![]() | How to Be a Gentleman: A Contemporary Guide to Common Courtesy by John Bridges
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![]() | A Gentleman Abroad: A Concise Guide to Traveling with Confidence, Courtesy, and Style (Gentlemanners Book) by John Bridges
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![]() | Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $20.24 Find out how we got where we are today. Nothing you see in the news or even on the grocery store shelf makes sense without understanding globalization.
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![]() | The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy by Daniel Yergin
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![]() | From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun
Buy new: $13.85 / Used from: $2.00 Barzun is often unconventional in his analysis, but his summary of Western cultural history over the past 500 years will ground you in the ideas and themes now playing themselves out globally.
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![]() | How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.84 As Bloom states in his introduction, reading literature isn't about collecting sophisticated-sounding conversation topics for coctail parties. It's about learning to see the world in many different ways and, more importantly, expanding our experience of our blazing minds and lives.
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![]() | Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $1.13 Sometimes a little unclear in his terminology, Bloom nevertheless communicates his understanding of each of Shakespeare's plays with unforgettable vividness.
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![]() | Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
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![]() | Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Buy new: $10.55 / Used from: $2.29 A tremendously important and influential man, Yunus. Helping people to help themselves.
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![]() | An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.88 More than a book about Buddhism in the modern world, "An End To Suffering" is a parable of the globalization of the individual.
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![]() | Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.61 Forget "self help" and therapy. Just learn to be rational and kind in your thinking.
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![]() | A Gentleman at the Table: A Concise, Contemporary Guide to Table Manners (Gentlemanners Book) by John Bridges
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![]() | A Gentleman Gets Dressed Up: What to Wear, When to Wear it, How to Wear it (Gentlemanners Book.) by Bryan Curtis
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![]() | Michael Palin - Himalaya
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![]() | Himalaya by Michael Palin
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![]() | Michael Palin - Sahara
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![]() | Sahara by Michael Palin
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![]() | Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture Volume III: The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato (Paideia, the Ideals of Greek Culture) by Werner Jaeger
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![]() | The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman
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![]() | Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
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