How Many Roads?

Annotated Bibliography

The following synopses, remarks, and Internet links are for all books and journals cited in How Many Roads? To see other sources of similar information not specifically mentioned in the book, go to the Links page.

Agee, Philip. (1987). On the Run. Secaucus, NJ: L. Stuart. Agee explains how the U.S. government retaliated against him for breaking the CIA’s code of silence in his books Inside the Company and White Paper Whitewash. The author has been threatened, arrested, prosecuted, expelled from countries, and forbidden to write about his CIA experiences.

Agee, Philip, & Poelchau, Warner. (1981). White Paper Whitewash: Interviews with Philip Agee on the CIA and El Salvador. New York: Deep Cover Books. Forbidden by the U.S. government to write about "classified information," former CIA agent Agee discussed his knowledge of CIA operations with Poelchau, who then wrote this book. Documenting the CIA practice of fabricating evidence to justify U.S. foreign policies, Agee analyzes the lies and distortions in the CIA’s forged "white paper" used by the Reagan administration in 1980 to justify U.S. intervention in Central America. Agee also reveals how Sukarno’s slaughter of a million Indonesians from 1965 to 1966 had been instigated by counterfeit CIA documents intended to crush the large Indonesian Communist Party. The CIA falsely accused the Communist Party of plotting to overthrow Sukarno.

Bachman, Charles H., Becker, Robert O., & Friedman, Howard. (1963, Nov. 16). Geometric parameters and psychiatric hospital admissions. Nature, 200, 626–628. This well-documented study finds a positive statistical correlation between a full moon and psychiatric hospital admissions.

Baum, Dan. (1996). Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure. New York: Little, Brown. Baum, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Atlanta Constitution, presents a well-written and thoroughly documented political history of the U.S. war on drugs.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/media/smoke.htm

Beck, Robert C. (1977). Extreme Low Frequency Magnetic Fields and EEG Entrainment, a Psychotronic Warfare Possibility? [Limited circulation]. Los Angeles: Bio-Medical Research Associates. Brain-wave entrainment experiments are cited and several were conducted by the author. Many of these studies can no longer be found in libraries because the U.S. government has classified them as military secrets.

Becker, Robert O., & Marino, Andrew A. (1982). Electromagnetism and Life. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. The author presents evidence of the positive relationship between electromagnetism and life. He also discusses the significant health risks from the present abnormal electromagnetic environment generated by modern technology.
http://www.ortho.lsuhsc.edu/Marino/

Bloch, Johnathan, & Fitzgerald, Patrick. (1983). British Intelligence and Covert Action: Africa, Middle East and Europe Since 1945. London: Junction Books. In his introduction, former CIA agent Philip Agee describes the book as an "account of terror, murder, bribery, cheating, lying and torture, often in tandem with the CIA under the banner of the ‘crusade against communism.’"

Bowart, W. H. (1978). Operation Mind Control: Our Secret Government’s War Against Its Own People. New York: Dell. The author presents a broad political overview rather than a technical discussion of the numerous ways the U.S. government has attempted to achieve mind control. Brain-wave entrainment is only briefly mentioned when he discusses the alleged Soviet ELF-modulated microwaves aimed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The book is well documented.

Bower, Bruce. (1992, Nov. 14). Abusive inheritance: Gene implicated in alcoholism may influence a wide array of drug abuse. Science News, 142, 332–333. Research on the subject suggests that genes implicated in alcoholism may influence many types of drug abuse.
http://www.sciencenews.org/

Bower, Bruce. (2001, Feb. 17). Into the mystic: Scientists confront the hazy realm of spiritual enlightenment. Science News, 159, 104–106. This article surveys recent research that probes the nature of mystical experiences reported by shamans, meditators, and persons under the influence of hypnosis and psychedelics. While mainstream scientists consider consciousness as simply present or absent, some scientists believe that "conscious experiences . . . come with a dimmer switch that varies in sweep and intensity from one person to another."
http://www.sciencenews.org/

