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| − | ''Voodoo Histories:'' ''The Role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History'' – '''David Aaronovitch'''
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| − | ''The Immigrant and the Community'' – '''Grace Abbott'''
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| − | ''The Meaning of Liff'' – humourous dictionary written by '''Douglas Adams''' and '''John Lloyd'''. The book cover usually bears the tagline ‘This book will change your life!’
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| − | ''Study on Glaciers'' – '''Louis Agassiz'''. Written in 1840
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| − | ''On Painting'' – '''Leon Alberti'''
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| − | ''The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5'' – '''Christopher Andrew'''
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| − | ''A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam'' – '''Karen Armstrong'''. Author of twelve books on comparative religion
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| − | ''A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete'' – '''Arthur Ashe'''
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| − | ''The Birds of America'' – '''John James Audubon'''
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| − | First plate in ''The Birds of America'' is a wild turkey. Printed in Double Elephant Folio
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| − | ''Of Truth'' – '''Francis Bacon'''. Written in 1601
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| − | ''Scouting for Boys'' – '''Robert Baden-Powell'''. Published in 1908
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| − | ''The English Constitution'' – '''Walter Bagehot'''
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| − | ''The Butterfly Isles'' – '''Patrick Barkham'''
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| − | ''On Crimes and Punishments'' – '''Cesare Beccaria''' (1764), condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology
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| − | ''Book of Household Management'' – '''Mrs (Isabella) Beeton'''
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| − | ''Stalingrad'', ''Berlin: The Downfall 1945'', ''D-Day: The Battle for Normandy'', ''The Second World War'' – '''Anthony Beevor'''
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| − | ''The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture'' is a 1946 study of Japan by American anthropologist '''Ruth Benedict''' written at the invitation of the U.S. Office of War Information in order to understand and predict the behaviour of the Japanese
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| − | ''Ways of Seeing'' – '''John Berger'''
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| − | ''Matter and Memory'' – '''Henri Bergson'''
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| − | ''Shell Guides'' for motorists '''– John Betjeman'''
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| − | ''Ghastly Good Taste'' – John Betjeman’s first architectural work
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| − | ''History of British Birds'' –'''Thomas Bewick'''
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| − | ''The Devil’s Dictionary'' – '''Ambrose Bierce'''
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| − | ''The Cynic’s Word Book'' – Ambrose Bierce
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| − | ''Richard Milhous Nixon: The Invincible Quest'' – '''Conrad Black'''
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| − | ''Laws of War and Ordinances of the Sea'' – first set of naval rules, produced by Admiral '''Robert Blake''' in 1652
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| − | ''Out of Africa'' – '''Karen Blixen''', who was also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen
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| − | ''The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages'' is a 1994 book by '''Harold Bloom''' on Western literature
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| − | ''Further Adventures in Search of Perfection'' – '''Heston Blumenthal'''
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| − | ''Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge'' – '''Niels Bohr''' and '''Albert Einstein'''
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| − | ''Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies'' – '''James Bond'''
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| − | ''Reporting Royalty'' – '''Jennie Bond'''
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| − | ''The Cost of Discipleship'' – '''Dietrich Bonhoeffer'''
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| − | ''The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson'' is a travel journal by '''James Boswell'''
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| − | ''The Consolations of Philosophy'' – '''Alain de Botton'''
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| − | ''The Architecture of Happiness'' – Alain de Botton
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| − | ''Religion for Atheists'' – Alain de Botton
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| − | ''A Street Cat Named Bob'', ''Bob: No Ordinary Cat'' – '''James Bowen'''
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| − | ''The Skeptical Chemist'' – '''Robert Boyle'''
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| − | ''The Progressive Patriot'' – '''Billy Bragg'''
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| − | ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'' – '''Dee Brown'''. A history of Native Americans in the American West in the late 19th century. The title is taken from the final phrase of a poem titled ''American Names'' by Stephen Vincent Benet
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| − | ''Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization'' – '''Gordon Brown'''
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| − | ''A Walk in the Woods'' – '''Bill Bryson''', who walked the Appalachian Trail
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| − | ''Reflections on the Revolution in France'' – '''Edmund Burke''', 1790
