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Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
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The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
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The Secret of Divine Civilization
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Crowds and Power
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Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: [1] The Wheels of Commerce
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Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce
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Keeping Together in Time
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Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Complete
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The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present
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Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
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War and Peace
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The Cambridge World History of Food 2 Part Boxed Set
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The Illustrated Flora of Britain and Northern Europe
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Printing and the mind of man
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
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Meditations: By Marcus Aurelius- Illustrated
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The Odyssey
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The Iliad
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Memory of the World: The treasures that record our history from 1700 BC to the present day
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The Histories
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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The Prince
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The Way Things Are
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The Art Of The Long View: Planning For The Future In An Uncertain World
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The Way Life Works
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Venice: A Maritime Republic
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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The Map Book
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Conceptual Physics
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The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide
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The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)
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Star Maker
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The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
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Powers of Ten (Scientific American Library Series #1)
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The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance, 3rd Edition
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
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The Causes of War
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Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The Past From Above: Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
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The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
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A History of Civilizations
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The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work
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Imagined Worlds
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The Story of Writing
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Brave New World
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Dune (Dune #1)
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Infinite in All Directions: Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland, 4-11/85
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What Technology Wants
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
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The State of the Art (Culture, #4)
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Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
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Excession (Culture #5)
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Across Realtime
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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The Idea of Decline in Western History
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Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
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Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
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One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism
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The Future of Life
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The Coming Population Crash: and Our Planet's Surprising Future
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
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Medieval Civilization 400-1500
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Beowulf
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
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Grand Design, the earth from above
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The Complete Works
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The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook: Third Home Edition
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Tao Te Ching
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The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Newtons Principia For The Common Reader (Pb 2012)
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Leviathan
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The American Practical Navigator
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Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire
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Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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The Siege at Peking
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Marlborough: His Life and Times, Book One
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