Desert Island Potpourri          Desert Island Hors d'Oeuvres: Last updated: May 19, 2012 Last updated: April 30, 2012  Select Author's Oeuvre:    Abbado, Claudio Abbey, Edward Abe, Kobo Achebe, Chinua Adams, Ansel Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Alarcon, Pedro Antonio de Alexie, Sherman Allen, Frederick Lewis Allen, G.C. Amado, Jorge Ambler, Eric Angelo, Ivan Angelou, Maya Aron, Raymond Asimov, Isaac Attenborough, David Baker, Robert A. Baltzell, E. Digby Banks, Russell Barnett, S.A. Barraclough, Geoffrey Barthelme, Donald Bartnikowski, Mary Bary, William Theodore de Barzun, Jacques Basho Batterberry, Michael Batterberry, Michael & Ariane Ruskin Beadle, George and Muriel Beauvoir, Simone de Becker, Ernest Beerling, R., Cola Debrot, Jacq. De Kadt Bellush, Jewel & Murray Hausknecht Benedict, Ruth Berger, Peter & Brigitte & Hansfried Kellner Berger, Thomas Berghe, Pierre L. van den Berlin, Ira Bernstein, Jeremy Bettmann, Otto L. Biers, William R. Bindoff, S.T. Blaker, Richard Blau, Peter M. Bloch, Marc Bloemers, J.H.F. et al Bloodworth, Dennis Boardman, John Bolano, Roberto Boll, Heinrich Boorstin, Daniel Borges, Jorge Luis Boswell, James Bottomore, T.B. Boulding, Kenneth E. Bradbury, Ray Braudel, Fernand Brautigan, Richard Breisach, Ernst Brinton, Crane Brizendine, Louann Brogan, D.W. Bronowski, Jacob Brower,Kenneth Brown, Dee Brown, J. Carter Brown, Lester R. Burckhardt, Jacob Burke, James Burnell, Elaine H. Burtt, E.A. Butti, Ken & John Perlin Caldwell, William A. Calvin, William H. Calvino, Italo Camus, Albert Cane, Philip & Samuel Nisenson Canetti, Elias Cantacuzino, Sherban Caplow, Theodore & Reece J. McGee Capra, Fritjof Caras, Roger A. Carson, Rachel Carter, Charles Carter, Howard Cartey, Wilfred & Martin Kilson Caves, Richard E. Ceram, C.W. Chalmers, David J. Charteris, Samuel Chase, Stuart Chekhov, Anton Chiang, Fu-tsung Chuang Tzu Clark, Kenneth Cleaver, Eldridge Coe, Michael Commager, Henry Steele Commoner, Barry Coolidge, Harold J. Cornford, Frances MacDonald Cornuelle, Richard Cortazar, Julio Cottrell, Leonard Cousteau, Jacques-Yves & Philippe Diole Crick, Francis Croix, Horst de la & Richard Tansey Crozier, Michel Cullen, Robert Cummings, e.e. Curtis, Michael Cuttler, Charles D. Dai Sijie Damasio, Antonio R. Daniel, Glyn Darlington, C.D. Darwin, Charles Davidson, Basil Davidson, Wiliam H. Davis, Philip J. Dawson, Christopher Dazai, Osamu De Leeuw, Ronald DeMott, Benjamin Denison, Edward F. Desmond, Richard J. Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane Diehl, Gaston Dobzhansky, Theodosius Dorfman, Robert & Nancy S. Dorsa, Richard M. Dos Passos, John Draeger, Donn F. and Gordon Warner Drucker, Peter F. Du Bois, W.E.B. Dubos, Rene Dubus, Andre Duerrenmatt, Friedrich Duras, Marguerite Durrell, Gerald Durrell, Lawrence Durrell, Margaret Durst, Alan Eatwell, Roger & Anthony Wright Egami, Namie Ehrlich, Gretel Ehrlich, Paul R. Einstein, Albert Eiseley, Loren Ellis, John Ellul, Jacques Emerson, Gloria Erdoes, Richard Fagan, Brian M. Farago, Peter & John Lagnado Farb, Peter Farnsworth, Clyde H. Faulkner, Ray Feder, Kenneth Ferris, Timothy Feuer, Lewis S. Firth, Raymond Fitzgerald, Frances Foer, Jonathan Safran Foster, George M. Foucault, Michel Frankel, Charles Freeman, S. David Freilich, Morris Freud, Sigmund Friedenberg, Edgar Z. Frisch, Max Fromm, Erich Fuentes, Carlos Galbraith, John