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Michael Nielsen's Obscure Books Twitter Thread (Unofficial)

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Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

by Peter Robert Lamont Brown edition
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The rediscovery of man: the complete short science fiction of Cordwainer Smith

by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger edition

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Driving over lemons: an optimist in Andalucía

by Chris Stewart edition

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Musicians in tune: seventy-five contemporary musicians discuss the creative process

by Jenny Boyd edition
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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch

by Lewis Dartnell edition

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos edition

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Stand on Zanzibar.

by John Brunner edition

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Venus on the Half-Shell and Others

by Philip José Farmer edition
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Fear and loathing: on the campaign trail '72

by Hunter S. Thompson edition

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Accelerando

by Charles Stross edition

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Big Bang: the most important scientific discovery of all time and why you need to know about it

by Simon Singh edition
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The Wandering Jew (European Classics)

by Stefan Heym edition

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Mathematics and the imagination

by Edward Kasner and James Roy Newman edition
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Kali: the black goddess of Dakshineswar

by Elizabeth U. Harding edition

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The Anglo-American establishment: from Rhodes to Cliveden

by Carroll Quigley edition

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Paradigms lost: images of man in the mirror of science

by John L. Casti edition
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First light: the search for the edge ofthe universe

by Richard Preston edition

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Proofs and refutations: the logic of mathematical discovery

by Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, and Elie Zahar edition

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Passionate minds: the great love affair of the Enlightenment, featuring the scientist Emilie Du Châtelet, the poet Voltaire, sword fights, book burnings, assorted kings, seditious verse, and the birth of the modern world

by David Bodanis edition

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The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie: The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots

by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao edition
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I Am a Strange Loop

by Douglas R. Hofstadter edition

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Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline

by Sinead Walsh and Oliver Johnson edition

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If women counted: a new feminist economics

by Marilyn Waring edition
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Lawrence and Oppenheimer.

by Nuel Pharr Davis edition
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Questions that sell: the powerful process for discovering what your customer really wants

by Paul Cherry edition

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The Noblest Roman: A History of the Centaur Types of Bruce Rogers

by Jerry Kelly and Misha Beletsky edition

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The Discovery of Dynamics: A Study from a Machian Point of View of the Discovery and the Structure of Dynamical Theories

by Julian B. Barbour edition

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The flying circus of physics

by Jearl Walker edition

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The lost books of the Odyssey

by Zachary Mason edition

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Unbroken: a World War II airman's story of survival, resilience, and redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand edition

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Musashi: Roman

by Eiji Yoshikawa edition
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Let us now praise famous men

by James Agee and Walker Evans edition
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The Long Ships

by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson edition

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Einstein's dreams

by Alan P. Lightman edition

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Rumo & his miraculous adventures: a novel in two books

by Walter Moers edition

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Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris by Simon Schaffer

by Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer, and Steven Shapin edition

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The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

by Thomas Ligotti edition

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The Universal Baseball Association, inc., J. Henry Waugh, prop.

by Robert Coover edition
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Anam cara: a book of Celtic wisdom

by O'Donohue, John edition

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Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England

by T. M. Luhrmann edition

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When God talks back: understanding the American evangelical relationship with God

by T. M. Luhrmann edition

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Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide

by Yana Weinstein, Megan Sumeracki, and Oliver Caviglioli edition

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The sociology of philosophies: a global theory of intellectual change

by Randall Collins edition

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Lipstick traces: a secret history of the twentieth century

by Greil Marcus edition

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Medieval technology and social change

by Lynn Townsend White edition

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