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The Money Game

Adam Smith

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Politics and Culture in International History

Adda Bozeman

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Strategic Intelligence & Statecraft

Adda Bozeman

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The Zanzibar Chest

Aidan Hartley

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Grey Eminence

Aldous Huxley

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Proper Studies

Aldous Huxley

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Wind, Sand and Stars

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga

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A Study of History

Arnold Toynbee

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A Study of History: Abridgment of Volumes VII-X

Arnold Toynbee

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Essays and Aphorisms

Arthur Schopenhauer

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A Distant Mirror

Barbara Tuchman

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The Proud Tower

Barbara Tuchman

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When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamin Labatut

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The MANIAC

Benjamín Labatut

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The Songlines

Bruce Chatwin

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The Fighters

C. J. Chivers

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Double Whammy

Carl Hiaasen

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The Evolution of Civilizations

Carroll Quigley

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A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

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The Throwback Special

Chris Bachelder

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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Christopher Moore

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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

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The Prize

Daniel Yergin

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The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

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The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

David Hackett Fischer

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Ho

David Halberstam

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Agents of Innocence

David Ignatius

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Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety

E. R. Dodds; Eric Robertson Dodds

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The Material World

Ed Conway

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefèvre

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Musashi

Eiji Yoshikawa

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The Bhagavad Gita

Eknath Easwaran

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Lives Other Than My Own

Emmanuel Carrère

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The Kingdom

Emmanuel Carrère

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The Age Of Capital

Eric Hobsbawm

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The Age of Empire

Eric Hobsbawm

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The Age of Extremes

Eric Hobsbawm

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The Age of Revolution: 1749-1848

Eric Hobsbawm

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The True Believer

Eric Hoffer

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Escape from Freedom

Erich Fromm

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

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The Story of Art

Ernst Hans Gombrich

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The Ugly American

Eugene Burdick and William Lederer

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The Long Ships

Frans Bengtsson

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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Assassins' Gate

George Packer

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The Unwinding

George Packer

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Nostalgia for the Absolute

George Steiner

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The Lawless Roads

Graham Greene

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Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts

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The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt

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The Last Samurai

Helen DeWitt

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The Inner Voice of Love

Henri J. M. Nouwen

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The Wounded Healer

Henri J. M. Nouwen

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World Order

Henry Kissinger

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Christianity and History

Herbert Butterfield

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The Histories

Herodotus

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The Iliad

Homer

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The Odyssey

Homer

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Born in Blackness

Howard W. French

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The Cloven Viscount

Italo Calvino

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Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev

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The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

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Shogun

James Clavell

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Lost Horizon

James Hilton

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A Sport and a Pastime

James Salter

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Solo Faces

James Salter

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The Hunters

James Salter

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A Country Such as This

James Webb

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Fields of Fire

James Webb

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Story of a Secret State

Jan Karski

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Census

Jesse Ball

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The Breaking of Eggs

Jim Powell

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How Asia Works

Joe Studwell

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White House Warriors

John Gans

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Hiroshima

John Hersey

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Strategies of Containment

John Lewis Gaddis

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East of Eden

John Steinbeck

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The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

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Tortilla Flat

John Steinbeck

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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

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Catch-22

Joseph Heller

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Katherine Boo

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Impro

Keith Johnstone

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Man, the State, and War

Kenneth Waltz

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Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

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The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright

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Lords of Finance

Liaquat Ahamed

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Lectures on Modern History

Lord Acton

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On the Nature of the Universe

Lucretius

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Complexity

M. Mitchell Waldrop

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The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

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The Qur'an

M.A. Abdel Haleem

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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

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Paris 1919

Margaret MacMillan

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Black Hawk Down

Mark Bowden

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Odyssey Moscow

Michael Calvey

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Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

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The Big Short

Michael Lewis

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The Great Rebalancing

Michael Pettis

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The Volatility Machine

Michael Pettis

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The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq

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Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

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Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

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The Way of the World

Nicolas Bouvier

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A Time of Gifts

Patrick Leigh Fermor

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A Time to Keep Silence

Patrick Leigh Fermor

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The Broken Road

Patrick Leigh Fermor

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The Upanishads

Patrick Olivelle

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And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina

Paul Blustein

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The Crash of '79

Paul Erdman

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The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

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I Married a Communist

Philip Roth

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Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito

Plato

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Gorgias

Plato

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Phaedo

Plato

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The Ramayana

R.K. Narayan

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Living Dangerously

Ranulph Fiennes

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The Irony of American History

Reinhold Niebuhr

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The Nature and Destiny of Man - Volume I: Human Nature

Reinhold Niebuhr

The Nature and Destiny of Man - Volume I…
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The Nature and Destiny of Man - Volume II: Human Destiny

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Empires of the Monsoon

Richard Hall

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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Richard Hofstadter

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The Road to Oxiana

Robert Byron

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The Bible

Robert Carroll

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War & Change in World Politics

Robert Gilpin

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2666

Roberto Bolaño

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When Genius Failed

Roger Lowenstein

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The Places In Between

Rory Stewart

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A Long Long Way

Sebastian Barry

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Ghost Wars

Steve Coll

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

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History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

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Blood River

Tim Butcher

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The Looting Machine

Tom Burgis

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Jitterbug Perfume

Tom Robbins

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The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe

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The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

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Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

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A Grand Illusion? An Essay on Europe

Tony Judt

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The Memory Chalet

Tony Judt

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The Lathe Of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Everything Flows

Vasily Grossman

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Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

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Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

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The Great Rupture

Viktor Shvets

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The Age of Anxiety

W. H. Auden

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The Spectator Bird

Wallace Stegner

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Special Providence

Walter Russell Mead

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The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

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A History of my Times

Xenophon

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The Persian Expedition

Xenophon

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