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Stories
novels, short stories, and every kind of fiction (10 subjects, 139 books)
Classic Novels
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The Idiot
Fyodor DostoevskyDemons
Fyodor DostoevskyThe Gambler
Fyodor DostoevskyThe House of the Dead
Fyodor DostoevskyPoor Folk
Fyodor DostoevskyHumiliated and Insulted
Fyodor DostoevskyThe Double
Fyodor DostoevskyNetochka Nezvanova
Fyodor DostoevskyThe Adolescent
Fyodor DostoevskyUncle's Dream
Fyodor DostoevskyThe Village of Stepanchikovo
Fyodor DostoevskyThe Landlady
Fyodor DostoevskyA Gentle Creature
Fyodor DostoevskyThe Eternal Husband
Fyodor DostoevskyThe Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky1984
George OrwellThe Stranger
Albert CamusSwann's Way
Marcel ProustNostromo
Joseph Conrad, Cedric Thomas WattsThe Golden Bowl
Henry JamesThe Nun
Denis DiderotBleak House
Charles DickensThe Sun Also Rises
Ernest HemingwayThe Steppenwolf
Hermann HessePortrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James JoyceSiddhartha
Hermann HesseMysteries
Knut HamsunSiddhartha An Indian Tale
Hermann HesseThe Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
Walter Scott, SirA Tale of Two Cities
Charles DickensBel-ami
Guy de MaupassantTo the Lighthouse
Virginia WoolfHugo's Toilers of the Sea
Victor HugoThe Chouans
Honoré de BalzacDickens' Works
Charles DickensOliver Twist
Charles DickensResurrection
Leo TolstoyMoll Flanders
Daniel DefoeNana
Emile ZolaGreat Expectations
Charles DickensBattle of Life
Charles DickensThe Cricket on the Hearth
Charles DickensThe Battle of Life
Charles DickensHunger
Knut HamsunYama
Aleksandr KuprinNinety-Three
Victor HugoLord Jim
Joseph ConradBurmese Days
George OrwellThe House of Mirth
Edith WhartonThe Waves
Virginia WoolfA Christmas Carol
Charles DickensWILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Samuel JohnsonModern & World Fiction
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Our Lady of the Flowers
Jean GenetThe Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere
Jose RizalThe Festival of Insignificance
Milan KunderaThe Dwarves of Death
Jonathan CoeThe Escaped Cock
David Herbert LawrenceInherent Vice
Thomas PynchonBalcony in the Forest
Julien GracqThe Day the Leader Was Killed
Naguib MahfouzFountain and Tomb
Najīb MaḥfūẓThe Librarians of Alexandria
Alessandra LavagninoA Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Gil CourtemancheA Sky So Close
Batūl KhuḍayrīIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo CalvinoOne Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García MárquezCries in the Drizzle
Hua YuEl Filibusterismo
Jose RizalThey Burn the Thistles
Yashar KemalBlindness
José SaramagoMy Son's Story
Nadine GordimerThe Hungry Tide
Amitav GhoshLolita
Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovA Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled HosseiniAutumn Brocade
Teru MiyamotoRequiem for Fools and Beasts
Augustin BuzuraRomance
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White Nights
Fyodor DostoevskyPride and Prejudice
Jane AustenJane Eyre
Charlotte BrontëSense and Sensibility
Jane AustenThe Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNorthanger Abbey
Jane AustenNina Balatka
Anthony TrollopeWuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, Michelle M. WhiteChildren's & Fables
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryA Book of Golden Deeds
Charlotte YongeFive Children and It
Edith NesbitPeter Pan
J. M. BarrieThe Happy Prince and Other Stories
Oscar WildeLittle Lord Fauntleroy Illustrated Edition
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Jungle Book
Rudyard KiplingThe Second Jungle Book
Rudyard KiplingThe Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson BurnettBlack Beauty
Anna SewellThe Children of the New Forest
Frederick MarryatPuck of Pook's Hill
Rudyard KiplingAdventure & Survival
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Horror & Gothic
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar WildeDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis StevensonThe House on the Borderland
William Hope HodgsonThe Sorrows of Satan
Marie CorelliMetamorphosis
Franz KafkaThe Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Charles DickensMystery & Crime
