 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig
Buy used from: $0.01 This book is every bit as extraordinary and challenging as you've heard. Finish it -- it's worth it!
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 | Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Ron Di Santo
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $1.99 Read the book, read this guide and then read the book again. Wow!
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 | Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 If you see flying as a transcendent, metaphysical activity (at least on some level), then you will love this novel.
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 | The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory by Richard Bach
Buy used from: $0.01 Bach did all the things I do (or dream of doing), and this semi-fictionalized account evokes my secret sentimental idealism like nothing else I have ever read.
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 | Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing by Erika Lopez
Buy new: $10.26 / Used from: $0.01 A quirky, busty, bisexual artist buys her first motorcycle and takes it on an estrogen-fueled, spiritually twisted and existentially adrift countercultural journey (or rampage?) across America.
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 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $6.73 This is, at the risk of engaging in hyperbole, possibly my ultimate all-time favorite book series. (If you don't like HGG, you probably don't like me.)
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 | Consciousness: An Introduction by Susan Blackmore
Buy new: $50.53 / Used from: $30.00 Blackmore puts complicated issues into a clear perspective. These are the borderlands where neuroscience and philosophy meet.
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 | Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think by Robert Ornstein
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.97 Putting an evolutionary biology spin on the question of "what is the mind?", this book approaches mental functions like the operation of a company, a car or a computer. Demystifying and illuminating.
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 | Moses May Have Been an Apache and Other Actual Facts by Cully Abrell
Buy used from: $0.01 For years, my friends thought I had made this book up. (I quote from it constantly.) I finally found a copy online and proved that this hysterical batch of surreal weirdness really does exist.
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 | Brain Droppings by George Carlin
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.01 This is one of the funniest compilations of subversive wit, wisdom and insight ever published. I can read it over and over again and it still makes me fall out of my chair. Thanks, George!
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 | Without Feathers by Woody Allen
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 I discovered this book in high school. I found it screamingly funny back then and I still do today. It still makes me laugh until my guts ache and tears roll down my cheeks.
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 | Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 This is another one I found in high school. It inspired me to hit the road on a series of 3 trips that took me to 44 of the 50 United States.
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 | The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Easterbrook
Buy used from: $0.06 The title really says it all, doesn't it? Easterbrook puts it all in focus: we need perspective. As "prisoners of choice," we need to cultivate the ability to feel grateful and fortunate.
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 | Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: $1.50 / Used from: $0.01 Mahatma Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. went on to prove that Thoreau's theory could, in fact, alter the course of history. Good stuff!
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 | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $8.10 An effort of staggering genius and bewildering complexity. Wittgenstein seems to think he has answered some of his field's oldest, most stubborn questions. Has he? You tell me.
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 | The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays (The Freethought Library) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Buy new: $27.98 / Used from: $17.84 This essay, published as a pamphlet in 1811, got Shelley kicked out of Oxford!
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 | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.01 The federal government should buy 300 million copies of this book and distribute one to every citizen and resident in the United States.
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 | Other Powers: the Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $0.17 One of my four books on the colorful, controversial Victoria Woodhull, a woman who was both a product of her times and a misunderstood shaper of them. Some of her ideas are still seen as shocking.
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 | Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored by Mary Gabriel
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $4.96 (See item #18.)
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 | The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull by Lois Beachy Underhill
Buy used from: $0.54 (See item #18.)
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 | Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull by Marion Meade
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $12.00 (See item #18.)
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