Schuster, 1990.

1972, 1977.

Friends of the Earth, 1980.

1973.

Press, 1969.

1989.

Government, Law and International Relations

1962.

Mathematics and Logic

1988.

Chicago Press, 1939.

and A Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1974.

1967.

Wiley, 1984.

1984.

Machine Learning, Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1989.

1978-87. Book hopefully being written.

York: Wiley, 1974.

1975.

Cybernetics and Information Theory

Dover, 1980.

Addison-Wesley.

Wiley, 1976.

CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1990.

Addison-Wesley, 1984, 1992.

Problem-Solving, Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1984.

Physics, Cosmology and Electronics

Relativity, New York: Dover, 1950.

Addison-Wesley, 1961.

Mechanics, A Vol. 1, A Vol. 2, New York: Wiley, 1977.

Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1969.

Freeman, 1973.

Space-Time, New York: Cambridge, 1973.

Cambridge, Vol 1&2 1987, Vol 3 1990.

Statistical, New York: Wiley, 1982.

New York: Cambridge, 1990.

Plenum, 1990.

Molecular Physics, Chemistry and Biology

1981.

Dekker, A I 1982, A II 1987.

Chemical and Biomolecular Systems, New York: NY Acad. Sci., 1986.

Academic, 1989.

Wiley-Liss, 1989.

Structures, New York: Springer, 1988.

Technology and Space

1986.

Economics, Management, Society and Cognition

1983.

Sci. Press, 1988.

1976.

U. Press, 1983.

Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1971, 1978.

Press, 1989.

Corruption and Political Dysfunction

PO Box 5, Alamo, CA 94507, 800- 247-7389, $27.25 Ppd. Insider exposes

massive federal corruption, corporate raiding, looting of savings and

loans, drug smuggling, bankruptcy fraud, coverups of safety

violations, and JFK assassination, particularly involving CIA and

Justice Department.

1994, Shapolsky Publishers Inc, 136 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011,

212/633-2022. Details of corruption involving the CIA, Bush and

Clinton.

Democracy, 1992, Simon & Schuster. Describes faltering of the

political process.

1992, Andrews & McMeel, 4900 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64112.

Superficial, but some useful points.

Publishers, POB 53788, Lafayette, LA 70505. Superficial, but examines

the global level.

Abuses of Constitution, Civil Rights

St. Martin's Press, New York. Survey of official abuses, but neglects

corporate abuses and the ultimate causes and solutions to both.

Campo, CO 81029, 719/787-9958, $14.95. Exposition of Emergency Rule,

established March 9, 1933, which continues to this day.

Survey of some of the more obvious erosions of constitutional rights,

but superficial treatment of the causes.

Twilight in America, 1993, Unlimited Thought Bookstore, 5525 Blanco

Rd. #112, San Antonio, TX 78216, $15.00 Ppd.

#11, San Antonio, TX 78218, $20.00 Ppd. Abuses by the federal

judicial system.

Repression in America, 1989, U. Of California Press, Berkeley.

Intelligence Agencies, 1976, Penguin, New York. Survey of results of

Church Committee Report and similar abuses.

America's Political Intelligence System, 1980, Knopf, New York.

'Alien' Abduction Phenomenon, 1990, 1996, 8211 Owensmouth Av #206,

Canoga Park, CA 91304. $6.00. Survey of mind-control experimentation

by U.S. Government.

Experimentation, Electronic Surveillance Project, Association of

National Security Alumni, PO Box 13625, Silver Spring, MD 20911-3625,

301/608- 0143. $5.00. Exposé of mind-control experimentation by

insider.

America, 1992, Victoria House Press, 67 Wall St #2411, New York, NY

10005. $10.00. Report of investigations of how computerized elections

are rigged. A manual for investigating vote fraud.

of the legal system.

Coverups and Secret Government

the Order of Skull & Bones, 1986, Liberty House Press, 2027 Iris,

Billings, MT 59102. Traces historical roots of major members of U.S.

branch of Shadow Government, but doesn't cover decision- making

structure.

Hundred, 1992, America West Publishers, PO Box 2208, Carson City, NV

89702. Introduces major players in global Shadow Government, but

lacks substantiation and may have misread the roles of some of them.

