 | The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Your Child Needs to Know by E. D. Hirsch Professor of English
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.40 To start your underground education start here, then give it to a 10-12 year old
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 | The Dictionary of Global Culture: What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--from Diderot to Bo Diddley by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $1.10 If you don't know a "famous" person or a cultural term. It's in this book.
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 | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E. D. Hirsch
Buy new: $18.87 / Used from: $14.50 A little different from the one above...I would say get both.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: $0.16 Everything you "know" is a lie.
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 | Animal Farm (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 Learn all you need about communism.
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 | Lord of the Flies (Perigee) by William Golding
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 Which side would you chose?
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 | The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $15.17 / Used from: $8.85 The week you spent on Hemingway in english class was not enough.
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 | The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $3.59 Know your history.
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 | The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy used from: $0.01 Modern economics in a nutshell.
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 | The Art of War (Shambhala classics) by Sun Tzu
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $1.21 Apply these rules to your life and you can have anything.
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 | The Republic (Dover Thrift Editions) by Plato
Buy new: $3.00 / Used from: $0.01 A government basic and they only teach in upper level college classes
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 | Politics Among Nations, Brief Edition by Hans Morgenthau
Buy used from: $31.79 This should be required for every high school government class
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 | The Art of War & The Prince by Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: $18.76 / Used from: $7.49 Be Machiavellian, and know what is means.
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 | Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History (Broadman & Holman Reference) by Thomas V. Brisco
Buy new: $19.78 / Used from: $16.00 I had the honor of having the author as a professor in college...great book.
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 | Boldtext Pew Bible: King James Version by Bible
Buy new: $9.34 / Used from: $1.76 Start with the Old Testament...read the Torah...then the New Testament
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 | The Torah
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $16.49 See above...
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 | The Holy Quran by Allamah Nooruddin
Buy used from: $16.68 Then read the Quran...and you will find the same God in all four.
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 | Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (The Signet Classic Poetry Series) by John Milton
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $1.82 Essential christian reading...oh and the Bible of course.
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 | The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $9.49 Forget the preacher's fire and brimstone...this is on a whole level above.
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 | The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.00 The problem is we (the US) have the only culture that doesn't hold a grudge for centuries.
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 | The Arabian Nights (Everyman's Library) by Husain Haddawy
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $10.08 Disney are rip off artists that mess up great tales.
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 | The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $0.01 If you want to understand what is going on today in world with Islam...read this book.
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 | An Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human by Richard Zacks
Buy used from: $4.84 So you want a short cut to this list?
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 | Everything You Pretend to Know And Are Afraid Someone Will Ask by Lynette Padwa
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $0.99 This is the other short cut.
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