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Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebilae, by Gale E. Christianson
ISBN# 0374146608
Hello, I must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends, by Charlotte Chandler
ISBN# 0140052224
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The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World by David Berlinski
ISBN# 0151003386
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
ISBN# 0375725601
I have landed: The End of the Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 10609601431
How NASA Learned To Fly In Space: An exciting account of the Gemini missions by David M. Harland
ISBN# 1894959078
Ron Kittle's Tales from the White Sox Dugout by Ron Kittle with Bob Logan
ISBN# 1582615438
James Madison: A Biography by Ralph Ketcham
ISBN# 0813912652
His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
ISBN# 1400040310
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum
ISBN# 0446532681
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy
ISBN# 0060195339
The Long Season by Jim Brosnan
ISBN# 1566634180
The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source by Martin Fink
ISBN# 0130476773
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
ISBN# 0395193958
The Lying Stones of Marrakech by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 0609601423
The Cathedral & The Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
ISBN# 0596001088
Moral Man and Immoral Society, by Reinhold Niebuhr
ISBN# 068471857X
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand
ISBN# 0465069592
TR: The Last Romantic, by H. W. Brands
ISBN# 0465069592
The Ginger Kid: The Buck Weaver Story, by Irving M. Stein
ISBN# 0697162761
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 0393311031
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
ISBN# 0441007465
The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow, by Richard F. Bales
ISBN# 0786414243
Sputnik: The Shock of the Century, by Paul Dickson
ISBN# 0802713653
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! Collected Essays 1934-1998, by Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN# 0312198930
Truman, by David McCullough
ISBN# 0671869205
Hercule Poirot's Casebook by Agatha Chrisite
ISBN# 0399150218
Even Since Darwin, by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 0393308189
Interface, by Stephen Bury (a.k.a. Neal Stephenson)
ISBN# 0553572407
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon, by James Hartford
ISBN# 0471327212
The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
ISBN# 0345332075
American Pharaoh, by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor
ISBN# 0316834890
Tyrannosaurus SUE, by Steve Fiffer
ISBN# 0716794624
Veeck as in Wreck; The Autobiography of Bill Veeck, by Bill Veeck and Ed Linn
ISBN# 0226852180
Failure is not an Option, by Gene Kranz
ISBN# 0743200799
All the President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
ISBN# 0671894412
The Flamingo's Smile, by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 0393303756
The Amistad: A Novel, by David Pesci
ISBN# 156924748x
A People's History of the Supreme Court, Peter Irons
ISBN# 0140292012
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, Josph J. Ellis
ISBN# 0375405445
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
ISBN# 0553294385
Under the Radar, Robert Young and Wendy Goldman Rohm
ISBN# 1576105067
Conversations About the End of Time, with Stephen Jay Gould, Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude Carriere, and Jean Delumeau
ISBN# 0880642173
The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson
ISBN# 0553380966
High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
ISBN# 1573228214
The Panda's Thumb, by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 0393908197
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
ISBN# 0140185216
The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for and about Groucho Marx, Selected and Editied by Stefan Kanfer
ISBN# 037570213X
The World of Jeeves, by P.G. Woodhouse
ISBN# 0060972440
In the Beginning was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson
ISBN# 0380815931
Bully for Brontosaurus, by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 039330857X
Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert
Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
ISBN# 0345331354
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
ISBN# 0451522303
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
ISBN# 0553562614
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams, by Joseph J. Ellis
ISBN# 039311333
A Man on the Moon, by Andrew Chaikin
ISBN# 0140272011
The Code Book, by Simon Singh
ISBN# 0385495315
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt
ISBN# 0679751521
Who Wrote Shakespeare, by John Michell
ISBN# 0500281130
Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert
Hackers, by Steven Levy
ISBN# 0385312105
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph J. Ellis
ISBN# 0679764410
John Quincy Adams: A Public, A Private Life, by Paul C. Nagel
ISBN# 0674479408
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History, by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 3093311392
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
ISBN# 0380973464
The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood
ISBN# 0860681297
Sula, by Toni Morrison
ISBN# 0452263492
John Adams: A Life, by John Ferling
ISBN# 0805045767
Dinosaur in a Haystack, by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 0517888246
The Third Rumple Omnibus, by John Mortimer
ISBN# 0140257411
Why Not Me?, by Al Franken
ISBN# 038531809X
Dune, by Frank Herbert
All Too Human, by Geroge Stephanopoulos
ISBN# 0316929190
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 0609601415
Rock of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life, by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 0345430093
The Second Rumple Omnibus, by John Mortimer
ISBN# 0140089586
The Martin Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
ISBN# 0553278223
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN# 0441790348
The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
ISBN# 0553275569
First on the Moon, by Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldran
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
ISBN# 0452280621
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Always Reading (a.k.a. Collections of Essays, Poems, Stories, etc. Always Being Read.):
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United States Essays 1952-1992, by Gore Vidal
ISBN# 0679755721
Affirmative Acts: Political Essays, by June Jordan
ISBN# 0385492251
Applied Cryptography Second Edition by Bruce Schneier
ISBN# 0471117099
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, by Marshall McLuhan
ISBN# 0262631598u
The Science Fiction Century Edited by David Hartwell
ISBN# 0965850137
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN# 0192123114
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN# 0192123092
The Classic Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN# 0681418192
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To Be Read Next:
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Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
ISBN# 0671492071
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
ISBN# 0802713432
Crypto by Steven Levy
ISBN# 0140244328
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
ISBN# 0380977427
I Have Landed by Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN# 060901431
The Adams-Jeffeson Leters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adamns, Edited by Lester J. Cappon
ISBN# 0807842303
William Cooper's Town, by Alan Taylor
ISBN# 0679773002
Fermat's Enigma, by Simon Singh
ISBN# 0385493622
The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli - Translated and edited by Daniel Donno
ISBN# 0553212788
1984, by Gerorge Orwell
ISBN# 0451524934
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, by Edward O. Wilson
ISBN# 0965058305
The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard P. Feynman
ISBN# 0965058219
Only the Paranoid Survive, by Andrew S. Grove
ISBN# 0385482582
Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley
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-Abigail Adams
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