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| - | This page serves as the online home of my "To Read" list.<br>
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| - | ''If you wish, tell me a bit about why you liked this book on the next line.''
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| - | Should you have any trouble with formatting, simply leave me text and I'll screw around with the rest later. Feel free to make use of links.<br>
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| - | Please feel free to use this space as a venue to''' share ideas in other mediums''' as well (written, video, audio, whatever).
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">Irvin D. Yalom - Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death</font><br>
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| - | Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness<br>
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| - | Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince<br>
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| - | Sun Tzu - The Art of War<br>
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| - | Michael E. Raynor - The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (And What to do About It)<br>
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| - | Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings Hardcover<br>
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| - | Anton Myrer - Once an Eagle<br>
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">Roger H Nye - The Challenge of Command: Reading for Military Excellence</font><br>
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| - | John Keegan - The Face of Battle<br>
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| - | Dona Schneider & David E. Lilienfeld - Public health: The development of a discipline, from the age of Hippocrates to the Progressive Era<br>
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| - | George Rosen - A history of public health<br>
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| - | Dorothy Porter - Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times<br>
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| - | Margaret Atwood - Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth<br>
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| - | Albert Camus - The Fall - ''Recommended by MG''<br>
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| - | Voltaire - Candide<br>
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| - | Ben Rawlence - City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp<br>
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| - | Jocko Willink & Leif Babin - Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win<br>
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| - | Guy de Maupassant - La Horla - ''Recommended by EPC''<br>
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| - | Daoud Kamel - Meursault, contre-enquête - ''Recommended by D''<br>
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| - | Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century<br>
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| - | Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-five<br>
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| - | John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath<br>
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| - | Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude<br>
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| - | David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest<br>
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| - | Zadie Smith - White Teeth<br>
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| - | Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler<br>
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| - | Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities<br>
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| - | F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby<br>
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| - | Neil Strauss - The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships<br>
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| - | Murray Brewster - The Savage War: The Untold Battles of Afghanistan<br>
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| - | Pamela Druckerman - Lust in Translation: Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee<br>
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| - | Pamela Druckerman - Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting<br>
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| - | Christopher Andreae - Lines of Country: An Atlas of Railway and Waterway History in Canada<br>
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| - | R. Kent Weaver - The Politics of Industrial Change: Railway Policy in North America<br>
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| - | Patrick Leigh Fermor - A Time of Gifts<br>
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| - | Patrick Leigh Fermor - Between the Woods and the Water<br>
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| - | Patrick Leigh Fermor - The Broken Road<br>
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| - | Mark Miodownik - Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World<br>
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| - | Jeswald W. Salacuse - Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich and Powerful People<br>
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson - Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty</font><br>
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| - | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract<br>
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| - | Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow - A Briefer History of Time<br>
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies</font> <font color="gray">(reread)<font color="black"><br>
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| - | Nicholas Carr - The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<br>
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| - | Ben Kaplan - Feet, Don't Fail Me Now: The Rogue's Guide to Running the Marathon<br>
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| - | Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead<br>
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| - | Slavoj Zizek, Eric L. Santne & Kenneth Reinhard - The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (Religion and Postmodernism) - ''Recommended by MT''<br>
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? - ''Recommended by JY''</font><br>
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| - | Neil Hutcheon & Gunter Handegord - Building Science for a Cold Climate<br>
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| - | Rob Dietz & Daniel O'Neill - Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources<br>
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| - | Jonah Berger - Contagious: Why Things Catch On<br>
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| - | Gordon Gibson - A New Look at Canadian Indian Policy: Respect the Collective-promote the Individual<br>
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| - | Daniel Parrott - Tall Ships Down: The Last Voyages of the Pamir, Albatross, Marques, Pride of Baltimore, and Maria Asumpta<br>
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| - | Bruce K. Siddle - Sharpening the Warriors Edge: The Psychology & Science of Training<br>
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">General Bruce C. Clarke - Guidelines for the leader and the commander</font><br>
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| - | Ozzie Zehner - Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism<br>
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| - | Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela<br>
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"></font>Thomas R. Berger - Northern Frontiers, Northern Homeland: The Report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry<br>
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| - | Jack Lagan - The Barefoot Navigator: Navigating with the skills of the ancients<br>
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| - | Timothy C. Winegard - Oka: A Convergence of Cultures and the Canadian Forces<br>
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| - | Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms<br>
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| - | Samuel Shen & Janet Surrey - We Have to Talk<br>
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| - | Niall Ferguson - The Ascent of Money<br>
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| - | Howard G. Coombs - The Insubordinate and the Noncompliant: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1920-Present<br>
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| - | Mark A. R. Kleiman - When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment<br>
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| - | Amartya Sen - The Idea of Justice<br>
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| - | The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English</font><br>
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| - | James Loney - Captivity: 118 Days In Iraq And The Struggle For A World Without War<br>
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| - | Ian D. Clark, David Trick & Richard Van Loon - Academic Reform: Policy Options for Improving the Quality and Cost-effectiveness of Undergraduate Education in Ontario<br>
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| - | Roger Morris - Between the Graves: America, Afghanistan and the Politics of Intervention<br>
