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 | "Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life & Business" [2006] by Sir Richard Branson Virgin Books 7½x5 expanded edition pb [3/2007] for $15.67 Virgin Books 7½x5 pb [5/2006] for $6.99 |
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"The Last Book You'll Ever Read: And Other Lessons From The Future" [1993] by Frank Ogden MW&R 10x6½ hardcover & CD-ROM [6/93] out of print/used author's website |
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"More Than Human" [1953] by Theodore Sturgeon [1918-85] Most speculative fiction is merely science fiction; this work is considered a classic, and asks questions about the definition of human being. Vintage 8x5 pb [12/98] for $11.01 Del Rey mass pb [4/85] out of print/used |
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"The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth In Ancient Wisdom - Why The Meaningful Life Is Closer Than You Think" [2005] by Jonathan Haidt Basic Books 7¾x5¼ pb [12/2006] for $10.85 Basic Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [12/2005] for $17.16 official book site |
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"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds" [1841 classic] by Charles Mackay Besides looking at too-frequent financial bubbles & schemes, the book covers alchemy, the Crusades, witchery, haunted houses, fashions, fortune-telling and other mass phenomena. Three Rivers Press 9x6 pb [7/95] for $10.85 Prometheus Books 8½x5½ pb [5/2001] for $20.00 Harriman House 7½x4½ hardcover [12/2003] for $12.91 |
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"The Hegemony of Common Sense: Wisdom & Mystification In Everyday Life" [2006] by Dean Wolfe Manders examines how deeply embedded 'class' is in American society, thru paroemiology, the study of popular sayings Peter Lang Publg pb [8/2006] for $34.95 |
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"Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved" [2006] by Frans de Waal refutes the common 'veneer theory' of morality and explains how evolution works to produce both Machiavellian survival and natural empathy Princeton Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $15.61 author entry at Wikipedia • author homepage at Emory Univ. |
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"Power and Powerlessness" [2006] by Susan Rosenthal Trafford 10¾x8¼ pb [9/2006] for $12.40 official booksite |
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"Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need To Know About The Greatest Stories In Human History But Never Learned" [2005] by Kenneth C. Davis Harper 8¼x5¼ pb [8/2006] for $10.17 HarperCollins hardcover [11/2005] for $17.79 "Don't Know Much About World Myths" [ages 9-12; 2005] by Kenneth C. Davis HarperTrophy 9x6 pb [4/2005] for $6.99 HarperTrophy 9x6 hardcover [4/2005] for $19.99 |
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"A Short History of Myth" [2005] by Karen Armstrong Canongate 7½x5 pb [10/2006] for $9.00 Canongate 7½x5¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $12.24 |
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"The Politics of Small Things: The Power of The Powerless In Dark Times" [2006] by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb Univ Chicago Press hardcover [4/2006] for $29.00 |
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"The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life Is A Paid-For Experience" [2000] by Jeremy Rifkin Tarcher 9x6 pb [3/2001] for $10.17 Tarcher 9x6¼ hardcover [3/2000] out of print/used |
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"Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire" [2006] by Morris Berman W.W. Norton 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2006] for $16.35 author website |
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"The Survival Hot List: Conquering The Seven Deadly Trends" [2006] by Joseph A. Bagnall iUniverse 9x6 pb [1/2006] for $13.95 author's website |
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"Guernica: The Biography of A Painting" [2004] by Gijs van Hensbergen "Ingeniously chronicling the last century using Picasso's visionary tableau, van Hensbergen offers a new way of understanding our own history." Bloomsbury hardcover [11/2004] for $23.80 |
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"The Impossible Will Take A Little While: A Citizen's Guide To Hope In A Time of Fear" [2004] Edited by Paul Rogat Loeb Basic Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2004] for $10.37 |
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"The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong To Get Ahead" [2004] by David Callahan Harcourt 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2004] for $18.20 Recorded Books UNABR audio CD [1/2004] for $20.99 Recorded Books UNABR audio [1/2004] for $29.99 |
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"Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity To Solve Problems Big and Small" [2003] by Barry J. Nalebuff & Ian Ayres Harvard Business School Press hardcover [10/2003] for $19.25 |