Makes case that rule is by 300 major families, a third of them

British. Traces their control of almost every sector of society, and

shows that much of their money comes from control of drug market,

going back to China opium trade. But doesn't cover present executive

structure.

CIA, 1992, Scribners, New York. Traces the emergence of the CIA as

executor of objectives of the ruling elite and examines their

deficiencies.

society, 1989, Oxford, New York A sanitized depictionof this agency.

New Haven. A sanitized depiction of this agency.

John F. Kennedy, 1992, Birch Lane, New York A; Secret Team : The CIA

and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World,

Institute for Historical Review. A JFK assassination as government

plot.

York. Commentary on House investigation which concluded JFK

assassination was a conspiracy.

1990, Seven Locks Press, PO Box 27, Cabin John, MD 20818,

310/320-2130. Discusses what came out of the Watergate and

Iran-Contra scandals. Eloquent indictment, but no new revelations.

the Country, 1987, Simon & Schuster, New York. Describes the

consequences of 1980 financial deregulation, which lays the basis for

what is discussed by Rodney Stich.

Gloucester Av, London NW18JA. Exposes deal to give Iran arms to keep

hostages long enough to defeat Carter in 1980 election.

authorities and how they control $1 trillion dollars of your money,

1992, Wiley, New York. Identifies how such public authorities

function as a part of the Shadow Government.

Morrow, New York A; Alien Contact: Top-Secret UFO Files Revealed,

1993, W. Morrow, New York. A Raises important question: If these

things are real, how are they affecting government: both visible and

invisible.

Constitutional Principles

definitive record of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention

of 1787.

Explanation of the proposed Constitution and arguments for adopting

it.

House, New York. Includes much of debate needed to interpret Framers'

intent.

Penguin, New York. Major writings, especially his commentaries on the

Constitution and its foundations.

Contains essays: John Locke, An Essay Concerning the True Original,

Extent, and End of Civil Government; David Hume, Of the Original

Contract; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract. These are the

definitive treatises that lay the theoretical basis for republican

government, and without which the Constitution cannot be fully

understood.

Macmillan, New York. Scholar examines "original intent" doctrine and

its alternatives.

Institute, 134 98th Av, Oakland, CA 94603. Traces legal foundations

of right to keep and bear arms and shows how it is fundamental to all

other rights.

Washington, DC. Excellent analysis of how a federal constitution must

be designed to be viable and effective.

Democracy, 1994, BasicBooks, New York. Good treatment of some of the

key issues involving the jury system, including jury nullification,

and how it has been perverted from its orginal form.

Press, Chicago. Examines conflicting political philosophies and their

impacts on ideal constitutional governance.

Lanham, MD. Makes case for returning to strict construction and

compliance, but neglects rights to keep and bear arms and to assemble

as independent militias.

Amendment Foundation, James Madison Building, 12500 N.E. Tenth Place,

Bellevue, WA 98005.

Solutions

A; Larry Pratt, Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution and Citizens

Militias, 1995. A Gun Owners Foundation, 5881 Leesburg Pike, Falls

Church, VA 22041. Discusses the major factor missing from the

political order that might make a difference.

Superficial, and misses much that is needed, but hits some useful

points.

Government, 1994, Jameson Books, Inc., PO Box 738, Ottawa, IL 61350.

Handbook on political action.

Investigation and Expose

Engagement, 1997, SomFord Entertainment, VHS tape. Documentary footage

exposing the lies of the government concerning the events at Mt.Carmel

in 1993.

government complicity in the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.

Unreported Stories, 1997, Regnery Publishing. Expose of government

complicity in the Oklahoma City bombing, in the Vince Foster death, and

in drug smuggling into Arkansas. Author was an investigative reporter

for the London Sunday Telegraph, and chief of their Washington bureau,

when he wrote it.

Terror, 1998, Feral House Pr. Expose of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Investigation, 1997, Free Press. Expose of the death of Vincent Foster,

indicating that it was murder.

Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It, 1997, Prometheus Books.

Excellent discussion of the ways the federal government is exceeding

its constitutional powers.

