Eye-Catching Titles

Having a roving eye and a butterfly mind (a rather dangerous combination sometimes!) I do, rather inevitably, zero in on books with interesting covers or eye-catching titles. Stephen over @ This Week at the Library posted something recently on such titles and I was just going to post a handful of my books in response – until I actually went through my archives and ended up with over two pages worth! Some are more eye-catching than others but all of them I feel have a special something that made me notice them. They are (in reverse order of review):

You are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

Zombie Economics – How Dead Ideas still Walk Among Us by John Quiggin

The Fishing Fleet – Husband Hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy

French Women Don’t Get Fat – The Secret of Eating for Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano

Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans

Dracula Cha Cha Cha by Kim Newman

Star Trek and Philosophy – The Wrath of Kant edited by Jason T Eberl and Keven S Decker

The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy - One Book to Rule Them All edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson

Spies in the Sky – The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence during World War II by Taylor Downing

Wired for War – The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P W Singer

Heaven – A Traveller’s Guide to the Undiscovered Country by Peter Stanford

Your Inner Fish – The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin

The Immortalization Commission – The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray

Love & Sex with Robots – The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David Levy

Stoic Warriors – The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind by Nancy Sherman

Terminator and Philosophy – I’ll be Back, therefore I Am edited by Richard Brown and Kevin S Decker

A Girl’s Guide to Guns and Monsters edited by Martin H Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes

Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them – Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir by John T Irwin

How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson

Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy – New Life for the Undead edited by Richard Greene and K Silem Mohammad

The Fly in the Cathedral – How a small group of Cambridge scientists won the race to split the atom by Brian Cathcart

The Buried Soul – How Humans Invented Death by Timothy Taylor

The Planet in a Pebble – A Journey into Earth’s Deep History by Jan Zalasiewicz

Say It With Bullets by Richard Powell

Dune and Philosophy – The Weirding Way of the Mentat edited by Jeffery Nicholas

Strange Days Indeed – The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen

The Age of Absurdity – Why Modern life makes it hard to be Happy by Michael Foley

Slayers and their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead by Bruce A McClelland

A Pelican in the Wilderness – Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses by Isabel Colegate

The Golden Compass and Philosophy – God bites the Dust edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robinson

Guns, Germs and Steel – A Short History of Everybody for the last 13,000 Years by Jared Diamond

The Philosopher and the Wolf – Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death and Happiness by Mark Rowlands

Pastwatch – The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card

Amazing Tales for making Men out of Boys by Neil Oliver

Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul – A Study in Heroic Individualism by Leslie Paul Thiele

The Shock of the Old – Technology and Global History since 1900 by David Edgerton

The Vengeful Virgin by Gil Brewer

Black Mass – Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray

Rousseau’s Dog – Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment by David Edmonds & John Eidinow

Basic Flying Instruction – A Comprehensive Introduction to Western Philosophy by Charles Gidley Wheeler

The Coming Anarchy – Shattering the Dreams of the post Cold War by Robert D Kaplan

Empires of Belief – Why we need more Scepticism and Doubt in the 21st Century by Stuart Sim.

Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton

The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys by Mick Farren

Warrior Politics – Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos by Robert D Kaplan.

Six Impossible Things before Breakfast – The Evolutionary Origins of Belief by Lewis Wolpert.

The London Vampire Panic by Michael Romkey

God's Funeral by A.N. Wilson

The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet by Margaret Wertheim