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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
Learn Like a Pro
How to Take Smart Notes
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
A Modern Method for Guitar Complete Edition | Volumes 1 2 and... by William LeavittThe Praxis System Guitar Compendium by Howard RobertsMusic Theory in One Lesson by Ross TrottierHow to Play Guitar Step by Step by D.K. PublishingScale Chord Relationships by Michael Mueller
Guitar For Autodidacts
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Nun stürzte ich mich voller Eifer auf die sozialistische Literatur. […] Ich las viel, ohne jede Ordnung und ohne System, die ‚Welträtsel‘ von Haeckel, Bücher von Forel, Darwin, die Reden von Ferdinand Lassalle, Engels´ ‚Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England‘, Gedichte von Freiligrath, Herwegh und Heine. Weil die Abendstunden nicht ausreichten, um meinen Lesehunger zu befriedigen, meldete ich mich im Betrieb krank und begann mehrere Wochen ‚Weltgeschichte‘ zu studieren. […] Das Leben hatte plötz ...more
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Abhijit Naskar
Abhijit The Useless (A Sonnet) At school I didn't even know the term neuroscience, Yet today I'm a symbol of neuroscience and psychology. As a kid I never even dreamed of becoming a scientist, I just wanted to observe the underpinnings of reality. After high school I failed my medical entrance exam, Yet to the world I am a vessel of ethics in medicine. I chose CS Engineering instead but soon dropped out, Yet today I am the epitome of responsible engineering. Failure and success are eternally ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

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