“History has generally been written by the victors”, Ronald Takaki expresses in his book, and he hopes to bring about another form of telling history - through the stories of individuals who have lived and experienced life in a past time. In this book, Takaki gathered stories that are connected in themes and brought them together through written essays in between the testimonies.

In these essay introductions, Takaki writes a different version of history that isn’t the same traditional history taught in our public schools. Reading it blithely, some would …

This is Daniel Quinn’s top selling book written in the 70s (I believe). The book is a conversation between a gorilla and an intellectual. They talk about society and all the other sub topics that surround it - one may find economic, political, individuality, and religious truths throughout the “story”. The gorilla enlightens us as we are captivated by the intellectual who has an “earnest desire to save the world”. Daniel Quinn himself has called it a spiritual adventure and offers us another interpretation of the state …

For those students about to embark in an economics class, you may want to consider checking out this book. It is a combination of history and biography while it outlines the discourse of economic thought. The book is called “Worldly Philosophers” because the nature of man and society, in terms of an economic system, reflects the way of life and a philosopher’s perspective on it. The book engages the reader both for its insight, historical relevance, and for its accessibility - much different from …