Brecher, Edward M., & Editors of Consumer Reports. (1972). The Consumers Union report on licit and illicit drugs. Consumer Reports [Special edition]. This study by the nation's most reputable consumer organization contradicts government propaganda on the effects of drugs by presenting objective medical and sociological information.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm

Campbell, Joseph. (1959). The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology. New York: Arkana. Joseph Campbell (1904–1987), a highly respected American mythologist and anthropologist, wrote numerous influential works on myths. He was the first scholar to uncover the uncanny similarity of the spiritual symbology found on all continents over the ages. Campbell’s knowledge of ancient languages and anthropology allowed him to interpret these mystical symbols in the context in which they were created.

Campbell, Joseph. (1964). The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology. New York: Arkana. See previous remark.

Campbell, Joseph. (1968). The Masks of God: Creative Mythology. New York: Arkana. See previous remark.

Chomsky, Noam is a renowned professor at MIT. He has authored over 30 political books dissecting such issues as U.S. interventionism in the developing world, the political economy of human rights, and the propaganda role of corporate media.
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/index.cfm
http://www.southendpress.org/

Churchill, Ward, & Vander Wall, Jim. (1990). The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States. Boston: South End Press. The book provides references for those who want to research illegal acts by government agencies against U.S. dissidents, such as the assassination of Fred Hampton by the police and FBI. These accusations are confirmed by FBI documents that are partially reprinted.
http://www.southendpress.org/

Cockburn, Leslie. (1987). Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration’s Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. Emmy-award-winning correspondent for CBS, Cockburn presents an overview of U.S. involvement in Nicaragua. Her book recounts previous interventions, beginning with the1855 invasion by U.S. General Walker, who eventually declared himself president of Nicaragua.

Currie, Elliot. (1998). Crime and Punishment in America. New York: Henry Holt. Nationally acclaimed author and University of California, Berkeley, criminologist, Currie uses well-documented research and statistics to analyze drug-related crime and incarceration in the U.S.
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/nwcourses/martin/criminology/cpbookcurrie/index.htm

Cushing, James T., & McMullin, Ernan. (1989). Philosophical Consequences of Quantum Theory: Reflections on Bell’s Theorem. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. This book was written for scientists, and is therefore math intensive. It discusses delayed-choice experiments and explains the meaning and implications of the formulas. Instantaneous communication, which Einstein declared impossible, appears to have been demonstrated in these quantum physics experiments.

Davies, Paul. (1993). The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World. New York: Simon & Schuster. Davies, a physicist, explores whether modern science can prove that the universe is "no minor by-product of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here."
www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/davies.html

Davies, Paul. (1996). About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster. The book weaves physics and metaphysics into a provocative contemplation of time and the universe.
www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/davies.html

Davies, Paul, & Gribbin, John. (1992). The Matter Myth: Dramatic Discoveries That Challenge Our Understanding of Physical Reality. New York: Simon & Schuster. Acclaimed science writers Davies and Gribbin provide an overview of the latest developments in physics which have revolutionized modern science and created a paradigm shift in how the 21st century will probably view reality.
www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/davies.html

Deutsch, David. (1997). The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes. New York: The Penguin Press. The author intertwines quantum physics, evolution, computation, and knowledge to support the parallel universe theory of reality.
http://www.qubit.org/people/david/David.html

Dubrov, A. P. (1978). The Geomagnetic Field and Life Geomagneticobiology. (Y. A. Kholodov, Trans.). Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat. This survey of Soviet research presents evidence that confirms the dangers to organic life posed by manmade electromagnetic fields such as radiation from electrical AC power lines and transmitter antennas.

Ebon, Martin. (1983). Psychic Warfare: Threat or Illusion? New York: McGraw Hill. A lengthy bibliography provides both the sources of the author's contentions and a resource for those who want to research this subject further.

