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Scale — The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffry West

The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber

How Emotions Are Made — The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Secret of Our Success — How Culture is Driving Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich

The WEIRDest People in the World — How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich

Surfing Uncertainty — Prediction, Action and the Embodied Mind by Andy Clark

The Grammar of Graphics — Statistics and Computing by Leland Wilkinson

Factory Physics — 3rd Edition by Wallace J Hopp and Mark L. Spearman

The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon

Antifragile — Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

Thinking in Services by Majid Iqbal

Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

Kanban by Taiichi Ohno

Beyond the Goal — Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

A Pattern Language — Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel

The Symphony of Profound Knowledge — W. Edwards Deming's Score for Leading, Performing and Living In Concert by Edward Martin Baker

On Purposeful Systems — An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events by Russell L. Ackoff and Fred E. Emery

Collapse by Jered Diamond

Rethinking Agile — Why Agile Teams Have Nothing to Do With Business Agility by Klaus Leopold

Team of Teams — New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McCrystal

Team Topologies — Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais

Making Work Visible — Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow by Dominica Degrandis

Project to Product — How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework by Mik Kersten

Kanban Maturity Model — A Map to Organizational Agility, Reliance and Reinvention by David Anderson and Theodora Bozheva

Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position by W. Edwards Deming

Economic Control of Quality by W. A. Shewhart

The One Best Way — Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency by Robert Kanigel

Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor

Noise — A Flaw in Human Judgement by Danial Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein

Safe Haven — Investing for Financial Storms by Mark Spitznagel

Black Swan — The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Relevance Lost — The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting by H. Thomas Johnson and Robert Kaplan

Relevance Regained — From Top-Down Control to Bottom-Up Empowerment by H. Thomas Johnson

Haystack Syndrome — Sifting Information out of the Data Ocean by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Throughput Accounting — TOC's Management Accounting System by Thomas Corbett

Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim

Beyond Requirements — Analysis with an Agile Mindset by Kent J. McDonald

Agile Estimation and Planning by Mike Cohn

Florence Nightingale — A Life Inspired by Lynn M Hamilton

Understanding Variation — The Key to Managing Chaos by Donald J. Wheeler

Twenty Things You Need to Know by Donald J. Wheeler

Understanding Statistical Process Control — Second Edition by Donald J. Wheeler

Making Sense of Data — SPC for the Service Sector by Donald J. Wheeler

Normality — and the Process Behavior Chart by Donald J. Wheeler

Actionable Agile — Metrics for Productivity by Daniel S. Vacanti

Measures of Success — React Less — Lead Better — Improve More by Mark Graban

How to Decide — Simple Tools for Making Better Decisions by Annie Duke

How Not to be Wrong — The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

How to Measure Anything — Finding the Value of 'Intangibles' in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard

Measure What Matters — Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr

The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Statistical Method — from the Viewpoint-of Quality Control by W. Edwards Deming

The Data Detective — Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics by Tim Harford

Prediction Machines — The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal

Superforecasting — The Art and Science of Prediction by Phillip Tetlock and Dan Gardner

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fortune's Formula — The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone

Management by Peter Drucker

The New Economics by W. Edwards Deming

The Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu Goldratt

Ackoff's Best — His Classic Writings on Management by Russell Ackoff

The Checklist Manifesto — How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

Fit for Purpose — How Modern Businesses Find, Satisfy, & Keep Customers by David Anderson

The Art of Action — How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results by Stephen Bungay

The Effective Executive — The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter Drucker

Good Strategy Bad Strategy — The Difference and Why it Matters by Richard Rumelt

Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker

Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming

The Deming Dimension by Henry Nave

Clausewitz's 'On War' — A Biography by Hew Strachan

The Goal — A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Critical Chain — Project Management and the Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

It's Not Luck — Marketing, Production and the Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The Phoenix Project — A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford

Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

An Introduction to Metaphysics by Henri Bergson

Logic and Intuition by Charles Sanders Peirce

How We Think by John Dewey

John Dewey — and the High Tide of American Liberalism by Alan Ryan

Lateral Thinking — Creativity Step by Step by Edward De Bono

Ibn Khaldon by Robert Irwin

Unity of Law by Henry C. Carey

Past, Present and Future by Henry C. Carey

G.W. Leibniz's Monadology by Nicholas Rescher

Never Split the Difference — Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss

Mind in Motion — How Action Shapes Thought by Barbara Tversky

Identity by Francis Fukuyama

Trust by Francis Fukuyama

Upheaval by Jered Diamond

The Information — A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

Sapians — A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus — A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