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Secret Agent
Joseph ConradThe Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan DoyleHis Last Bow
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Thirty-nine Steps
John BuchanOur Game
John Le CarréThe Cuckoo's Calling
Robert GalbraithA Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan DoyleWithout Mercy
Renate DorresteinSelf's Deception
Bernhard SchlinkHumour & Satire
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Short Stories
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Words & Art
poetry, plays, essays, and the arts (7 subjects, 62 books)
Essays & Letters
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The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy
John GalsworthyKokoro
Lafcadio HearnSelected Non-fictions
Jorge Luis BorgesLetters from a Stoic
Lucius Annaeus SenecaBarks and Purrs
Colette WillyMemories and Thoughts
Frederic HarrisonSelected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich NietzscheThe Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius. [London-1862]
M. Aurelius Antonius, George LongSoap
Francis Ponge, Lane DunlopLetters to a Spiritual Seeker
Henry David ThoreauSartor Resartus
Thomas CarlyleHistorical Essays
Thomas CarlyleCreative Unity
Rabindranath TagoreRepresentative Men
R. W. EmersonThe Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
George Gissing"Virginibus Puerisque" and Other Papers
Robert Louis StevensonPoetry & Epics
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The Odyssey
Samuel ButlerOlney Hymns in Three Books
John Newton, William CowperEpinician Odes and Dithyrambs of Bacchylides
BacchylidesJohn Milton
John MiltonThe Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey ChaucerParadise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books
John MiltonThe Prophet
Kahlil GibranThe Captain's Verses
Pablo NerudaHomer's Iliad, Books XX., XXI. and XXII., with Engl. Notes and a Literal Translation
HomerusThe Divine Comedy
Henry Johnson, Dante AlighieriPlays & Theatre
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Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
William ShakespeareThe Wild Duck
Henrik IbsenRomeo and Juliet
William ShakespeareA Doll's House
Henrik IbsenAn Enemy of the People
Henrik IbsenThe Tragedy of King Lear
William ShakespeareOthello
William ShakespeareThe Blue Bird
Maurice MaeterlinckThe Father (a Tragedy)
August StrindbergBooks & Criticism
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Lull & Bruno
Frances Amelia YatesThe Prose of Jorge Luis Borges
Ion Tudor AgheanaLiterary Taste, How to Form It
Arnold BennettLiterary Occasions
Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulThe Cover of the Mask
Annette TromlyAdventures Among Books
Andrew LangRomanticism, Hermeneutics, and the Crisis of the Human Sciences
Scott MassonDante and Philosophy
Etienne GilsonEating Beauty
Ann W. AstellAmong My Books, First Series
Russell James LowellLiterature and Science
Aldous HuxleyLanguage & Writing
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Reference & Manuals
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A Dictionary of Literary Symbols
Michael FerberEncyclopedia of Arabic Literature
Julie Scott Meisami, Paul StarkeyA Manual of Scientific Enquiry
John Frederick William HerschelCatalogue of the Books in the Senior Section
Johannesburg Public LibraryManual of Mineralogy
James Dwight DanaThe Ultimate Dictionary of Dream Language
Briceida RyanArt
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Ideas
philosophy, faith, politics, and the mind (6 subjects, 107 books)
Philosophy
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Meditations
Marcus AureliusLaughter
Henri BergsonThe Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand RussellThus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich NietzschePhaedo
PlatoThe Methods of Ethics
Henry SidgwickThe Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant, J. M. D. MeiklejohnBrahmadarsanam; Or, Intuition of the Absolute
Sri Ananda AcharyaPascal's Pensees
Blaise PascalFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Immanuel KantThe Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich NietzscheThe Development of Metaphysics in Persia
Sir Muhammad IqbalA Short History of African Philosophy