Edwards, Frank A. (1966). Flying Saucers: Serious Business. New York: Bantam Books. Frank Edwards (1908–1967) was a popular journalist and radio commentator for the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1942 to 1961. He served as Mutual’s White House correspondent from 1949 to 1954. From 1957 to his death, he was a member of the Board of Governors of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP).

Feng, Gia-Fu. (1989). Tao Te Ching. (Jane English, Trans.). New York: Vintage Books-Random House. Written in the sixth century B.C. by Lao Tsu, this esoteric but infinitely practical book has been translated more frequently than any work except the Christian Bible. Tao Te Ching is the bedrock of Taoism.

Galejs, Janis. (1965, Aug.). Schumann resonances. Radio Science Journal of Research NBS/USNC–URSI, 69D, 1043–1055. This issue has three additional ELF (extreme low frequency) research reports by other authors.

Gauquelin, Michael. (1986). The Scientific Basis of Astrology: Myth or Reality? New York: Stein and Day. Scientific findings on how all the moon, sun, and planets affect Earth's natural ELF (extreme low frequency) field, which is identical to human brain waves, may explain alleged astrological influences.

Gelbspan, Ross. (1991). Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement. Boston: South End Press. The FBI's secret attempts to undermine and demoralize the nationwide network of individuals and protest groups opposed to the Reagan Administration's Central American policies and programs are exposed in this well-documented book. Gelbspam describes over 200 verified instances of break-ins, burglaries, and death threats, as well as arson and harassment cases.
http://www.southendpress.org/

Gell-Mann, Murry. (1994). The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and Complex. New York: W. H. Freeman. Gell-Mann writes about his life to explain both his scientific evolution and principles of quantum physics.

Ginenthal, Charles. (1999). The electro-gravitic theory of celestial motion & cosmology. The Velikovskian, 4, 3 [Special edition]. The entire edition is dedicated to a cosmological theory based on multiple big bangs and the resulting electromagnetic and gravitational forces which drive the evolution of these universes. With roots in the revolutionary theories of Immanuel Velikovsky (1895–1979), this theory explains many cosmological paradoxes that baffle traditional astronomers. Velikovsky was best known for his 1950 bestseller Worlds in Collision.
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/velikovskian/

Gordis, E., Tabakoff B., Goldman, D., & Berg, K. (1990, Apr. 18). Finding the gene(s) for alcoholism [Editorial]. JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, 263, 2094–2095. This editorial presents an overview of the subject.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/

Goswami, Amit. (1995). The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World. New York: Putnam Books. Goswami, a professor of physics at the Institute of Theoretical Sciences at the University of Oregon, shatters the popular belief of Western science that matter is primarily "stuff" of creation, and proposes instead that consciousness is the true foundation of all that we know and perceive. Findings in quantum physics are cited to support this theory.

Gribbin, John. (1994). Unveiling the Edge of Time: Black Holes, White Holes, Wormholes. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks. Gribbin’s books have won several literary awards. He digs into the mysterious and confounding world of quantum mechanics and makes it accessible to the lay reader.
http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/John_Gribbin/

Gribbin, John. (1995). Schrodinger’s Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries. New York: Little, Brown. See previous remark.
http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/John_Gribbin/

Hendricks, M. (1988, Sept. 10). Experiments challenge genetic theory. Science News, 134, 166. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health demonstrated that bacteria alter genetic traits in response to their environment and pass on these acquired characteristics to offspring.
http://www.sciencenews.org/

Hitchcock, Timothy R., & Patterson, Robert M. (1995). Radio-Frequency and ELF Electromagnetic Energies: A Handbook for Health Professionals. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. This comprehensive academic reference book provides both practical information and theory for those who want to learn more about how ELF (extreme low frequency) radiation affects living organisms. Studies are cited that confirm the potential harm of ELF radiation.

