These were Brad’s books.
Even those who knew him well may be surprised at the length of the list, and the depth of the list, at the ambition of the list.
What greater way to honor him, and know him better, than to read one of Brad’s books.
Brad underlined passages, and made notes about his learning in the books, on index cards or in notebook after notebook.
Up to the very end he sought knowledge.
Muslims in Spain: 1500-1614 by L.P. Harvey
The Invisibles: A tale of the Eunuchs of India
These were the last books he ever bought, less than a day before he left us, using money that probably should have gone to pay the overdue electric bill.
These were Brad’s books, but now they belong to all of us.
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First Name |
Last Name | Title | Subtitle |
| M.C. | Ricklefs | A History of Modern Indonesia Since c.1300 | |
| Rene | Weis | The Yellow Cross | The story of the last Cathars' rebellion against The Inquisition 1290-1329 |
| Anna L. | Dallapiccola | Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend | |
| Zia | Jaffrey | The Invisibles | A tale of the Eunuchs of India |
| Jonathan | Kirsch | God Against the Gods | The history of the war between monotheism and polytheism |
| Ki-baik | Lee | A New History of Korea | |
| Kathryn | Bernhardt | Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance | The Lower Yangzi Region 1840-1950 |
| Romulus | Hillsborough | Shinsengumi | The Shogun's last Samurai Corps |
| Ray | Huang | 1587 A Year of No Significance | The Ming Dynasty in Decline |
| Richard | Von Glahn | The Sinister Way | The divine and demonic in Chinese religious culture |
| James T. | Siegel | A New Criminal Type in Jakarta | Counter-Revolution Today |
| Dennis | Sherman | Western Civilization | Sources, images, and interpretations |
| James C. | Scott | Weapons of the Weak | Everday forms of peasant resistance |
| Bernard | Lewis | The Middle East | A brief history of the last 2000 years |
| Tsai Chih | Chung | Zhuangzi Speaks | The music of nature |
| Tsai Chih | Chung | The Dao of Zhuangzi | The harmony of nature |
| Fujihiko | Kaneda | Beginner's Kana Workbook | Practice drills for writing Hiragana and Katakana |
| Wolfgang | Hadamitzky | A Guide to Writing Kanji & Kana | A Self-Study Workbook for learning Japanese Characters |
| Meher | McArthur | Reading Buddhist Art | An illustrated guide to Buddhist signs & symbols |
| Robert | Beer | The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols | |
| Lord Russell of Liverpool | Lord Russell of Liverpool | The Knights of Bushido | A Short History of Japanese War Crimes |
| Carol and Nobuo | Akiyama | Japanese Vocabulary | |
| American Dictionary | |||
| L.P. | Harvey | Muslims in Spain | 1500-1614 |
| David J. | Lu | Japan A Documentary History | The late Tokugawa Period to the present |
| Ralph | Steadman | Doodaaa | The Balletic art of Gavin Twinge |
| Nakae | Chomin | A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government | |
| Lucien | Bianco | Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 | |
| Michael S. | Duke | The Iron House | A Memoir of the Chinese Democracy Movement and the Tiananmen Massacre |
| Elizabeth J. | Perry | Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945 | |
| Kinky | Friedman | Spanking Watson | |
| George | Orwell | The Road to Wigan Pier | |
| Joseph | Perez | The Spanish Inquisition | |
| Yoshihiro | Tatsumi | The Push Man and Other Stories | |
| Elson M. | Haas | Staying Healthy with the Seasons | |
| Francis | Watson | India A Concise History | |
| John | Milton | Complete Poems and Major Prose | |
| Bowker | Bowker | Dictionary of World Religions | |
| Nietzsche | The Portable Nietzsche | ||
| Kalle | Lasn | Culture Jam | How to reverse America's suicidal consumer binge - and why we must |
| T.T. | Liang | T'ai Chi Ch'uan for Health and Self-Defense | |
