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[[User:WGee|WGee]]: a student of sociology, anthropology, and African studies at Harvard University.
 
 
 
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;The general character of politics
:* B Crick, ''In Defence of Politics'' (1962, later reprints)
:* E Luttwak, ''Turbocapitalism: winners and losers in the global economy'' (1998)
:* K Minogue, ''Politics: A Very Short Introduction'' (2000)
 
;Political thought
:* Machiavelli, ''The Prince''
:* J S Mill, ''Considerations on Representative Government''
:* J S Mill, ''On Liberty''
 
;Political analysis and political institutions
:* A H Birch, ''The Concepts and Theories of Modern Democracy'' (2nd edition, 2001)
:* P Dunleavy and B O'Leary, ''Theories of the State'' (1987)
:* L Le Duc, R Niemi and P Norris (Eds), ''Comparing Democracies 2: new challenges in the study of elections and voting'' (2002)
 
;Philosophy
:* R Descartes, ''Meditations or Discourse on Method'' (any edition)
:* T Nagel, ''What Does it All Mean?'' (Oxford University Press, 1987)
:* Bernard Williams, ''Morality: An introduction to ethics'' (Cambridge University Press, 1972; revised edition Canto, 1993)
 
;Economics
:* D Begg, S Fischer and R Dornbusch, ''Foundations of Economics'' (2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2002)
:* P Heyne, P J Boettke and D L Prychitko, ''The Economic Way of Thinking'' (11th edition, Prentice Hall, 2006)
 
;Sociology
:* P Abbot and C Wallace, ''An Introduction to Sociology: feminist perspectives'' (2nd edition, Routledge, 1996)
:* N Abercrombie et al, ''Contemporary British Society'' (3rd edition, Polity Press, 2000)
:* P Berger, ''Invitation to Sociology: a humanistic perspective'' (Penguin, 1988)
:* J Elster,'' Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences'' (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
:* A Giddens, ''Sociology'' (4th edition, Polity Press, 2001)
:* S Hall and B Gieben (Eds), ''Formations of Modernity'' (Polity Press, 1992)
:* C Jenks (Ed) ''Core Sociological Dichotomies'' (Sage, 1998)
:* K Morrison, ''Marx, Durkheim and Weber: foundations of modern social thought'' (Sage, 1997)
:* C F Seale (Ed), ''Researching Society and Culture ''(Sage, 1998)
 
;Fiction
 
:* Miguel de Cervantes, ''Don Quixote''
:* Vikram Chandra, ''Sacred Games''
:* Joseph Conrad, ''Heart of Darkness''
:* Charles Dickens, ''A Tale of Two Cities''
:* Fyodor Dostoevsky, ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and ''Idiot''
:* Umberto Ecco, ''Foucault's Pendulum''
:* E.M. Forster, ''A Passage to India''
:* Ursula K. Le Guin, ''The Dispossessed'
:* Victor Hugo, ''Les Misérables''
:* Ken Kesey, ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''
:* Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ''The Little Prince''
:* John Steinbeck, ''The Grapes of Wrath''
:* Bamba Suso and Banna Kanute, ''Sunjata''
:* William Thackeray, ''Vanity Fair''
:* Leo Tolstoy, ''War and Peace'' and ''Anna Karenina''
:* Volatire, ''Candide''
:* Edith Wharton, ''The Age of Innocence'' </div>
 
 
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