Hynek, J. Allen. (1972). The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. New York: Ballantine Books. Allen Hynek (1910–1986) earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Chicago in 1935. From 1948 to 1968, he was the United States Air Force’s scientific expert consultant on astronomical and atmospheric aspects of UFO reports. Upon resigning, he publicly admitted that he was ordered to disprove and discredit all UFO sightings. To rectify this misinformation, he wrote four books on his UFO investigations and founded the Center for UFO Studies.

Jahn, Robert G. (1995, Oct.). Out of this aboriginal sensible muchness. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 89, 301–312. A 16-year survey of empirical research provides evidence of human consciousness affecting the operation of mechanical and electronic devices.
http://www.aspr.com/jaspr.htm

Jayko, Margaret. (1988). FBI on Trial: The Victory in the Socialist Workers Party Suit Against Government Spying. New York: Pathfinder Press. The FBI's own files are used to prove that the agency repeatedly violated U.S. laws.

Kafatos, Menas, & Nadeau, Robert. (1990). The Conscious Universe: Part and Whole in Modern Physical Theory. New York: Springer-Verlag. Based on findings in quantum physics, Kafatos and Nadeau suggest that consciousness can no longer be ignored by scientists. The authors call for a new way of understanding the universe (a new paradigm of reality) that would resolve the conflict between science and religion.
http://www.ceosr.gmu.edu/~mkafatos/

Kaku, Michio. (1994). Hyperspace. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday. This book is a good introduction for readers with no science background. Kaku evenhandedly discusses all of the interpretations of quantum reality and the scientific findings upon which they are based.
http://www.mkaku.org/

Kuhn, C., Swartzwelder, S., & Wilson, W. (1998). Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy. New York: W. W. Norton. Three doctors at the Duke University Medical Center use the latest psychological and pharmacological research for this unbiased and myth-dispelling book which discusses all recreational drugs—from caffeine to heroin.

Lenin, V. I. (1978). Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxist Strategy and Tactics. New York: International Publishers. (Original essay dated Apr. 27, 1920, published in the USSR) This book is better understood if one knows the history of the Bolshevik Revolution. An excellent source for this history is Trotsky’s The History of the Russian Revolution, which has been printed by several publishers (see Trotsky, Leon).

Lenton, Timothy M. (1998, Jul. 30). Gaia and natural selection. Nature, 394, 439-447. This review examines the complex feedback mechanisms that have evolved through natural selection to self-regulate the Earth's biosphere so that conditions most favorable for life are maintained.

Levine, Michael. (1990). Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War. New York: Delacorte Press. After 25 years as an undercover agent, Levine retired from the DEA in 1989. He confirms that the DEA bureaucracy is more concerned about politics and "looking . . . good in the media—the only battleground they really worried about . . ." than exposing the top drug traffickers ensconced in the governments of most nations, including the Reagan White House and CIA.

Li, Ting-Kai, & Lockmuller, Jane C. (1989, Fall). Why are some people more susceptible to alcoholism? [Perspectives on Current Research]. Alcohol Health & Research World, 13, 310–316. Increasingly, research is finding an apparent relationship between people's genes and their susceptibility to alcoholism.

Lorenz, Edward. (1993). The Essence of Chaos. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. Lorenz developed the chaos theory, which has become a major component in the understanding of the world. His mathematical principles allow useful predictions that range from the seemingly chaotic behavior of molecules to weather.

Lovelock, James. (1995). The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth. New York: W. W. Norton. A leading atmospheric scientist, Lovelock, proposes that Earth behaves as if it were a superorganism, made up from all the living things and from its material environment.
http://www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown/gaia_jim.html
http://www.gn.apc.org/resurgence/articles/lovelock.htm

Margulis, Lynn, & Sagan, Dorion. (1997). Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Synbiosis, and Evolution. New York: Copernicus. Lynn Margulis is one of the most integrative thinkers in modern biology. Specializing in microbiology, she independently arrived at the same conclusions as Lovelock: that Earth is a superorganism. This book presents the profound implications of this paradigm-shifting view of life.
http://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/margulis/
http://www.temple.edu/CFS/margulis.htm
http://www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown/gaia_jim.html

Marks, John. (1979). The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. New York: Times Books. The book is based on 16,000 pages of documents that the CIA released to the author under the Freedom of Information Act in addition to many interviews and behavioral science research studies.