| Nyogen | Senzaki | The Iron Flute | 100 Zen Koans |
| Lao-Tzu | Te-Tao Ching | ||
| Naoko | Chino | How to tell the difference between Japanese particles | |
| Kawashima | A Dictionary of Japanese Particles | ||
| Sam | Harris | Letter to a Christian Nation | |
| Jonathan | Riley-Smith | The Oxford History of the Crusades | |
| John King | Fairbank | The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985 | |
| D.T. | Suzuki | Essays in Zen Buddhism | |
| Bernard | Lewis | The Crisis of Islam | Holy War and Unholy Terror |
| Chen | Jo-his | The Execution of Mayor Lin | and other stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution |
| Alice K. | Turner | The History of Hell | |
| Thomas D. | Conlan | In Little Need of Divine Intervention | Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan |
| Chow | Tse-tsung | The May Fourth Movement | Intellectual Revolution in Modern China |
| Abul | A'la Mawdudi | Towards Understanding Islam | |
| The Tibetan Book of the Dead | |||
| Adam | Parfrey | Extreme Islam | Anti-American propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism |
| Johannes | Nohl | The Black Death | A Chronicle of the Plague |
| Jonathan | Ree | The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy | |
| Katsu | Kokichi | Musui's Story | The autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai |
| Antonio | Gallonio | Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs | |
| Ida | Glaser | The Bible and Other Faiths | Christian responsibility in a world of religions |
| Helen | Ellerbe | The Dark Side of Christian History | |
| Eva | Wong | Seven Taoist Masters | A folk novel of China |
| The Bhagavad-Gita | Mystical Classics of the World | ||
| Noam | Chomsky | Profit Over People | Neoliberalism and Global Order |
| Preston | Jones | Is Belief in God Good, Bad, or Irrelevant? | A professor and a punk rocker discuss science, religion, naturalism & Christianity |
| Marina | Warner | The Dragon Empress | Life & Times of Tz'u-his 1835-1908, Empress Dowager of China |
| Kyle | Brano | Making Stuff & Doing Things | A collection of DIY guides to doing just about everything |
| Arthur | Cotterell | China, A Cultural History | A comprehensive survey of the world's oldest civilization from prehistoric times to the present |
| Frank E. | Manuel | Utopias and Utopian Thought | |
| Gary A. | Haugen | Good News About Injustice | A witness of courage in a hurting world |
| David | Leeming | A Dictionary of Asian Mythology | |
| Choh-Ming | Li | Industrial Development in Communist China | |
| John F. | Avedon | In Exile from the Land of Snows | The definitive account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet since the Chinese conquest |
| Herbert | Burkholz | The FDA Follies | An alarming look at our food and drugs in the 1980's |
| Seigo | Nakao | Japanese-English Dictionary | Includes Romanization and Japanese Characters |
| Jacques | Gernet | Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion 1250-1276 | |
| Wm. Theodore | de Bary | Sources of Chinese Tradition Vol. 1 and 2 | |
| Palden | Gyatso | The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk | |
| Eva | Wong | Tales of the Taoist Immortals | |
| James | Chambers | The Devil's Horsemen | The Mongol invasion of Europe |
| Martin | Luther | Galatians | The Crossway Classic Commentaries |
| Mao | Zedong | Reports from Xunwu | |
| Alex Ben | Block | The Legend of Bruce Lee | |
| Japanese Coursebook | |||
| Noam | Chomsky | What Uncle Sam Really Wants | |
| Dilip | Hiro | The Essential Middle East | |
| David | Schiller | The Little Zen Companion | |
| David | Schnellgrove | Indo-Tibeten Buddhism | Indian Buddhists and their Tibetan successors |
| Thomas | Cleary | Classics of Buddhism and Zen, vols 1-5 | |
| Bernard | Wasserstein | Secret War in Shanghai | The untold story of espionage, intrigue, and treason |
