Steve Llano

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Steve Llano

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Steve’s favorite books

Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy by Andrea Wilson Nightingale

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 by Michel Foucault

Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac

Resistance, Rebellion and Death by Albert Camus

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison

S/Z by Roland Barthes

Sophist by Plato

Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks

Cross-X by Joe Miller

Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff

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The Infinity Mach...

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The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

by Sebastian Mallaby

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The Odyssey

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by Homer

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Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom

by James Crosswhite

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Steve’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows

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Steve’s Quotes

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“I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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African American, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Comics, Ebooks, Fiction, Graphic novels, History, Manga, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Spirituality, and Travel

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