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Jared Diamond
In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the tech...
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The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
A lot of professors give talks titled The Last Lecture. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matt...
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Collection
Michael Palin
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but until September 25, 1988, it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly pers...
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Bravo Two Zero
Andy Mcnab
Bravo Two Zero (AudioBook) by Andy McNabb In 1991 an eight man team from the Special Automobile Service (SAS) were accident...
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Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan
When we humans first left the Earth and saw it from beyond the outermost planet, it appeared as a pale blue dot. As we complete th...
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Reading Like A Writer
Francine Prose
NB - I am uploading this in response to a request. It is one long file as that is all I have.
Long before there were creative-wri...
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Notes from a Big Country
Bill Bryson
Des Moines, Iowa-born writer Bryson's first success was the travel book The Lost Continent. After living in England for several ye...
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On Wings of Eagles
Ken Follett
A true story of the dangerous mission to rescue two executives from an Iranian jail under the direction of Ross Perot. A compellin...
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How I Write
Janet Evanovich
From #1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich comes a book of writing questions and answers that every aspiring writer will want to h...
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jon Ronson
Just when you thought every possible conspiracy theory had been exhausted by The X-Files or The Da Vinci Code, along comes The Men...
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
The breadth and scope of this gripping narrative is almost as impressive as the story itself. Rhodes (Looking for America describe...
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SuperFreakonomics
Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt
The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five langua...
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The Tipping Point
Malcom Gladwell
Why did crime in New York drop in the mid-90s? Why is teenage smoking out of control? Why are television shows like Sesame Street ...
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Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki
Rich Dad, Poor Dad chronicles the story of the authors two dads, his own father, who wa the superintendent of education in Hawaii ...
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The Drunkard's Walk
Leonard Mlodinow
In this irreverent and illuminating audio book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, a...
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Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel
Scott Adams
Adams, creator of the popular comic strip Dilbert, continues the satirical look at office life that he began with The Dilbert Prin...
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The Dilbert Future
Scott Adams
The Dilbert Future (1997) is a book published by Scott Adams as a satire of humanity that breaks the net motivations of humanity d...
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The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that belief in a personal go...
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Moneyball
Michael Lewis
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the M...
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On the Wealth of Nations
P. J. O'Rourke
Think of it as a hardcover blog, in which ORourke cites Smiths essential points, and riffs while preaching Smithian doctrine this...
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The Blind Side
Michael Lewis
Lewis has made a habit of writing about sport recently, but sport is really only a subtext for a much more meaningful examination ...
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