 | The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $5.19 mind blowing. long, but well worth the read. provides many topics for further research.
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 | A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
Buy new: $16.50 must read. what everyone says and more. another side of history - jam packed with information.
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 | The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.59 a perfect read. short, informative, engaging. redwood life.
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 | The Bamboo Fire: Field Work With the New Guinea Wape by William E. Mitchell
Buy used from: $0.52 fantastic short book.
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 | Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Buy used from: $7.48 another perfect read. must be the simplest and most enjoyable book on taoism.
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 | Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $3.95 silly not to read.
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 | The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
Buy used from: $15.43 great read. short and extremely entertaining. i fell asleep during the movie, but not the book.
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 | Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics by Erich Fromm
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.59 i'm glad this was required reading in my philosophy class. a bit more difficult than the tao of pooh, but great ideas and writing.
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 | The Worst Journey in the World (Penguin Classics) by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $8.99 its a long book, but i loved it all and it made me wish i knew and lived in the time of those men. maybe there's a shorter and just as gripping read out there... but i read this one.
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 | The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
Buy used from: $5.94 simple explanation of string theory, how it came about, and where its going.
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 | Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $13.94 RAW. great and informative psychology.
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 | Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program by Paul Smith
Buy used from: $35.00 interesting read about the army's remote viewing program from a former insider. the author spends many words trying to protest and explain the abandonment of the project, the rest of the material is fascinating. (there are much cheaper editions available)
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 | Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $2.00 obvious pick, but well researched and written.
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 | Into the Wild (Paperback) by Jon Krakauer
Buy used from: $5.18 another good book overshadowed by a not-so-good movie.
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 | Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: $8.37 / Used from: $2.49 not such a perfect read, but essential for the independent mind.
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 | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.86 a decent and short read of some ugly information.
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (P.S.) by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.43 not so much about motorcycles.
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 | Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto by Ber Mark
Buy used from: $3.49 i only read a few chapters excerpt from this book, but it hooked me.
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