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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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The Mind-Body Problem
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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
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If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
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Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
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Democracy in America: Abridged with an Introduction
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Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
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Anthropic Bias
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Asimov's New Guide To Science
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
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The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
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Wind, Sand and Stars
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus
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On Intelligence
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Midnight’s Children
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Dracula
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
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The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
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The Arabs: A History
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The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
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Plagues and Peoples
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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 Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
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Technics and Civilization
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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
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Feynman Lectures On Computation
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
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Popper Selections
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
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Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
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The Hunters
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The Journalist and the Murderer
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The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
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