Enhancement and post-humanity: bioethical and social implications

Agar, Nicholas, Humanity’s End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement (MIT, 2010)

Agar, Nicholas, Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement (Blackwell, 2004)

Bailey, Ronald, Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution (Prometheus Books, 2005)

Beckwith, Jon, Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science (Harvard, 2002)

Bradley, Brutes or Angels: Human Possibility in the Age of Technology (U. of Alabama, 2013)

Broderick, Damien, The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies (Forge Books, 2001)

Buchanan, Allen, Better Than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves (Oxford, 2011)

Buchanan, Allen, Beyond Humanity? The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement (Oxford, 2011)

Caplan, Arthur, Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart People (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007)

Clegg, Brian, Upgrade Me: Our Amazing Journey to Human 2.0 (St. Martin’s, 2008)

Engelhardt, Tristram, The Foundations of Bioethics, 2^nd ed. (Oxford, 1996)

Fukuyama, Francis, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (Farrar, Straus, 2002)

Fuller, Steve, Humanity 2.0: What it Means to Be Human (Palgrave, 2011)

Garreau, Joel, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing our Minds, Our Bodies – and What It Means to Be Human (Doubleday, 2004)

Goodbaudy, Trent, The Rebirth of Mankind: Homo Evolutis (PDXzyn, 2012)

Habermas, Jürgen, The Future of Human Nature (Polity, 2003)

Hansell, Gregory, and William Grassie, eds., H+/-: Transhumanism and its Critics (Metanexus, 2011)

Harris, John, Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People (Princeton, 2007)

Harris, John, “Moral Enhancement and Freedom,” Bioethics 25:2 (2011), 102-111.

Hayles, N. Katherine, How We Became Posthuman (U. of Chicago Press, 1999)

Joy, Bill, “Why the future doesn’t need us,” Wired 8.04 (April 2000)

Kass, Leon, Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness (Regan 2003)

Kass, Leon, Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics (Encounter Books, 2002)

Kuhse, Helga, and Peter Singer, eds., A Companion to Bioethics (Blackwell, 2001)

Kurzweil, Ray, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking, 2005)

Lanier, Jaron, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (Knopf, 2010)

Loomis, William F., Life As It Is: Biology for the Public Sphere (U. of California, 2008)

Lustig, Andrew, Baruch Brody, and Gerald McKenny, eds., Altering Nature: Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy (Springer, 2008).

McLean, Sheila, and Laura Williamson, Xenotransplantation: Law and Ethics (Ashgate, 2005)

McKibben, Bill, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (Times Books, 2003)

Menikoff, Jerry, Law and Bioethics: An Introduction (Georgetown U. Press, 2001)

Mitchell, C. Ben, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John F. Kilner, and Scott B. Rae, Biotechnology and the Human Good (Georgetown U. Press, 2007)

Montagu, Ashley, Floyd Matson, The Dehumanization of Man (McGraw-Hill, 1983)

Moore, Pete, Enhancing Me: The Hope and Hype of Human Enhancement (Wiley/Dana Centre, 2008)

Naam, Ramez, More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement (Broadway, 2005)

Parens, Erik, ed., Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications (Georgetown U. Press, 1998)

Paul, Gregory, and Earl Cox, Beyond Humanity: CyberEvolution and Future Minds (Charles River Media, 1996)

Pence, Gregory, How to Build a Better Human: An Ethical Blueprint (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)

Pepperell, Robert, The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness Beyond the Brain (Intellect Press, 2003)

Persson, Ingmar, and Julian Savulescu, Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement (Oxford, 2012)

President’s Council on Bioethics, Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness (2003)

President’s Council on Bioethics, The Changing Moral Focus of Newborn Screening (Dec. 2008)

President’s Council on Bioethics, Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies (March 2004)

Regis, Ed, Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition (Addison-Wesley, 1990)

Rose, Nikolas, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton, 2007)