Kenneth Galdos, Benito Perez Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Gardner, John Gardner, Martin Genovese, Eugene D. Gettleman, Marvin E. Gibney, Frank Gide, Andre Glasser, Ronald J. Gogol, Nikolai Goldman, Eric F. Goldscheider, Ludwig Goldston, Robert Goldwater, Robert & Marco Treves Goodman, Paul Gorky, Maxim Gould, Stephen Jay Gowlett, John Grass, Gunter Greene, Graham Greer, Germaine Guillen, Michael Guzman, Martin Luis Halberstam, David Hall, Edward T. Halloran, Richard Hardwick, Elizabeth Harris, Middleton Hartog, Jan de Hartt, Frederick Hastings, Margaret Hauser, Arnold Havel, Vaclav Hawkes, Jacquetta Hayes, Carlton J.H. Heilbroner, Robert L. Heller, Joseph Heller, Robert & Norris Willatt Henderson, John S. Herodotus Herrera, Hayden Hersey, John Hersh, Seymour Herskovits, Melville J. Herzog, Chaim Heyer, Paul Hibbett, Howard Hildebrand Hoffman, Yoel Hofstadter, Richard Hoving, Thomas Howe, Irving Hoyle, Fred Huizinga, Johan Huizinga, Leonhard Hume, David Hunter, I.M.L. Huse, Norbert & Wolfgang Wolters Huttinger, Edward Huxley, Aldous Huxley, Julian Hymes, Dell Ibuse, Masuji Idle, Eric Ihara, Saikaku Illing, Richard Inami, Hakushi Inoue, Yasushi Ishida, Takeshi Ivins, Molly Jacob, Francois Jacobs, Jane Jacobs, Wilbur R. Jahn, Janheinz Jastrow, Robert Jeans, James Jelinek, Elfriede Johanson, Donald Johnson, Uwe Jones, Peter d'A. Jorgenson, Joseph P. July, Robert W. Kafka, Franz Kahn, Franz Daniel & Pelmer Kammen, Michael Karnow, Stanley Kastner, Joseph Kawabata, Yasunari Keene, Donald Kern, Stephen King, Ross King, Thomas Kingsolver, Barbara Klausner, Samuel Z. Koestler, Arthur Kohn, Hans Kolko, Gabriel Konner, Melvin Kostof, Spiro Kramer, Samuel Noah Kruif, Paul de Kundera, Milan Laing, R.D. Lancaster, Lane W. Lange, William de and Akita Moriji Sensei Lao Tzu Lapham, Lewis Laslett, Peter Latourette, Kenneth Scott Lawick Goodall, Jane van Le Bon, Gustave Le Carre, John Leakey, L.S.B. Leakey, Richard E. Lederer, William J. Lee, Sherman E. Lefcourt, Robert Leggett, Jeremy Lekachman, Robert Lenz, Siegfried Leonard, Elmore Levi, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi-Strauss, Claude Lewin, Roger Lewis, Bernard Leys, Simon Lind, Jakov Linebarger, Paul M.A., Djang Chu & Ardath Burks Lipset, Seymour Martin Lister, Robert H. Livaneli, Zulfu Lowenstein, Otto Lubell, Samuel Luria, Gina & Virginia Tiger MacGowan, Kenneth MacNeish, Richard S. Machado de Assis Machiavelli, Niccolo Mackay, Charles Maier, Corinne Makine, Andrey Malik, Charles Malkiel, Burton G. Mamet, David Mann, Felix Mantoux, Paul Maraini, Fosco Marcuse, Herbert Margulis, Lynn & DorionSagan Martin, Laurence W. Marx, Wesley Matthiessen, Peter Maupassant, Guy de Mayer, Milton McCarthy, Mary McCully, Marilyn McNickle, D'Arcy McPhee, John Mead, Margaret Meade, Marion Medvin, Norman Meisel, James H. Memmi, Albert Menninger, Karl Milosz, Czeslaw Mitchell, Juliet Mitford, Jessica Mitford, Nancy Montagu, Ashley Montagu, Jennifer Montaigne, Michel E. Moravia, Alberto Morgan, Edmund S. Moroney, M.J. Mulisch, Harry Muller, Herta Multatuli (E. Douwes Dekker) Mundy, John H. & Peter Riesenberg Munoz Molina, Antonio Murakami, Haruki Murchie, Guy Myrdal, Gunnar Myrdal, Jan Nagai, Kafu Natsume, Soseki Neill, Wilfred T. Newhall, Beaumont Ngugi wa Thiong'o Nichols, John Noble, David F. Noordegraaf, Leo Nooteboom, Cees Nothomb, Amelie O'Hanlon, Redmond