Immersing in literary, filmic, and technological landscapes. Book recommendations The Temple of the Golden PavilionYukio Mishima The Ecological Approach to Visual PerceptionJames J. Gibson The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and MoneyBryan Caplan Reductionism in Art and Brain ScienceEric R. Kandel Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace HamletWilliam Shakespeare American PsychoBret Easton Ellis We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of IdolatryGregory K. Beale How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United StatesDaniel Immerwahr The Elementary ParticlesMichel Houellebecq Salt: A World HistoryMark Kurlansky Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of CivilizationNicholson Baker The Crying of Lot 49Thomas Pynchon The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts PluralismD.A. Carson Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of HistoryKarl Löwith The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X, Alex Haley Being and TimeMartin Heidegger Paul: A BiographyN.T. Wright Simulacra and SimulationJean Baudrillard From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000Lee Kuan Yew Addiction by DesignNatasha Dow Schüll Science Since BabylonDerek de Solla Price The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of DemocracyChristopher Lasch Ametora: How Japan Saved American StyleW. David Marx Gilgamesh Brave New WorldAldous Huxley A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful InvestingBurton G. Malkiel The Beauty of Everyday ThingsSoetsu Yanagi Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They ExpectWill Guidara Blood MeridianCormac McCarthy Games: Agency as ArtC. Thi Nguyen Exhalation: StoriesTed Chiang Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the GospelsKenneth E. Bailey Make Something WonderfulSteve Jobs Buddhism: A Journey through HistoryDonald S. Lopez Jr. Neither Poverty nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of PossessionsCraig L. Blomberg The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral LifeDavid Brooks Battle Hymn of the Tiger MotherAmy Chua FiccionesJorge Luis Borges Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with UncertaintyGerd Gigerenzer War, Progress, and the End of History: Three Conversations, Including a Short Story of the Anti-Christ The IliadHomer The Machiavellians: Defenders of FreedomJames Burnham The True History of the American RevolutionSydney George Fisher Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the FutureDan Wang The Last Days of SocratesPlato Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?Mark Fisher