Rothblatt, Martine, From Transgender to Transhuman ([No publisher identified in book] 2011)

Rutsky, R. L., High Techne: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman (U. of Minnesota Press, 1999)

Sandel, Michael, The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Harvard, 2007)

Sargent, Michael, Biomedicine and the Human Condition: Challenges, Risks, and Rewards (Cambridge, 2005)

Savulescu, Julian, Ruud ter Meulen, and Guy Kahane, eds., Enhancing Human Capacities (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

Savulescu, Julian, and Nick Bostrom, eds., Human Enhancement (Oxford, 2009)

Talbott, Steve, Devices of the Soul: Battling for our Selves in an Age of Machines (O’Reilly, 2007)

Thacker, Eugene, The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture (MIT, 2005)

Turney, Jon, Frankenstein’s Footsteps: Science, Genetics, and Popular Culture (Yale U. Press, 1998)

Vallero, Daniel, Biomedical Ethics for Engineers (Elsevier, 2007)

Waters, Brent, From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World (Ashgate, 2006)

Williams, Enita, Good, Better, Best: The Human Quest for Enhancement. Summary Report of an Invitational Workshop Convened by the Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science (June 1-2, 2006).

Young, Simon, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto (Prometheus, 2006)

Forecasting and futurology

Angus, Ian, and Simon Butler, Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket, 2011)

Barr, Marleen, ed., Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium (Wesleyan U. Press, 2003)

Bell, Wendell, Foundations of Futures Studies: Human Science for a New Era, vol. 1 (Transaction Publishers, 1997)

Brockman, John, The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the 21^st Century (Vintage, 2002)

Brockman, John, This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future (Harper, 2010)

Brown, David J., Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse: Contemplating the Future (Palgrave, 2005)

Canton, James, The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years (Dutton, 2006)

Clarke, Arthur, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible (Indigo, 1999)

Corn, Joseph, and Brian Horrigan, Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future (Johns Hopkins Press, 1996)

Diamandis, Peter, and Steven Kotler, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think (Free Press, 2012)

Dublin, Max, Futurehype: The Tyranny of Prophecy (Plume, 1989)

Dyson, Freeman, Imagined Worlds (Harvard,1997)

Foundation for the Future, ed., Humanity 3000: Symposium Proceedings, 4 vols. (Foundation for the Future, 2000)

Friedman, David D., Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World (Cambridge, 2008)

Friedman, George, The Next 100 Years (Anchor, 2009)

Gans, Herbert J., Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together After Bush: A Utopian Narrative (University of Michigan, 2008)

Gore, Al, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change (Random House, 2013)

Kenny, Charles, Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding – And How We Can Improve the World Even More (Basic, 2011)

Lombardo, Thomas, Contemporary Futurist Thought (Authorhouse, 2006)

Martin, James, The Meaning of the 21^st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future (Riverhead, 2006)

Ornstein, Robert, and Paul Ehrlich, New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution (Doubleday, 1988)

Rees, Martin, Our Final Hour (Basic, 2003)

Rosenberg, Daniel, and Susan Harding, eds., Histories of the Future (Duke, 2005)

Seidensticker, Bob, Futurehype: The Myths of Technology Change (Berrett-Koehler, 2006)

Simon, Julian L. and Herman Kahn, eds., The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000 (Basil Blackwell, 1984)

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Random House, 2007)

Toffler, Alvin, Future Shock (Bantam, 1970)

Wallace, Mike, ed., The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today (Thomas Nelson, 2008)

Ward, Peter, Future Evolution (Times Books, 2001).