| Jonathon | Fenby | Chiang Kai-Shek | China's generalissimo and the nation he lost |
| Jan-Andrew | Henderson | The Town Below the Ground | Edinburgh's Legendary Underground City |
| Edward | Bernays | Propaganda | |
| Nancy | Chang | Silencing Political Dissent | How post-september 11 anti-terrorism measures threaten our civil liberties |
| Benjamin | Hoff | The Te of Piglet | |
| C.S. | Lewis | The Problem of Pain | |
| Conrad | Schirokauer | A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations | |
| Yann | Martel | Life of Pi | |
| Chuck | Palahniuk | Invisible Monsters | |
| Fydor | Dostoevsky | The Adolescent | |
| Japan Ecyclopedia | |||
| F.W. | Mote | Imperial China 900-1800 | |
| Russell | Banks | Rule of the Bone | |
| Peter | Elbow | Writing with Power | Techniques for mastering the writing process |
| Carl | Hiaasen | Sick Puppy | |
| Leigh | Hunt | The Rebellion of the Beasts | or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!! |
| Alcoholics Anonymous | |||
| Honda | Katsuichi | The Nanjing Massacre | A Japanese jounalist confronts Japan's national shame |
| Chris | Lowney | A Vanished World | Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medievel Spain |
| Michael J. | Kolin | Understanding, Maintaining, and Riding the Ten-Speed Bicycle | |
| Elizabeth J. | Perry | Shanghai on Strike | The politics of Chinese Labor |
| Eva | Wong | The Shambala Guide to Taoism | |
| Franz | Michael | The Taiping Rebellion | |
| Edward | Abbey | Confessions of a Barbarian | |
| Mike | Wilkins | Sex and Zen & a Bullet in the Head | The essential guide to Hong Kong's mind-bending films |
| Steven | Blush | American Hardcore | A Tribal History |
| Herbert | Friedman | The Amazing Universe | |
| Eric | White | It Feeds Itself | |
| Rosemary | Jones-Tung | A Portrait of Lost Tibet | |
| The New Yorker Book of Political Cartoons | |||
| Two Japanese books, completely in Japanese | |||
| Carol | Robertson | Screen Printing | The complete water-based system |
| Berke | Breathed | Toons for Our Times - Bloom County | |
| Pete | Tombs | Immoral Tales | European sex and horror movies 1956-1984 |
| RE Search #4&5 | |||
| RE Search #8&9 | |||
| Robert J. | Lang | Origami Insects and their Kin | |
| John D. | La Plante | Asian Art | |
| Lew | Rozelle | Origami Rockets | Spinners, Zoomers, Floaters, and More |
| Crimes and Punishment | A pictorial encyclopedia of aberrant behavior | ||
| Paul | Lawrence | The IVP Atlas of Bible History | |
| Japan | |||
| Adele | Westbrook | Tales of the Hermit - Vol. 11 | Yambushi and Homecoming |
| Paul | Conrad | Drawn and Quartered | The best political cartoons |
| Cult Flicks and Trash Pics | The complete guide | ||
| Chas S. | Clifton | Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics | |
| Donna | Rosenberg | World Mythology | An anthology of the grest myths and epics |
| Ross | Terrill | The White-Boned Demon | A biography of madame Mao Zedong |
| Beneath the Paving Stones | Situationists and the beach, May 1968 | ||
| Terri | Hardin | Legends and Lore of the American Indians | |
| John O.E. | Clark | The Essential Dictionary of Science | |
| Studs | Terkel | The Studs Terkel Reader | My American Century |
| Hakuin | Wild Ivy | The spiritual autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin, translated | |
| Bruce | Cambell | If Chins Could Kill | Confessions of a B movie actor |
| Rita L. | Lampkin | Japanese Verbs and Essentials of Grammar | A practical guide to the mastery of Japanese |
| Claude B. | Levenson | Tenzin Gyatso | The early life of the Dalai Lama |
| Patricia | O'Brien | The Unfinished Legacy | A Brief History of Western Civilization |
| Kuo | Lien-Ying | The T'ai Chi Boxing Chronicle | |
| Katherine Bjork | Guneratne | In the Circle of the Dance | Notes of an outsider in Nepal |
| Eric | Schlosser | Reefer Madness | Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market |
