On What Matters: Volume One
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The Subjection of Women
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
A greyhound catching the mechanical lure—what would he actually do with it? Has he given this any thought?
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound …
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