The World Until Yesterday by Jered Diamond

Tragedy and Hope — A History of the World in Our Time by Carrol Quigley

Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay

Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama

The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

The Road to Serfdom by Fredrick A. Hyack

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jered Diamond

The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook by Peter Senge and Art Kleiner

Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar H Schein

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle

Humble Inquiry — The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by Edgar H. Schein

Dance of Change — The Challenge to Sustain Momentum in Learning Organizations by Peter Senge and Art Kleiner

Beyond Engineering — How Society Shapes Technology by Robert Pool

Adapt — Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford

Peak — Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Ropert Pool

Kluge — The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus

Flow — Living at the Peak of Your Abilities by Mihai Czikszhenhalis

Range — Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Blink — The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Powerful — Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord

Outliers — The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Unlearn — Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results by Barry O'Reilly

Super Thinking — The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann

Atomic Habits — An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon — The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell by Brian Clegg

Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field — How Two Men Revolutionized Physics by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon

The Life and Times of Nicola Tesla by Marc J. Seifer

The Age of Edison — Electric Light and the Rise of Modern America by Richard Freeman

Electric Universe — How Electricity Switched on the Modern World by David Bodanis

I Invented the Modern World — The Rise of Henry Ford by Richard Snow

Billy, Alfred and General Motors by William Pelfry

The Story of Sakichi Toyoda by Suzuki Naoki and Nomura Hikaru

Toyota Production System — Beyond Large-Scale Production by Taichii Ohno

Made In Japan by Akio Morita

A Mind at Play — How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni

The Sceret of Life — Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix by Howard Markel

Elon Musk — Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

The Invention That changed the World — How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Techonological Revolution by Robert Buderi

Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Invent and Wander by Jeff Bezos

Scoring a Whole in One by Edward Martin Baker

Five Most Important Questions by Peter F Drucker

Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clay Christianson

The Innovator's Method by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer

The Innovator's Solution by Clay Christianson

The Innovators — How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson

Beyond the Prototype — A Roadmap for Navigating the Fuzzy Area Between Ideas and Outcomes by Douglas Ferguson

Obviously Awesome — How to Nail Product Positioning by April Dunford

The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Why Startups Fail — A New Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success by Russell L. Ackoff and Fred E. Emery

In Their Own Words — The Space Race by (The Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury Missions)

Washington Goes to the Moon — A Documentary About Apollo 11 by Richard Paul

Beyond Earth — Our Path to a New Home in the Planets by Charles Wohlforth and Amanda Hendrix

A Piece of the Sun — The Quest for Fusion Energy by Daniel Clery

The Lords of Strategy — The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World by Walter Kiehel III

Lords of Finance — The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

The Partnership — The Making of Goldman Sachs by Charles D. Ellis

The Last Tycoons — The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D. Cohan

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. by Ron Chernow

All the Devils Are Here — The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera

The Dying of Money — Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations by Jens O. Parsson

The Shock Doctrine — The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Nemesis — The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson

The Iliad by Chapman's Homer

The Odyssey by Chapman's Homer

The Aeneid by Virgil

The Persian Wars, Volume 1 by Herodotus

The Persian Wars, Volume 2 by Herodotus

The Peloponnesian War, Volume 1 by Thucydides

The Peloponnesian War, Volume 2 by Thucydides

The March of the Ten Thousand by Xenophon

A History of Greece, Volume 1 by Cyril Robinson

A History of Greece, Volume 2 by Cyril Robinson

Alexander the Great by Arrian

Alexander of Macedon by Harold Lamb

Alexander the Great and His Time by Agnes Savill

Tamerlane — Conqueror of the Earth by Harold Lamb

Genghis Khan — Emperor of All Men by Harold Lamb

Hannibal — One Man Against Rome by Harold Lamb

Christendom — A short history of Christianity and its Impact on the Western World by Roland H. Bainton

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus

The Story of the Goths by Henry Bradley

The Late Roman Empire by Glanville Downey

Charlemagne by Richard Winston

The Flame of Islam by Harold Lamb

Iron Men and Saints by Harold Lamb

The Crusades by Richard A. Newha

The Middle Ages — 395-1500 by Dana Carleton Monroe and Raymond James Sontag

A History of the Middle Ages by Crane Brinton

A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani

The Great Age of Discovery — Columbus, Magellan, and the Early Explorations by Paul Herrmann

