novel story - 10 books for balanced human

While the media seem dedicated men unconscious just outside of the sport, represent tools, and sex, the truth is that until a few decades, a man who respects himself should have a broad spectrum of knowledge. "I have took all knowledge for my province," says Bacon, Marlowe, while encouraging us to "aspiring mind" and "go to infinite knowledge."
To this end, we offer a book for each of the ten categories, including well-balanced man must be at least some familiarity.
1) Adventure: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Lansing, Alfred
It is not often that we are researchers who do not celebrate, but Shackleton's disastrous attempt to lead a third party to the South Pole as an amazing and inspiring story, which was hailed as a success in itself. Stranded on an island, 1,200 miles of frozen nearest human settlement, the leadership of Shackleton and his crew the courage of one of the toughest tests imaginable without losing a single life.
Further reading: Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer by Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell.
2) Classics: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
It is impossible for a job that can include all the advantages of classical literature, Shakespeare's Hamlet, ending a ghost story and mystery, is in a room within a room surprisingly close. It is also the most uneducated speakers in English, without knowing the name on a regular basis. Every time we mention our "Mind's Eye," not something "more in sorrow than in anger, or the feeling that we need to" cruel to be kind, we echo the words of the troubled Danish prince.
Further Reading: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
3) Science: the double helix: A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA by James D. Watson
Biologists to explore the mysteries of life, followed by criminologists, to destroy the killers, one of the most important tools of the modern world, is DNA. In the double helix, Watson offers readers an intimate look at the frantic race between competing teams of researchers, as they wanted to reveal the nature of our genetic code. With the history of panting and clearly explains the scientific basis helix a Boy's Own Adventure story is about this remarkable chemical that allows us to who we are.
Further reading: The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
4) Religion: A History of God: The Quest 4000 years of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
Where we have our idea of God? As the god is represented in Judaism, Christianity and Islam so different from his disciples differently, and how our views have changed by it over the millennia? In this ambitious and meticulously researched book, Karen Armstrong traces the evolution of God through the last 4000 years seems to answer the question: "Does God have a future?"
Further reading: The varieties of religious experience, William James
5) Women Authors: Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
Although Accidental Tourist is probably his most famous novel, a better introduction to his work is perhaps Saint. This story of a young man who is indirectly responsible for her brother, according to suicide and fatal overdose of his brother, sister-laugh funny as the comments Tyler refreshingly honest men and women deal with quirks and weaknesses of each of us. It remains one of the few female writers, the people as people and not as villains or comic.
Further reading: Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
6) Detective: Murder in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allen Poe
By many as the first detective novel, the murders in the Rue Morgue takes brilliant theoretician, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve crimes in the solitude of his own house. Here he is assisted by a deputy, the anticipation, Dr. Watson tells the story. As a bonus there is also this book has the merit of us one of the murderers of the unique history of the novel by mystery.
Further reading: The Bell, by Rex Stout
7) Policy: The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
Despite his reputation for approving the use of cold blood, the underlying principle is the most famous of Machiavelli, that the population of greater personal freedom and security of a stable government, a government that is always in conflict. Other books may provide insight into this or that specific political situation, but with the Prince, the reader a better understanding of the fundamental complexity of building the nation.
Further reading: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
8) Humor: The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
Thurber set standards for writing humor, and sometimes have been met, but exceeded only rarely. His stories, often made to transfer the most extraordinary events of the most banal. No matter how loud the bed fell on father, mother, how many shoes has thrown through the windows of the neighbors, or the number of miles of the bourgeois realization run of Fools is not broken, in fact, he recited all the Thurber a quiet way The reader can not help but think that this is the essence of normal life.
Further reading: The Best of Robert Benchley, Robert Benchley
9) Philosophy: The History of Philosophy: The Life and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers by Will Durant,
The clarity and brilliance that made him one of the world's best writers, philosophers, Durant takes the reader on a journey of philosophy throughout its history. Starting with Plato and ending with Nietzsche, The history of philosophy is a revealing insight into not only the great philosophical schools, which influenced Western civilization, but also in the minds of philosophers, the base.
Further Reading: Philosophy Made Simple by Richard H. Popkin
10) Crime: Criminal History of Mankind by Colin Wilson
Who uses Maslow's hierarchy of values as a starting point, Wilson traces the motivations of the criminal law as they progress from basic needs (assault and murder for profit), to sexual satisfaction (Jack the Ripper), the Spree killer self (Ted Bundy). Caution writes passionately intelligent scholarships, and a clear, provocative thesis is one of the most convincing books on the crime you have ever read.