B. F. Skinner (1904–1990)

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1. B. F. Skinner

   Author of Walden Two Reissued, Beyond Freedom & Dignity, Science And Human Behavior

2. Sigmund Freud

   Author of Civilization and Its Discontents, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Future of an Illusion

3. John Kenneth Galbraith

   Author of The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State, A Life in Our Times

4. Erich Fromm

   Author of The Fear of Freedom, The Sane Society

5. Aldous Huxley

   Author of Island, Brave New World Revisited

6. Henry David Thoreau

   Author of Walden & On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walden and Other Writings

7. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

   Author of The Gulag Archipelago One, The First Circle

8. A. J. Ayer

   Author of Language, Truth and Logic, The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge

9. Edward Bellamy

   Author of Looking Backward: 2000-1887

10. R. D. Laing

    Author of The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, The Politics of Experience

11. Lewis Thomas

    Author of The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

12. Eric Berne

    Author of Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships, The Structure and Dynamics of Organizations and Groups

13. Sinclair Lewis

    Author of Babbitt

14. Margaret Mead

    Author of Coming of Age in Samoa

15. Alvin Toffler

    Author of Future Shock

16. William James

    Author of The Varieties of Religious Experience

17. Rachel Carson

    Author of Silent Spring

18. Thorstein Veblen

    Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Higher Learning in America

19. Allan Bloom

    Author of The Closing of the American Mind

20. Samuel Butler

    Author of Erewhon