McGehee, Ralph. (1983). Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA. New York: Sheridan Square Publications. The torture, assassinations, corruption, and misinformation used to justify or hide illegal CIA activities around the world drove the author to resign and go public.

Milius, S. (1999, Sept. 4). Threatened mothers have tougher offspring. Science News, 156, 151. A series of experiments confirmed that defenses acquired by plants and animals to improve survival are passed on to future generations. The researchers propose that genes switch on or off in response to a parent’s environment.
http://www.sciencenews.org/

Moose, Anne. (1981). Berkeley U.S.A. Berkeley, CA: Alternative Press. Moose imparts the diverse flavor of the Berkeley community by interviewing Julia Vinograd and 32 other notable Berkeley residents from all walks of life.

Murphy, Thomas. (1982). ELF: Preparing for a first strike. CounterSpy, 6, 4, 14–15. In 1969, the Navy constructed the first ELF (extreme low frequency) test transmitter station in northern Wisconsin to communicate with submarines. A brief history of opposition to this station is given by Murphy. Outraged citizens successfully blocked the completion of the full-scale station in 1973, but in 1979 President Reagan ordered that construction be completed.

Narby, Jeremy. (1998). The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcer/Putnam. The author undertakes a cross-disciplinary anthropological study on the source of traditional plant and medical knowledge held by indigenous people. Similar findings on all continents lead him to a paradigm-shifting view of the consciousness that has guided the evolution of our species.

National Research Council. (1997). An Evaluation of the U.S. Navy’s Extremely Low Frequency Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. Under the direction of the U.S. Department of Defense, this underfunded and flawed study could only afford to investigate a small sampling of biological activity at 11 sites near the Navy’s ELF antenna and 11 distant control sites. By limiting the number of tested samples, all findings have an unacceptably large built-in statistical error rate of 30%, which exceeds the 5% or less minimum error rate required by the academic community. None of the scientists had knowledge of how electromagnetic radiation affects cellular biology, and no review of previous ELF research papers was undertaken. Earlier studies have determined which cell functions are disrupted by ELF radiation and have listed the biological abnormalities that these disturbances can induce. The study dismissed all abnormal results as "artifacts of environmental variations" and attributed them to "unknown non-ELF causes." These disturbing abnormal findings are discussed in How Many Roads?

Ohsawa, Georges. (1966). Zen Cookery: Practical Macrobiotics. Los Angeles: Ohsawa Foundation. This cookbook became the basis of Sodja's diet in 1968, and has remained a part of his diet ever since.
http://www.gomf.macrobiotic.net/

Ohsawa, Georges. (1995). Zen Macrobiotics: The Art of Rejuvenation and Longevity. Los Angeles: Ohsawa Foundation. This is the fourth edition of the book that introduced Zen macrobiotics to the West in the 1960s. Georges Ohsawa (1893–1966), a Japanese philosopher, wrote about balancing the mind and body via an Eastern Zen diet of whole grains and beans. While many have criticized Ohsawa's nutritional claims, readers will find useful philosophical and culinary information that they can incorporate into their lives.
http://www.gomf.macrobiotic.net/

Organization of Afro-American Unity. (1965). Organization of Afro-American Unity: Basic Unity Program. New York: OAAU. This was the organization founded by Malcolm X in 1964.
http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/oaau.htm

Parenti, Michael is an internationally known author and lecturer and one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts. He has published many books.
http://www.michaelparenti.org/

Perkus, Cathy. (1975). Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom. New York: Monad Press, [also] New York: Pathfinder Press. This book tells the story of the FBI's continuing harassment of political activists and the fight to stop it. FBI files are used to prove Perkus's assertions.