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"The Innovator's Solution: Creating & Sustaining Successful Growth" [2003] by Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor Harvard Press 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2003] for $19.77 |
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"Walking The Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of A Rational Animal" [2003] by Robert J. Fogelin "...[written] with a wonderful sense of danger, as if it matters what philosophers think." — Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review Oxford Univ Press 7½x5¼ hardcover [8/2003] for $15.40 |
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"The Constants of Nature: From Alpha To Omega - The Numbers That Encode The Deepest Secrets of The Universe" [2003] by John D. Barrow Vintage 8x5¼ pb [3/2004] for $10.50 Pantheon 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2003] for $17.68 |
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"The Politics of Stupid" [2002] by Susan Powter Powter's style may be tough to take (for some) but underneath that, what she has to say about power & women in America is both accurate & inspiring Crone 8½x5½ pb [11/2002] for $11.96 author website |
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"The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside The Classified World of Anti-Gravity Technology" [2002] by Nick Cook Broadway Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2003] for $10.17 Broadway Books 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2002] for $17.16 |
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"Web Thinking: Connecting, Not Competing For Success" [2002] by Dr. Linda Seger Inner Ocean Publg 7.4x5.4 hardcover [6/2002] for $13.27 |
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"A New Kind of Science" [2002 bestseller]
by Stephen Wolfram Instant hit: the initial printing of 50,000 sold out in just weeks! 1280 pages! Wolfram Media 9¾x8 hardcover [5/2002] for $44.95 |
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"The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage & The Quest To Build The First Computer" [2001] by Doron Swade Viking 8x5.3 hardcover [9/2001] for $17.46 |
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"Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy" [2001] by Christopher Phillips W.W.Norton 8¼x5½ pb [4/2002] for $17.46 W.W.Norton 7¾x5½ hardcover [2/2001] for $16.77 author's website |
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"The Twilight of American Culture" [2000] by Morris Berman W.W.Norton 8¼x5½ pb [6/2001] for $10.74 W.W.Norton hardcover [12/2000] out of print/used author's website |
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"Leading The Revolution: How To Thrive In Turbulent Times By Making Innovation A Way of Life" [2000] by Gary Hamel Plume 9x6¼ pb [8/2002] for $11.20 Harvard Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2002] for $23.10 Harvard Press 9½x7 hardcover [8/2000] out of print/used Highbridge audio CD [9/2000] 2 disks for $16.47 Highbridge ABR audio [9/2000] 2 tapes for $12.89 |
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"The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference" [2000] by Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2002] for $14.95 Little, Brown 8¼x5¾ hardcover [2/2000] for $15.72 TimeWarner ABR audio CD [1/2005] for $16.31 TimeWarner ABR audio [2/2000] for $12.23 |
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"Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language" [1999] by Steven Pinker Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [1/2000] for $10.50 Perseus/Basic 9½x6½ hardcover [10/99] for $4.98 |
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"Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything" [1999] by James Gleick Vintage 8x5 pb [9/2000] for $11.20 Random House 9¼x6 hardcover [9/99] out of print/many used Random House ABR audio CD [9/99] out of stock/used Random House ABR audio [9/99] out of stock/used Recorded Books UNABR audio [9/99] out of stock/used |
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"Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" [1999 bestseller] by Jared Diamond Two years on the N.Y. Times bestseller lists; won Pulitzer Prize W.W. Norton 9¼x6 pb [4/99] for $9.57 Econo-Clad YA hardcover [10/99] for $23.70 ABRIDGED audio read by Grover Gardner [10/99] 6 Audio Scholar cassettes for $24.95 |
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"Life: The Movie - How Entertainment Conquered Reality" [1998] by Neal Gabler "The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour, and melodrama has turned everything of importance – from news and politics to religion and high culture – into one vast public entertainment." Vintage 8x5¼ pb [2/2000] for $11.20 Knopf hardcover [11/98] out of print/used |
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"Give Me Liberty!: Freeing Ourselves In The Twenty-First Century" [1998] by Gerry Spence Griffin 9.2x6 pb [10/99] for $10.47 St Martin 9½x6.4 hardcover [10/98] for $17.47 author's website |
