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John Steinbeck |
Travels With Charlie |
I was 14. This was the book that turned me on to reading and started my path to discovery. |
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Ayn Rand |
Fountainhead |
I WAS Howard Roark. Security for a budding sense of individuality and independence. The perfect book to
shore-up the fragile personality of a 16-yr. old who was not understood by his peers - but who knew he was right. |
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Dag Hammarksjold |
Markings |
Windows for the mind. It still works for me. |
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Paul Theroux |
Picture Palace |
One of the greatest character studies ever written. The same spirit of individuality and independence found in
Ayn Rand's Roark. |
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Paul Theroux |
The Great Railway Bazaar |
His writing style infected mine for nearly a decade. The best of the travel-as-adventure tomes. |
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Irving Stone |
The Greek Treasure A Biographical Novel Of Henry and Sophia Schliemann |
On the surface, the story of the discovery of the ancient city of Troy. In reality, a book of Love: Love of
Mate; Love of Life's Calling; Love of Life. Its a treasure. |
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Nigel Calder |
Einstein's Universe |
The first book to provide us common folk with a grasp of the enormity of the universe and its complex
structure. |
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Carl Sagan |
Contact |
The only legitimate, science-based fiction on the possibility (reality) of extraterrestrial intelligence. They
do not look like us, think like us or in any sense exist like us. But they DO exist. And we’ll never encounter them! |
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Stephen Hawking |
A Brief History of Time |
Another Everyman explanation of complex physics. Nearly a knockout in the debate between Quantum Mechanics and
SuperString Theory. Hawking’s concepts were in retreat during the frenzy of investigation of SuperString Theory as embodying the true Grand Unified Theory, but in the early 2000s,
solid proof that SST produced an infinite number of universes has caused the physics world to return to Hawking’s belief that the path of discovery lies in Quantum Loop Gravity. |
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Michio Kaku |
Hyperspaces |
No fiction here - The most comprehensive advanced-layman book on SuperString Theory and life in ten dimensions
and beyond. Concluding with the hard scientific evidence
that unless there are radical changes in our lives globally, life on this planet will cease to exist within 60 years - No scare tactics, no hyperbole, just facts. |
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Klaus Eidam |
The True Life of J.S.Bach |
Finally! A book that opens up this great man’s life for us to examine as it actually was. We don’t think of
him as a widower caring for six children, having to cook over an open fire because he had no stove, carrying buckets of water because he couldn’t afford indoor plumbing. He was
saddled with lazy, inept musicians who were uninterested in his perfectionist goals. He was a volatile man who got into a street brawl. He was surrounded by haughty, pretentious power
mongers who had no clue of his true worth. This is the real J.S.Bach - the person we have never known. This book is a page turner that debunks all other biographies, most notably
those considered to be “bibles.” Eidam eviscerates the standard reference books by citing actual fact and illuminates Bach’s life as no one ever has. Having read this book, I cannot
wrap my head around how Bach managed to write the music he did. It is astonishing. |
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