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Always Coming Home
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The Hidden Words Of Bahá'u'lláh
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Tao Te Ching
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Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
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The Odyssey
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The Aeneid
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Meditations
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Letters from a Stoic
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The Art of War
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The I Ching or Book of Changes
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Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
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The Poetics of Space
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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Patterns of Culture: An Enduring Classic
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The Republic
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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The Prince
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The Price of Civilization
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On War
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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
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The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
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