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28 March 2008 |
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Douglas
Hackney Current Book Inventory |
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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Merriam Webster Dictionary |
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Reference |
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Environment, Inc. |
Christopher Bosso |
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2 |
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The Stuff of Thought |
Steven Pinker |
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3 |
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The Metamorphosis |
Franz Kafka |
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4 |
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The Canterbury Tales |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
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5 |
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Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations |
David Warsh |
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6 |
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The Brothers Karamazov |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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7 |
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Pathfinders |
Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
Currently reading this book |
8 |
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The Worst Hard Time |
Timothy Egan |
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9 |
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Where I Was From |
Joan Didion |
From Steph |
10 |
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian |
Wallace Stegner |
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11 |
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Founding Brothers |
Joseph Ellis |
Borrowed from Kathy Stajic |
12 |
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In Patagonia |
Bruce Chatwin |
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13 |
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Road Fever |
Tim Cahill |
From Steph |
14 |
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The City of Falling Angels |
John Berendt |
From Steph |
15 |
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A Thousand Paths to a Peaceful Life |
David Baird |
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16 |
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Worst Case Scenario: Travel |
Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht |
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17 |
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Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook |
Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht |
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18 |
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US Armed Forces Survival Manual |
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19 |
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SAS Survival Handbook |
John "Lofty" Wiseman |
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20 |
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Rough Guide to Weather |
Robert Henson |
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21 |
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The Perennial Philosophy |
Aldous Huxley |
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22 |
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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind |
Diana & Michael Preston |
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23 |
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Team of Rivals |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
Recommended by Lee Wochner |
24 |
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Liberators |
Robert Harvey |
Read it a few years ago, brought it for South American history |
25 |
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The Fabric of the Cosmos |
Brian Greene |
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26 |
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Simon Bolivar - A Life |
John Lynch |
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27 |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
Robert M. Pirsig |
Can you believe I've never gotten around to reading this yet? |
28 |
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Zorba the Greek |
Nikos Kazantzakis |
Recommended by John Kretschmer |
29 |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything |
Bill Bryson |
From Steph |
30 |
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Not So Funny When It Happened |
Edited by Tim Cahill |
From Steph |
31 |
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In Gods We Trust |
Scott Atran |
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32 |
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Vehicle Dependent Expedition Guide |
Tom Sheppard |
2nd Edition, one of the last shrink wrapped copies on the
planet when new |
33 |
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Ledyard |
Bill Gifford |
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34 |
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The Iliad |
Homer - translated by Robert Fagles |
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35 |
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The Odyssey |
Homer - translated by Robert Fagles |
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36 |
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The Inheritance of Loss |
Kiran Desai |
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37 |
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Deep Survival |
Laurence Gonzales |
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38 |
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone |
Lee Iacocca |
I've been asking this since the 1980s |
39 |
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Balkan Ghosts |
Robert D. Kaplan |
My travel writing often gets compared to Kaplan's |
40 |
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There, Where the Pepper Grows |
Ben Le Hunte |
From Kathy Stajic |
41 |
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Three Novels of Ancient Egypt |
Naguib Mahfouz |
I'm still interested in Islam, the Middle East and Egyptian
history |
42 |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
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43 |
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Galileo's Daughter |
Dava Sobel |
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