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Bach, Richard
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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An inspirational story |
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Bandler, Richard; Grinder, John |
This Structure of Magic, etc. |
The beginning of NLP |
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Bryson, Bill |
A Short History of Nearly Everything |
How science came into being, a fascinating trip through its evolution |
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Campbell, Joseph |
The Hero with a thousand Faces |
A brilliant examination, through ancient hero myths, of man's eternal struggle for identity |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Ender"s Story in several books |
Brilliant SF with some sociology added to a gripping storyline |
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Castaneda Carlos |
The teachings of Don Juan, etc. |
Whether "true" or imagination these are books of great insight ... and exciting to read anyway |
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Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly |
Flow |
The pursuit of happiness -- and intriguing look at an age-old problem |
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De Saint-Exupéry, Antoine |
The Little Prince |
Inspirational and beautiful |
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Donaldson, Stephen |
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever |
Fantasy at its very best |
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Eco, Umberto |
Foucault's Pendulum |
Every sentence another hidden meaning/symbol/reference, applied semiotics at its most ambitious |
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Fowles, John |
The Magus |
A magical mystery story |
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Goethe, J.W. von |
Faust
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The Titan (Dichterfürst) speaks in this and his other pieces |
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Heinlein, Robert |
Stranger in a strange land |
Science fiction, religion, spiritualty, sociaology all together in one of the greatest works of SF |
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Hesse, Hermann |
Siddharta |
The most beautiful language in a book I ever read, and the philosophy/spirituality… |
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Joice, James |
Finnegans Wake |
A mysterious masterpiece of art and language |
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Leary, Timothy |
High Priest |
The Guru of the 60s and 70s writing about his psychedelic life |
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Lilly, John |
John Lilly, so far... |
Life and ideas of an explorer of consciousness |
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Meadows, Dennis |
The Limits to Growth |
The first book with impact on the subject |
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Pirsig, Robert |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
The philosophical classics packed into an exciting story |
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Rand, Ayn |
Atlas Shrugged |
A philosophical/political/libertarian bestseller |
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Schumacher, E.F. |
Small is beautiful |
A classic of the ecological/green movement |
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Simmons, Dan |
Hyperion Cantos |
Science fiction and literary art, what a combination! |
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Wilson, R.A.; Shea, R. |
The Illuminati Trilogy |
Conspiracy theory at its maximum |
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Zindell, David |
A Requiem for Homo Sapiens |
A spectacular future human history |
| Bhagavatgita | The essence of hinduistic teaching | |
| I Ching | A Chinese book of wisdom | |
Solar solutions
for
developing countries