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7 books

China

The Analects
China and Africa: A Century of Engagement
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
China's Cosmopolitan Empire
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

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51 books

Economics

Economic Facts and Fallacies
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Inside American Education
The Panic of 1907
And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste : How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism

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10 books

Education

The Well-Trained Mind
A Fine Line: How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools
How the Other Half Learns
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

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8 books

Elections

Democracy for Realists Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Give Us the Ballot
Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy
Presidential Elections and Majority Rule: The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign
They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy

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14 books

Foreign Policy

Arms and Influence
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
The Great Transformation
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism

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8 books

Green New Deal

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Concrete Economics
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Makers and Takers
Invisible hands : the making of the conservative movement from the New Deal to Reagan
Rethinking Capitalism - Economic Policy for Sustainable and Equitable Growth
The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity

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17 books

Law And Government

The Origins of Totalitarianism
The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2018
Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
The Supremes' Greatest Hits: The 44 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life
The Laws That Shaped America

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22 books

Math

Gödel's Proof
The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics
Men of Mathematics
e: the Story of a Number
Prime Obsession
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
A history of pi

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8 books

Neuroscience

The Neuroscience of Intelligence
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
Affective Neuroscience
The origins and history of consciousness.
The Deep History of Ourselves
The Mind-Gut Connection
The Idea of the Brain

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9 books

Oxford U S Hist

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Grand Expectations
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush V. Gore
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

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26 books

Philosophy

Ethics
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Essays and Aphorisms
The Analects
Walden
Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses
Beyond Good and Evil

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18 books

Science And Tech

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
Energy: A Human History
Chaos: Making a New Science
Complexity
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves

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23 books

Tech Dystopia Mind

The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
The Organization Man
When Money Dies
Tomorrow, the World
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character

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10 books

To Be Continued

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
A People's History of the United States
Man, Economy, and State: With Power and
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Africa in World History
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

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12 books

Us History Episodic

The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History