Recent Books of Interest

• Intelligence, Race, and Genetics: Conversations with Arthur R. Jensen, Frank Miele, Westview, 2002. Outstanding! Destined to be a classic.
  
• Risky Transactions, Edited by Frank K. Salter, Berghahn Books, 2002.
  
• IQ and the Wealth of Nations, Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen, Praeger, 2002. A very important survey of the world's countries.
  
• Eugenics: A reassessment, Richard Lynn, Praeger, 2001.
  
• The Science of Human Diversity: A History of the Pioneer Fund, Richard Lynn, University Press of America, 2001.
  
• Ethnic Conflicts Explained by Ethnic Nepotism, Tatu Vahanan, JAI Press Inc., 1999. A master study of 48 countries
  
• Race, Evolution and Behavior - Special Abridged Edition, J. Philippe Rushton, Transaction Publishers , 1999. A popular version of Professor Rushton's 1995 Classic. This is perfect for the high school student.
  
• The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia, Garrett Hardin, Oxford University Press, 1999. Delightful!
  
• After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State, Paul Edward Gottfried, Princeton University Press, 1999. A brilliant analysis of the managerial state.
  
• A View from the Year 3000: A Ranking of the 100 Most Influential Persons of all Time, Michael H. Hart, Poseidon Press, 1999. A delightful follow-up volume to Hart's The 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential Person in History.
  
• Indoctrinability Ideology and Warfare, Edited by Iraenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Frank Kemp Salter, Berghahn Books, 1998.
  
• The Culture of Critique, Kevin MacDonald, Praeger, 1998. This is the final volume of a three volume series on an evolutionary theory of Judaism by MacDonald.
  
• The Nurture Assumption, Judith Rich Harris, 1998. The new book everyone is talking about.
  
• Lindbergh, A. Scott Berg, 1998. An excellent biography of this enigmatic American hero. This is an excellent companion volume to Lindbergh's own The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh which is listed on our main books page.
  
• The Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy, Roger Scruton, 1998. An interesting little book dealing with philosophic major issues, not philosophers.
  
• The Politics of Bad Faith, David Horowitz, 1998. Chapter 2, "The Fate of the Marxist Idea" is a must read. Recommended by Richard Pipes.
  
• The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses, Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate, 1998. An outstanding review of the PC assault on free speech and academic freedom. Recommended by Alan Dershowitz and the Webmaster.
  
• The Rising Curve, edited by Ulric Neisser, 1998. The APAs attempt to explain the Flynn Effect. Rather one sided, but interesting. Of all the contributors, Flynn himself is perhaps the weakest on the real significance of the Flynn Effect. Read Arthur Jensen's The g Factor for another view.
  
• Revolution from the Middle, Samuel T. Francis, 1997. A collection of Dr. Francis' more recent essays on various social/political issues.
  
• Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, Barbara Ehrenreich, Metropolitan Books, 1997. Fascinating argument! Recommended by Robin Fox and the Webmaster.
  
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Edward O. Wilson, Knopf, 1998. Outstanding! Wilson scores again. One of the greatest biological thinkers of the age.
  
• The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability, Arthur R. Jensen, Praeger, 1998. This massive volume is the culmination of almost thirty years of dedicated research into intelligence, its nature, significance, and distribution.
  
• Separation and its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism, Kevin MacDonald, Praeger, 1998. This is Volume Two of a three volume series on an evolutionary theory of Judaism.
  
• America in Black and White, Stephan Thernstrom & Abigail Thermstrom, Simon & Schuster, 1997.
  
• Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean, Michael Levin, Praeger, 1997. Recommended by Glayde Whitney and J. Philippe Rushton. This may be the most important - and most underread - book of the decade. Levin fills in the gaps on race left by Herrnstein and Murray and corrects the wrongheaded "pathology" approach to race relations of Dinesh D'Souza.
• Race, Evolution, and Behavior, J. Philippe Rushton, 2nd Edition, Transaction Publishers, 1997. A must read!
  
• Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy: The Biological Bases of Authoritarianism , Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson, Praeger, 1997. Recommended by Lionel Tiger.
• Murder in Brentwood, Mark Fuhrman, Regnery, 1997. Recommended by Vincent Bugliosi.
• The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identy for the Next Century, Alan M. Dershowitz, Little-Brown, 1997. Strong start - weak finish.
• Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations, Richard Lynn, Praeger, 1996. Recommended by the Webmaster.
• Born to Rebel, Frank J. Sulloway, Patheon Books, 1996. Recommended by Edward O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, and Robert K. Merton.
• The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. Recommended by Robin Fox and Elizabeth F. Loftis.
• A People that Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, Kevin MacDonald, Praeger Publishers, 1994. Recommended and reviewed by John Hartung.
• Biosociology: An Emerging Paradigm, Anthony Walsh, Praeger Publishers, 1995. Recommended by Robert A. Gordon and Kevin Lamb. This is a real sleeper with enough thought provoking ideas for a dozen books.
• Bittersweet Destiny: The Stormy Evolution of Human Behavior, Del Theissen, Transaction Publishers. Released in May, 1996. Outstanding! Thiessen is a professor of evolutionary pyschology at the University of Texas at Austin.
• A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation, Chandler Burr, Hyperion. Released in 1996. Recommended by Jonathan Weiner and James Fallows.
• How Many People Can the Earth Support, Joel E. Cohen, W. W. Norton & Co. , 1995. Recommended by Edward O. Wilson.