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Abandoned

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Anna Karenina
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The Choice: Using Conscious Thought and Physics of the Mind to Reshape the World
What Technology Wants
Eleven Minutes

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Anarchist Libertarian Socialism

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Bakunin On Anarchism
The Coming Insurrection
Chomsky on anarchism
Anarchism
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism

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Anthropology Civilization Societies

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Before the Dawn
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Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

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Antoine Lib

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The New Scramble for Africa

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At Lau Lib

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Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991
Waging modern war
Duty
Masters of War
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century

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Biology

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The Epigenetics Revolution
The strange case of the rickety Cossack
Beating Back the Devil
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Parasite Rex

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Classical Literature

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The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Brothers Karamazov
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pachinko

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Complexity Emergence Systems

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Sync
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Thinking in Systems: A Primer

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Computer Internet

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Worm
Tubes a journey to the center of the Internet
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

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Diana Suggestions

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The Things They Carried
Flowers for Algernon
Lord of the Flies
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Trial

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Dystopia

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Fahrenheit 451
1984
The Handmaid's Tale
Parable of the Sower
The Heart Goes Last

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Economics

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Economic Science and the Austrian Method
The Art of Strategy
Bad Samaritans
The great transformation

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Environmental Sustainability

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Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability
Sustainable Urban Metabolism
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Collapse of Western Civilization

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Fiction

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Wild Mulberries
The Hunger Games
Het Bernini Mysterie
The Lost Symbol
Samarkand

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Geopolitics Governance Politics

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The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Asia's cauldron
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The Grand Chessboard

Insurgency and Terrorism: From Revolution to Apocalypse
Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History & What They Reveal About the Future

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History

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Ghost Wars
The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
In Search of the Dark Ages
Ancient Egypt

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J R R Tolkien

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Unfinished Tales
The Two Towers
The Book of Lost Tales
The Children of Hurin
Silmarilion

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Kim

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The great divide
The Balkans
Theory of International Politics
Clausewitz on Strategy : Inspiration and Insight from a Master Strategist
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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Linguistics

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The Architecture of Language
Empires of the Word
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
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Archaeology and Language

The Unfolding of Language

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Mathematics

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The Princeton companion to mathematics
The Poincaré Conjecture
The Great Mathematical Problems
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries

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Military

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Insurgency and Terrorism: From Revolution to Apocalypse
Masters of War
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
Causes of War, 3rd Ed.
Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War

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Nationalism

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Nations Before Nationalism
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Nations and Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality

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Non Fiction

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Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain

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Guns, Germs and Steel
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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On Hold

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Hallucinations
The Selfish Gene
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Strategy

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Owned

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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814

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Philosophy

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The Communist Manifesto
Hegel
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
The Outer Limits of Reason

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Physics

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The Essence of Chaos
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel
The new cosmic onion

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Pseudocience

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The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The Choice: Using Conscious Thought and Physics of the Mind to Reshape the World

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Psychology Cognitive Science

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The anatomy of violence
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
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The Quest for Consciousness

The Lucifer Effect
Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain: The New Science of Optimism and Pessimism

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Qatar Books

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The True Believer
Suicide: A Study in Sociology
The Language Hoax
The hero with a thousand faces
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

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Random Knowlege

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
The Bed of Procrustes
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need to Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy

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Recom Diamond Subs

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The Last Days of the Incas
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715
Carnage and Culture
Ecological Imperialism

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Russian Literature

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The Master and Margarita
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment
The idiot
The Death of Ivan Ilych

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Sci Fi

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Age of Myth
Ninefox Gambit
The Stars Are Legion
Children of Time
New Moon

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Social Science

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Paranormality: Why We Believe The Impossible
What Technology Wants
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Who Moved My Cheese?

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Theory Of Government

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The Social Contract
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
The Concept of the Political
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

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