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| - | Michael Lewis - Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World<br>
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| - | Paul G. Bahn & John Flenley - Easter Island, Earth Island: A message from our past for the future of our planet<br>
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| - | William Golding - The Inheritors<br>
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| - | William Golding - Pincher Martin<br>
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| - | J.-H. Rosny Aîné - La Guerre du feu<br>
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| - | Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo - Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty<br>
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| - | Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels - Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients<br>
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| - | John & Jean Silverwood - Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them<br>
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| - | Ian Mulgrew - Bud Inc.: Inside Canada's Marijuana Industry<br>
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">Witold Rybczynski - Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities</font><br>
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| - | Bob Shacochis - The Immaculate Invasion<br>
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| - | Seth Mnookin - The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear<br>
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| - | Sue Shephard - Pickled, Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World<br>
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| - | Erwin H. Ackerknecht - A Short History of Medicine<br>
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| - | Kenneth J. Carpenter - The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C<br>
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">David Burch - Emergency Navigation: Pathfinding Techniques for the Inquisitive and Prudent Mariner</font><br>
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">André Cédilot and André Noël - Mafia Inc.: Grandeur et Misère du Clan Sicilien au Québec</font><br>
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| - | Robert Engen - Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War<br>
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| - | Martin Horn - Britain, France, and the financing of the First World War<br>
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| - | John MacFarlane - Triquet's Cross: A Study of Military Heroism<br>
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| - | Carroll Quigley - Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time<br>
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| - | John Rae - Practical Hints for Arctic Travelling<br>
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| - | Michael E. O'Hanlon - The Science of War: Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes<br>
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| - | Audrey Kurth Cronin - How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns<br>
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| - | Peter Singer - Animal Liberation<br>
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| - | Wendell Berry - The Whole Horse<br>
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| - | John Berger - Why Look at Animals?<br>
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| - | Daniel Bell - The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism<br>
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| - | Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad - What the Thunder Said: Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar<br>
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| - | Albert Feavearyear - The Pound Sterling: A History of English Money</font><br>
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| - | Robert D. Putnam - Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community<br>
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| - | Dan Chiras & Dave Wann - Superbia!: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighbourhoods<br>
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| - | David Kilcullen - The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One<br>
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| - | Dan Ariely - Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions<br>
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| - | Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie & Sarah Dopp - Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health<br>
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| - | Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard & The Institute Without Boundaries - Massive Change<br>
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| - | Daniel H. Pink - A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future<br>
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| - | Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch & Stuart Rutherford - Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day<br>
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| - | Daniel Sekulich - Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern-Day Pirates<br>
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| - | Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman - Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior - ''Recommended by SD''<br>
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| - | Alexander H. Harcourt & Frans B. M. de Waal - Coalitions and Alliances in Humans and Other Animals<br>
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| - | Michael R. LeGault - Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye<br>
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| - | Robert B. Reich - Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life<br>
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">Dandridge M. Malone - Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach</font><br>
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| - | J.D. Pendry - The Three Meter Zone: Common Sense Leadership for NCOs</font><br>
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| - | Jonathan Barnett, F. Kaid Benfield, Paul Farmer, Shelley Poticha, Robert Yaro and Armando Carbonell - Smart Growth in a Changing World<br>
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| - | Alan Weisman - Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World<br>
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| - | Chris Carlsson - Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today! - ''Recommended by MW''<br>
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| - | Michel Foucault - Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 (Colin Gordon, Ed.) - ''Recommended by SK''<br>
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| - | Yevgeny Zamyatin - We - ''Recommended by MW''<br>
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| - | Jane Jacobs - The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Separation<br>
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| - | Jane Jacobs - Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics<br>
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| - | Scott E. Page - The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies<br>
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| - | Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food</font><br>
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| - | John Kenneth Galbraith - Economics in Perspective<br>
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| - | C. K. Prahalad - The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty
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| - | Through Profits<br>
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| - | E.F. Schumacher - Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered<br>
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| - | William Marsden - Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)<br>
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| - | Douglas Coupland - Generation X<br>
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| - | Mikhail Bulgakov - Master and Margarita<br>
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| - | Vine Deloria, Jr. - Red Earth White Lies - ''Recommended by LQ''<br>
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| - | Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival<br>
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| - | Jeffrey Sachs - The End of Poverty<br>
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| - | Amartya Sen - Development as Freedom<br>
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| - | Steven E. Landsburg - The Armchair Economist: Economics And Everyday Experience<br>
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| - | Mancur Olson & Satu Kahkonen - A Not-So-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies<br>
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| - | Mancur Olson and Hans J. Landsberg - The No Growth Society<br>
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| - | Anne Power & John Houghton - Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces<br>
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| - | Thomas C. Schelling - Choice and Consequence: Perspectives of an Errant Economist<br>
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| - | style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">Ngakpa Chogyam - Roaring Silence: Discovering the Mind of Dzogchen</font> - ''Recommended by CS''<br>
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| - | Richard Dawkins - A Devil's Chaplin - ''Recommended by AB''<br>
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