Jefferson Clinton : A Political Docu-Drama, 1997, Regnery Publishing.

Presents argument and scenario for impeachment of the president.

Clinton, 1998, Regnery Publishing. Presents argument for impeachment of

the president.

1998, Henry Holt & Company. This is the book the author was probably

killed to prevent the publishing of.

California Press.

Expose of the incident. The author and his wife were recently arrested

under circumstances that suggest the government is not happy with the

book.

within the DEA and CIA by a former top DEA agent.

Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War : An Undercover

Odyssey, 1994, Thunder's Mouth Pr. Expose of complicity of U.S.

government agencies in the spread of narcotics.

Novel that is more like a documentary of U.S. government criminality.

Anglo American Establishment.

Further exposes the Anglo American Establishment.

Provides a coherent exposition of how civilizations develop.

Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876, 1998, Praeger.

Gun-Control Laws, 1998, Univ. of Chicago Pr.

De Gruyter.

Essays on Firearms & Violence, 1997, Pacific Research Inst for Public

Policy.

Aldine De Gruyter.

Analysis of reports from many abductees that build a picture of what

the aliens may be trying to do.

Roswell, 1997, New York, Simon & Schuster.

of Danny Casolaro, 1996, Feral House, Portland, OR, $19.95 hardback.

Eagar, AZ, $29.95 paperback.

Press, Boston, MA, $13.00 paperback.

Agent, 1996, Majority Pr.

Militias, 1995, HarperCollins, New York, $5.99 paperback.

Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the

Constitution in the Name of Justice, 2000, Prima Publishing, $19.96

hardcover.

A Chronological Paper Trail, 1999, Conscience Pr., $39.95

paperback.

Political Science and Constitutional Commentary

Princeton Univ Pr. Speech by Supreme Court Justice Scalia on the

principles and issues of constitutional interpretation, followed by

comments by several scholars, followed by Scalia's rebuttals.

Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman, 1997, Free Pr. Anthology of

key writings.

Hopkins Univ Pr. Essays on the natural law foundations of

constitutionalism and what is needed to return to constitutional

compliance.

1988, Macmillan. Analysis of original intent and the ways lawyers and

judges, and especially the Supreme Court, distort and misunderstand

history in interpreting the Constitution.

of the United States Constitution, 1993, U. Georgia Pr. Brief

commentary and historical analysis.

Knopf. Preface by Harvey Wheeler. The victory of the Jeffersonians

over the Federalists settled constitutional interpretation for the

next 20 years.

commentary on the formation of the American Union.

1986. History and commentary on the formation of the American Union.

the Constitution, 1986, Univ Pr of Kansas. Survey of the writings and

ideas on which the Constitution was founded.

Constitution, 1992, Transaction Pub. Economic factors affecting the

founding of the Constitution.

1992, Belknap Pr. Survey of the writings and ideas on which the

Constitution was founded.

Founding, 1999, Univ Pr of Kansas. Examines the thought of Madison in

detail.

Founding of the Federal Republic, 1998, Cornell Univ Pr. Analyzes

Madison's ideas and how they relate to constitutional interpretation.

Ideology, 1980, Cornell Univ Pr. Traces the development of

Jeffersonian interpretative doctrine.

1987, Hillsdale College Pr. Essays on changing interpretations of the

Constitution.

American Federalism, 1995, Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Essays

on the ways the Constitution is being misinterpreted.

Jurisprudence of Natural Rights, 1997, Princeton Univ Pr. Biography

and analysis of the opinions of perhaps the leading Supreme Court

Justice to resist the New Deal usurpations.

Meaning of the Ninth Amendment. Provides excellent guide to what else

the Founders intended to include in the rights protected by the

Constitution.

Vol. 1, 1990, Univ Pub Assoc.

Vol. 2, 1993, George Mason Univ Pr.

Historical and philosophical analysis of natural law theory.

1995, Clarendon Pr. Commentary on natural law theory.

Interpretive History of the Continental Congress, 1982, Johns Hopkins

Univ Pr. Analysis and documentation concerning constitutional

interpretation.

Original Intent, 1990, Northeastern Univ Pr. Analysis and

documentation concerning constitutional interpretation.

