Your cruise ship is sinking. Everyone but you has died. You know that you are going to make it to a nearby island and that it is highly unlikely that you will ever return to civilization. Your ship's library happens to have every book ever written. You have time to grab five of them, not including the Bible. Which do you grab, and why?
Addendum: I will supply the correct answer to this question in due course.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 