Persinger, M. A. (1995). On the possibility of directly accessing every human brain by electromagnetic induction of fundamental algorithms. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 80, 792–799. This highly technical article is included for scientifically oriented readers. The author cites 34 related references.

Raemer, H. R. (1961, Nov.–Dec.). On the spectrum of terrestrial radio noise at extremely low frequencies. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards–Department of Radio Propagation, 65, 581–593. More articles on the subject have been published by this journal since 1961.

Randle, Kevin D., & Schmitt, Donald R. (1994). The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell. New York: M. Evans. Randle is a retired U.S. Air Force Captain, and Schmitt is the Director of Special Investigations, Center for UFO Studies. Recently released government documents are cited to support the authors' claims.

Schuckit, Marc A., & Jefferson, Thomas C. (1999, May 26). New findings in the genetics of alcoholism. JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, 281, 1875. These most recent findings further confirm the relationship between people's genetic makeup and their predisposition to addiction.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/

Scott, Peter Dale, & Marshall, Jonathan. (1991). Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America. Berkeley CA: University of California Press. Scott and Marshall use as a starting point the findings of U.S. Senator John Kerry’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations. The authors expose Reagan’s covert support for the Contras, which was coordinated by Oliver North. The book cites references to prove how, in the name of "national security," Justice Department inquires were blocked, U.S. laws were violated with impunity, and public debate was quelled.
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/

Sellers, Cleveland, & Terrell, Robert. (1973). A River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC. New York: William Morrow. The rise and fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is chronicled in the autobiography of a Southern Black participant who provides an insider’s perspective of various groups struggling for civil rights in the South.

Seymour, Percy. (1992). The Scientific Basis of Astrology: Tuning to the Music of the Planets. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Many intriguing questions that need to be resolved by further research are raised in this book. Scientific findings on how the moon, sun, and planets affect Earth's ELF (extreme low frequency) field, and how this ELF radiation may affect human behavior are reviewed.

Sheppard, Asher R., & Eisenbud, Merril. (1977). Biological Effects of Electrical and Magnetic Fields of Extremely Low Frequency. New York: New York University Press. This scholarly work reviews many studies that confirm the influence of ELF radiation on all life.

Singer, Peter. (1998). Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. Beginning his political life in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), Spira discusses his dedication to the animal rights movement in a book that provides strategies to guide contemporary political activists.

Smolin, Lee. (1997). The Life of the Cosmos. New York: Oxford University Press. The author, a physics professor, presents his hypothesis that the laws of nature came about through a process of cosmic natural selection before the "big bang" that created our universe. The laws of physics that promote complexity and self-organization are the same dynamics that create black holes and life. Smolin proposes that each black hole spawns another big bang and, consequently, another new universe. Like with genetic variations, this multitude of universes will have similar laws of physics, with some variations that may help or hinder this process of forming more universes and more life.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/smolin.html

Smoot, George, & Davidson, Keay. (1993). Wrinkles in Time. New York: Avon Books. This book tells the history of the efforts to confirm the "big bang" theory and understand the creation of our universe. Although only a few pages discuss the concept of time, the value of the book is in the historical background of the current theories of the creation of time, space, matter, and energy.
http://www.usd.edu/phys/courses/phys300/gallery/clark/smoot.html
http://physics.berkeley.edu/research/faculty/Smoot.html

Spencer, Michael. (1979, Oct. 25). Bent DNA. Nature, 281, 631–632. The author presents evidence that the so-called nonsense segments in genes may be important, and that DNA molecules may not be a staid, static construction. Some biochemists have suggested that DNA itself is a living thing that reacts to its environment.