B. HallenObjectivity, Relativism, and Truth
Richard RortyThe Story of Philosophy
Will DurantThe Divided Self of William James
Richard M. GaleSystem of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive
John Stuart MillThe Philosophy of History
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelUtilitarianism
John Stuart MillExperience and Nature
John DeweyTheaetetus
PlatoHeidegger on Being and Acting
Reiner SchürmannParmenides
PlatoThe Philosophy of Nature
Ivor LeclercTao Te Ching
LaoziEnquiries Concerning the Human Understanding
David HumeFirst Principles
Herbert SpencerA Treatise of Human Nature
David HumeDe Rerum Natura - on the Nature of Things
Lucretius Carus TitusThe Life of Reason Or the Phases of Human Progress
George SantayanaSources of the Self
Charles TaylorIn Defense of Sentimentality
Robert C. SolomonThe Nature of Things
Lucretius LucretiusHegel and Aristotle
Alfredo FerrarinThe Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy
Ernst CassirerWar, Progress, and the End of History
Vladimir Sergeyevich SolovyovOn the Nature of Things
Titus Lucretius CarusUnderstanding Philosophy of Science
James LadymanJohn Dewey's Pragmatic Technology
Larry A. HickmanLibrary of Philosophy. Time and Free Will
Henri Bergson, F. L. PogsonThe Phenomenology of Mind
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelReligion & Faith
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The Two Babylons
Alexander HislopThe Last Twelve Verses of Mark
Ivan PaninSacred Books of the East
Epiphanius WilsonThe Field of Zen
Daisetz Teitaro SuzukiOn Christian Doctrine
Augustine SaintGāyatrī, the Highest Meditation
Keshavadas (Satguru Sant)Prayer and Praying Men
Edward M. BoundsThe Two Babylons; Or, the Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife
Alexander HislopA History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
Andrew Dickson WhiteThe Universe in a Single Atom
Dalai LamaEmbracing Mind
B. Alan Wallace, Brian HodelThe Mandaeans
Jorunn Jacobsen BuckleyThe Sovereignty of God
Arthur W. PinkThe Book of Life
Jiddu KrishnamurtiOne Minute Wisdom
Anthony De MelloPolitics & Power
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Politics of Security
Michael DillonDemocracy Past and Future
Pierre RosanvallonThe Capacity to Govern
Yehezkel DrorThe Prince
Niccolò MachiavelliUtopia
Thomas MoreIdeology and Utopia, an Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge
Karl MannheimThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Friedrich EngelsThe Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich EngelsPowers and Prospects
Noam ChomskyMetapolitics
Alain BadiouTwo Treatises of Government
John LockeIraq
Slavoj ŽižekThe Rights of Man
Thomas PainePolitical Ecology
Paul RobbinsMysticism & the Occult
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The 48 Laws of Power
Robert GreeneWorkings on Chinese Buddhism, Mysticism, and Occultism
Various AuthorsTertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought, a Key to the Enigmas of the World
Peter Demianovich OuspenskyThe gospel according to spiritism
Allan KardecPalmistry for All
CheiroThe mediums' book
Allan KardecThe Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology
Al BiruniInitiation, Human and Solar
Alice BaileyThe God Franchise
Alan DaweMystic’s Musings
SadhguruA Scientific Demonstration of the Future Life
Thomson Jay HudsonThe Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
René GuénonThe Intelligence of the Cosmos
Ervin LaszloThe Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
Three InitiatesThe Secret Teachings of All Ages
Manly P HallThe Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia
William Torrey HarrisWithin the Temple of Isis
Belle M. WagnerThe Numerology of the I Ching
Taoist Master Alfred HuangThe Evidence of Immortality
Jerome An; AndersonA Message of Hope from the Angels
Lorna ByrneCreative Visualization
Shakti GawainMyth & Folklore
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The Poetic Edda
Carolyne LarringtonThe Lives and Liberation of Princess Mandarava
Bsam-gtan-gliṅ-pa Phrin-las-ʼgro-ʼdul-las-rab-bde-ba-rtsalHittite Texts and Greek Religion
Ian RutherfordMyth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-NaquetThe Grail
Roger Sherman LoomisPsychology & Mind
