 | Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.91 Brilliant and alarming study of obedience in ordinary people. It will make you distrust authority as never before
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 | The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £4.82 Fascinating study of how people put themselves across
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 | Language of the Third Reich: LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii (Continuum Impacts) by Victor Klemperer
Buy new: £12.91 / Used from: £8.30 How the cliches of the Third Reich influenced the way people think. We could use a book like it about the media world today
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 | The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Buy used from: £5.00 One of the richest, most gripping and most tragic books of 20th century history
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 | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Penguin history) by James M. McPherson
Buy new: £11.37 / Used from: £4.74 One of the richest, most gripping etc. of 19th century history
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 | Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation by Ben Watson
Buy new: £13.49 / Used from: £10.67 How a droll, cranky guitar player from Sheffield became one of the crucial artists for the new century
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 | Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought by Sheldon S. Wolin
Buy new: £19.90 / Used from: £19.79 Monumental and well-argued study about the rise , decline and contemporary decay of the Western political tradition
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 | On the Psychology of Military Incompetence (Pimlico) by Norman F. Dixon
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £5.77 Horrifying but also really funny in places. Why well-trained armies sometimes lose battles (and wars) so spectacularly
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 | God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History by Stephen Hawking
Buy new: £11.01 / Used from: £8.00 Greatest hits in maths!
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 | Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Berliner
Buy new: £17.04 / Used from: £16.29 What goes on when jazz musicians actually make music. A mine of interesting stories
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 | Godels Proof (Routledge Classics) by Ernest Nagel
Buy new: £8.21 / Used from: £7.12 What you need to read in order to begin to understand one of the great works of the human mind (reprinted in Hawking, above)
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