I want to keep a list here of things I am reading and things I have finished reading.

    I will add a couple of words and a rating of some sort (in the near future, as with all things on this site).

     On my 'night stand' are these books at the moment:

    - Buss, D. (2006). The murder next door, London: Penguin.

    - Diamond J. (1998). Guns, germs and steel, London: Vintage

    A selection of things I have read (still loads to add... ):

    -    Baudrillard, J. (1996[1970]). La Société de Consommation, Paris: Gallimard

    -    Budiansky, S. (1998). If a lion could talk, NY: Free Press.

    -    Boas, F. (Codere H. (ed.)) (1966). Kwakiutl Ethnography, Chicago: Chicago University Press

    -    Blackmore, S. (1999). The Meme Machine, Oxford: Oxford University Press

    -    Bourdieu, P. (1979). La Distinction, Paris: Les Éditions Minuit

    -    Buss, D. (1994). The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, New York: Basic Books

    -    Dennett, D.C. (1995). Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, London: Penguin

    -    Dennett, D.C. (2003). Freedom Evolves, New York: Viking

    -    Dunbar, R.I.M. (1992). Grooming, gossip and language, London: Faber & Faber.

    -    Dunbar R.I.M. (2005). The Human Story, Faber & Faber.

    -    Durkheim, E. (1991 [1912]). Les Formes Elémentaires de la Vie Religieuse, Paris : Livre de Poche

    -    Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and Self-Identity, London: Polity.

    -    Leakey R. (1994). The Origin of Humankind, London: Phoenix.

    -    Low, B.S. (2000). Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    -    Mead, M. (1999[1928]) The Coming of Age in Samoa, Oxford: Oxford University Press

    -    Miller, G.F. (2000). The Mating mind, London: William Heinemann  

    -    Ridley, M. (1994). The Red Queen, London: Penguin.

    -    Rogers, L. (2001). Sexing the Brain, NY: Columbia University Press.

    -    Segerstråle, U. (2000). Defenders of the Truth: the Sociobiology Debate, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    -    Sober, E. & Wilson D.S. (1999). Unto others, Harvard: Harvard University Press.

    -    Sulloway F. (1998). Born to Rebel, New York: Abacus.

    -    Veblen, T.B. (1970 [1899]). The theory of the leisure class: an economic study of institutions, London: Allen & Unwin.

    -    Wilson, E.O. (1998). Consilience, London: Vintage

    Things I want to read from A to Z (but for which I don't have time right now : ) ):

    -    van den Berghe P.L. (1978). Man in Society: a Biosocial view, New York: Elsevier.

    -    Tiger L. (1999). The Decline of Males, NY: Golden Books.

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