The Emperor's New Mind, by Roger Penrose The Tao of Physics, by Fritjof Capra Dancing Wu Li Masters, by Gary Zukav The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich Hayek The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner The Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant Grammatical Man, by Jeremy Campbell Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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"The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek [1] "Novum Organum" by Francis Bacon [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novum_Organum

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