 | The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $8.70 Excellent - I want to read more books by Niall Ferguson
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 | Moby Dick: or the Whale (Modern Library) by Herman Melville
Buy new: $17.25 / Used from: $10.49 True classic - Get the Modern Library hard cover edition
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 | The Age of Aging: How Demographics are Changing the Global Economy and Our World by Mr George Magnus
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $15.72 So so - OK for long flights - the best I got from the book was the hint to go straight to the UN Population stats
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 | The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $4.50 An early sampler platter by Jared Diamond
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 | The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $13.44 Poorly written, poorly researched, in my humble opinion it will not take long to be proven at least 95% off the mark
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 | A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting by Hara Estroff Marano
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $4.00 Anecdotical - not to be taken seriously
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 | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $7.25 Gem of a book - a Pulitzer finalist - It deserved to win
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.01 After seeing the movie I enjoyed even more the book - but it could have been better without the Krakauer autobiography chapter
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 | Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.29 Very good for the first two thirds of the book. A little disappointing at the very end. It may be re-published on a expanded and revised edition in a few years.
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 | The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.10 Very good. Good complement for Blank Slate
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 | The Naked Eye by Desmond Morris
Buy used from: $1.05 Desmond Morris early trilogy (The Naked Ape / Intimate Behaviour / Human Zoo) helped shape my view of human nature. Now I see those notions as somewhat naive so I read this book. Naive can also be fun.
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 | The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (No 1) by Art Spiegelman
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $15.05 How often does a comic book win a Pulitzer? (OK, it was a special category Pulitzer and then there is all the Polish Pig hype but...)
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