Stockwell, John. (1991). The Praetorian Guard: The U.S. Role in the New World Order. Boston: South End Press. Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA officer ever to quit the CIA and go public. He discusses how the CIA helps top U.S. leaders achieve their goals by systematically misrepresenting facts in order to mislead the U.S. public and Congress. He cites false CIA information used to drum up support for the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the civil wars in Central America. He confirms through case histories that the CIA justified killing, torturing, and drug trafficking because "society had agreed that there was something so sacred about ‘national security’ that it transcended all human considerations." This book discusses the CIA’s illegal and morally reprehensible operations nationally and worldwide.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Stockwell/John_Stockwell.html
http://www.southendpress.org/

Swearinger, Wesley M. (1995). FBI Secrets: An Agent’s Exposé. Boston: South End Press. The author, an FBI agent from 1951 to 1977, presents firsthand accounts of how he and other agents viewed the countless crimes they committed against leftists.
http://www.southendpress.org/

Talbot, Michael. (1991). The Holographic Universe. New York: HarperPerennial. Exploring the question of what is reality, the author presents the concept that the universe is a massive hologram containing both matter and consciousness as a single field.

Taylor, R. B. (1980, Aug. 28). Lamarckism revival in immunology. Nature, 286, 837–838. Experiments that contradict neo-Darwinism and modern genetic theory confirmed that acquired immunity can be passed from generation to generation.

Trotsky, Leon. (1959). The History of the Russian Revolution. [The Russian Revolution: The Overthrow of Tzarism and the Triumph of the Soviets]. (Max Eastman, Trans. Abridged edition). New York: Doubleday Anchor. Trotsky's account of the Russian revolution presents many insights and facts missing in the histories written by Western academics whose anti-Soviet bias has distorted their understanding of the revolution.

Trotsky, Leon. (1996). The Third International After Lenin. New York: Pathfinder Press. This edition is the most recent printing. The first public edition appeared in 1936. From 1928 to 1936, English translations were only available in internal political documents printed by the Left Opposition (supporters of Trotsky) in the Communist Party USA and the Socialist Workers Party. Trotsky defends the first five years of the Russian Revolution, and explains how Stalin betrayed the principles of communism.

Wall, Tamara L., & Ehlers, Cindy L. (1995, Summer). Genetic influences affecting alcohol use among Asians. [The Genetics of Alcoholism]. Alcohol Health & Research World, 19, 184–190. Ethnic and genetic differences are examined.

Watts, Allan W. (1999). The Way of Zen. New York: Vintage Books. Originally printed in 1957, this bestseller has been reprinted several times. Watts explains Eastern philosophy in a way that can be understood in the West.

Webb, Garry. (1998). Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York: Seven Stories Press. Webb’s well-documented book focuses on how U.S. intelligence agencies and the State Department facilitated the Nicaraguan Contra’s trafficking of cocaine into the U.S., and how U.S. agencies have discredited and prosecuted all government whistle blowers who attempted to publicize these illegal activities.

Weil, Andrew, & Rosen, Winifred. (1993). From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs. New York: Houghton Mifflin. Well-known author and lecturer, Weil is associate director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Besides dealing with pharmacological effects, the book reviews the historical and social use of drugs, with first-person accounts of the most popular recreational drugs and information on how to use these drugs safely.
http://www.drweil.com

Wohlforth, Tim. (1994). The Prophet’s Children: Travels on the American Left. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International. Wohlforth was a political activist and organizer in the Young Socialist Alliance, the Socialist Workers Party, and then the Workers League, from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Wolf, Fred Alan. (1990). Parallel Universes: The Search for Other Worlds. New York: Touchstone. The author, a physicist, presents the concept of parallel universes to explain the paradoxes of today's quantum physics.

Wolf, Fred Alan. (1995). The Dreaming Universe. New York: Touchstone. See previous remark.

Zinn, Howard, professor emeritus of political science at Boston University, is an insightful social critic and acclaimed historian who has authored 14 books that tell American history from the point of view of the powerless and disenfranchised.
http://www.howardzinn.org/
http://www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=97

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