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Steven Horwitz Austrian Economics: An Introduction Milton Friedman & Rose Friedman Free to Choose: A Personal Statement Orlando Figes Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History John Maynard Keynes The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money Lawrence James The Rise and Fall of the British Empire Murray N. Rothbard What Has Government Done to Our Money? Steven Earle A Brief History of the Earth's Climate: Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change Allan H. Meltzer A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2, Book 1: 1951–1969 Alan S. Blinder A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 Bhu Srinivasan Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism Patrick McGee Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company Bryan Burrough & John Helyar Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco Silvanus P. Thompson Calculus Made Easy Joseph A. Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy M. Mitchell Waldrop Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos Mike Bannister Concorde: The Thrilling Account of History's Most Extraordinary Airliner Philip Ball Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another Keith Gessen Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager Vaclav Smil Energy: A Beginner's Guide Jeffrey E. Garten From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives Vaclav Smil How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going Ivo van Vulpen How to Find a Higgs Boson—and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small Daniel Immerwahr How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Randall Munroe How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems Mark Miodownik It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World Sheldon Axler Linear Algebra Done Right Liaquat Ahamed Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Theodore Gray Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything Sebastian Mallaby More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite Vaclav Smil Oil: A Beginner's Guide Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé On Palestine Giles Sparrow Physics in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant Francis Fukuyama Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy Theodore Gray Reactions: An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe Gary S. Becker The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior Theodore Gray The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe Robert L. Hetzel The Federal Reserve: A New History Robert Solomon The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories & Things Daniel Yergin The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations Nick Huber The Sweaty Startup: How to Get Rich Doing Boring Things Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West Ian Morris War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots Ian Morris Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future Edward Fishman Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare Michael Frame & Amelia Urry Fractal Worlds: Grown, Built, and Imagined Eric Jorgenson The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
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