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| − | ''A Vindication of Natural Society'' – Edmund Burke
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| − | ''A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful –'' Edmund Burke
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| − | ''Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy'' and ''The Feeling Good Handbook'' – '''David Burns'''
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| − | ''The Anatomy of Melancholy'' – '''Robert Burton''' (1621). Though presented as a medical text, the book uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized
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| − | ''The Storm: the World Economic Crisis and what it Means'' – '''Vince Cable'''
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| − | ''Winners And how They Succeed'' – '''Alistair Campbell'''
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| − | ''The Hero with a Thousand Faces'' – '''Joseph Campbell'''. Introduced the term monomyth, meaning ‘hero’s journey’
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| − | ''Ten Reasons'' – '''Edmund Campion''', a Jesuit martyr executed in the reign of Elizabeth I
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| − | ''In Cold Blood'' – '''Truman Capote'''. Non-fiction novel inspired by an article in the New York Times in 1959. The story described the unexplained murder of the Clutter family in rural Holcomb, Kansas
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| − | ''The French Revolution: A History'' – '''Thomas Carlyle'''
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| − | ''Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire'' – '''Sadi Carnot'''
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| − | ''The Game of Logic'' – '''Lewis Carroll'''
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| − | ''Silent Spring'' – '''Rachel Carson'''. Documents the detrimental effects on the environment – particularly on birds – of the indiscriminate use of pesticides
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| − | ''Black Diaries'' – '''Roger Casement'''
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| − | ''The Book of the Courtier'' – '''Baldassare Castiglione'''
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| − | ''Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'' is a work of speculative natural history and philosophy published anonymously in England in 1844. The 12th edition, published in 1884, revealed officially that the author was '''Robert Chambers'''
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| − | ''Papillon'' – '''Henri Charriere'''
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| − | ''Sakhalin Island'' – '''Anton Chekhov'''
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| − | ''The Law of Simultaneous Colour Contrast'' – '''Michel Chevreul'''
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| − | ''Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy'' is a book by '''Noam Chomsky''', first published in 2006, in which Chomsky argues that the United States is becoming a “failed state” and thus a danger to its own people and the world
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| − | ''Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance'' – Noam Chomsky
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| − | ''Syntactic Structures'' – Noam Chomsky
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| − | ''Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You'', ''We Need to Talk About Kelvin'' – '''Marcus Chown'''
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| − | ''Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother'' – '''Amy Chua'''. Describes the strict parenting regimes of Chinese mothers
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| − | ''A History of the English-Speaking Peoples'' – '''Winston Churchill'''
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| − | ''It Takes the Village'' – '''Hillary Clinton'''
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| − | ''Rural Rides'', ''Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine'' – '''William Cobbett'''
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| − | ''The End of The Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World And What We Eat'' – '''Charles Clover'''
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| − | ''Mister Briggs’ Hat'' – '''Kate Colquhoun'''. Account of the first railway murder, in 1864
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| − | ''Compete Hip and Thigh Diet'' – '''Rosemary Conley'''
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| − | ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'' – '''Copernicus'''. Published in1543
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| − | ''The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'', first published in 1989, is a business and self-help book written by '''Stephen R. Covey'''
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| − | ''Book of Common Prayer'' – '''Thomas Cranmer''', 1549
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| − | ''Climate and Time'' – '''James Croll'''
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| − | ''The Book of the Law'' – sacred central text of Thelema. Written by '''Alexander Crowley'''
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| − | ''The Art of Happiness'' – '''Dalai Lama'''
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| − | ''The Last Mughal'' – '''William Dalrymple'''. Tells the story of Bahadur Shar Zafar in Delhi, in 1857
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| − | ''Return of a King'' – William Dalrymple. Story of first Afghan war of 1839–42
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| − | ''A New System of Chemical Philosophy'' – '''John Dalton'''
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| − | ''The Descent of Man'', ''The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals'' – '''Charles Darwin'''
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| − | ''On the Origin of Species'' – Charles Darwin. Published in 1859. Full title was ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life''.
