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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
The Lessons of History
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Reality is Not What it Seems
Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Stonegate Sword by Harry James FoxThe False Prophet by Harry James FoxBlood Song by Anthony RyanOutpassage by Janet E. MorrisThe Starbirth Assignment by J.M.         Johnson
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Polar Exploration (Non-Fiction)
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Admirals
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Age of Sail Nonfiction
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Colum McCann
I suppose we go out to sea because we want, eventually, to come home. I know this now, but it was new to me then. The best way to experience home is to lose it for a while. Then, when it is gone, you can know what it is. You can yearn to return to it. It is a form of wounding. You welcome the scar so it will remind you of where you once were.
Colum McCann, Twist

Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
At headquarters I tried to suppress some of the more fantastic rumours. After the bombing of Rangoon and many other places by Japanese Aircraft the local bazaars buzzed with rumours. One was to the effect the Germans had occupied Rangoon. …many villagers were openly discussing their coming flight to distant places of safety. Some hooligans, I had reason to believe, were planning to loot the Indian and Chinese shops and were storing large quantities of knives and spears in some caves in jungle pl ...more
Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

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