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Deep Work
Cal NewportThree Contributions to the Theories of Sex
Sigmund FreudToward a Science of Human Nature
Daniel N. Robinson, Professor of English Daniel RobinsonRationality for Mortals
Gerd GigerenzerIntroduction to Psychoanalysis
Sigmund FreudMy Psychosis, My Bicycle, and I
Fritz B. SimonAn Attributional Theory of Motivation and Emotion
Bernard WeinerGetting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e)
Ulrike Schmidt, Janet TreasureNonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Marshall B. Rosenberg, Deepak ChopraThe Interpretation Of Dreams
Sigmund FreudCreativity in Context
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History & People
what happened, and who it happened to (6 subjects, 51 books)
History
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah HarariThe Martyrdom of Man
Winwood ReadeHistorical Miscellany
AelianAgricola and Germany
TacitusThe Past in Ruins
David GrossMadness and Civilization
Michel FoucaultThe Great Transformation
Karen ArmstrongIn the Shadow of the Prophet
Milton ViorstThe Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent
Albert Howe LybyerThe Clash of Empires
Lydia H. LiuThe Black Hole
Jan DalleyBiography & Memoir
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James Joyce
Richard EllmannMary Shelley
Muriel SparkConfessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
Thomas De QuinceyKepler's Witch
James A. ConnorThe Dangerous Summer
Ernest HemingwayThe Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla
Thomas Commerford MartinThe Life of Isaac Newton
Richard S. WestfallMartin Frobisher
James McDermottAlexander the Great
Benjamin Ide WheelerEvery Second Counts
Lance ArmstrongI Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Baek SeheeJohn Barleycorn
Jack LondonChanel
Lisa ChaneySociety & Culture
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How Does Social Science Work?
Paul DiesingEducation in Hegel
Nigel TubbsThe Evolution of the Sikh Community
W. H. McLeodThe Rejected Body
Susan WendellWe're Friends, Right?
William A. CorsaroThe High-Caste Hindu Woman
Pundita Ramabai SarasvatiEugenics and Other Evils
Gilbert Keith ChestertonHow to Observe
Harriet MartineauSmoking and the State
Robert D. Tollison, Richard E. WagnerDrugs, Society & Human Behavior
Oakley Stern Ray, Charles KsirThe Social Animal
David BrooksWar & Conflict
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Travel & Places
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Law & Justice
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Science & Nature
how the world works, measured (8 subjects, 76 books)
Science & Discovery
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Physics & Chemistry
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Concepts of Nuclear Physics
Bernard Leonard CohenIonic Equilibria in Analytical Chemistry
Jean-Louis BurgotHandbook of Carbon, Graphite, Diamond, and Fullerenes
Hugh O. PiersonSymmetry in Chaos
Mike Field, Martin GolubitskyDiffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy Environmental Problem Solving
R.W. FreiAntennas and Waveguides for Nonsinusoidal Waves
Henning F. HarmuthThe Rise and Decline of Colloid Science in North America, 1900-1935
Andrew EdeDipole Moments in Organic Chemistry
V. I. MinkinMathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering
Gregory J. GburAn Introduction To Quantum Field Theory
Michael E. Peskin, Daniel V. SchroederCovariant Loop Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli, Francesca VidottoThermodynamics: An Engineering Approach
Michael Boles, Yunus CengelAstronomy & Space
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen HawkingRadiative Processes in Astrophysics
George B. Rybicki, Alan P. LightmanGalaxy Morphology and Classification
Sidney Van den BerghAstronomy
Michael ZeilikHistory of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler
J. L. E. DreyerTOOMER:PTOLEMY'S ALMAGEST, (DUCKWORTH)
PtolemyScience, Society, and the Search for Life in the Universe
Bruce M. JakoskyOther Worlds Than Ours
Richard A. ProctorExploring the Planets
William Kenneth Hamblin, Eric H. ChristiansenBiology & Evolution
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The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilized by Insects