Wilson, Edward O., The Future of Life (Vintage, 2002)

Genetics and genetic enhancement

Andrews, Lori, Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions About Genetics (Columbia, 2001)

Baillie, Harold, and Timothy Casey, eds., Is Human Nature Obsolete? Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition (MIT, 2004)

Barnes, Barry and John Dupré, Genomes: And What to Make of Them (U. of Chicago Press, 2008)

Black, Edwin, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (Dialog, 2008)

Britton, Sheilah, and Dan Collins, eds., The Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac (Institute for Studies in the Arts, 2003)

Buchanan, Allen, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, Daniel Wikler, From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice (Cambridge, 2000)

Burley, Justine, and John Harris, eds., A Companion to Genethics (Blackwell, 2002)

Carey, Nessa, The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance (Columbia, 2012)

Carlson, Elof, The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001)

Chapman, Audrey, and Mark Frankel, eds., Designing Our Descendants: The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications (Johns Hopkins, 2003)

Cole-Turner, Ronald, Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification (MIT, 2008)

Collins, Francis, et. al., “A Vision for the Future of Genomics Research,” Nature 422 (April 24, 2003), 1-13.

Davis, Lennard, Go Ask Your Father: One Man’s Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing (Bantam, 2009)

Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene (Oxford U. Press, 1976)

DeGrazia, David, Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life (Oxford, 2012)

Drlica, Karl A., Double-Edged Sword: The Promises and Risks of the Genetic Revolution (Helix Books, 1994)

Duncan, David E., The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with my DNA… and Other Masterminds from the Frontiers of Biotech (HarperCollins, 2005)

Dupré, John, Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology (Oxford, 2012)

Duster, Troy, Backdoor to Eugenics (Routledge, 2003)

Dyson, Freeman, The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet (Oxford U. Press, 1999)

Enriquez, Juan, As the Future Catches You: How Genomics and Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health, and Wealth (Three Rivers, 2001)

Evans, John, Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate (Chicago, 2002)

Fletcher, Joseph, The Ethics of Genetic Control (Prometheus, 1988)

Francis, Richard, Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes (Norton, 2011)

Franklin, Sarah, Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy (Duke, 2007)

Franklin, Sarah, Celia Roberts, Born and Made: An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (Princeton 2006)

Gehring, Verna, Genetic Prospects: Essays on Biotechnology, Ethics, and Public Policy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)

Glannon, Walter, Genes and Future People: Philosophical Issues in Human Genetics (Westview, 2001)

Goldhaber, Dale, The Nature-Nurture Debates: Bridging the Gap (Cambridge, 2012)

Gosden, Roger, Designing Babies: The Brave New World of Reproductive Technology (Freeman, 1999)

Gottweis, Herbert, Governing Molecules: The Discursive Politics of Genetic Engineering in Europe and the United States (MIT, 1998)

Green, Ronald M., Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice (Yale, 2007)

Hamer, Dean, The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired Into Our Genes (Anchor, 2004)

Harper, Joyce, ed., Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (Cambridge, 2009)

Harris, John, Clones, Genes, and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetic Revolution (Oxford, 1998)

Harris, Judith Rich, No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality (Norton, 2006)

Haugen, David, Genetic Engineering: Opposing Viewpoints (Greenwood, 2009)

Henig, Robin, Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2006)

Heyd, David, Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People (U. of California Press, 1992)

Holland, Suzanne, The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, Public Policy (MIT, 2001)

Hyde, Michael, and James Herrick, eds., After the Genome: A Language for Our Biotechnological Future (Baylor, 2013)

Jablonka, Eva, and Marion Lamb, Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life (MIT, 2005)

Keller, Evelyn Fox, The Century of the Gene (Harvard, 2000)

Kevles, Daniel, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Harvard, 2004)

Kristol, William, and Eric Cohen, eds., The Future is Now: America Confronts the New Genetics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)

Leavitt, Michael, ed., Personalized Health Care: Pioneers, Partnerships, Progress (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Nov. 2008)

Lewontin, Richard, Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA (Harper Perennial, 1991)

Lewontin, Richard, It Ain’t Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions (New York Review of Books Press, 2000)

Lombardo, Paul, ed., A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era (Indiana, 2011)