The Great Age of Discovery — Captain Cook and the Scientific Explorations by Paul Herrmann

How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea — Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill

A Distant Mirror — The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman

The Fall of Constantinople by Steven Runciman

The Hapsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady

The Italian Renaissance by J.H. Plumb

The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood

The Enlightened Despots by Geoffrey Bruun

The Sun King — Louis XIV at Versailles by James Grant

The French Revolution — 1789 - 1799 by Leo Gershoy

Napoleon by H.A.L. Fisher

Napoleon by Paul Johnson

The Crown of Mexico — Maximilian and His Empress Carlota by Joan Haslip

The Diplomatic Background of the War — 1870-1914 by Charles Seymour

European Diplomatic History — 1871-1932 by Raymond Sontag

The American Impact on Russia — Diplomatic and Ideological — 1784-1917 by Max M. Laserson

The Proud Tower — A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara Tuchman

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

The Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger

Fall of the Ottomans — The Great War in the Middle East by Eugene Rogan

The Fall of the House of Hapsburg by Edward Crankshaw

Paris 1919 — Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

O Jerusalem by Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

Woodrow Wilson — and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe by Larry Wolf

Partners in Tyranny — The Nazi—Soviet Non-Agression Pact August 23, 1939 by John Kolasky

The Most Dangerous Enemy — A History of the Battle of Britain by Stephen Bungay

Alamein by Stephen Bungay

Stalingrad by Theodor Plievier

The Tigers are Burning — the battle of Kursk by Martin Caiden

Operation Reunion — A Daring POW Rescue from Romania by Robert Goebel

Blood and Banquets — A Berlin Social Diary by Bella Fromm

The Last Days of Hitler by Trevor Roper

The Iron Curtain 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum

The Oak and the Calf by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan

Europe Since 1989 by Philipp Ther

Balkan Ghosts — A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan

Romania — an Illustrated History by Nicolae Klepper

A Concise History of Romania by Keith Hitchens

Ghost of Freedom — History of the Caucasus by Charles King

Fanshen — A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton

Red Star of China — The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism by Edgar Snow

The Return of Marco Polo's World by Robert D. Kaplan

Silk Road by Robert D. Kaplan

Monsoon — The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert D. Kaplan

In the Dragon's Shadow — Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century by Sabastian Strangio

Asia's Cauldron — The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan

The Third Revolution — Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State by Elizabeth Economy

The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Empire of the Summer Moon — Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches by S. C. Gwynne

1776 by David McCullough

The Spirit of Seventy Six — The Story of the American Revolution as Told by the Participants by Edited by Commanger and Morris

Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

The First Salute — A View of the American Revolution by Barbara W. Tuchman

John Paul Jones — Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas

Benjamin Franklin — An American Life by Walter Isaacson

George Washington by James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Outlines of American Political Economy by Friedrich List

The Federalist Era — 1789-1801 by John C. Miller

John Adams — Volume 1 by David McCullough

John Adams — Volume 2 by David McCullough

James Madison by Garry Wills

John Quincy Adams — The Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis

The Pirate Coast — Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks

Andrew Jackson by Robert V. Remini

The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark

The Mexican Frontier 1821—1846 — The American Southwest Under Mexico by David J. Weber

The Civil War — A Firsthand Look by General Nelson A. Miles

The Killer Angels — The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara

The Twentieth Maine by John J. Pullen

Abraham Lincoln — A Concise Biography by H.G. Pitt

Lincoln at Gettysburg — The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills

The Coming Fury — The Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume 1 by Bruce Catton

Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton

Grant Moves South by Bruce Catton

A Stillness at Appomattox — The Army of the Potomac, Volume 3 by Bruce Catton

The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant — Part 1: The Early Years, West Point, Mexico by Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant by Josiah Bunting III

US Grant by Ron Chernow

Blood — Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War by Edited by Peter Kadzis, Clint Willis

The True Story of Andersonville Prison: — A Defense of Major Henry Wirz by James Madison Page

In the Care of Strangers — The Rise of America's Hospital System by Charles E. Rosenberg

Nothing Like it in the World — The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen Ambrose

American Economic Development Since 1860 by Edited by William Greenleaf

Rutherford B. Hayes by Hans L. Trefousse

Grover Cleveland by Henry F. Graff

Murdering McKinley — The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America by Eric Rauchway

The Spanish American War — and President McKinley by Lewis L. Gould

Wars of Latin America — 1899—1941 by René de la Pedraja

Triumphs and Tragedy — A History of the Mexican People by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz

Empire and Revolution — The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War by John Mason Hart

The Secret War in El Paso — Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906—1920 by Charles H. Harris and Louis R. Sadler

The Life and Times of Pancho Villa by Friedrich Katz

The Landing at Veracruz: 1914 — A Strange Encouter in April 1914, When the US Navy Captured and Occupied the City of Veracruz, Mexico by Jack Sweetman

El Sueco que se fue con Pancho Villa — Aventuras de un mercenario en la Revolutición mexicana by Adolfo Arrioja Vizcaíno

Gringo Rebel by I. Thord Grey

Woodrow Wilson by H.W. Brands

Before the Trumpet — Young Franklin Roosevelt 1882-1905 by Geoffrey C. Ward

Looking Forward by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Teapot Dome by Burl Noggle

The Shadow of Blooming Grove — Warren G. Harding in His Times by Francis Rusell

The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy by Harry M. Daugherty

The Strange Death of President Harding by Gaston B. Means

The Publisher — Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley

Al Smith by Oscar Handlin

Al Smith — Hero of the Cities by Matthew & Hannah Josephson

Origins of the TVA — The Muscle Shoals Controversy 1920-1932 by Preston J. Hubbard

TVA — Democracy on the March by David E. Lillienthal

FDR — The Beckoning of Destiny: 1882-1928 by Kenneth S. Davis

FDR — The New York Years: 1928-1933 by Kenneth S. Davis

FDR — The New Deal Years: 1933-1937 by Kenneth S. Davis

FDR — Into the Storm: 1937-1940 by Kenneth S. Davis

FDR — The War President: 1940-1943 by Kenneth S. Davis

Hard Times by Studs Terkel

Franklink Roosevelt — and the New Deal: 1932-1940 by William E. Leuchtenburg

The FDR Years — On Roosevelt & His Legacy by William E. Leuchtenburg

In the Shadow of FDR — From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan by William E. Leuchtenburg

Adventures in Conversation with Franklin Roosevelt by Irving Brant

Scorpions — The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman

That Man — an Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert H. Jackson

The Three Roosevelts by James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn

Recollections of the New Deal — When the People Mattered by Thomas H Eliot

FDR and His Enemies by Albert Fried

White House Witness: 1942-1945 by Jonathan Daniels

No Ordinary Time — Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Juggler — Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman by Warren F. Kimball

Secret Affairs — FDR, Cordell Hull and Sumner Wells by Irwin F. Gellman

Room 3603 — The story of the British Intelligence Center in New York during World War II by Montgomery Hyde

Roosevelt's Secret War — FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph E. Persico

Stilwell and the American Experience in China — 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman

Carlson's Raid — The Daring Marine Assault on Makin by George W. Smith

Roosevelt and Hopkins — An Intimate History by Robert E. Sherwood

Roosevelt and Marshall — Partners in Politics and War by Thomas Parrish

Kennedy and Roosevelt — The Uneasy Alliance by Michael R. Beschloss

Roosevelt and Churchill — Men of Secrets by David Stafford

As He Saw It — The Story of the World Conferences of F.D.R by Elliot Roosevelt

Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham

Churchill's Grand Alliance — a provocative reassessment of the Special Relationship by John Charmley

Charles de Gaulle — A Biography by Don Cook

John Monnet — The First Statesman of Interdependence by Francois Duchene

Huey Long — A Biography by T. Harry Williams

Pepper: Eyewitness to a Century by Claude Denson Pepper

George W. Norris — The Persistence of a Progressive 1913-1933 by Richard Lowitt

Liberal: Adolf A. Berle — and the Vision of an American Era by Jordan A. Schwarz

Sidney Hillman — Statesman of American labor by Matthew Josephson

All in a Lifetime by Henry Morgenthau

The Wallaces of Iowa by Russell Lord

Irrigation Frontier — On the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer, 1909 by Henry A. Wallace

The Price of Vision — 1942-1946 by Henry A. Wallace

Democracy Reborn — Edited by Russell Lord by Henry A. Wallace

The Century of the Common Man by Henry A. Wallace

Technology, Corporations and the General Welfare by Henry A. Wallace

Whose Constitution — An Inquiry into the General Welfare by Henry A. Wallace

New Frontiers by Henry A. Wallace

Sixty Million Jobs by Henry A. Wallace

Toward World Peace by Henry A. Wallace

Henry A. Wallace — and American Foreign Policy by J. Samuel Walker

Henry Wallace, Harry Truman — and the Cold War by Richard J. Walton

Henry Wallace — The Man and the Myth by Dwight Macdonald

Unlikely President — Henry A. Wallace by Robert G. Morris

The Fifteen Weeks — An Inside Account of the Genesis of the Marshall Plan by Joseph Marion Jones

The Marshall Plan — The Launching of the Pax Americana by Charles L. Mee Jr.