Making of the Constitution, 1997, Vintage Books. Analysis and

documentation concerning constitutional interpretation.

1997, Bedford Books. Analysis and documentation concerning

constitutional interpretation.

Documentary History, 1986, Penguin USA. Key selections from

constitutional plans, private correspondence of the Founders, and

Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers.

and the Pursuit of Office, 1992, Times Books. Argues that candidates

for public office are increasingly self-nominated, full-time

professional politicians, who have the ambition, time, skills, and

other resources to win and retain elective office, but frequently

lack other qualities that are needed in our legislative and executive

institutions in order for them to function effectively as formulators

of coherent public policies.

1995, Liberty Fund. Originally published in Latin in 1603, and

revised in 1614, it first presented a comprehensive theory of federal

republicanism based on a covenantal model of human society.

Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun, 1992, Liberty Fund. Includes

"A Disquisition on Government" and "A Discourse on the Constitution

and Government of the United States". Developed the doctrines of

concurrent majority, interposition, nullification, and state

secession, to correct what he perceived as a defect in the design of

the Constitution that permits a persistent majority to dominate all

three branches of government and legislate against the interests of a

minority to the point where they would consider their rights violated.

Hackett Pub Co. Expositions of Hobbes' moral and political

philosophy, better in many ways than Leviathan.

Essay on criminal law and penal reform.

Prometheus Books. Develops doctrine of utilitarianism and applies it

to government.

Political Treatise, 1951, Dover Pubns. Lays political theory on basis

of morality and natural law.

Natural Law, 1991, Cambridge Univ Pr.

England, 1979, Ayer Co Pub.

of Competition and Collaboration, 1997, Princeton Univ Pr.

1986, Univ of Wisconsin Pr. Contains the Social Contract,

Considerations on the Government of Poland, and Constitutional

Project for Corsica.

Freedoms : Great Jury Trials of History, 1997, Prometheus. Landmark

cases in which the jury played the starring role.

fictionalized rendition of Bushell's Case, in which Edward Bushell,

by holding out against intense pressure to convict William Penn on a

charge of preaching in a way not authorized by the Church of England,

established both the power and role of the jury and the right of free

exercise of religion. Available from America's Legal Bookstore, 725 J

St, Sacramento, CA 95814, 916/441-0410.

Handbook for the Private Citizen Who Wants Democracy to Work, 1992,

Baen Books. The master of science fiction also wrote a handbook for

political activists.

History and Biography

1997, Knopf. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for non-fiction.

Excellent examination of Thomas Jefferson as a man and political

philosopher, and why he commands such an influence over political

discourse in the United States after 200 years.

American Revolution, 1988, Oxford Univ Press. History and

significance of a tax rebellion in Western Pennsylvania in 1794 that

was crushed by federal troops under the orders of George Washington.

Insurrection, 1984, Univ of Massachusetts Pr. History and

significance of the debtor rebellion in Western Massachusetts from

August 1786 to February 1787 that frightened American leaders into

planning for a stronger central government and calling the

Constitutional Convention.

1988, Prentice Hall. Fairly complete collection. Good resource for

the historian.

Vol. 1, To 1898

Vol. 2, Since 1898

Returns, 1997, St Martins Pr. Tells the story of the struggle between

the Hamiltonian federalists and the Jeffersonian democrats in the

first years of the United States, from the viewpoint of the grandson

of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Bache, the publisher of the

Philadelphia Aurora, the newspaper that provoked the passage of the

Sedition Act, under which its publisher was prosecuted, and which is

credited with the election of Jefferson in 1800.

of Kansas. History of the Jefferson presidency.

Cautionary Fiction

progress from restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms to a

police state.

novel that scared President Bill Clinton. Provides a realistic

portrayal of a biological terrorist attack on the United

States.

Recovery and Personal Development

1995, Fulkort Pr. For victims of legal abuse and the social isolation

such victims often experience.

Pub Group. Instructions on how to teach infants before age two.

Group. Instructions on how to teach infants before age two.

1994, Avery Pub Group. Instructions on how to teach infants before

age two.

Encyclopedic Knowledge, 1994, Avery Pub Group. Instructions on how to

teach infants before age two.

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