Macintosh, Kerry, Human Cloning: Four Fallacies and their Legal Consequences (Cambridge, 2012)

Macintosh, Kerry, Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law (Cambridge, 2005)

McElheny, Victor, Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project (Basic, 2012)

McGee, Glenn, The Perfect Baby: Parenthood in the New World of Cloning and Genetics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)

Mehlman, Maxwell, Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares: The Promise and Peril of Genetic Engineering (Johns Hopkins, 2012)

Mehlman, Maxwell, Wondergenes: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Society (Indiana U. Press, 2003)

Mehlman, Maxwell, and Jeffrey Botkin, Access to the Genome: The Challenge of Equality (Georgetown U. Press, 1998)

Nelkin, Dorothy, Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information (U. of Chicago Press, 1994)

Newman, William, Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature (U. of Chicago Press, 2004)

Nicholl, Desmond, An Introduction to Genetic Engineering, 3^rd ed. (Cambridge, 2008)

Nussbaum, Martha, and Cass R. Sunstein, eds., Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (Norton, 1998)

Oakley, Barbara, Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend (Prometheus, 2007)

Parens, Erik, Audrey Chapman, and Nancy Press, eds., Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Conversation (Johns Hopkins, 2006)

Pence, Gregory, Who’s Afraid of Human Cloning? (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998)

Peterson, James C., Genetic Turning Points: The Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention (Eerdmans, 2001)

Proctor, Robert, Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis (Harvard, 1988)

Purves, William K. et. al., Life: The Science of Biology, 5th ed. (Freeman/Sinauer, 1998)

Ramsey, Paul, Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control (Yale, 1970)

Reilly, Philip, Abraham Lincoln’s DNA and other Adventures in Genetics (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2000)

Ridley, Matt, Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human (Harper, 2003)

Rifkin, Jeremy, The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World (Tarcher, 1998)

Robinson, Tara, Genetics for Dummies, 2^nd ed. (Wiley, 2010)

Roof, Judith, The Poetics of DNA (University of Minnesota, 2007)

Rothman, Barbara Katz, Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations (Norton, 1998)

Rutter, Michael, Genes and Behavior: Nature-Nurture Interplay Explained (Blackwell, 2006)

Segal, Nancy, Born Together – Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twins Study (Harvard, 2012)

Shanks, Pete, Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed (Nation Books, 2005)

Silver, Lee M., Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering Will Transform the American Family (Harper, 1998)

Stock, Gregory, Redesigning Humans: Choosing Our Genes, Changing Our Future (Mariner, 2003)

Stock, Gregory, and John Campbell, eds., Engineering the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We Pass to Our Children (Oxford, 2000)

Sykes, Bryan, Adam’s Curse: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Destiny (Norton, 2004)

Toke, Dave, The Politics of GM Food (Routledge, 2004)

Wailoo, Keith, and Stephen Pemberton, The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease (Johns Hopkins, 2006)

Wilmut, Ian, After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning (Norton, 2006)

Zimmerman, Barbara, Understanding Breast Cancer Genetics (U. of Mississippi Press, 2004)

Human nature, human identity, human dignity, disability studies

Albrecht, Gary, et. al., Handbook of Disability Studies (Sage, 2001)

Alexander, Michelle, and Cornel West, The New Jim Crow (New Press, 2012)

Allen, Ronald B., The Majesty of Man: The Dignity of Being Human (Kregal, 1984)

Arnhart, Larry, Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature (SUNY, 1998)

Baldi, Pierre, The Shattered Self: The End of Natural Evolution (MIT, 2001)

Bell, Rob, Love Wins (HarperCollins, 2005)

Berry, Wendell, A Place on Earth (Counterpoint, 1983)

Berry, Wendell, Citizenship Papers (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2003)

Berry, Wendell, Fidelity: Five Stories (Pantheon, 1992)

Berry, Wendell, It All Turns On Affection (Counterpoint, 2012)

