[{"n": "Self-help book", "u": "/e/part-1/self-help-book/", "s": "Books instructing readers on solving personal problems."}, {"n": "Textbook", "u": "/e/part-1/textbook/", "s": "A comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study, serving to explain the subject."}, {"n": "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care", "u": "/e/part-1/the-common-sense-book-of-baby-and-child-care/", "s": "A best-selling manual that encouraged parents to trust their instincts."}, {"n": "The Communist Manifesto", "u": "/e/part-1/the-communist-manifesto/", "s": "Political pamphlet by Marx and Engels outlining class struggle and communism."}, {"n": "The Concept of the Political", "u": "/e/part-1/the-concept-of-the-political/", "s": "Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political (German: Der Begriff des Politischen), a 1932 work by the German p"}, {"n": "The Conquest of Bread", "u": "/e/part-1/the-conquest-of-bread/", "s": "Anarchist communist classic by Peter Kropotkin."}, {"n": "The Death and Life of Great American Cities", "u": "/e/part-1/the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities/", "s": "Jane Jacobs’ 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, argues that the urban planning policies o"}, {"n": "The Decline of the West", "u": "/e/part-1/the-decline-of-the-west/", "s": "A cyclical history of cultures as organic entities."}, {"n": "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex", "u": "/e/part-1/the-descent-of-man-and-selection-in-relation-to-sex/", "s": "Applies evolutionary theory to human evolution and sexual selection."}, {"n": "The Double Helix", "u": "/e/part-1/the-double-helix/", "s": "Personal memoir of the discovery of DNA's double helix."}, {"n": "The Education of Henry Adams", "u": "/e/part-1/the-education-of-henry-adams/", "s": "Autobiography critiquing 19th-century education and rapid change."}, {"n": "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", "u": "/e/part-1/the-electric-kool-aid-acid-test/", "s": "A New Journalism account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters."}, {"n": "The Federalist Papers", "u": "/e/part-1/the-federalist-papers/", "s": "85 essays promoting ratification of the U.S. Constitution."}, {"n": "The Feminine Mystique", "u": "/e/part-1/the-feminine-mystique/", "s": "Book credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States."}, {"n": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", "u": "/e/part-1/the-feynman-lectures-on-physics/", "s": "A physics textbook based on lectures by Richard Feynman."}, {"n": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", "u": "/e/part-1/the-general-theory-of-employment-interest-and-money/", "s": "Book that shifted economic thought toward macroeconomics and government intervention."}, {"n": "The Gulag Archipelago", "u": "/e/part-1/the-gulag-archipelago/", "s": "A literary investigation of the Soviet Gulag system."}, {"n": "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", "u": "/e/part-1/the-hero-with-a-thousand-faces/", "s": "A study of the universal hero's journey in world myths."}, {"n": "The History of Rome (Mommsen)", "u": "/e/part-1/the-history-of-rome-mommsen/", "s": "Multi-volume history of ancient Rome by Theodor Mommsen."}, {"n": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", "u": "/e/part-1/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/", "s": "A six-volume Enlightenment history of Rome's decline."}, {"n": "The Imitation of Christ", "u": "/e/part-1/the-imitation-of-christ/", "s": "A devotional classic emphasizing interior life and Eucharist."}, {"n": "The Incoherence of the Incoherence", "u": "/e/part-1/the-incoherence-of-the-incoherence/", "s": "Ibn Rushd's defense of Aristotelian philosophy against al-Ghazali's critique."}, {"n": "The Incoherence of the Philosophers", "u": "/e/part-1/the-incoherence-of-the-philosophers/", "s": "11th-century Asharite critique of Avicennian philosophy."}, {"n": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "u": "/e/part-1/the-interpretation-of-dreams/", "s": "Freud's foundational work on dream interpretation and the unconscious."}, {"n": "Lexicon", "u": "/e/part-1/lexicon/", "s": "The vocabulary inventory of a language or branch of knowledge."}, {"n": "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects", "u": "/e/part-1/lives-of-the-most-excellent-painters-sculptors-and-architects/", "s": "First important book on art history, by Giorgio Vasari."}, {"n": "Muqaddimah", "u": "/e/part-1/muqaddimah/", "s": "The Muqaddimah (Arabic: مقدّمة, meaning \"the introduction\") is a 14th-century Arabic treatise covering histori"}, {"n": "Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe", "u": "/e/part-1/m-moires-d-outre-tombe/", "s": "Posthumous memoir blending history and personal reflection."}, {"n": "Natural History (Pliny)", "u": "/e/part-1/natural-history-pliny/", "s": "The ancient encyclopedia that shaped natural history."}, {"n": "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass", "u": "/e/part-1/narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass/", "s": "Douglass's 1845 memoir of slavery and escape, a cornerstone of American abolitionist writing."}, {"n": "Night (memoir)", "u": "/e/part-1/night-memoir/", "s": "Memoir of Holocaust survival and loss of faith."}, {"n": "On Liberty", "u": "/e/part-1/on-liberty/", "s": "On Liberty is an essay co-authored by the English philosophers Harriet Taylor Mill and John Stuart Mill, publi"}, {"n": "On the Origin of Species", "u": "/e/part-1/on-the-origin-of-species/", "s": "Foundation of evolutionary biology, introducing natural selection."}, {"n": "Opticks", "u": "/e/part-1/opticks/", "s": "Newton's experimental study of light, color, and diffraction."}, {"n": "Orientalism (book)", "u": "/e/part-1/orientalism-book/", "s": "Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) argues that Western scholarship about the Eastern world—encompassing Asia and"}, {"n": "Progress and Poverty", "u": "/e/part-1/progress-and-poverty/", "s": "In 1879, Henry George published his first book, Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial "}, {"n": "Man's Search for Meaning", "u": "/e/part-1/man-s-search-for-meaning/", "s": "A psychologist's account of finding meaning in concentration camps."}, {"n": "The Open Society and Its Enemies", "u": "/e/part-1/the-open-society-and-its-enemies/", "s": "Defends open society against historicism and totalitarianism."}, {"n": "The Origins of Totalitarianism", "u": "/e/part-1/the-origins-of-totalitarianism/", "s": "Hannah Arendt's first major work analyzing Nazism and Stalinism."}, {"n": "The Phenomenology of Spirit", "u": "/e/part-1/the-phenomenology-of-spirit/", "s": "Hegel's first major work on the development of consciousness."}, {"n": "Suicide (Durkheim book)", "u": "/e/part-1/suicide-durkheim-book/", "s": "Sociological study of suicide as a social fact."}, {"n": "Spinoza's Ethics", "u": "/e/part-1/spinoza-s-ethics/", "s": "George Eliot's translation of Spinoza's Ethics, completed in 1856 but unpublished until 1981."}]