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Michael

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58 books

Biography

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Eastern Approaches
The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
Einstein: His Life and His Universe
Three Scientists and Their Gods
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

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12 books

Essentials

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Dominion of the Dead
The Human Condition
All the King's Men
Collected Fictions
As You Like It
Much Ado About Nothing

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115 books

Finance

The Intelligent Investor
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking
Fortune's Formula
Distant Force
Barbarians at the Gate
Master of the Game

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1 book

Food

A bone to pick

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100 books

History

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Russian Thinkers
Bomb Power : the Modern Presidency and the National Security State
Dealers of Lightning
Augustus
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror

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3 books

Ifg

The Act of Creation
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future

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161 books

Literary Cannon

Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Montaigne
Dante
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Prometheus Bound
Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups

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6 books

Math

Laws of Form
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
INFORMATION THEORY, INFERENCE, AND LEARNING ALGORITHMS.
Modern Control Engineering
Feedback systems : an introduction for scientists and engineers

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77 books

Network

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior: 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition
Darkness at Noon
A History of Western Philosophy
Cahiers = Notebooks
Out of Our Past
The City and Man
The Metamorphosis of Plants

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0 books

Owned

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74 books

Philosophy

Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age
Walter Benjamin
On Duties
The Jew as Pariah
Crises of the Republic
Being and Time
The Interpretation of Dreams

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31 books

Science

The Scientist as Rebel
Deep Simplicity
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
Leonardo's Notebooks
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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7 books

Work Recs

Dealers of Lightning
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do
Boy, Snow, Bird
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Nehru