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| − | ''The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms'' – last book published by Charles Darwin
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| − | ''The Origin of Society'' – '''Erasmus Darwin''', Charles Darwin’s grandfather
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| − | ''Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life'' (1794) is a two-volume medical work by Erasmus Darwin
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| − | ''The Selfish Gene'', ''The God Delusion'' – '''Richard Dawkins'''
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| − | ''The Blind Watchmaker'' – Richard Dawkins. In his choice of the title for this book, Dawkins refers to the watchmaker analogy made famous by William Paley in his book ''Natural Theology''
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| − | ''Unweaving the Rainbow'' – Richard Dawkins
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| − | ''The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution'' – Richard Dawkins
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| − | ''The Magic of Reality'' – Richard Dawkins
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| − | ''A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain'' – '''Daniel Defoe'''
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| − | Daniel Defoe was sent to prison in 1703 for writing political pamphlets
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| − | ''Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea'' – '''Barbara Demick'''
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| − | ''Discource on the Method'' – '''Descartes'''. Includes “cogito ergo sum”. Published in 1637
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| − | ''Geometry'' – Descartes
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| − | ''Generation X'' – '''Jane Deverson''' and '''Charles Hamblett'''
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| − | ''Slouching towards Bethlehem'', ''The Year of Magical Thinking'' – '''Joan Didion'''
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| − | ''The Vindication of the English Constitution'' – '''Benjamin''' '''Disraeli'''
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| − | ''Brewer’s Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics'' – '''William Donaldson'''
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| − | ''Literary Theory: An Introduction'' – '''Terry Eagleton'''
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| − | ''Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'' – '''Jonathan Edwards'''
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| − | ''The Population Bomb'' – '''Paul Ehrlich'''
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| − | ''The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844'' – '''Friedrich Engels'''
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| − | ''The Praise of Folly'', ''Handbook of a Christian Knight'', ''On Civility in Children'' – (Desiderius) '''Erasmus'''
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| − | ''Le Guide Culinaire'' – '''Auguste Escoffier'''
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| − | ''The River Cottage Family Cookbook'' – '''Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall''' and '''Fizz Carr'''
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| − | ''The Ascent of Money'' – '''Niall Ferguson'''
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| − | ''Liber Abaci (The Book of Calculation)'' – '''Fibonacci''' (real name Leonardo of Pisa), 1202
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| − | ''The Complete Book of Running'' – '''Jim Fixx'''. Book that launched the jogging craze
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| − | ''Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything'' – '''Joshua Foer'''. In 2006, Foer won the USA Memory Championship
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| − | ''The King's English'' is a book on English usage and grammar. It was written by the Fowler brothers, '''Henry Watson Fowler''' and '''Francis George Fowler'''. Published in 1906, and thus pre-dates ''Modern English Usage'', which was written by Henry alone after Francis's death in 1918
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| − | ''Actes and Monuments'', popularly known as ''Foxe's Book of Martyrs'', is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by '''John Foxe'''
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| − | ''Man's Search for Meaning'' – '''Viktor Frankl''', 1946. Chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding a reason to live
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| − | ''The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'' is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir '''James George Frazer'''
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| − | ''The Feminine Mystique'' – '''Betty Friedan'''
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| − | ''The Sane Society'' – '''Erich Fromm'''
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| − | ''Cezanne. A Study of his Development'' – '''Roger Fry'''
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| − | ''The Ode Less Travelled'' – '''Stephen Fry'''. Title taken from lines by Robert Frost
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| − | ''The End of History and the Last Man'' – '''Francis Fukuyama'''. Fukuyama argues that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the final form of human government
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| − | ''Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth'' – '''Buckminster Fuller'''
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| − | ''Stasiland: Oh wasn’t it so Terrible – True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall'' – '''Anna Funder'''
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| − | ''The Great War and Modern Memory'' – '''Paul Fussell'''
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| − | ''The Green Book'' – '''Muammar Gaddafi'''
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| − | ''The Affluent Society'' – '''JK Galbraith'''
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| − | ''The Age of Uncertainty'' – JK Galbraith
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| − | ''The Economics of Innocent Fraud'' – JK Galbraith
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| − | ''The Starry Messenger'' – '''Galileo''', 1610, was the first scientific treatise to be published based on observations made through a telescope. It reported his discoveries of the Galilean moons
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| − | ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' was a 1632 Italian language book by Galileo Galilei comparing the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system
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| − | ''Hereditary Genius'' – '''John Galton'''. First book about eugenics
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| − | ''Outlines of Geology'' – '''James Geikie'''