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"Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge" [1998] by Edward O. Wilson Random House 8x5 pb [4/99] for $11.20 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [4/98] for $19.25 Audio Scholar ABRIDGED cassette [10/99] for $24.95 |
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"Future of The Self: Exploring The Post-Identity Society" [1997] by Walter Truett Anderson Tarcher 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/97] out of print/used author website |
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"The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts On The Business of Life" [1997] by editors of Forbes Magazine Black Dog & Leventhal 9½x8¼ hardcover [4/97] for $40.00 |
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"Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize The 21st Century" [1997] by Michio Kaku Bantam 8x5½ pb [5/98] for $11.20 Doubleday 10x6½ hardcover [1/97] out of print/used author's website |
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"Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato To Darwin" [1996] by Stephen Jay Gould Random House 9x6 pb [10/97] for $11.20 Three Rivers hardcover [9/96] out of stock/used |
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"An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't" [orig 1987, rev 1995 & 2006] by Judy Jones & William Wilson "surprise hit & instant classic" Ballantine 3rd edition hardcover [4/2006] for $23.10 RH/Ballantine 9½x7¾ hardcover [11/95] for $21.45 Random House pb [4/97] out of print/used |
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"Race Matters" [1993] by Cornel West Vintage 8¼x5 pb [3/94] for $9.12 Beacon Press hardcover [4/2001] for $12.60 Audio Partners UNABR audio [6/94] for $13.97 |
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"Ad Infinitum – The Ghost In Turing's Machine: Taking God Out of Mathematics & Putting The Body Back In" [1993] An essay in corporeal semiotics by Brian Rotman "astonishing in its elegance & satisfaction" Stanford Univ Press 9x5½ pb [6/93] for $14.36 Stanford Univ Press hardcover [6/93] for $45.00 Alan Turing [1912-54] fansite |
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"Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero" [1993] by Brian Rotman Stanford Univ Press 9x6 pb [6/93] for $12.76 |
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"The Evolution of Technology (Cambridge History of Science Series)" [1989] by George Basalla Cambridge Univ Press 8½x6¾ pb [2/89] for $31.99 Cambridge Univ Press hardcover [2/89] out of print/used |
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"Time's Arrow / Time's Cycle: Myth & Metaphor In The Discovery of Geological Time" [1988] by Stephen Jay Gould Harvard Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/88] for $10.62 |
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"Distinction: A Social Critique of The Judgement of Taste" [1987] by Pierre Bourdieu; translation by Richard Nice Harvard Univ Press 9.2x6 pb [9/87] for $25.00 |
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"Ten Philosophical Mistakes: Basic Errors In Modern Thought - How They Came About, Their Consequences & How To Avoid Them" [1985] by Mortimer J. Adler Touchstone 8¼x5½ pb [4/97] for $9.75 Scribner 7¾x9¾ hardcover [3/85] out of print/used Blackstone audio [7/94] for $32.95 |
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"Culture of Narcissism: American Life In An Age of Diminishing Expectations" [1979] by Christopher Lasch W.W. Norton 8x5½ pb [5/91] for $11.16 W.W. Norton hardcover [1/79] out of print/used |
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"How Real Is Real?: Confusion, Disinformation, Communication - An Anecdotal Introduction To Communications Theory" [1976] by Paul Watzlawick Vintage pb [1/77] out of print/used Random House hardcover [76] out of print/used |
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"Sincerity and Authenticity" [1972] by Lionel Trilling [1905-74] Harvard Univ Press 8x5¼ pb [2/2005] for $16.95 Harvard Univ Press hardcover [1972] out of print/used |
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"The Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo To Hegel" [1962] by Jacob Bronowski [1908-74] & Bruce Mazlish a compelling overview of Western thought from the XVth to the XIXth centuries Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [9/62] for $18.00 Marboro Books 8½x5½ hardcover [6/86] out of print/used SM's Jacob Bronowski fansite |
Business Management
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"Rules For Renegades: How To Make More Money, Rock  Your Career & Revel In Your Individuality" [2007 bestseller] by Christine Comaford-Lynch McGraw-Hill 8X5½ hardcover [8/2007] for $16.47 author's official website |
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"Ethics At Work: Creating Virtue At An American Corporation" [2005] by Daniel Terris Brandeis 9x6 pb [6/2006] for $12.21 Brandeis 9¼x5¾ hardcover [4/2005] for $14.97 |
