What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being?
christofd: - The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, 1973 (Douglas North, Robert Thomas): Nobel Economic Historian North explains how institutions and property rights determine how human beings got along with each other through history; this is important, so they don't think we're mass murderers by design- some school biology book on natural selection, evolution- The Princeton Companion to Mathematics- Goedel, Escher, Bach: introduction to the "weirdness" of the human brain- the little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry): human beings and their quirks- Several editions of Popular Mechanics