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• Guns, Germs, and Steel and The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
• The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
• How the Mind Works and The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
• Genius and Chaos by James Gleick
• The End of History and the Last Man and The Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama
• The Search for Superstrings by John Gribbin
• What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race by John Maddox review
• Bureaucracy in America by H. R. Shapiro
• Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
• The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
• Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado by Geoffrey Moore
• The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
• The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern
• Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
• Nature's Gambit by David Henry Feldman
• The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
• The Mathematical Experience by Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh
• Full House by Stephen Jay Gould
• Startup by Jerry Kaplan
• The Song of the Dodo and Natural Acts by David Quammen
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
• The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
• Future Shock and The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
• Mortal Lessons, Down from Troy, Imagine a Woman , and Raising the Dead by Richard Selzer
• The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker
• The Axe and the Icon by James Billington
• A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold
• How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
• Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett

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