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"Up The Organization: How To Stop The Organization From Stifling People & Strangling Profits" [1970 & 1984] by Robert Townsend Jossey-Bass hardcover [5/2007] for $17.90 self-published hardcover [1/70] out of print/used "Further Up The Organization: How Groups of People Working Together For A Common Purpose Ought To Conduct Themselves For Fun & Profit" [1988] by Robert Townsend HarperCollins 8½x5¼ pb [1/88] out of print/used Knopf hardcover [1/88] out of print/used |
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"The Accidental C.E.O.: A Leader's Journey From Ego To Purpose" [2006] by Tom Voccola Lulu pb [4/2006] for $19.95 Tom's CEOing blog [est. 12/2007] |
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"Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big" [2005] by Bo Burlingham Portfolio pb [3/2007] for $10.17 
Portfolio 9x6 hardcover [12/2005] for $15.72 |
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"Winning" [2005 bestseller] by Jack Welch, with Suzy Welch "No other management book will ever be needed." — Warren E. Buffett 2005 bestseller at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal HarperBusiness 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $19.56 HarperAudio UNABR audio CD [4/2005] 10 disks for $26.37 official booksite |
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"First, Break All The Rules: What The World's Greatest Managers Do Differently" [1999 bestseller] by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman Gardners Books pb [9/2001] out of print/used S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [5/99] for $18.90 S&S ABR audio CD [11/2000] for $15.60 |
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"The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change The Way You Do Business" [1997] by Clayton M. Christensen Collins 8x5¼ pb [1/2003] for $12.21 Harvard Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/97] for $19.77 Highbridge audio CD [9/2000] for $16.47 Highbridge ABR audio [8/2000] for $18.95 |
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"The Last Word On Power" [1995] by Tracy Goss Currency 9½x6½ hardcover [12/95] for $19.77 Center for Executive Re-Invention |
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"The Mind of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business" [1983] by Kenichi Ohmae McGraw-Hill 8x5½ pb [8/91] for $10.17 |
Physics & the Universe
Albert Einstein [1879-1955] Page
Quantum Physics Page on Working Minds website
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"From Clockwork To Crapshoot: A History of Physics" [2007] by Roger G. Newton Belknap Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [1/2007] for $19.77 |
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"Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr & The Struggle For The Soul of Science" [2007] by David Lindley Anchor pb [DUE Feb 2008] for $10.17 Doubleday 8¼x6 hardcover [2/2007] for $17.16 |
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"A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From The Bottom Down" [2005] by Robert Laughlin Basic Books 9½x6&frac hardcover [3/2005] for $17.16 |
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"The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide To The Laws of The Universe" [2005] by Roger Penrose Knopf 9&fracx6½ hardcover [2/2005] for $26.40 |
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"The Fabric of The Cosmos: Space, Time & The Texture of Reality" [2004] by Brian Greene Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2004] for $19.69 Random House ABR audio CD [2/2004] for $20.37 Random House ABR audio [2/2004] for $17.65 |
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"The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions & The Quest For The Ultimate Theory" [1999] by Brian Greene Vintage 8x5 pb [2/2000] for $12.00 W.W. Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [2/99] for $22.36 |
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"The Elegant Universe" 3-hour tv special [P.B.S./Nova airdate Oct 2003] P.B.S./WGBH letterbox color DVD [1/2004] for $15.99 P.B.S./WGBH color VHS [1/2004] for $18.95 full credits at IMDb; P.B.S. official program site "Physics: The Elegant Universe & Beyond" 3-hour program above, plus "Einstein Revealed" [1996] and "Einstein's Big Idea" [2005] P.B.S./WGBH color DVD box set [2/2006] 4 disks for $31.99 |
Classics & Bestsellers
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"Time & Free Will: An Essay On The Immediate Data of Consciousness" [1889] by Henri Bergson [1859-1941]; translated by F. L. Pogson Dover Books 8½x5½ pb [6/2001] for $8.76 Elibron ebook (PDF format) for $4.95 |
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"The Creative Mind: An Introduction To Metaphysics" [1903] by Henri Bergson [1859-1941] Citadel Press 8½x6¾ pb [2/2002] for $10.36 Citadel Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/97] for $17.95 Replica Books hardcover [2/99] for $31.85 |
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"Generation of Vipers" [Farrar & Rinehart 1942 classic] by Philip Wylie "Wylie's classic, written with devastating wit and a pen as sharp as a barber's razor, wages war on all forms of American hypocrisy." Dalkey Archive Press 8x5½ pb [9/96] for $11.16 Larlin Corp hardcover [12/79] out of print/used |
