 | Aristotle: On the Heavens (Classical Texts)
Buy new: $80.00 / Used from: $16.55 Some of it is right on target. Much of it is brilliant but absolute nonsense.
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 | Kepler: A novel by John Banville
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $3.45 This was really, really good. But Kepler was not a happy guy.
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 | The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics by Dan T. Carter
Buy used from: $0.73 A good tool to aid the understanding of American politics.
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| Infinite in All Directions by Freeman Dyson
Buy used from: $0.15 Dyson is probably the most important physicist of the 20th century who never got around to a Ph.D.
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 | The Triumph of Evolution: and the Failure of Creationism by Niles Eldredge
Buy used from: $1.84 Good, but "preaching to the choir", as it were. However, most young-earthers are probably not sufficiently rational to be convinced otherwise.
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 | Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.80 A challenging book, but a great one.
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 | The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance by Larry Gonick
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $8.93 Not as good as the first two. I hope he continues the series.
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 | A History of the Arab Peoples: Second Edition by Albert Hourani
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $16.21 It is extremely dangerous for westerners tobe ignorant of Arab culture. Note that this is more of a cultural history than a narrative history.
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 | Peer Gynt : A Dramatic Poem by Henrik Ibsen
Buy new: $8.50 / Used from: $0.01 Weird.
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 | Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10) by Robert Jordan
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $0.03 Jordan's a competent but mediocre writer; the world and the story have kept me going through the series. I'm getting impatient; wrap this series up!
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 | Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Buy used from: $0.01 This, on the other hand, is a great book.
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 | The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics by Mark Lilla
Buy used from: $1.86 Extremely brilliant people can believe extremely goofy things.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Good and enjoyable, but the protaganist's understanding of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism is shallow. The better story is often a lie.
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 | Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.06 Not as great as Lolita or Pale Fire, but a very good book. Would you recognize yourself?
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 | Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) by Ovid
Buy new: $8.56 / Used from: $0.01 Nice poetic version of classical myth, from a time when some folks still believed it.
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 | The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs by David Pryce-Jones
Buy used from: $0.30 Important but likely incomplete analysis. All of the features of Arabic culture that are impediments to democracy were once features of European cultures too.
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 | On Entering the Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani (Poetry Series) by Nizar Qabbani
Buy used from: $42.90 Some nice poetry, not explicity erotic though.
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 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $0.01 Rowling is a bit overrrated but not bad. I'm trying to read these at about one per year. these at about one per year.
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| The Nation Comes of Age: A People's History of the Ante-Bellum Years by Page Smith
Buy used from: $0.01 Brilliant, absolutely wonderful. I can't wait to finish the series.
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 | The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Alas, the parts on Caligula, the first part of Claudius, and the last part of Nero are lost in the depths of time. But what we have is worth reading!
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 | Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Not the same Claudius as above, but both have been played by Derek Jacobi. A more sympathetic portrayal than Stratford Bill's.
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 | Philosophical Dictionary (Penguin Classics) by Francois Voltaire
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.44 Crush the infamy!
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 | Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 A nice look at upper-class life in 1920's Britain. The stream-of-consciousness approach may not be for everyone.
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 | The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.87 Firsthand account of one of the most amazing military exploits in history.
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 | Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Buy used from: $1.37 Rivals the Claudius novels of Graves. (Add some Emile Zola yourself - Amazon doesn't let these lists go to 26...)
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