 | Delta of Venus (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anais Nin
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.53 Some tender passages, but the constant sexual scenarios tries one's patience.
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 | Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £3.99 A superb book. A collection of speeches and interviews with the world's most important public intellectual.
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 | Studies in Hysteria (Penguin Modern Classics) by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £6.51 The earliest seeds of Psychoanalysis are planted in this book. Contains the legendary case of "Anna O".
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 | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wordsworth Classics) by Omar Khayyam
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Fictions by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £3.95 Excellent short stories by the master of the mind-bending. If you already have the much-superior "Labyrinths" collection you might want to miss this.
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 | Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £2.36 |
 | Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner
Buy new: £4.64 / Used from: £4.99 A pivotal book in the Behaviourist Psychology canon. A little dogmatic and far-fetched in its conclusions, but this is essential for the understanding of the 20th Century's intellectual landscape.
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 | Colonialism and Neocolonialism (Routledge Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £5.66 A delightfully OTT prose style, by the favourite of self-appointed intellectuals.
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 | Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Buy new: £6.60 / Used from: £2.62 A little different from what I expected but enjoyable nontheless.
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 | Trilogy: "Molloy", "Malone Dies", "Unnameable" (Calderbooks) by Samuel Beckett
Buy used from: £5.35 Like sitting on a long-distance flight next to a compulsive talker. Flawed but lovable, and joyously unique.
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 | The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" v. 6 by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £9.08 / Used from: £8.08 Freud's best (and most accessible ) book! He shows how even the smallest of everyday occurances can have a psychoanalytic interpretation.
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 | The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: "A Case of Hysteria", "Three Essays on Sexuality" and Other Works v. 7 by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.25 One of Freud's most controversial books. His dogmatic tone annoys me greatly, but this is a cornerstone to his sexual interpretation of the psyche.
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 | The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality (Penguin Press Science) by Brian Greene
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £2.75 Not the accessible layperson's introduction to physics I was looking for, but some parts will really blow your mind. Ripe fodder for dinner-party conversation.
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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 | The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: "Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious" v. 8 by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £7.68 / Used from: £5.52 A bit of a vague translation lets this good book down.
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 | The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: Jensen's "Gradiva" and Other Works v.9: Jensen's "Gradiva" and Other Works Vol 9 by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £10.98 The usual from Freud.
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 | The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: Two Case Histories ("Little Hans" and "The Rat Man") v. 10 by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £4.88 Two of his most famous case studies. The description of The Rat Man's OCD is frightening.
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 | The Atrocity Exhibition: Annotated (Flamingo Modern Classics) by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.87 Vague, bland, and indulgent. File this under post-modern claptrap.
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 | The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £6.27 This phonebook-sized tome is a terrific personal account of a turbulant middle east in the last quarter-century.
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 | The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.25 A bit of a stuffy 19th century French novel, but looks good on my shelf.
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 | The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: v. 11 by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £7.39 / Used from: £10.98 His "Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis" is a great introduction to his ideas, but don't accept his interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci as gospel.
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 | The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.15 A breezy account of a legendary road trip through South America.
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 | Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.55 Utterly enthralling! Shows a frightening side to the human condition.
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 | The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: "The Case of Schreber", "Papers on Technique" and Other Works v. 12 by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £5.65 One of his more pedestrian works, in which he goes through old ideas with new source-material.
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 | Language Myths
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.50 A fantastic anthology dispelling alot of assumptions about language. Great to rebut the language snobs and grammar bullies.
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