Books! (building blocks & wrecking balls)

In development / in no particular order / look-up these authors on You Tube or Vimeo for talks
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In no particular order [ needs sorting ]

Books by Vaclav Smil – VaclavSmil.com
Viral: The search for the origins of COVID-19 by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley (archive.org) – audiobook | text
Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouckl
A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of Sullivan & Cromwell (lawyers + money + power connections) – link
Very Short Introductions (series) – link
Oxford book of aphorisms by John Gross – link
Sudbury Valley “school” onlin e bookstore
The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon: The True Story of the Japanese Fishermen Who Were the First Victims of the H-Bomb (1957) by Ralph E. Lapp
An Act of State by William Pepper (See WilliamPepper.com)
An Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto (See JohnTaylorGatto.com)
The Master & His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist – author site
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott – link
The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson – link | author interview/mini-documentary
Cure Tooth Decay by Ramiel Nagel – link
The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There by Paul Connett Ph.D.James Beck Ph.D., M.D.Spedding Micklem Ph.D. – link
The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome – link
SurveillanceValley.com
(audio) King Leopold’s Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa – torrents
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011) by Colin Woodard – torrents
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman – torrents (Also see the video series)
Bart Ehrman books (many books): + his non-profit blog vs. homelessness
- Misquoting Jesus – The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
- Jesus Before the Gospels
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill – torrent
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011) by Colin Woodard – torrents
Sand Talk: how Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta – torrent
Books by Antonio Damasio: Descartes’ Error, The Strange Order of Things
Books by Stephen Kinzer – StephenKinzer.com
Books by Tim Weiner: Legacy of Ashes, Enemies, One Man Against the World, The Folly and the Glory
Deep Survival by Lawrence Gonzales
John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve J. Heims
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff – link
J.D. Bernal: The Sage of Science by Andrew Brown
Science in History by J.D. Bernal
Staying Alive by Maurice and Maralyn Bailey (survived 170 days at sea!)
Augustine’s Laws by Norman Augustine
Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik
Children and Play in the Holocaust: games among the shadows by George Eisen
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
The Complete Investor (Charlie Munger based)
The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann
The Anthropology of Childhood by David F. Lancy
The intelligent investor by Benjamin Graham
The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska by John DeCamp – torrent | youtube interview
The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant – official site | torrent
A Sexual Profile of Men in Power by Sam Janus, Ph.D., Barbara Bess, M.D., Carol Saltus (1977)
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk – torrents
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia by Alfred McCoy (1972) – link
Beyond Words by Carl Safina
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Nature and Madness by Paul Shepherd
Future Primitive (Revisited) by John Zerzan
Animal Wise: How We Know Animals Think and Feel by Virginia Morell
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance with Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black (see IBMandtheHolocaust.com)
Our Final Invention by James Barrat (about artificial intelligence)
CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
Griftopia by Matt Taibi
Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives by Patricia Stuart-Macadam – link
The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher – torrent
Apocalypse Culture, edited by Adam Parfrey – torrent
Origins: A John Zerzan Reader – archive.org
Luddite.com by Chellis Glendinning
Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C. Scott (audio book) – link (youtube)
Pacifism as Pathology by Ward Churchill – link
Books by Layla Abdel Rahim – link
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver (audiobook) – youtube
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party by Bobby Seale – torrent
Joseph Campbell works
Stan Gof works
Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins
Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane
How the Brain Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
How the Brain Heals Itself by Norman Doidge
Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman – link
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, by Antony Sutton – online | also see torrents
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, by Antony Sutton – online | also see torrents
The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, by Antony C. Sutton – link | also see torrents
Introduction to Skull & Bones, by Antony C. Sutton – pdf | also see torrents
Secrets of the Tomb by Alexandra Robbins – link
The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men by Eric Lichtblau – link
The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals by Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H. Ehrlich, Paul R. Ehrlich
Genesis (photography) by Sebastião Salgado (he inspired the documentary, The Salt of the Earth)
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
Miller’s Review of Critical Vaccine Studies 400 Important Scientific Papers Summarized for Parents and Researchers by Neil Z. Miller
Malignant Medical Myths by Joel Kaufmann
Vitamin C: the master nutrient by Sandra Goodman
Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries
Overshoot by William Catton
Carnivore Minds by G. A. Bradshaw
Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity Paperback by G. A. Bradshaw
The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care by Sally Fallon and Thomas Cowan
The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book by Shari Lieberman and Nancy Bruning
Light Radiation And You (also) Health And Light by John Nash Ott
Army Surveillance in America, 1775–1980 by Joan Jensen
Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity by Lorenzo C. Simpson
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy D. Snyder

