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The Looming Tower
Locomotive
Freedom from fear
The Second World War
A history of the English-speaking peoples
The swerve
Lenin's tomb
Human knowledge, its scope and limits
Subtle Is the Lord
Amos Fortune, free man
Gandhi's truth
So you want to be president?
How We Die
The story of mankind
Moon over Manifest
Autobiography
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
L'Homme révolté
Ashanti to Zulu
Animals of the Bible
Snowflake Bentley
The Soul of a New Machine
Lincoln
Guns, germs, and steel
Human Society in Ethics and Politics
Introduction to mathematical philosophy
A Bright Shining Lie
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
My Philosophical Development
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