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"The Glass Bead Game" [1943] by Hermann Hesse [1877-1962] American title: "Magister Ludi"; original German: "Das Glasperlenspiel"; translation 1970 by Richard & Clara Winston Henry Holt 8¼x5½ pb [6/90] for $12.60 Peter Smith 8.4x5.4 hardcover [12/92] for $28.00 |
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"The Abolition of Man" [1943 classic] by C.S. Lewis [1898-1963] a defense of objective value & natural law against subjectivism in education and science HarperSanFrancisco 8x5¼ pb [3/2001] for $9.95 Touchstone 8¾x5¾ pb [6/96] out of print/used book review at Wikipedia |
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"The Lonely Crowd: A Study of The Changing American Character" [1950 classic] by David Reisman [1909-2002], with Nathan Glazer & Reuel Denney Yale Univ Press 7¾x5 pb [3/2001] for $12.21 |
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"The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life With Special Reference To Publications & Entertainments" [1957 classic] by Richard Hoggart Transaction Publrs 9x6 pb [2/98] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press pb [1/70] out of print/used |
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"The Logic of Scientific Discovery" [1959] by Karl Popper Routledge pb [10/92] for $38.95 |
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"Stranger In A Strange Land" [1961] by Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88] the counter-culture classic & winner of the Hugo Award 1962 Ace pb [8/95] for $7.99 Putnam hardcover [6/61] out of print/used Blackstone UNABR audio [4/96] for $83.95 |
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"The Image: A Guide To Pseudo-Events In America" [1962 classic] by Daniel J. Boorstin Vintage 8x5¼ pb [9/92] for $10.47 Vintage pb [11/71] out of print/many used Peter Smith Publng hardcover [12/84] out of print/used Blackstone audio [8/97] 7 tapes for $49.95 |
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"Self-Renewal: The Individual & The Innovative Society" [1964] by John W. Gardner "...should be required reading for any person wondering just where he is going on life's long journey." — Los Angeles Times review 1964 W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [8/95] for $8.80 |
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"The Boys In The Band: A Play In Two Acts" [1968] off-Broadway play by Mart Crowley A revelation back then, it still astounds; a poignant & enlightening view into a world perhaps unknown to you Samuel French pb [6/68] for $6.00 1970 film adaptation directed by William Friedkin Fox color VHS [12/80] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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"Myths To Live By: How We Re-Create Ancient Legends In Our Daily Lives To Release Human Potential" [1972] by Joseph Campbell Arkana 8½x5½ pb [2/93] for $11.20 Viking hardcover [4/72] out of print/used |
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"Denial of Death" [S&S 1973] by Ernest Becker [1925-74] won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 Free Press 8½x5½ pb [5/97] for $10.65 Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [3/85] out of print/used Peter Smith Publrs 8¾x5¾ hardcover [11/98] for $31.75 |
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"Escape From Evil" [1975] sequel to "Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker [1925-74] Free Press pb [3/85] for $17.95 Free Press hardcover [11/1975] out of print/used |
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"The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination" [1978] text of lecture series by Jacob Bronowski [1908-74] Yale Univ Press 8x5 pb [9/79] for $16.00 Yale Univ Press hardcover [1/78] out of print/used SM's Jacob Bronowski fansite |
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"A Guide For The Perplexed" [1978] by E. F. Schumacher (author of "Small Is Beautiful" below) HarperCollins 8x5¼ pb [6/78] for $9.60 |
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"Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" [1979] by Douglas R. Hofstadter Basic Books 9x6 pb [1/99] for $14.00 Basic Books hardcover [3/79] out of print/used |
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"Realism and The Aim of Science: Postscript To The Logic of Scientific Discovery" [1982] by Karl Popper Routledge pb [4/92] for $34.95 |
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"The Closing of The American Mind" [1988 bestseller] by Allan Bloom Touchstone 8¼x5¼ pb [5/88] for $11.20 Blackstone UNABR audio narrated by Christopher Hurt [1/93] for $76.95 |
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"Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered – 25 Years Later ... With Commentaries" [1999] by E. F. Schumacher Hartley & Marks 9¼x7½ pb [rev 12/99] for $19.95 original edition [1974] HarperCollins 8x5¼ pb [8/89] for $10.50 |
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