Old list / needs sorting: >> I’m not a fan of “textbooks,” but here’s a list of textbooks on “every subject” by LessWrong.com Also see +this link for a list of “books that need to circulate throughout America.” America / United States

(audio & text) A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present, by Howard Zinn – torrents
(audio) An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Du – torrent
American Indian Genocide Museum recommended books – link
(audio & text) Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA by Tim Weiner – torrents
(audio) Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner – torrent
(audio) The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes – torrent
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, by Radley Balko (2013) – torrents
The Underground History of American Education | online book (404 error) | various versions at Archive.org
America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy by William Blum – torrent
(audio & text) Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines by Richard Heinberg – ebook | audio
ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism, by Yves Smith – torrents
Wolf Nation: The Life, Death and Return of Wild American Wolves – torrent
Pocket Birds of North America – torrent
Democracy Incorporated, by Sheldon Wolin – torrents
(audio) Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835 & 1840) – torrents

Schooling

The Underground History of American Education | online book (404 error) | various versions at Archive.org
+Notes/highlights of the book The Underground History of American Education
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto (a short book)
The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It – torrents
(not linked) 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education – official website

Variety

190 encyclopedias
Classics
Death by Government by RJ Rummel – torrent
Against His-Story, Against Leviathan by Fredy Perlman – torrent
Extinct Animals: An Encyclopedia of Species that Have Disappeared by Ross Piper – torrent
A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman – torrent
Plagues and Peoples by William McNeil – torrent
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners by Rob Dunn – torrent
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Pandemic by David Quammen – torrent
(audio) The Lakota Way – Native American Wisdom on Ethics and Character – torrent
Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism by Ozzie Zehner – torrent [ Greenillusions.org ]
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot – torrent
Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of the Earth by George Wuerthner and Eileen Crist – torrent
(audio) Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud – torrent
Theodor W. Adorno – Philosophical Works (30 books) – torrent
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, by Mortimer J. Adler – torrents
Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn – torrents (author of the highly-acclaimed novel, Ishmael )
(audio) Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! by Fredy Perlman – youtube
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz – torrent
The Encyclopedia of Birds (9 volumes) – torrent
Snake Oil: Fracking’s False Promise by Richard Heinberg – torrent
(audio) Light at the Edge of the World by Wade Davis – torrent
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond – torrent
(audio) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond – torrent
(audio) Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond – torrent
The Woman’s Bible, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898) – free from Amazon (Surprisingly, this has not been uploaded to Archive.org)
When God was a Woman by Merilin Stone – torrents
The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (journal entries translated) – torrents
Cecil Rhodes by Sarah Gertrude Millin (1933) – torrent
Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO (2nd edition) – torrent
(audio) Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language by Christopher Stevens – torrents
(audio) White Noise by Don DeLillo – torrent
(audio) Zero K by Don DeLillo – torrent
Don DeLillo collection – torrent
Bamboo: The Plant and its Uses by Walter Liese and Michael Köhl – torrent
The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander by Thames and Hudson – torrents
America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy by William Blum – torrent
Zygmunt Bauman [Collection] in Spanish, Portuguese, English – torrent
(audio & text) Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell – torrents (Orwell put down the pen and took up the fight against Franco’s facists)
Evil Media by Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey – torrent
The Anglo-American Establishment, by Carroll Quigley – PDF (Quigley seems to have been misunderstood by many people circulating information about him online. This work should help clarify more than what people say about him and his book “Tragedy & Hope.”)
Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time, by Carroll Quigley – torrents
(audio) The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes – torrent
(audio & text) The Lessons Of History, by Will & Ariel Durant – torrents
(audio) The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass – torrent
(audio) The Origins Of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt – torrents
(audio and text) The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, by Samuel Huntington – torrents
The Open Society and Its Enemies, by Karl Popper – torrents
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben – torrent
(audio & text) A Short History of Myth, by Karen Armstrong – torrents
(audio) A Short History of Islam, by Karen Armstrong – torrents
