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07/21
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback) by Carl Sagan bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (Paperback) by Edmund S. Morgan bookshelves: currently-reading, history |
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback) by Carl Sagan bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Rainbows End (Mass Market Paperback) by Vernor Vinge bookshelves: sci-fi |
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recommended for: people who want to survive the next 30 minutes.
read in July, 2008 
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"A professor saw that I had a copy of the Cryptonomicon on me and said that if I loved Stephenson and Snow Crash, I would get a kick out of Rainbows End. I was skeptical of anyone comparing a book to Snow Crash, but this gem of a book is definitely w...more
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Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1700 (Paperback) by Bonnie G. Smith bookshelves: history |
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recommended for: people who need an introductory text into women's history
read in January, 2006
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"As a society we tend to view gender roles prior to the 1960's as this static force that dates back to time immemorial. This book does a job of dispelling that notion by showing how the lives of women in just one geographic region changed dramaticall...more
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Wisdom of Laotse (Hardcover) by Lin Yutang bookshelves: philosophy, religion |
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recommended for: people who want to continue the process of unlearning
read in January, 2006 |
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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Paperback) by Stephen Mitchell bookshelves: philosophy, religion |
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recommended for: people who want to discover how little they know about the world
read in January, 2001 |
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Leviathan (Paperback) by Thomas Hobbes bookshelves: philosophy, politics, religion |
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recommended for: people who think Locke is for sissies
read in January, 2001 |
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The Second Treatise of Government (Paperback) by John Locke bookshelves: philosophy, politics |
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recommended for: people who found Hobbes' state of nature too dangerous
read in January, 2001 |
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Apology (Paperback) by Plato, James J. Helm (Editor) bookshelves: history, philosophy, politics |
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recommended for: people who are about to die at the hands of their government and need to borrow good last words
read in October, 2003 |
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Screwtape Letters Revised Edition (Paperback) by C.S. Lewis bookshelves: philosophy, religion |
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recommended for: people who think religious authors are without a sense of humor
read in January, 1998 |
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