I do not agree with the contents of all of the below books, but believe there is a lot to learn from each and every one of them. Please also refer to the list of Scandinavian literature. The list is ordered alphabetically on the first author’s surname.
- Larry Arnhart, 2005. Darwinian Conservatism.
- Muhammad Asad, 1961. The Principles of State and Government in Islam.
- Fredrik Barth, 1969. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries.
- Paul Berman, 2003. Terror and liberalism.
- Susan Blackmore, 1999. The meme machine.
- Pat Buchanan, 2006. State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.
- Amy Chua, 2002. World on Fire - how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability.
- Gregory Cochran & Henry Harpending, 2009. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution.
- Francis S. Collins, 2006. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
- Alain F. Corcos, 1997. The myth of human races.
- Richard Dawkins, 1976. The Selfish Gene.
- Richard Dawkins, 1982. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene.
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Richard Dawkins, 1986. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design.
- Richard Dawkins, 2006.
The god delusion.
- Daniel C. Dennett, 1995. Darwin's dangerous idea - evolution and the meanings of life.
- Jon Entine, 2000. Taboo - Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It.
- Oriana Fallaci, 2001. The rage and the pride.
- James R. Flynn, 2007. What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect.
- Christina Hoff Sommers, 1994. Who stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women.
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1980. The Panda's Thumb.
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1981. The mismeasure of man (but see critical reviews in academic journals by Jensen and Rushton, respectively).
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Stephen Jay Gould, 1985. The Flamingo's Smile.
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1994. Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes.
- Joseph L. Graves Jr., 2001. The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millenium.
- Sam Harris, 2004. The End of Faith.
- Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington, 2001. Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. See our brief review.
- Michael H. Hart. 2007. Understanding Human History: An analysis including the effects of geography and differential evolution. Also available for free in pdf format.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2004. The Caged Virgin: A Muslim Woman's Cry for Reason.
- Christopher Hitchens, 2007. God Is Not Great.
- Samuel P. Huntington, 1996. The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order.
- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 1993/2002. Ethnicity and Nationalism: anthropological perspectives.
- Philip Kitcher, 1982. Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism.
- Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
- Michael Levin, 1987. Feminism and freedom.
- Michael Levin, 1997. Why Race Matters - race differences and what they mean.
- Bernard Lewis, 2002. What went wrong? - western impact and middle eastern response.
- Bernard Lewis, 2004. The crisis of Islam - holy war and unholy terror.
- Richard Lewontin, 1991.
Biology as ideology - the doctrine of DNA.
- Richard Lewontin, 2000. The Triple Helix.
- Richard Lewontin, 2000. It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions.
- Ashley Montagu, 1945. Man's Most Dangerous Myth: the fallacy of race.
- Steven Pinker, 2002. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.
- Kjell Arild Pollestad. 2007. Peter's Answer. Christianity for Educated Heathens and Indifferent Christians.
- Susan Pinker, 2008. The Sexual Paradox: Troubled Boys, Gifted Girls, and the Real Difference Between the Sexes.
- Tariq Ramadan. 2004. Western Muslims and the Future of Islam.
- Tariq Ramadan. 2007. In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad.
- J. Philippe Rushton, 1995. Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective.
- Carl Sagan, 1996. Demon-Haunted world - science as a candle in the dark.
- Frank Salter, 2003. On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration.
- Vincent Sarich & Frank Miele, 2004. Race: The Reality of Human Differences.
- Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont, 1998. Intellectual impostures : postmodern philosophers' abuse of science. Also highly recommended: review by Richard Dawkins.
- Thomas Sowell, 1995. The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.
- Thomas Sowell, 2004. Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study.
- David N. Stamos, 2008. Evolution and the big questions.
- Hege Storhaug, Human Visas - a report from the front lines of Europe's integration crisis.
- Mark Steyn, 2006. America alone - the end of the world as we know it.
- Carol M. Swain, 2003. Contemporary voices of white nationalism in America.
- Jared Taylor, 1993. Paved with good intentions – the failure of race relations in contemporary America.
- Jared Taylor (ed.), 1998. The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America.
- Ibn Warraq, 1995. Why I am not a Muslim.
- Edward O. Wilson, 1975. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.
- Edward O. Wilson, 1978. On Human Nature.
- Fareed Zakaria, 2003. The future of freedom: illiberal democracy at home and abroad.
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