Charles DarwinThe History of Animals
AristotleCreated from Animals
James RachelsIntroduction to Glycobiology
Maureen E. Taylor, Kurt DrickamerLiving Fossils
N. Eldredge, S. M. Stanley50 Years of DNA
J. Clayton, C. DennisOn the Origin of Species
Charles DarwinHuman Biology
Cecie Starr, Beverly McMillanOrigin, of Cultivated Plants
Alphonse De CandolleThe Collapse of Evolution
Scott M. HuseThe Origin of Species
Charles DarwinThe Formation of Vegetable Mould
Charles DarwinThe Foundations of the Origin of Species
Charles DarwinNature & Environment
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Wisdom of the Elders
David Suzuki, Peter KnudtsonEnvironmental Oceanography
Tom BeerGlobal Biodiversity
World Conservation Monitoring CentrePlan B 2.0
Lester Russell BrownNatural Disasters
David AlexanderHistoric Storms of the North Sea, British Isles and Northwest Europe
Hubert Lamb, Knud FrydendahlPlanet Earth
Cesare EmilianiCommercial Chicken Meat and Egg Production
Donald D. Bell, William Daniel WeaverOrganic Production and Use of Alternative Crops
Franc Bavec, Martina BavecEcological Utopias
Marius de GeusTsunami
Edward BryantNatural Hazards
Edward A. Keller, Robert H. BlodgettUnderstanding Weather
Karel Karel Hughes, Julian MayesRemote Sensing in Hydrology
Edwin T. Engman, Robert J. Gurney, R.J. GurneyRock-forming Minerals
William Alexander Deer, Robert Andrew Howie, Jack Zussman, J. ZussmanThe Moral Status of Animals
Stephen R. L. ClarkExploring Agrodiversity
H. C. BrookfieldSilenced Rivers
Patrick McCullyMedicine & the Body
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Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage
Walter B. CannonMedical Parasitology
Abhay R. Satoskar, Gary L. Simon, Peter J. Hotez, Moriya TsujiThe Developing Human
Keith L. MooreCellular and Molecular Immunology
Abul K. Abbas, Andrew H. Lichtman, Jordan S. PoberDeep Brain Stimulation Management
William J. Marks, Jill L. OstremAdvanced Neuromuscular Exercise Physiology
Phillip GardinerHormones
Anthony W. Norman, Gerald LitwackOn the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
William HarveyMathematics & Logic
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Computing & Technology
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Life & Work
books you use rather than finish (5 subjects, 34 books)
Habits & Self-Growth
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Atomic Habits
James ClearHow to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale CarnegieThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. CoveyThe Game of Life and How to Play It
Florence Scovel ShinnSwitch
Chip Heath, Dan HeathLaziness Does Not Exist
Devon PriceMemory Culture
William Walker AtkinsonAdvice to Rocket Scientists
Jim LonguskiThe Road Less Travelled
Morgan Scott PeckBusiness & Money
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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Albert O. HirschmanThe Science of Getting Rich
Wallace D. WattlesTHINK AND GROW RICH!
Napoleon HillThe Developmental Role of the Foreign Sector and Aid
Anne O. KruegerProject Management
Clifford F. Gray, Erik W. LarsonThe Power Principle
Blaine LeeCrossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition
Geoffrey A. MooreThe Eight Pillars of Prosperity
James AllenThe General Theory of Employment Interest and Money
John Maynard KeynesHealth & Fitness
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The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri AurobindoThe Spirit of Reiki
Walter Lubeck, Frank Arjava Petter, William Lee RandSex Differences in Depression
Susan Nolen-HoeksemaSelf-Hypnosis Demystified
Adam BurkeThe Science of Being Well
Wallace D. WattlesOvercoming Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Fugen Neziroglu, Sony Khemlani-Patel, Melanie T. SantosFamily & Relationships
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The Kama Sutra
Vatsyayana, Richard S. HartmetzChoices for Living
Thomas S. LangnerFamily Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Robin SharmaThe Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Vatsyayana, Richard Burton, Bhagavanlal Indrajit, Shivaram Parashuram BhideThe Children who Lived
Kathryn A. Markell, Marc A. MarkellNotebooks & Journals
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