Jared Diamond
The Third Chimpanzee

About human evolution...how human tools, sexuality, language, culture evolved, integrating biology, paleontoglogy, and anthropology.

Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel

Basically a through dismantling of racist theories of history (i.e., Europeans dominate the world today because of their genetic superiority). Shows how certain ecologies and geographies were more conducive to what we call "civilization."

Chinua Abeke (sp???)
Things Fall Apart

Fiction based on a million true stories...

Autobiography of Maclolm X

Nuff said...