![]() | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy used from: £4.50 Interesting on the surface, but Gladwell claims to show you something useful you can do yourself, in fact it just a tour of various incidents of 'blink', which is intreresting, but not life changing.
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![]() | Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668 by Thomas Hobbes
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £3.63 What a piece of political philosophy! One of the most fundamental and important works in the western world. Very hard going, it is massive, but quite brilliant and original.
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![]() | Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
Buy new: £3.17 / Used from: £0.36 Locke follows on from Hobbes, but instead of absolute monacrchy Locke desires a more liberal and tolerant authority. Among one of the very first liberal political books, short but brilliant.
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![]() | The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
Buy new: £3.26 / Used from: £0.44 Every time John Stuart Mill wrote something, it was clear, pefectly argued, and above all completely in line with common sense and the good of humanity. Great arguments for the equality of the sexes.
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![]() | The German Ideology: Introduction to a Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
Buy new: £7.60 / Used from: £1.00 Oh my my, this work has opened my eyes a bit. Marx is brutally astounding, he reaffirms his place as the greatest everytime I sit down with his works. Amazing.
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![]() | Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract (Oxford World's Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Oh dear. As much as I applaud Rousseau for his efforts, his philosophy is not great, full of contradictions, and ultimately a forerunner to Hitler and others who 'force people to be free'.
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![]() | On Liberty (English Library) by John Stuart Mill
Buy used from: £0.01 Ahh, delightfully refreshing. English common sense at its best. What a charming man Mill must have been.
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![]() | An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Jonathan Wolff
Buy new: £14.42 / Used from: £12.00 Not a bad introduction, but very dry, and a little boring. Just get stuck into John Rawls instead. Although it is fairly short and well structured.
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![]() | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £1.26 What a mastermind of political reality, a fantastic historian and literary genius. And its funny too! An astonishing work. Since first reading it, I've read it over and over again.
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![]() | Harvard Business Review on Managing Yourself by Harvard Business Review
Buy new: £8.93 / Used from: £8.70 Hallowell and Drucker articles are excellent. The rest is either average or poor.
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![]() | The Seven Days of Peter Crumb by Jonny Glynn
Buy used from: £0.01 Nasty, dark and original, a refreshing little read. Glynn's first novel and I enjoyed it a lot.
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![]() | Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg
Buy new: £14.26 / Used from: £2.69 An interesting perspective on software development, the nightmare it really can turn out to be. Funny and gripping, reads like a novel at times.
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![]() | Death Note volume 1 by Tsugumi Ohba
Buy new: £3.70 / Used from: £1.11 The first in the graphic novel series, and I was quite impressed, sharp and interesting concepts. Will definitely be following up with volume 2+3.
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![]() | The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £0.01 Philosophy, time travel and mind games, and lots and lots of coffee! Its a damn fun read, I loved it.
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![]() | Wittgenstein's Poker by John Eidinow
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £3.07 A small incident explored in interesting detail with great biographic background to both Wittgenstein and Popper. A nice read.
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![]() | Hegemony or Survival : America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £2.17 Chomsky at times uses too many quotes and references, and not enough prose, but he is undoubtedly brilliant and shines a light on some shocking aspects of US forgeign policy.
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![]() | Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £1.73 Some really nice examples of real world change in global companies, but generally it backs up what you already know is happening in todays world. Although a really enjoyable read at times, good fun.
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![]() | Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Ralph Leighton
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.79 Feynman is an utter delight, a truely fascinating character, who lived an extraordinary life. I was extremely inspired by this witty, insightful, and charming book, loved it!
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![]() | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.48 Camus is a tremendous writer, he pulls and pushes you in directions without you knowing, like a magician unveiling his characters to you in sleight of hand. The Outsider is superb!
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