Ogai, Mori Ogawa, Yoko Ohmae, Kenichi Ojigbo, A.Okion Okakura, Kakuzo Ortega y Gasset, Jose Orwell, George Osaragi, Jiro Oswald, Ian Pace Alexander, Rae & Julius Lester Packard, Vance Painter, Sidney Pamuk, Orhan Panofsky, Erwin Parkes, Henry Bamford Parkinson, C. Northcote Pater, Walter Patrick, Hugh Paz, Octavio Peck, Richard Pei, Mario Penzias, Arno Perec, Georges Perelman, S.J. Perry, Richard J. Petersen, William Piggott, Stuart Plato Plumb, J.H. Porter, Michael E. Pottle, Frederick A. Power, Eileen Pynchon, Thomas Quennell, Peter Quevedo, Francisco de Randsborg, Klavs Raskin, Marcus G. & Bernard B. Fall Reichard, Robert S. Reston, James Ridley, Michael Riesman, David Rios, Laura & Gloria Giner de los Roosevelt, James Rose, Steven Rosen, Kenneth Rosenbaum, E.P. Rosenberg, Nathan Rosenblum, Naomi Rossiter, Clinton Roszak, Theodore Rudofsky, Bernard Ruskin, Ariane Russell, Bertrand Sabloff, Jeremy A. Sacks, Oliver Sadler, A.L. Sagan, Carl Saint-Exupery, Antoine de Saki (H.H. Munro) Salinger, J.D. Salmon, Patricia Sammataro, Diana & Alphonse Avitabile Sansom, G.B. Sartre, Jean-Paul Sato, Hiroaki Schell, Jonathan Schirakauer, Conrad Schlesinger, Arthur Schnitzler, Arthur Schrag, Peter Schumacher, E.F. Schumpeter, Joseph A. Schwartz, Gary Schwarz, Oswald Seals, David Selzer, Richard Sennett, Richard Shaplen, Robert Shaw, George Bernard Shepherd, Jean Sherratt, Andrew Shore, William H. Silk, Leonard Sillitoe, Alan Silverberg, Robert Skarmeta, Antonio Sklar, Robert Skurka, Norma & Jon Naar Smaal, A.P. Smith, Allen W. Smith, Hedrick Smith, Rex Alan Smolin, Lee Sobel, Dava Solomon, Robert C. Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr Soule, George Souza, Marcio Stegner, Wallace Stephens, John L. Stern, Fritz Stevenson, Robert Louis Stewart, Michael Stone, I.F. Storer, John Storry, Richard Suino, Nicholas Sussman, Barry Swift, Jonathan Tan, Amy Tanizaki, Junichiro Tawney, R.H. Taylor, Rupert Taylour, William Terkel, Studs Theroux, Paul Thesiger, Wilfred Thomas, Lewis Thompson, Jim Thorndike, Joseph J. Thurber, James Tinbergen, J. Tocqueville, Alexis de Tokutomi, Kenjiro Toynbee, Arnold Trefil, James S. Trilling, Lionel Turgenev, Ivan Turnbull, Colin M. Twain, Mark Unamuno, Miguel de Usherwood, Stephen Vacano, Otto-Wilhelm von Valdez, Luis & Stan Steiner Van Loon, Hendrik Van der Post, Laurens Vargas Llosa, Mario Veblen, Thorstein Vogel, Susan Voltaire Vonnegut, Kurt Vroman, Leo Wakefield, Dan Ward, Barbara Warner, Langdon Watson, Winifred Watts, Alan Wheeler, Harvey Wheeler, Mortimer White, E.B. Whyte, William H. Wilford, John Noble Williams, Raymond Williams, Terry Tempest Wilson, Angus Wilson, Edmund O. Wilson, Edward O. Wingo, London Wise, David Wissler, Clark Witt, Shirley Hill & Stan Steiner Wodehouse, P.G. Wolf, Fred Alan Wooldridge, Dean E. Woolf, Virginia Woolley, Leonard Wright, Gordon Wu, Yuan-li Yamatsuta, Shigeyoshi Yankelovich, Daniel & William Barrett Young, Louise B. Yourcenar, Marguerite Yumoto, John M. Zinn, Howard Links Culture: Films and Books Aikido IMDB Global Films Initiative [ Films from Third World countries ] Netflix The Film Movement First Run Features Criterion Collection Amazon Books and Writers The Complete Review [ Literary Saloon and Book Reviews ] Sierra Aikido Aikido Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale Aikido Center, Mountain View, Dojo Pacific Aikido Federation ( PAF )