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Mike’s favorite books

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 by Michel Foucault Manliness & Civilization by Gail Bederman Seeing like a State by James C. Scott Domination and the Arts of Resistance by James C. Scott Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, Marinero by Herman Melville Contingency, Hegemony, Universality by Judith Butler Born in Blood and Fire by John Charles Chasteen Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman
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The Founders
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What We Can Know
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When Gravity Fails
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