![]() | A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder--How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place by Eric Abrahamson
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $7.85 A wonderful book for someone who's mess seems chaotic and bothersome to others sometimes, but generally has a good memory of the stuff he's done. In other words, people like me. :)
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![]() | Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven H. Strogatz
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $4.09 A great read for those interested in multi-agent systems. A little mathematics in your background helps!
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![]() | The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex by Harold J. Morowitz
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $4.73 A good step-by-step description of the 'big steps' in the universe (and humanity's) history.
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![]() | Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.35 Another good read for those interested in the free will vs. determinism discussion.
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![]() | The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man by Jeffrey Satinover
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $7.00 More free will vs. Determinism, this time with more biological focus on brain structure and quantum events. Fun science.
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![]() | The Burning Wheel: Character Burner
Buy used from: $26.45 The BW core books - a good RPG that focuses on hitting story elements with your character.
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![]() | Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved by Robin Wilson
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $0.80 A good read for cartologists or map-enthusiasts with a mathematical background.
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![]() | Vita Brevis : A Letter to St Augustine by Jostein Gaarder
Buy used from: $2.59 A compelling short love story.
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![]() | Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.58 One of the all-time classics of SF.
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![]() | The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 (Chronicles of Amber) by Roger Zelazny
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $6.95 One of Fantasy's Great Classics - deservedly.
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![]() | Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.73 The SF book I could've wanted to have written. Quite good, but I couldn't finish it without roughing the last pages. Throw it away when you can't stand it no more.
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![]() | A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice by James Cowan
Buy used from: $0.01 A peek into the mind of a historical map-maker... cannot resist such a book.
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![]() | The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $23.52 / Used from: $3.99 We all know we've gone global - here you can read just how much.
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![]() | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.76 A classic - absolutely.
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![]() | Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.00 Mind-blowing cyberpunk mixed with sumerian mythology.
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![]() | The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.79 More wonderful SF. Read!
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![]() | Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $15.59 Another true classic
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![]() | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Grok this.
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![]() | A Clockwork Orange (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $4.80 Be a droog - read this.
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![]() | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Cover
Buy used from: $4.95 It's the one management book I read. American-centric, dated, but has its moments!
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![]() | Shadowrun. Laß ab von Drachen. Erster Roman der Trilogie. ( Geheimnisse der Macht, 1). by Robert N. Charette
Buy used from: $14.95 I read it in English, but this amazon doesn't have it.
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![]() | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.26 Another good read!
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![]() | Spelljammer: Adventures in Space (AD&D 2nd Ed Fantasy Roleplaying, 2bks+4maps+cards+counters) by Jeff Grubb
Buy used from: $25.24 A RPG classic.
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![]() | Vampire The Eternal Struggle Players Guide by Robert Goudie
Buy new: $27.64 / Used from: $17.49 I'm in the thing, pretty hard to pass that up.
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![]() | The Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet (Wisdom of Pooh) by Benjamin Hoff
Buy used from: $20.87 I'm not a big Pooh fan, but I recommend this book nonetheless.
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![]() | Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes and the Quest for Transcendence by Clifford A. Pickover
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.43 Get your creativity fed!
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![]() | Sushi: Easy Recipes for Making Sushi at Home by Emi Kazuko
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $2.12 Purity.
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![]() | Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert Pirsig
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Read it before 'zen'. Never managed to finish zen, did manage to finish this one.
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![]() | Fontainebleau Climbs (Mountaineers) by Jo Montchausse
Buy new: $31.96 / Used from: $33.94 The ultimate playground
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![]() | The Raven and Other Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $2.50 / Used from: $0.01 Quoth the raven: Nevermore.
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![]() | Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel by Tuley Francis Huntington
Buy used from: $4.15 The Ice was all between.
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.
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![]() | Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything by Ervin Laszlo
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.77 Nice examples.
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![]() | Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.71 Yes!
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![]() | THE SCAR by China Mieville
Buy used from: $14.61 A fresh take!
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