Berry, Wendell, Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (Counterpoint, 2000)

Berry, Wendell, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Counterpoint, 1998)

Bonzo, Matthew, and Michael Stevens, Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life (Brazos, 2008)

Brake, Mark, Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology (Cambridge U. Press, 2012)

Brown, Donald, Human Universals (McGraw-Hill, 1991)

Burrow, Rufus, Jr., Personalism: A Critical Introduction (Chalice, 1999)

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions” (Rome, Sept. 8, 2008)

Crowley, Mary, ed., From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book for Journalists, Policymakers, and Campaigns (The Hastings Center, 2008)

Davis, Lennard, Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body (Verso, 1995)

Davis, Lennard, My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood With Deafness (U. of Illinois, 2000)

DeGrazia, David, Human Identity and Bioethics (Cambridge, 2005)

Douglas, Mary, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Routledge, 1966)

Dupré, John, Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Oxford, 2001)

Featherstone, Mike, Mike Hepworth, and Bryan Turner, eds., The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory (Sage, 1991)

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, So You Think You’re Human? A Brief History of Humankind (Oxford, 2004)

Fletcher, Joseph, “Indicators of Humanhood: A Tentative Profile of Man,” The Hastings Center Report 2:5 (November 1972), 1-4

Forgas, Joseph, Roy Baumeister, and Dianne Tice, eds., Psychology of Self-Regulation: Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Processes (Psychology Press, 2009)

Foucault, Michel, et al., eds., Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault (Tavistock, 1988)

Fredrickson, George, Racism: A Short History (Princeton, 2003)

Ganeri, Jonardon, The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-Person Stance (Oxford, 2012)

Gaulin, Steven, and Donald McBurney, Evolutionary Psychology, 2^nd ed. (Pearson, 2004)

Gazzaniga, Michael S., Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique (Harper Collins, 2008)

George, Robert P., and Christopher Tollefsen, Embryo: A Defense of Human Life (Doubleday, 2008)

Glover, Jonathan, What Sort of People Should There Be? (Penguin, 1984)

Gilbert, Daniel, Stumbling on Happiness (Knopf, 2007)

Goldstein, Joseph, The Experience of Insight (Shambhala, 1983)

Guinote, Ana, and Theresa Vescio, eds., The Social Psychology of Power (Guilford, 2010)

Hacking, Ian, The Social Construction of What? (Harvard, 2000)

Haidt, Jonathan, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Basic Books, 2006)

Haidt, Jonathan, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon, 2012)

Hall, Stephen, Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience (Vintage, 2010)

Harris, James, Against Relativism: A Philosophical Defense of Method (Open Court, 1992)

Hauser, Marc, Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong (Ecco, 2006)

Hochschild, Arlie, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, 2^nd ed. (U. of California Press, 2012)

Hostetler, John, Amish Society (Johns Hopkins, 1993)

Hunt, Lynn, Inventing Human Rights: A History (Norton, 2007)

Impey, Chris, The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe (Random House, 2007)

Jadhav, Narendra, Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Escape from India's Caste System (U. of California Press, 2007).

Jeeves, Malcolm, ed., Rethinking Human Nature: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Eerdmans, 2011)

Kaebnick, Gregory, ed., The Ideal of Nature: Debates About Biotechnology and the Environment (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2011)

Kass, Leon, Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics (Public Affairs, 2002)

Kass, Leon, ed., Being Human: Core Readings in the Humanities (Norton, 2004)

Kateb, George, Human Dignity (Harvard, 2011)

Keller, Evelyn Fox, Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines (Harvard U. Press, 2002)

Kornfield, Jack, A Path With Heart (Bantam, 1993)

Kressel, Neil, Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror (Westview, 2002)

Lachs, John, In Love With Life: Reflections on the Joy of Living and Why We Hate to Die (Vanderbilt U. Press, 1998)

Levine, Steven, A Gradual Awakening (Anchor, 1979)

Lipsky, Michael, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service (Russell Sage, 2010)

Loptson, Peter, Theories of Human Nature (Broadview, 2006)

Lykken, David, Happiness: What Studies on Twins Show US About Nature, Nurture, and the Happiness Set Point (Golden Books, 1999)

Macklin, Ruth, Against Relativism: Cultural Diversity and the Search for Ethical Universals in Medicine (Oxford, 1999).