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| − | ''History of the Kings of Britain –'' '''Geoffrey of Monmouth''', a 12th century Welsh monk
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| − | ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' – '''Edward Gibbon'''. Written in 1776
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| − | '''Malcolm Gladwell''' is a British-born Canadian journalist, author, and pop sociologist, based in New York City. He is best known for his books ''The Tipping Point'' (2000), ''Blink'' (2005), ''Outliers'' (2008), and ''What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures'' (2009)
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| − | ''David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants'' – Malcolm Gladwell
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| − | ''The Art of Cookery'' – '''Hannah Glasse'''. First published in 1747
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| − | ''Theory of Colours'' – '''Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'''. Published in 1810
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| − | ''Bad Science'', ''Bad Pharma'' – '''Ben Goldacre'''
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| − | ''Claudius the God'' – '''Robert Graves'''
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| − | ''In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality'' – '''John Gribbin'''
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| − | ''The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town'' is the first non-fiction book written by '''John Grisham'''. The book details the story of former minor league baseball aspirant 'Ron' Williamson of Oklahoma, where he was raised in the strict Pentecostal household of his parents
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| − | ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' – '''George Grove''', who was the first director of Royal College of Music (1882)
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| − | ''A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection'' – '''J.B.S. Haldane'''
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| − | ''Seven Years in Tibet'' – '''Heinrich Harrer'''
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| − | ''The White Spider'' – story of Heinrich Harrer’s ascent of the north face of the Eiger
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| − | ''All Hell Let Loose'' – '''Max Hastings'''. History of World War II
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| − | ''A Briefer History of Time'' – '''Stephen Hawking'''. Updated version of ''A Brief History of Time''. ‘From the Big Bang to Black Holes’ – subtitle of ''A Brief History of Time''
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| − | ''The Grand Design'' – Stephen Hawking
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| − | ''The Universe in a Nutshell'' – Stephen Hawking
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| − | ''Round Ireland with a Fridge'', ''Playing the Moldovans at Tennis'' – '''Tony Hawks'''
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| − | ''The Road to Serfdom'' – '''Friedrich Hayek'''
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| − | ''Prices of Production'', ''The Constitution of Liberty'' – Friedrich Hayek
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| − | ''Pneumatica'', ''Automata'', ''Mechanica'', ''Metrica'', ''Belopoeica'', ''Catoptrica'' – '''Hero of Alexandria'''
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| − | ''Selenographia'' – '''Johannes Hevelius''', 1645 moon atlas
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| − | ''Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey'' – '''Rachel Hewitt'''
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| − | ''Think and Grow Rich'' – '''Napoleon Hill'''
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| − | ''The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values'', ''The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments'' – '''Gertrude Himmelfarb'''
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| − | ''God is not Great: The Case Against Religion'' – '''Christopher Hitchens'''
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| − | ''Leviathan'' – '''Thomas Hobbes''' (1651), from Book of Job
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| − | Hobbes described the natural state of mankind as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” in ''Leviathan''
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| − | ''Behemoth'', also known as ''The Long Parliament'', is a book written by Thomas Hobbes discussing the English Civil War
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| − | ''The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848'', ''The Age of Capital: 1848-1875'' and ''The Age of Empire: 1875–1914'', ''The Age of Extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914–1991'' – '''Eric Hobsbawm'''
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| − | ''The Uses of Literacy'' – '''Richart Hoggart'''
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| − | ''The Age of the Earth, Principles of Physical Geology'' – '''Arthur Holmes'''
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| − | ''Micrographia'' – '''Robert Hooke'''. Published in 1665
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| − | ''Garden Cities of To-morrow'' – '''Ebenezer Howard'''. Published in 1902
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| − | ''The Shock of the New'', ''The Fatal Shore'' – '''Robert Hughes'''
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| − | ''Kosmos'' – '''Alexander Van Humboldt'''. Attempted to unify the various branches of scientific knowledge
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| − | ''Lost for Words: The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language'' – '''John Humphrys'''
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| − | ''A Theory of the Earth'' – '''James Hutton'''. Published in 1795
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| − | ''Treatise on Light'' – '''Christiaan Huygens'''. 1678 wave theory of light
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| − | ''The Destruction of Dresden'' (1963''), Hitler's War'' (1977), ''Uprising!'' (1981), ''Churchill's War'' (1987), and ''Goebbels – Mastermind of the Third Reich'' (1996) – '''David Irving'''
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| − | ''The Black Jacobins'' – '''C.L.R. James'''. History of the Haitian Revolution
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| − | ''Principles of Psychology'' – '''William James'''
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| − | ''The Primal Scream'' – '''Arthur Janov'''
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| − | ''Flowers of the Field'' – '''Rev. CA Johns'''
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| − | ''Darwin on Trial'' – '''Phillip Johnson'''. Proposes the theory of Intelligent Design
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| − | ''The Lives of the Poets'' – '''Samuel Johnson'''
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| − | ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' – Samuel Johnson, 1755
