Cosmos by Carl Sagan
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#23arcology : city in the image of man
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#24"The Law" by Frédéric Bastiat (http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html or various PDFs floating around the web)
Times change, people do not
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#25Big Bang, Simon Singh
The Trial, Franz Kafka
Probably the best non fiction and fiction books I've ever read.
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#26I really liked reading "How to Build a Billion Dollar App: Discover the secrets of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time" and we followed all of the suggestions while building our app.
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#27David Simon's "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18956.Homicide I wish it were required reading in at least all journalism school curriculums. It's a book about death and the most "exciting" part of police work but also one that reveals the banality and politically-motivated mechanics of such a system. I almost hesitate to call it "thought-provoking" because it, among other t…
That has been on my to-read list since watching "The Wire" earlier this year. The minimal research I did into it before deciding I would (eventually) read it was definitely that Simon was (from accounts) given a lot of freedom.
I'm glad to see it here - reminds me I should get around to actually reading it here sometime soon.
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#28A tudatállapotok szivárványa by Andrew Feldmar
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne
A Guide To The Good Life: The Ancient Art Of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
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#29The training of O....do no read it!
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#30I'm sure there are many, but a few that jump to mind, in no particular order, and spanning both fiction and non-fiction: The Selfish Gene - Dawkins A New Kind of Science - Wolfram The Singularity is Near - Kurzweil Gödel, Escher, Bach - Hofstadter Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies - Hofstadter Atlas Shrugged - Rand The Fountainhead - Rand Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell The Trouble With Physics - Lee Smolin Time Re…
I'd skip a new kind of science, or at least buy and use it as a doorstop. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1579550088