The Road from Coorain
Australian-American scholar and author
Book
The Selfish Gene
1976 book on evolution by the ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams’s Adaptation and Natural Selection . Dawkins uses the term “selfish gene” as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution , popularising ideas developed during the 1960s by W. D. Hamilton and others
The Long Loneliness
Autobiography of Dorothy Day, published in 1952 by Harper & Brothers
Talleyrand
French clergyman and leading diplomat
Conversations with Glenn Gould
Biography of Glenn Gould, by Jonathan Cott