The Holy Bible, King James version
When I was about 14 I began to question my Christian backround so I read this book cover to cover. Shortly thereafter I began to form a different approach to religion and became mostly agnostic.
Man and Time, by J.B Priestley
This is one of those coffee table sized books with lots of illustrations of time devices and theories of time from various cultures throughout history. I picked it up in a dusty old used book store when I was in high school. The important thing to me was that it was the first time I read about Einsteins relativity theory and changed the way I thought about space and time and the universe in general. I don't recommend this book though, this was 40 years ago and there are far better books on the subject now.
Chaos : Making a New Science, by James Gleick
After reading this book I began to think of nonlinear complex systems as something that we may actually be able to predict some day. I began to understand the beauty of chaos and even if we can't predict it we are at least able to define some of the more complex system's boundarys.
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Originally Posted by MuadDib
2) Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology & A Theory of Everything
Here it was hard to just name these two and I would highly recommend ANYTHING this man rights.
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"A Theory of Everything" has been sitting on my shelf for about a year. Maybe now I'll take the time to read it.