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Then please join the new Media board at ASV Forums. Socialism has many authors and disciplines throughout its' many hundreds of years in the making. Our job is far from over. Read, discuss, debate, laugh, cry, and just maybe you will be  the next socialist author for our 21st century's modern take. Never the same old thing, from the ashes we arise like the phoenix of democracy to the ballot of Igor Stravinsky's (Жар-Птица) Fire Bird.

Artwork by Ron Daniel inspired the above thought and is titled Arise Oh Phoenix. He is not associated with this website in any formal manner; however, socialists worldwide have long supported the arts and as far as we see it this will never stop. Like a bumper sticker on a Toyota Prius might read, "Meet you at the Opera."

Center-leftists are invited to bring books to the attention of would be voters or those in search of information regarding democratic socialism and/or social democracy. The format is a simple listing with a hyper-link in alphanumeric order for ease of usage. We welcome all academic sources. Please use caution in open source material as there can be opinions placed that do not reflect a dynamic and fully fluid democratic style. We realize that some material is either off topic, yet related, or could be somewhat conflicting with Socialists; however, we tend to acknowledge open debate and open minds as a powerful force for the analytical, judicious, and rational processes.

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Biographical

• Hugh Shearer; A Voice for the People   By Hartly Neita
• Kepler's Witch  by James A. Connor 
• Lech Welesa; The Struggle and The Triumph  By Lech Walesa (Autobiography)
• Locke; A Biography  by Roger Woolhouse
• Lost Prophet; The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin  by John D'emilio
• Taking Sides: The Education of a Militant Mind   By Michael Harrington
• Giordano Bruno  By Ingrid D. Rowland

Christian Socialism

• Training In Christianity  by Søren Kierkegaard

Fiction

• Utopia  by Sir Thomas More (critical thought for conversation edition)

Historical

•  A Nation Divided  By Darcy G. Richardson
• Creating Social Democracy  by Lars Wessman
  
• In the Name of Civil Society  By Eva-Lotta E. Hedman
• Main Currents of Marxism; The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown  by Leszek Kolakowski
• Socialism: Past and Future   By Michael Harrington
• Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy; Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World  by Barrington Moore
• The Seventies: Problems and Proposals   By Irving Howe, Michael Harrington
• The Sewer Socialists by Elmer A. Beck and Frank P. Zeidler (at Wikipedia)
• The Unquiet Ghost; Russia Remembers Stalin  by Adam Hochschild
  
• Titabet and the Takumbeng  by Kehbuma Langmia  (1992 Election of Cameroon)
• What Would Jefferson Do?: A Return to Democracy  By Thom Hartmann

Informative

•  Creating Social Democracy by Klaus, ed et al Misgeld
• Essays about social democratic party
• Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate   By George Lakoff
• Political Parties, Growth and Equality: Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy
• Righteous Indignation; A Jewish Call for Justice  by Rabbi Or N. Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, Margie Klein
• Social Democratic Party Policies in Contemporary Europe  By Martin A. Giuliano Bonoli
• Social Democratic State: The Swedish Model and the Bureaucratic Problem of Social Reforms   By Bo Rothstein
• The Democratic Political Process    Edited by Kurt L. Shell
• The Economic Impact of New Firms in Post-Socialist Countries: Bottom-Up Transformation in Eastern Europe   By Horst Brezinski & Michael Fritsch
• The New Social Democracy   Edited by: Andrew Gamble (University of Sheffield) and TONY WRIGHT (MP For Cannock Chase) Series: Political Quarterly Special Issues

Legal Insight

•  First Amendment Law   By Jarome A. Barron & C. Thomas Dienes
• The Second Amendment in Law and History  By Carl T. Bogus

- Negotiation

• Getting to Yes; Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In  by Roger Fisher & William Ury
• Robert's Rules of Order

Living Changes

- Eco-socialism

• Capitalism Nature Socialism  by DCCOFC 

- Building A Home

•  Building Green  by Clark Snell & Tim Callahan
• Home Work; Handbuilt Shelter  by Lloyd Kahn

- Better Food

•  Food Not Lawns  by Heather C. Flores
• The New Farmers' Market  by Vance Corum, Marcie Rosezweig & Eric Gibson

- Your Money

•  50 Simple Steps You Can Take To Disaster-Proof Your Finances  by Ilyce R. Glink
• A Better Globalization; Legitimacy, Governance, and Reform  by Kemal Davis & Ceren Ozer
• Living Well On Less Than You Think  by Fred Brock
•  Saving Capitalism From The Capitalist  by Raghuam G. Rajan & Luigi Zingales

Organizing

• Here Comes Everyone; The Power of Organizing Without Organizations  by Clay Shirky

Theory

• Liberalism, Fascism, or Social Democracy; Social Classes and the Political Origins of Regimes in Interwar Europe  by Gregory M. Luebbert
•  Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation  By Juan J. Linz & Alfred Stephan
• Socialism   By Michael Harrington
• States & Social Revolutions; A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China  By Theda Skocpol
• The Theory of the Leisure Class   By Thorstien Veblen
• We the People: Consenting to A Deeper Democracy by John Buck and Sharon Villines

Thought

• Common Sense  by Thomas Paine
• Evolutionary Socialism  by Euard Bernstein (1899)
• Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals  by Immanuel Kant
• Imperative of American Leadership: A Challenge to Neo-Isolationism  by Joshua Muravchik (Former