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| − | ''Who moved My Cheese?'' – '''Spencer Johnson'''
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| − | ''The Jewish War'', ''The Antiquities of the Jews'' – '''Josephus'''. Written in 1st century AD
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| − | ''Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love'' (c. 1393) – '''Julian of Norwich'''. This is believed to be the first book written in the English language by a woman
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| − | ''The World America Made'', ''Of Paradise and Power'', ''Dangerous Nation'' – '''Robert Kagan'''
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| − | ''Physics of the Impossible'', ''Physics of the Future'' – '''Michio Kaku'''
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| − | ''The Imitation of Christ'' – '''Thomas a Kempis'''. A Christian devotional book
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| − | ''Profiles in Courage'' is a 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning book attributed to '''John F. Kennedy''', describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States Senators from throughout the Senate's history
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| − | ''Mysterium Cosmographicum'' (The Cosmographic Mystery) – '''Johannes Kepler'''. His first major astronomical work, this was the first published defense of the Copernican system (1597)
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| − | ''The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money'' – '''J.M. Keynes''', laid the foundations for macroeconomics
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| − | ''The Economic Consequences of the Peace'' – J.M. Keynes. Written in 1919
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| − | ''The Soul of a New Machine'' – '''Tracy Kidder'''
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| − | ''No Logo'' – anti-globalisation polemic by '''Naomi Klein'''
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| − | ''The Shock Doctrine'' – Naomi Klein
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| − | ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'' (1948), ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Female'' (1953) – '''Alfred Kinsey'''
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| − | ''On China'' – '''Henry Kissinger'''
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| − | ''The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women'' – '''John Knox'''. The book was written anonymously from Geneva against the female sovereigns of his day, particularly Mary of Guise
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| − | ''The Ghost in the Machine'' – '''Arthur Koestler'''. Koestler's materialistic account argues that the personal experience of duality arises from what Koestler calls a ‘holon’
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| − | ''Darwin’s Finches'' – '''David Lack'''
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| − | ''Mecanique Analytique'' – '''Joseph-Louis Lagrange'''<nowiki/>'s treatise on analytical mechanics, first published in 1788, offered the most comprehensive treatment of classical mechanics since Newton
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| − | ''The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness'' – '''R.D. Laing'''
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| − | ''Elementary Treatise on Chemistry'' – '''Antoine Lavoisier'''
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| − | ''An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming'' – '''Nigel Lawson'''
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| − | ''All the Countries we’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To'' – '''Stuart Laycock'''. Claims that Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world
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| − | ''The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?'' – '''Leon Lederman'''
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| − | ''Codex Atlanticus'' – a twelve-volume, bound set of drawings and writings by '''Leonardo da Vinci''', the largest such set
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| − | ''Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'' is a 2005 book by '''Steven Levitt''' and '''Stephen J. Dubner''' that has been described as melding pop culture with economics
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| − | ''SuperFreakonomics'' – Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
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| − | ''Tristes Tropiques'', ''Mythologiques'' – '''Claude Levi-Strauss'''
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| − | ''Liar’s Poker'', ''The Big Short'', ''Flash Boys'' – '''Michael Lewis'''
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| − | ''Snooker, Billiards and Pool'' – '''Horace Lindrum'''
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| − | ''Treatise on Tenures'' – '''Thomas de Littleton'''. First book on English law (1481)
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| − | ''King Solomon's Ring'', ''On Aggression'' – '''Konrad Lorenz'''
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| − | ''Mars and its Canals'' – '''Percival Lowell'''. Explores the idea that the canals were created by Martians
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| − | ''The Accumulation of Capital'' – '''Rosa Luxemburg'''
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| − | ''Principles of Geology'' – '''Charles Lyell'''
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| − | ''The History of England from the Accession of James the Second'' is the full title of the volume of books more generally known as ''The History of England'' written by Lord Macaulay ('''Thomas Babington Macaulay''', 1st Baron Macaulay)
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| − | ''Discourses on Livy'', ''The Art of War'' – '''Machiavelli'''
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| − | ''The Prince'' – Machiavelli. 1513 book dedicated to Medici family
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| − | ''History of Florence'' – Machiavelli
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| − | ''Operation Mincemeat'' – '''Ben Macintyre'''
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| − | ''Pies and Prejudice'' – '''Stuart Maconie'''
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| − | ''Adventures on the High Teas'' – Stuart Maconie
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| − | ''The Armies of the Night'' – non-fiction novel written by '''Norman Mailer'''
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| − | ''My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall'' – '''John Major'''
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| − | ''Chequers: The Prime Minister's Country House and its History'', ''Joan Sutherland: The Authorised Biography'' – '''Norma Major'''
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| − | ''An Essay on the Principle of Population'' – '''Thomas Malthus''', 1798
