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Other Recommended Books
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris. A collection of short stories. Hands down the funniest book I have ever read.
Free Schools, Jonathan Kozol. A handbook for starting an independent community school.
Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol. A detailed depiction of Americas failing schools in our poorest neighborhoods. He lets the children and the communities speak for themselves. One of the best books I have ever read.
Amazing Grace, Jonathan Kozol. A story that follows a family in the Bronx and the neighborhood the live in.
Ordinary Resurrections, Jonathan Kozol. A follow up story about the same Bronx neighborhood more than a decade later.
Vintage Baldwin, James Baldwin. Short stories.
Mapping Human History, Steve Olson. A timeline of human expansion and further proof that all humans are related in the not so distant past.
The Gates of the Forest, Elie Wiesel. A symbolic and deeply layered book about the horrors of surviving during the Holocaust.
The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould. The point blank counter argument to racist scientific findings that was ever present in twentieth century.
I Have Landed, Stephen Jay Gould. A collection of his essays that he wrote for magazines over his long career.
The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek. An explanation of why free markets, free economies, and free societies are so important for a healthy society. Written during WWII when there was still a lot of debate about how to run a nation. Planning (socialism and totalitarianism) or Free Market (capitalism and democracy).
The Mystery of Capital, Hernando De Soto. An exploration of why capitalism struggles to succeed in third world countries.
Fermat's Last Theorem, Amir Aczel. Layman's guide to the most enduring mathematic mysteries and the roots of advanced mathematics.
Entanglement, Amir Aczel. Layman's guide to Einstein's final challenge to the field of mathematics.
The Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra. An astounding depiction of the link between ancient Far East religious beliefs and modern scientific discoveries in the field of physics.
Animal Farm, George Orwell. Symbolic story about the dangers nations face when deciding how to govern and develop communal morals.
The Giver, Lois Lowry. Young adult literature. A great story about the disturbing effects of a world without suffering.
Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins. An exercise in imagination. Inanimate objects lead the story from America to Isreal.
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