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The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
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The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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A History of Mechanical Inventions: Revised Edition
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
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The World Without Us
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
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Stocking Up: The Third Edition of America's Classic Preserving Guide
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
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Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
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The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything
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3.64 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Evolution of Technology
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3.78 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey
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3.77 avg rating — 228 ratings
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A Brief History of Science
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Science: A Four Thousand Year History
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Science: A History 1543-2001
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Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
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4.28 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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3.97 avg rating — 9,988 ratings
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The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications 2018
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4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Ashley Book of Knots
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4.63 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Global Catastrophic Risks
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3.96 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
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4.18 avg rating — 802 ratings
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After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies
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4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Life After Doomsday: A Survivalist Guide to Nuclear War and Other Major Disasters
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PREPAREDNESS NOW!: An Emergency Survival Guide for Civilians and Their Families
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Apocalypse: How to Survive a Global Crisis
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How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times
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When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance and Planetary Survival
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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
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US Army Survival Manual
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SAS Survival Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere
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The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
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More Other Homes and Garbage: Designs for Self-Sufficient Living, Complete Revised, Expanded, and Updated
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Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology
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How To Live Off-Grid - Journeys Outside The System
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The New Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency
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Practical Self Sufficiency
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Work from Waste: Recycling wastes to create employment
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The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350 - 1850
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Old Farm Tools and Machinery, an Illustrated History
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An Edible History of Humanity
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The Biogas Handbook
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Bad Ideas?: An Arresting History of Our Inventions
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The Barefoot Architect: A Handbook for Green Building
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The Complete Modern Blacksmith
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Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap (Complete 7 Book Series)
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Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
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Where There Is No Dentist
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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
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The Story of Medicine: From early healing to the miracles of modern medicine
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Planet Word
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About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
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The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World
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The History of Clocks & Watches
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
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Our Synthetic Environment
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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Ecofeminism
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Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Gridcrash
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Nuclear War Survival Skills: Lifesaving Nuclear Facts and Self-Help Instructions
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The Secure Home
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Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods
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The Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book
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A Hand-Book of Industrial Organic Chemistry: Adapted for the Use of Manufacturers, Chemists, and All Interested in the Utilization of Organic Materials in the Industrial Arts
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Toward a History of Needs
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The One-Straw Revolution
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Energy, Food, Environment: Realities, Myths, Opinions
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Producing Your Own Power: How to Make Nature's Energy Sources Work for You
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Essential Rainwater Harvesting: A Guide to Home-Scale System Design (Sustainable Building Essentials Series, 11)
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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
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Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
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A Book For Midwives: Care For Pregnancy, Birth, And Women's health
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U.S. Army Ranger Handbook
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