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13 books

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
The Stranger
Candide

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18 books

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
The Universe in a Nutshell
Brief History of Time

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2 books

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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24 books

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
Man's Search for Meaning
Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions

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7 books

Qatar Books

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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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A General Theory of Magic

The Savage Mind

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9 books

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
How to Remember Anything
Thinking

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11 books

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
Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History & What They Reveal About the Future
The Great Divergence

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12 books

Russian Literature

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The Master and Margarita
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Brothers Karamazov
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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14 books

Sci Fi

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Age of Myth
Ninefox Gambit
The Stars Are Legion
Children of Time
Luna: Nów
Aurora
The Collapsing Empire

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41 books

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?
Blink
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

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21 books

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
On Tyranny
The constitution of liberty

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13 books

To Read Next

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Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism
Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Bad Samaritans
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
Not by genes alone
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