| Jean | Chesneaux | Peasant Revolts in China, 1840-1949 | |
| Frank | Welsh | A Borrowed Place | The history of Hong Kong |
| Mikiso | Hane | Peasants, Rebels, & Outcasts | The underside of modern Japan |
| James | Reston | Warriors of God | Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade |
| Michel | Foucault | Madness and Civilization | A history of insanity in the age of reason |
| Hong | The Essential Kierkegaard | ||
| Thomas | Cleary | The Essential Tao | An initiation into the heart of Taoism |
| Graham | Brash | Strange Tales from Ancient China | |
| Da | Liu | T'ai Chi Ch'uan & Meditation | |
| Peter | Duus | Modern Japan | |
| David Willis | McCullough | Wars of the Irish Kings | A thousand years of struggle |
| Gore | Vidal | Creation, a Novel | |
| Friedrich | Nietzsche | Beyond Good and Evil | |
| John | Fraser | The Chinese | A Portrait of a People |
| Richard | Pipes | Communism, A History | |
| Elmore | Leonard | The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories | |
| Rebecca N. | Ferguson | The Handy History Answer Book | |
| Fyodor | Dostoevsky | Demons | |
| Dorothy | Perkins | Encyclopedia of China | The essential reference to China, its history and culture |
| Dialogs of Plato | |||
| Fyodor | Dostoevsky | Notes from Underground | |
| James R. | Ware | The Sayings of Confucius | |
| J.D. | Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | |
| Jeff | Lindsay | Darkly Dreaming Dexter | |
| Hunter S. | Thompson | Generation of Swine | |
| Lewis | Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass | |
| Hunter S. | Thompson | the Rum Diary | |
| H.P. | Lovecraft | Bloodcurdling Taleas of Horror and the Macabre | |
| H.P. | Lovecraft | Dreams of Terror and Death | |
| H.P. | Lovecraft | The Road to Madness | |
| H.P. | Lovecraft | The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft | |
| Elmore | Leonard | Killshot | |
| Elmore | Leonard | Split Images | |
| Carl | Hiaasen | Basket Case | |
| Carl | Hiaasen | Tourist Season | |
| Carl | Hiaasen | Stormy Weather | |
| Elmore | Leonard | City Primeval | |
| Carl | Hiaasen | Skin Tight | |
| Carl | Hiaasen | Lucky You | |
| Elmore | Leonard | The Switch | |
| Franz | Katka | The Trial | |
| Ambrose | Bierce | The Devil's Dictionary | |
| Christopher | Marlowe | Dr. Faustus | |
| Herman | Melville | Bartleby and Benito Cereno | |
| Su | Tong | Raise the Red Lantern | |
| Khaled | Hosseini | The Kite Runner | |
| Harper | Lee | To Kill A Mockingbird | |
| Lady | Murasaki | The Tale of Genji | |
| Herman | Hesse | Siddhartha | |
| Nikolai | Gogol | The Overcoat and other short stories | |
| Voltaire | Candide and Zadig | ||
| Chuck | Palahniuk | Survivor | |
| Kinya | Katsuo | People of the Tenpo Era | |
| C.P. | Fitzgerald | Mao Tse-Tung and China | |
| Ethan | Coen | Gates of Eden | |
| Patrick | McCabe | Mondo Desparado | |
| Albert | Camus | The Fall | |
| Michael | Crichton | Eaters of the Dead | |
| Kinky | Friedman | Elvis, Jesus, and Coca-Cola | |
| Fydor | Dostoevsky | The House of the Dead | |
| Iain | Banks | The Wasp Factory | |
| Herman | Hesse | Demian | |
| Jonathan | Swift | Gulliver's Travels | |
| Arthur | Waely | Three Ways of Thought in ancient China | |
| Nikolai | Gogol | Dead Souls | |
| G.B. | Trudeau | Call me When you Find America | |
| Upton | Sinclair | The Jungle | |
| Shan | Sa | The Girl Who Played Go | |
| Fyodor | Dostoevsky | The Possessed | |
| Hunter S. | Thompson | Gonzo - The Art | |
| Guy | DeBord | Society of the Spectacle | |
| Sherman E. | Lee | Far Eastern Art | |
| George | Braziller | Japanese Ghosts & Demons | |
| Nihonga | Japanese Style Painting 1868-1968 | ||
| Robert | Williams | Views from a Tortured Libido | |
| Destroy All Monsters - Geisha This | |||
| J.R. "Bob" | Dobbs | Revelation X - The "Bob" Apocryphon | Hidden Teachings and Deuterocanonical Texts |