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| − | ''Communist Manifesto'' – '''Karl Marx''' and '''Friedrich Engels''', written in German. Published in 1848
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| − | The preamble to the main text of the ''Communist Manifesto'' states that the continent of Europe fears the "spectre of communism", and the powers of old Europe are uniting in "a holy alliance [intended to] exorcise this spectre"
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| − | ''Das Kapital'' – Karl Marx. Published in 1867
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| − | ''Human Sexual Response'' – '''William Masters''' and '''Virginia Johnson'''
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| − | ''Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism'' – '''James Clerk Maxwell'''
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| − | ''Bang! The History of the Universe'' – '''Brian May''', '''Patrick Moore''' and '''Chris Lintott'''
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| − | ''The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron'' – '''Bethany McLean''' and '''Peter Elkind'''
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| − | ''I Can Make you Thin'', ''I Can Make you Rich'', ''I Can Make you Happy'' – '''Paul McKenna'''
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| − | ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' – '''Margaret Mead'''
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| − | ''Social Theory and Social Structure'' – '''Robert K. Merton'''
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| − | ''A System of Logic'', ''The Principles of Political Economy'' – '''John Stuart Mill'''
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| − | ''The American Way of Death'' – '''Jessica Mitford'''
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| − | ''Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity'' (1871), ''Houses and House-lives of the American Aborigines'' (1881) – '''Lewis H Morgan'''
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| − | ''The Spirit of the Laws'' is a treatise on political theory first published anonymously by Charles de Secondat, '''Baron de Montesquieu''' in 1748
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| − | ''A Guide to the Moon'' – '''Patrick Moore'''
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| − | ''The Culture of Cities'' – '''Lewis Mumford'''
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| − | ''Animal Locomotion: an Electro-Photographic Investigation of Connective Phases of Animal Movements'' – '''Eadweard Muybridge'''
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| − | ''Unsafe at Any Speed'' – '''Ralph Nader'''. A 1965 study that revealed that many American automobiles were unsafe, especially the Chevrolet Corvair
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| − | ''A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush'' – '''Eric Newby'''
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| − | ''Method of Fluxions'', ''Opticks'' – '''Isaac Newton'''
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| − | ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' – Isaac Newton. Published in 1687
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| − | ''Notes on Nursing'' – '''Florence Nightingale''', 1860
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| − | ''Dreams from My Father'', ''The Audacity of Hope'' – '''Barack Obama'''
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| − | ''Fundamentals of Ecology'' – '''Eugene Odum'''
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| − | ''Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra'' – '''Omar Khayyam'''
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| − | ''Fat is a Feminist Issue'' – '''Susie Orbach'''
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| − | ''On Divine Proportions'' – '''Luca Pacioli'''. Illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci
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| − | ''Common Sense'', ''The Age of Reason'', ''Rights of Man'' – '''Thomas Paine'''
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| − | ''I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura'' (''The Four Books of Architecture'') is an Italian treatise on architecture by '''Andrea Palladio'''
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| − | ''Description of Greece'' – '''Pausanius'''
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| − | ''Great Britain’s Great War'' – '''Jeremy Paxman'''
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| − | ''The Road Less Travelled'' – '''M. Scott Peck'''. First line – “life is difficult”
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| − | ''The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe'' – '''Roger Penrose'''
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| − | ''The Emperor’s New Mind'' – Roger Penrose. Penrose argues that known laws of physics are inadequate to explain the phenomenon of consciousness
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| − | ''Capital in the Twenty-First Century'' – '''Thomas Piketty'''
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| − | ''How the Mind Works'', ''The Blank Slate'' – '''Steven Pinker'''
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| − | ''Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth'' – '''John Playfair'''. Published in 1802
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| − | ''The Open Society and its Enemies'' – '''Karl Popper'''
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| − | The ''Fire and Sword Trilogy'' by '''John Prebble''' is about the fall of the clan system in Scotland. ''Culloden'' chronicles the defeat of the clans in one pivotal battle. The two other works are ''The Highland Clearances'' and ''Glencoe''
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| − | ''The Cloudspotter’s Guide'' – '''Gavin Pretor-Pinney'''
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| − | ''The Wavewatcher’s Companion'' – Gavin Pretor-Pinney
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| − | ''English Journey'' – '''JB Priestley'''
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| − | ''Almagest'' – '''Ptolemy'''. Text book of mathematical astronomy
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| − | ''Geography'' – Ptolemy
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| − | ''Contrasts'', ''The True Principles of Pointed Architecture'', ''An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England'' – '''Augustus Pugin'''
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| − | ''The History of the World, The Last Flight of the Revenge'', ''The Discovery of Guiana'' – '''Walter Raleigh'''
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| − | ''Historia Plantarum'' – '''John Ray'''. Important work leading to modern taxonomy
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| − | ''The Stolen Generations'' – '''Peter Read'''. Refers to children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian and State government agencies and church missions
