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by christofd 6269 days ago
- The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, 1973 (Douglas North, Robert Thomas): Nobel Economic Historian North explains how institutions and property rights determine how human beings got along with each other through history; this is important, so they don't think we're mass murderers by design

- some school biology book on natural selection, evolution

- The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

- Goedel, Escher, Bach: introduction to the "weirdness" of the human brain

- the little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry): human beings and their quirks

- Several editions of Popular Mechanics