Dwight D. Eisenhower by Tom Wicker

The Battle of Dienbienphu — The fateful battle that led to the American involvement in Vietnam by Jules Roy

Truman by David McCullough

Colder than Hell — A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir by Joseph R. Owen

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois

Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Parting the Waters — America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch

Pillar of Fire — America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch

Walking with the Wind — A memoir of the Movement by John Lewis

Master of the Senate — The Years of Lyndon Johnson III by Robert A. Caro

Nixon — The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972 by Stephen E. Ambrose

Reagan in His Own Voice — Ronald Reagan's Radio Addresses by Ronald Reagan

Tour of Duty — John Kerry and the Vietnam War by Douglas Brinkley

War in a Time of Peace — Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam

My Life by Bill Clinton

Andersonville Diary — A True Account by John L. Ransom

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

The White Rose — Munich 1942—1943 by Inge Scholl

Defying Hitler — A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner

Bloodlands — Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Last Letters from Stalingrad by Translated by Franz Schneider and Charles Gullans

The Bridge at No Gun Ri — A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War by Charles Hanley, Sang-Hun Choe and Martha Mendoza

Nicolae Ceaușescu by Charles River

All the Shah's Men — An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer

Twilight of Democracy — The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum

In Search of the Indo-Europeans — Language, Archaeology and Myth by J.P. Mallory

On Language — The Diversity of Human Language Structure and its Influence on the Mental Development of Mankind by Wilhelm von Humboldt

The Origin of Language — Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue by Merritt Ruhlen

The Loom of Language — An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages by Frederick Bodmer

Aesthetics and Language by William Elton

Semantics of the English Subjunctive by Francis James

The Art of Plain Talk by Rudolf Flesch

The Art of Readable Writing by Rudolf Flesch

Garment of Praise — The Necessity for Poetry by Eleanor Carroll Chilton and Herbert Agar

Bolts of Melody by Emily Dickinson

Complete Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Ulysses by James Joyce

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

Dubliners by James Joyce

Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lenin in Zurich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

November 1916 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Portrait of the Artist — as a Young Man by James Joyce

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don Quixote — de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The War Lover by John Hersey

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Victory by Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Paradise Regained by John Milton

Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo

Les Misérables — Translated by Julie Rose by Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

A Handful of Rice by Kamala Markandaya

Short Stories of Anton Chekhov — Volume 1 by Anton Chekhov

Russian Short Stories by Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Chinese Short Stories — Volume 1 by Lin Yu Tang

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

I Robot by Isaac Asimov

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Dune by Frank Herbert

Foundation by Issac Asimov

Foundation and Empire by Issac Asimov

Second Foundation by Issac Asimov

Cities in Flight by James Blish

Dune by Frank Herbert

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Night of January 16 by Ayn Rand

Ideal by Ayn Rand

Think Twice by Ayn Rand

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Long Ago and Far Away by W.H. Hudson

The Purple Land by W.H. Hudson

James Joyce by Richard Ellman

Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller

The World of W Edwards Deming by Cecilia S. Kilian

Deming Goldratt by Domenico Lepore and Obed Choen

True Notebooks — A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman

Playing the Enemy — Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation by John Carlin

Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile

Against All Enemies — Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke

Chain of Command — The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

E=mc2 — A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis

God's Equation — Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe by Amir D. Aczel

The Mystery of the Aleph — Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Aczel

The Riddle of the Compass — The Invention that Changed the World by Amir D. Aczel

The Seashell on the Mountaintop — Nicolaus Steno — The Unsung Genius Who Invented Geology, Turned Science and Religion Upside-Down and Forever Changed Human Understanding by Alan Cutler

Tuning into Nature — Solar Energy, Infrared Radiation and the Insect Communication System by Philip S. Callahan

Some Theory of Sampling by W. Edwards Deming

DNA — The Secret of Life by James Watson and Andrew Berry

Flu — The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Gina Kolata

Debt — The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

Refactoring by Martin Fowler

Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley

sed and awk by Dale Dougherty and Arnold Robbins

Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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