I picked this up at the library the other day and as I started to read it, I wondered who had selected these authors. The more I wondered, the more I thought about just how my thinking was about to be influenced by these authors. Who had chosen these people? Should alternative thinkers been included? Why these subjects? I decided to find out and I couldn't and that worried me more. Seems to me that before I read a collection like this I need to know who put it together. That said, I'll read a few of them and flip over a few of the others. Just wish I knew more about why and who....