Currently reading
Becoming Kuan Yin: The Evolution of Compassion
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
The Glass Key
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
Accent on Form: An Anticipation of the Science of Tomorrow
The Expert versus the Object: Judging Fakes and False Attributions in the Visual Arts
War and Peace
The Position of Things: Collected Poems 1961-1992
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (Mandarin Chinese and English Edition)
Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
of numerous sources i've been studying on the subject, this is hands-down the single best introduction: an amazing story, with a variety of insights relevant to today, and very well organized and told. I look forward to reading his others books, which span a range of topics : money, Native Americans, etc.
