Holology: Core Reading List

Buford, Bill, Among the Thugs: the experience and seduction of Crowd Violence (NY, Norton & Co., 1992)

Eaton, S Boyd, Shostak, Majorie, Konner, Melvin, The Paleolithic Prescription (Harper & Rowe, 1988)

Ghiglieri, Michael P., The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Male Violence (Basic Books, 2000)

Griffith, Paddy. Forward Into Battle: Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to the Near Future (Swindon: Crowood Press, 1990)

Hanson, Victor Davis, Carnage and Culture (NY: Doubleday, 2001)

Holmes, Richard, Acts of War: the Behaviour of Men in Battle (NY: The Free Press, 1985)

Huizoinga, Johan, Homo Ludens: a Study of the Play Element in Culture (Martino Fine Books, 2014)

Keeley, Lawrence H., War before Civilization: the Myth of the Peaceful Savage (NY: Oxford University Press, 1996)

Keegan, John, The Face of Battle (The Viking Press, 1976)

LeBlanc, Steven A. and Register, Katherine, Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2003)

McNeill, William H., Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995)

Ripley, Tim, Bayonet Battle (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1990)

Storr, Jim, The Human Face of War (NY: Continuum Books, 2009)

Tiger, Lionel, Men in Groups, 3rd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2017)

Wrangham, Richard and Peterson, Dale, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Mariner Books, 1997)