Matthews, Debra, Hilary Bok, and Peter Rabins, eds., Personal Identity and Fractured Selves: Perspectives from Philosophy, Ethics, and Neuroscience (Johns Hopkins, 2009)

Mazlish, Bruce, The Idea of Humanity in a Global Era (Palgrave, 2009)

Merton, Thomas, The Seven Storey Mountain (Harcourt, 1948, 1998)

Michaud, Michael, Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials (Springer, 2006)

Mitchell, Mark, and Nathan Schueter, eds., The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry (ISI, 2011)

Nhat Hanh, Thich, Being Peace (Parallax, 1987)

Nolt, Steven, A History of the Amish (Good Books, 2004)

Nussbaum, Martha, Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach (Harvard, 2011).

Nussbaum, Martha, Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (Belknap, 2006)

Nussbaum, Martha, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Princeton, 2012)

Oehlschaeger, Fritz, The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love (U. of Kentucky, 2011)

Pagel, Mark, Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind (Norton, 2012)

Parfit, Derek, Reasons and Persons (Oxford, 1986)

Paterson, Mark, Consumption and Everyday Life (Routledge, 2005)

Perry, John, ed., Personal Identity (U. of California Press, 1975)

Peterson, Christopher, and Martin Seligman, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification (Oxford, 2004)

Pinker, Steven, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking, 2002)

Pojman, Louis, Who Are We? Theories of Human Nature (Oxford, 2006)

Reynolds, Thomas, Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality (Brazos, 2008)

Ricard, Matthieu, Happiness (Little, Brown, 2003)

Rorty, Amelie, The Identities of Persons (U. of California Press, 1976)

Rosen, Michael, Dignity: Its History and Meaning (Harvard, 2012)

Schneider, David, The Psychology of Stereotyping (Guilford Press, 2005)

Shilling, Chris, The Body and Social Theory (Sage, 2003)

Smallwood, Stephanie, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage From Africa to American Diaspora (Harvard, 2007)

Smith, Christian, What is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up (U. of Chicago Press, 2010)

Smith, Helmut, The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race Across the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2008)

Sowell, Thomas, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (Basic, 2007)

Stevenson, Leslie, and David Haberman, Ten Theories of Human Nature, fifth ed. (Oxford, 2009)

Suzuki, Shunryu, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (Weatherhill, 1970)

Tallis, Raymond, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Humanity (Acumen, 2011)

Taylor, Charles, The Ethics of Authenticity (Harvard, 1992)

Taylor, Charles, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Harvard, 1992)

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Phenomenon of Man (Harper, 1959)

Tolstoy, Leo, The Death of Ivan Ilych, trans. Aylmer Maude (Signet, 1960)

Turner, Bryan, The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory (Sage, 2008)

Volkin, Michael, The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook: Tips, Tricks, and Tactics for Surviving Boot Camp, 2^nd ed. (Savas Beatie, 2009)

Von Mises, Ludwig, Bureaucracy (Important Books, 2012)

Wahrman, Dror, The Making of the Modern Self (Yale, 2006)

Wegner, Daniel, White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts: Suppression, Obsession, and the Psychology of Mental Control (Guilford, 1994)

Wilson, Edward O., On Human Nature (Harvard U. Press, 1978)

Wolf, Susan, Meaning in Life And Why It Matters (Princeton, 2010)

Wright, Robert, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are (Vintage, 1994)

Wright, Robert, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Vintage, 2007)