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| − | ''Ten Days that Shook the World'' is a book by American journalist and socialist '''John Reed''' about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 which Reed experienced firsthand
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| − | ''King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero'' '''– David Remnick'''
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| − | '''David Ricardo''' introduced the theory of comparative advantage in ''Principles of Political Economy and Taxation'' (1817)
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| − | ''The Men Who Stare at Goats'' – '''Jon Ronson''', is about the U.S. Army's exploration of New Age concepts and the potential military applications of the paranormal
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| − | ''Poverty, A Study of Town Life'' – '''Seebohm Rowntree'''. Details his investigation of poverty in York
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| − | ''A History of the Crusades'' – '''Steven Runciman''' . British historian known for his work on the Middle Ages
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| − | ''Modern Painters'' – '''John Ruskin'''
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| − | ''Unto This Last'', ''The Stones of Venice'' – John Ruskin
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| − | ''A Bridge Too Far'' – '''Cornelius Ryan'''. Tells the story of Operation Market Garden
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| − | ''The Longest Day'' – Cornelius Ryan. The book, which tells the story of D-Day, takes its name from a quote by Erwin Rommel
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| − | ''The End of Poverty'' – '''Jeffrey Sachs'''
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| − | ''The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'' is a 1985 book by neurologist '''Oliver Sacks''' describing the case histories of some of his patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia. The book became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman
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| − | ''Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field'' – '''John Sadler'''
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| − | ''Lean In – Women, Work, and the Will to Lead'' – '''Sheryl Sandberg'''
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| − | ''The Rise of the Russian Empire'' – first book by '''Saki''' (Hector Hugh Munro)
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| − | ''Economics: An Introductory Analysis'' – '''Paul Samuelson'''
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| − | ''Nuremberg Chronicle'' – '''Hartmann Schedel'''. Maps in the ''Chronicle'' were the first ever illustrations of many cities and countries.
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| − | ''Fast Food Nation'' – '''Eric Schlosser'''
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| − | ''The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business'' – '''Eric''' '''Schmidt''' and '''Jared Cohen'''
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| − | ''What Is Life?'' – '''Erwin Schrodinger'''
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| − | ''Small is Beautiful'' – '''EF Schumacher'''
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| − | ''Young Stalin'' – '''Simon Sebag-Montefiore'''
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| − | ''Jerusalem: the Biography'' – Simon Sebag-Montefiore
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| − | ''The Bookseller of Kabul'' – Norwegian journalist '''Asne Seierstad'''
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| − | ''1066 and all that'' – '''W Sellar''' and '''R Yeatman'''
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| − | ''Self-Sufficiency'' – '''John Seymour'''
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| − | ''South'' – '''Ernest Shackleton'''
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| − | ''A Mathematical Theory of Communication'' – '''Claude Shannon''', 1948. First use of the word ‘bit’
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| − | ''The Philosophy of Money'' – '''Georg Simmel'''. Book on economic sociology
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| − | ''Fermat’s Last Theorem'' – '''Simon Singh'''
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| − | ''An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations'' – '''Adam Smith''' (1776)
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| − | ''Whither Socialism?'', ''Making Globalization Work'', ''The Three Trillion Dollar War'', ''The Price of Inequality'' – '''Joseph Stiglitz'''
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| − | ''Longitude'', ''Galileo’s Daughter'', ''The Planets'' – '''Dava Sobel'''
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| − | ''Principles of Biology'' – '''Herbert Spencer'''. Includes the concept of ‘survival of the fittest’
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| − | ''The Decline of the West'' – '''Oswald Spengler'''
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| − | ''Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour'', ''Matisse: The Life'' – '''Hilary Spurling'''
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| − | ''Married Love'' – '''Marie Stopes'''
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| − | ''Eminent Victorians'' '''– Lytton Strachey'''. Biographies of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon
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| − | ''Geographica'' – 17-volume work by '''Strabo''', which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known to his era
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| − | ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House'' – '''Kate Summerscale'''
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| − | ''The Ignoble Art'' – '''Edith Summerskill''', MP who opposed boxing
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| − | ''The Wisdom of Crowds'' – '''James Surowiecki'''
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| − | ''The Black Swan'' – '''Nassim Taleb'''. The Black Swan theory refers to a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations
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| − | ''The Way of Perfection'' – '''St Teresa of Avila'''
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| − | ''Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness'' – '''Richard Thaler''' and '''Cass Sunstein'''. The book draws on research in psychology and behavioral economics to defend libertarian paternalism and active engineering of choice architecture
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| − | ''Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World'' – '''Margaret Thatcher'''
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| − | ''Ghost Train to the Eastern Star'' – '''Paul Theroux'''
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| − | ''The Great Railway Bazaar'' – Paul Theroux
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| − | ''The Making of the English Working Class'' – '''E.P. Thompson'''
