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GENERAL
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_Durant, THE STORY OF PHLISOPHY_
THE BIG PICTURE
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_R. Leakey & Lewin, THE SIXTH EXTINCTION_
_Flannery THE FUTURE EATERS_
WHAT IS HUMAN NATURE
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_Dostoevsky, THE GRAND INQUISITOR (The Brothers Karamazov)_
_Arendt, EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM_
_Borowski, THIS WAY FOR THE GAS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN_
... [ http://www.dieoff.com/page226.htm ]
_Goldhagen, HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS_
WHY IS HUMAN NATURE
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_Pinker, THE BLANK SLATE_
_Wrangham & Peterson, DEMONIC MALES_
_Watson, DARK NATURE_
_Ghiglieri, THE DARK SIDE OF MAN_
_Morrison & Margulis, THE SPIRIT IN THE GENE_
... republished as PLAGUE SPECIES, New Holland Publishers
_Gazzaniga, THE MIND'S PAST_
_Wegner, THE ILLUSION OF CONSCIOUS WILL_
_Dawkins, several_
ECONOMICS
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_K. Polanyi, THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION_
_Daly, several, especially FOR THE COMMON GOOD_
_Thurow, DANGEROUS CURRENTS_
_Mirowski, MORE HEAT THAN LIGHT_
ECONOMIC HISTORY
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_Schumpeter, HISTORY OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS_
_Meek & Kelly, THE ECONOMICS OF PHYSIOCRACY_
_Rothbard, ECONOMIC THOUGHT BEFORE ADAM SMITH_
ENERGY
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_Gever et al, BEYOND OIL is the best single energy book_
_Hall, Cleveland, and Kaufmann, ENERGY AND RESOURCE QUALITY_
_Campbell & Laherrere, several_
_Odum for eMergy_
_McPhee, THE CURVE OF BINDING ENERGY (homemade nuclear bomb risk)_
AGRICULTURE
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_the Pimentels, several_
POLITICS
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_Hirshman, THE PASSIONS AND THE INTERESTS_
_Matthews, IF MEN WERE ANGELS_
_Nelson, REACHING FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH_
_Douglas, REBELS AND DEMOCRATS (hardcore Founders research)_
SYSTEMS
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_Hardin, several, especially THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS_
_Forrester, several, especially THE LIMITS TO GROWTH_
_Bateson, several, especially MIND AND NATURE_
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