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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
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Jane Eyre
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
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Jonathan Lopez (Goodreads Author)
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The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
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High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way
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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
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Prepare for War
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Science and Practice of Strength Training
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Thirty Poets Go to the Gym
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Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life
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Mechanics of Athletics
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The Total Outdoorsman Manual
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T. Edward Nickens (Editor)
4.17 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Case Files of the Tracker: True Stories from America's Greatest Outdoorsman
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3.95 avg rating — 240 ratings
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You're Not Lost If You Can Still See the Truck: The Further Adventures of America's Everyday Outdoorsman
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Primitive Skills and Crafts: An Outdoorsman's Guide to Shelters, Tools, Weapons, Tracking, Survival, and More
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Moon-Phase Deer Hunting
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Living Wild: The Ultimate Guide to Scouting and Fieldcraft
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Fieldcraft: TW-02
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Wildlife Photography Fieldcraft
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Susan Young (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Fieldcraft, Sniping and Intelligence
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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Tim Weiner (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 14,798 ratings
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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
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Mere Christianity
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The Screwtape Letters
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The Cost of Discipleship
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Orthodoxy
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Neoreaction a Basilisk
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Elizabeth Sandifer (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing
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Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects
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3.53 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Story of Art
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
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The Power of Art
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
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A Natural History of the Senses
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Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 7,873 ratings
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Vilppu Drawing Manual
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4.42 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation
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4.37 avg rating — 4,912 ratings
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Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist
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Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream
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3.73 avg rating — 380 ratings
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The Jaws Log
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4.22 avg rating — 2,169 ratings
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Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
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Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
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4.33 avg rating — 4,898 ratings
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Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
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4.40 avg rating — 2,939 ratings
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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4.19 avg rating — 36,274 ratings
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
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4.21 avg rating — 17,690 ratings
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The Beatles Anthology
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4.37 avg rating — 17,808 ratings
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Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 51,949 ratings
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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3.97 avg rating — 11,659 ratings
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Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
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4.22 avg rating — 2,948 ratings
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Euclid's Elements
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4.32 avg rating — 3,342 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
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4.06 avg rating — 9,972 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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3.95 avg rating — 24,208 ratings
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What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
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4.25 avg rating — 2,017 ratings
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How to Lie with Statistics
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3.84 avg rating — 17,731 ratings
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