Redefining Reality - The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science

Einstein, Albert.
. New York: Wings Books, 1961.
Einstein’s own account of his two theories of relativity written for
general audiences.
Freud, Sigmund. . New York: Touchstone, 1996.
patients to overcome them.
———. New York: W. W. Norton,
1962. An extension of Freud’s thought beyond the individual psyche and
the particulars of his or her biography, showing how the interaction of
the individual and the larger culture has deep and lasting effects on the
human mind.
Fukyama, Francis. The End of History and the Last Man. New York: Free
Press, 1996. An argument that adopts a view of history deriving from the
of the end of history being a communist state, as Marx projected, it is liberal
democracy paired with a free-market economy. This is the ultimate state of
human freedom, and all societies are on a path toward it; it is merely a matter
of overcoming the obstacles to it.
Gamow, George.
Science. New York: Dover, 1988. The father of big bang cosmology gives an
account of the development of the universe for the lay reader.
Gedroch, Robert. . Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1978. A semi-technical discussion about the foundations and
workings of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, stressing the geometric
Gervais, Karen Grandstrand. . New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1986. A look at the ways in which modern medical technology is
forcing us to wrestle with end-of-life questions that did not exist for
previous generations.
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