| Franz | Koznik | Man's Ruin - The Posters and Art of Franz Koznik | |
| Joe | Coleman | Cosmic Retribution - The Infernal Art of Joe Coleman | |
| J.R. "Bob" | Dobbs | The Book of Subgenious | The Sacred Teachings |
| Huang | Po-Nien | Hsing-I Fist and Weapon Instruction | |
| Liu | Xing-Han | Ba Gua - Hidden Knowledge in the Taoist Internal Martial Art | |
| Winston | Smith | Artcrime - The Montage Art of Winston Smith | |
| Seiji | Nagata | Hokusai - Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e | |
| J. | Hillier | Japanese Colour Prints | |
| Inge | Klompmakers | Of Brigands and Bravery | Kuniyoshi's heroes of the Suikoden |
| Rhie | Thurman | Wisdom and Compassion - The Sacred Art of Tibet | |
| Masterpieces of Japanese Prints | |||
| Matthi | Forrer | Hokusai | |
| Tamara | Tjardes | One Hundred Aspects of the Moon - Japanese Woodblock Prints by Yoshitoshi | |
| Glen E. | Friedman | Fuck You Too - the Extras and More Scrapbook | |
| Eric | Schlosser | Fast Food Nation | |
| Richard P. | McBrien | Lives of the Popes | |
| Mikael S. | Adolphson | the Gates of Power | Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan |
| John W. | Dower | War Without Mercy | Race and Power in the Pacific War |
| Marie-Claire | Bergere | China from the Opium Wars to the 1911 Revolution | |
| David K. | Wyatt | Thailand - a Short History | |
| Mikiso | Hane | Reflections on the way to the Gallows | Rebel women in prewar Japan |
| Edward | Peters | Inquisition | |
| Norman | Cohn | Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come | The ancient roots of apocolyptic faith |
| Stephen D. | O'Leary | Arguing the Apocolypse | A theory of millenial rhetoric |
| Keith | Weller Taylor | The Birth of Vietnem | |
| Marie-Claire | Bergere | Sun Yat-sen | |
| Richard N. | Frye | The Heritage of Central Asia | From antiquity to the Turkish expansion |
| David | Morgan | the Mongols | |
| Peter | Heather | The Goths | The Peoples of Europe |
| Frederic | Wakeman | The Shanghai Badlands | |
| Frederic | Wakeman | Policing Shanghai 1927-1937 | |
| Miguel | Covarrubia | Island of Bali | |
| E.A. | Thompson | The Huns | The Peoples of Europe |
| Diana | Preston | The Boxer Rebellion | China's war on foreigners |
| Donald W. | Treadgold | The West in Russia and China | Religious and Secular thought in modern times |
| Ainslie T. | Embree | Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. one and two | |
| Teach yourself "Go" | |||
| 1000 Historical Events In Summary Form Great Events From History-American Series | # III 1904-1969 | ||
| Expert Analysis of 2400 Books on History | Great Events - Worldwide Twentieth Century Series # I 1900-1945 | ||
| Expert Analysis of 2400 Books on History | Great Events - Worldwide Twentieth Century Series # II 1945-1971 | ||
| Expert Analysis of 2000 Books on History | Modern European Series # III 1900-1957 | ||
| 1200 Historical Events in Summary Form | Great Events - Worldwide Twentieth Century Series # III 1971-1979 | ||
| Tohsaku | Yosu-Hiko | An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese | |
| Hoag | Tami | Kill The Messenger | |
| Quinn | Daniel | Ishmael | |
| Spence | Johnathan D | God's Chinese Son | The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuguan |
| Seward | Desmond | The Monks of War | The Military Religious Orders |
| Snow | Edger | Red Star Over China | The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism |
| Zinn | Howard | A People's History of The United States | |
| Meehan-St. Louis Missouri | Compiled By Sifu Justin | Hun Yuan - 24 Movement Taiji | Information For Students |
| Hawkins | David | Power vs. Force | The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior |
| Baumer | Christoph | Tibet's Ancient Religion | Bon |
| Seabrook | John | Nobrow | The Culture of Marketing. The Marketing of Culture |
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