Bibliography for the Spiral Curriculum by Grades


These books are extracted from the footnotes for the full text of the document Cultural History and the Evolution of Consciousness, by William Irwin Thompson.

Part One

E. R. Dodd's, The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951).

Jean Gebser, Everpresent Origin, trans. Noel Barstad with Algis Mickunas (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1991).

Part Two, Preface

The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World, ed. Jack Zevin (New York: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers, 1993).

The Times History of the World , ed. Geoffrey Barraclough (London: Times Books, 1999).

Kindergarden

Remo H. Largo, Die Kinderjahre (Zvrich: Piper Verlag, 1999).

Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (New York: Viking, 1998).

Jaak Panksepp, Affective Neuroscience: the Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

Robert Graves, The White Goddess (New York: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux,1975).

Lawrence Kushner, The Book of Letters: A Mystical Alef-Bait (New York: Jewish Lights, 1991).

Grade 5

Stan Tenen, A Matrix of Meaning for Sacred Alphabets ( San Anselmo, California : Meru Foundation, P.O. Box 1738, San Anselmo, CA. 94979,1991).

Paul Wheatley's The Pivot of the Four Quarters (Chicago: Aldine, 1971).

A. F. Aveni, World Archaeoastronomy ( London: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

The Exaltation of Inanna, eds. William W. Hallo and J. A. Van Dijk (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1968).

William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture (New York: St. Martin?s Press, 1981).

George G. Joseph, The Crest of the Peacock: the Non-European Roots of Mathematics (Tauris: London, 1991).

Grade 6

Willis Barnstone, Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets (New York: Shocken, 1962), p. 80.

Merlin Stone, When God Was a Woman (New York: Dial Press, 1976).

Derek A. Welsby, The Kingdon of Kush: The Natapan and Meroitic Empires (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998).

Gore Vidal, The Creation (New York: Ballentine, 1981).

The Upanishads, trans. Eknath Easwaran (Tomales Calif: Niligri Press, 1987), p. 111.

The Dhammapada: the Sayings of Buddha , translation and commentary by Thomas Cleary (New York: Bantam Books, 1995).

Lao-Tzu, Te-Tao Ching, trans. R. G. Henricks (New York, Ballantine Books, 1989).

William Irwin Thompson, Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness (New York; St. Martin?s Press, 1998).

The Essential Confucius, trans. Thomas Cleary, (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1992).

William Irwin Thompson, Blue Jade from the Morning Star: a Cycle of Poems and an Essay on Quetzalcoatl (Hudson, New York: Lindisfarne Press, 1983).

Enrique Florescano, The Myth of Quetzalcoatl (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).

The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership, ed. Jill Gurthrie (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1996).

Cyrus Gordon, Before Columbus (New York: Crown, 1971).

Barry Fell, America B.C. (New York: Quadrangle, 1977).

Ivan Van Sertima, They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (New York: Random House, 1977).

Grade 7

Adriana Cavarero, In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1995).

Howard R. Turner, SCIENCE IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM (University of Texas Press: Austin, TX, 1995).

Marshall G. S. Hodgson, THE VENTURE OF ISLAM: Volume I. CONSCIENCE AND HISTORY IN A WORLD CIVILIZATION (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, 1958)

Grade 8

Richard C. Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road (St. Martin?s Press: New York, 1999).

The Cassell Atlas of World History (Cassell: London, 1997).

The Times History of the World , ed. Geoffrey Barraclough (London: Times Books, 1999).

Amin Malouf, The Crusades through Arab Eyes (New York: Schoken Books, 1989).

Archibald Lewis, Nomads and Crusaders, AD 1000-1368 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988).

King Rene's Book of Love (New York: Braziller, 1980).

Alfred W. Crosby, The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society 1250-1600 (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York, 1997).

William H. McNeill, Plagues and Peoples. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984).

Grade 9

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese, (Honolulu: Monographs of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, No. 4, University of Hawaii Press, 1977.)

Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, Volume III, The Perspective of the World (London, Fontana Press, Harper Collins, 1984).

Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery (London: Verso Books, 1997).

Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cambridge Illustrated History of China (London, Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (London, Macmillan, 1996).

Grade 10

Frances Yates, The Roscicrucian Enlightenment (London: Routledge, 1972).

The Beethoven Quartet Companion, ed. Robert Winter and Robert Martin (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994).

Jacques Attali, Noise: the Political Economy of Music (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985).

Michel Serres, La Traduction (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1974).

Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, London and New York, Harper Collins/Fontana Books, 1984).

Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: 1500 to 2000 (New York: Random House, 1988).

Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: an Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (New York: Knopf, 1987).

Lord Macaulay, The History of England (London: Penguin Classics, 1979).

See E. P. Thompson's classic, The Making of the English Working Class, (New York: Random House, 1966).

Grades 11 and 12

E. P. Thompson. Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law (The New Press,: New York, 1993).

John A. Crow, The Epic of Latin America (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992).

Eleanor Rosch, Evan Thompson, and Francisco Varela, The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience ( MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 1991).

Evan Thompson and Francisco Varela, Why the Mind is Not in the Head (Harvard University Press, in press).

David Jordan, Transforming Paris: the Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), p. 172.

Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).

Giulo M. Gallarotti, The Anatomy of an International Monetary Regime: the Classical Gold Standard 1880-1914 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa: the White Man?s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 (Avon Books: New York, 1993).

Lewis P. Curtis Jr., Apes and Angels: the Irishman in Victorian Caricature (New York: George Braziller/Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971).

Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York & London: Routledge, 1995).

C. H. Waddington, Behind Appearance: A Study of the Relations between Painting and the Natural Sciences in this Century (Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Press, 1969).

Leonard Shlain, Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light (New York: William Morrow, 1991).

Michael J. Hogan, A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State 1945-1954 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Samuel Noah Kramer, The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London, 1963).

Walter Benjamin, Paris, die Hauptstadt des XIX Jahrhunderts, Illuminationen: Ausgewaehlte Schriften (Suhrkamp: Frankfurt am Main, 1974).

Frantisek Kupka: Die Abstrakten Farben des Universums, ed. Dorothy Kosinski and Jaroslav Andel (Verlag Gerd Hatje: Ostfildern bei Stuttgart, 1998).

William Irwin Thompson, At the Edge of History, 1971

William Irwin Thompson, The American Replacement of Nature (New York: Doubleday, Currency Books, 1991).

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man (New York: Harper & Row, 1964).

Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd, From Eco-Cities to Living Machines:Principles of Ecological Design (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1994).


Revised 12 December 2000 by Ralph Herman Abraham