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| − | ''Penguins Stopped Play'' is a semi-autobiographical book by '''Harry Thompson''' that details his adventures with the Captain Scott XI amateur cricket side as they attempt to play cricket on every continent on the planet except Antarctica
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| − | ''Walden'', first published as ''Walden; or, Life in the Woods'' – '''Henry David Thoreau'''
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| − | ''Civil Disobedience'' – Henry David Thoreau
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| − | '''Robert John Thornton''' was an English physician and botanical writer, noted for ''A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnaeus'' and ''The British Flora''
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| − | '''Alexis de Tocqueville''' was a French political thinker and historian. His most famous works are ''Democracy in America'' (1835) and ''The Old Regime and the Revolution'' (1856). In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on both the individual and the state in western societies
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| − | ''Future Shock'', ''The Third Wave'' – '''Alvin Toffler'''
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| − | ''The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment'' is a self help book by '''Eckhart Tolle'''
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| − | ''A New Earth'' – Eckhart Tolle
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| − | ''What Is Art?'' – '''Leo Tolstoy'''
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| − | ''The Last Days of Hitler'' – '''Hugh Trevor-Roper'''
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| − | In 1983, when he was a director of ''The Times'', Hugh Trevor-Roper "authenticated" the so-called ''Hitler Diaries''
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| − | ''On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem'' – '''Alan Turing''', 1936
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| − | ''The Art of War'' – '''Sun Tzu'''
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| − | ''The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions'', first published in 1899, is by the Norwegian-American economist and sociologist '''Thorstein Veblen'''
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| − | '''Immanuel Velikovsky''' is best known as the author of a number of controversial books on prehistory, in particular ''Worlds in Collision'', published in 1950
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| − | ''De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Structure of the Human Body)'' – '''Vesalius''' (1543)
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| − | ''De architectura'' is a treatise of ten books on architecture written by the Roman architect '''Vitruvius''' and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as a guide for building projects
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| − | ''Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays'' – '''Joel Waldfogel'''
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| − | '''Alfred Wainwright'''’s seven-volume ''Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells'', published between 1955 and 1966 has become the standard reference work to 214 of the fells of the English Lake District
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| − | ''Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro'', ''The Malay Archipelago, Darwinism'' – '''Alfred Russel Wallace'''
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| − | ''The Compleat Angler'' – '''Izaac Walton'''
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| − | ''When the Going Was Good'' – anthology of '''Evelyn Waugh''' travel books
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| − | ''The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism'' – '''Max Weber'''
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| − | (Noah) '''Webster'''’s ''US Dictionary of English Language'' – 1928
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| − | ''Play In A Day'' guitar manual – '''Bert Weedon'''
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| − | '''Alison Weir''' is the highest-selling female historian in the United Kingdom. Many works on the Tudor period
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| − | ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia'' – '''Rebecca West'''
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| − | ''Yo Blair'' – polemical 2006 book by '''Geoffrey Wheatcroft''', attacking Tony Blair on various issues, particularly his relationship with George Bush
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| − | ''The Natural History of Selborne'' – '''Gilbert White'''
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| − | ''The Critic as Artist'' – '''Oscar Wilde'''
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| − | ''Culture and Society'' – '''Raymond Williams''', 1958. How the notion of culture was developed in 18th, 19th and 20th century writing
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| − | ''Anatomy of the Brain'' – '''Thomas Willis''', 1664. This work coined the term ‘neurology’
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| − | ''The Outsider'' – '''Colin Wilson'''
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| − | ''History of the American People'' – '''Woodrow Wilson'''
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| − | ''The Story of God'' – '''Robert Winston'''
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| − | ''Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total'' Power – '''Karl Wittfogel'''
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| − | ''Vagina: A New Biography'' – '''Naomi Wolf'''
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| − | ''A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'' – '''Mary Wollstonecraft'''
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| − | ''A Vindication of the Rights of Men'' – Mary Wollstonecraft
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| − | ''In Search of England'' – '''Michael Wood'''
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| − | ''The Wrong Kind of Snow'' (the complete daily companion to the British weather) – '''Anthony Woodward''' and '''Rob Penn'''
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| − | ''Obama’s Wars'' – '''Bob Woodward'''
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| − | ''A Room of One's Own'' – extended essay by '''Virginia Woolf'''. Includes the famous dictum, “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”
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| − | ''How to Lose Friends and Alienate People'' – '''Toby Young'''. The tale of his failed five-year attempt to make it in the U.S. as a contributing editor at ''Vanity Fair'' magazine
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| − | ''The Sublime Object of Ideology'' – '''Slavoj Zizek'''. Slovenian Marxist philosopher and cultural critic
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