I went to the annual Red Cross Book Fair today and added 27 books to my collection.
In no particular order.
Uses and Abuses of Psychology by H.J. Eysenck
Fact and Fiction in Psychology by H.J. Eysenck
Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
Social Contract by Locke, Hume and Rousseau (edited by Sir Ernest Barker)
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber by Anthony Giddens
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy by Anthony Giddens
Anthropological Research: The Structure of Inquiry by Pertti J. Pelto & Gretel H. Pelto
The Republic by Plato (translated by H.D.P. Lee)
Yanomamo: The Fierce People (3rd ed) by Napoleon Chagnon
The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man by Robert Ardrey
Human Heredity by Ashley Montagu
Capitalism and Social Progress: The Future of Society in a Global Economy by Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder
Guns & Rain: Guerrillas & Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe by David Lan
Culture and Self: Asian and Western Perspectives edited by J. Marsella, George Devos, and Francis L.K. HSU
Ancient Polynesian Society by Irving Goldman
Japan: Culture, Education, and Change in Two Communities
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate by Naomi Klein
The New Paradigm for the Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it means by George Soros
The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer
Studying the Yanomamo by Napoleon Chagnon
Have your Say: Influencing Public Policy in New Zealand by Frances Hughes and Stephanie Calder
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
Boiling Energy: Community Healing Among the Kalahari Kung by Richard Katz
The Idea of Race by Michael Banton
People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development by A.F. Robertson
Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology by Clifford Geertz
I am quite pleased with some of these books.