(audio) The Bible: Unabridged, by Karen Armstrong – torrents
Karen Armstrong books (16 books on Myth, God and religion) – torrents
(audio) Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835 & 1840) – torrents
ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism, by Yves Smith – torrents
Democracy Incorporated, by Sheldon Wolin – torrents
(audio & text) A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present, by Howard Zinn – torrents
(audio) An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Du – torrent
(audio & text) Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World by William Cohan – audio | text
(audio & text) Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story by Greg Smith – audio | text
Plato (36 books) – torrents
Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer – torrents (audio & text)
Empire of Illusion by Christopher Hedges – torrents
Adventures in Paleontology (HUGE amount of paleo books) – torrents
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, by David Montgomery – torrents
The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska, by John DeCamp – torrents
Noam Chomsky (60 books, 983MB) – torrents
(audio) The a Man Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks – torrents
Language and Mind, by Noam Chomsky – torrents
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to quit school and get a real life and education, by Grace Llewellyn – torrents
Walden & Civil Disobedience, by Henry D. Thoreau – torrents
Crowds and Power (1978), by Elias Canetti – torrents
(audio & text) Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA by Tim Weiner – torrents
(audio) Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner – torrent
The Burglary: The Discovery of J Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI by Betty Medsger – torrent
Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile – torrent
Against Empire by Michael Parenti – torrent | other Parenti books
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 (NPR overview), by Yang Jisheng – torrent
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China – torrents
(audio) Musicophilia – Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks – torrent
The Missionary Position (scandalous writing on Mother Theresa), by Christopher Hitchens – torrents (both audio & text)
Against Civilization, by John Zerzan (archive.org)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Philosophical Works (6 books) – torrents
The Party’s Over – Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg – torrents
How the Mind Works, by Stephen Pinker – torrents
The Age of Insight, by Eric Kandel – torrents
In Search of Memory: A New Science of Mind, by Eric Kandel – torrents
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, by Thomas Nagel – torrents
(audio & text) God is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens – torrents
God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions, by Stephen Prothero – torrents
(audio) Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway – torrents
Criticism of the Bible – Collection – torrents
Inside the Company: CIA Diary, by Phillip Agee (former CIA, published in 1975) – torrents
(audio) Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude, by Robert Baer (former CIA) – torrents
(audio & text) See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism – torrents
(audio) Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison, by Michael Daly – torrents
The Naked Capitalist; a Review and Commentary on Dr. Carroll Quigley’s Book: Tragedy and Hope, a History of the World in Our Time, by W. Cleon Skousen – torrent – Also see this debate about the book (PDF)
(audio & text) Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, by Neal Gabler – torrents
Albert Hirschman Collection – torrents
Bertrand Russell books – torrents | Bertrand Russell Collection – torrents
Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky – torrents
Allies and Enemies, How the World Depends on Bacteria, by Anne Maczulak – torrents
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, by Legs McNeil & Jennifer Osborne & Peter Pavia – torrents
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, by Gail Dines – torrents
The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America’s Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam, by Tom Mangold, John Penycate – torrents
Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson – torrents
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, by Edward O. Wilson – torrents
Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology, by Neil Postman – torrents (audio and text)
Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman – torrents
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East – torrents
The Archaeology of Animals, by Simon Davis – torrents
The Honourable Company; a History of the English East India Company, by John Keay – torrents
Teaching as a Subversive Activity, by Neil Postman – link (PDF, Oregon State Univ.)
Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future, by Neil Postman – torrents
The Tyranny of Experts – Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, by William Easterly – torrents
(audio & text) No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, by Lysander Spooner (1869) – audio (archive.org) | text (archive.org) | and HERE
The Ascent of Man, by Jacob Bronowski – torrents
Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Arts – torrents
The Encyclopedia of Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Ornament From Prehistoric Times to the Twentieth Century – torrents
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology – torrents
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, by Lierre Keith – torrents
(audio & text) Bill Bryson collection – torrents
(audio & text) Chris Hedges collection (includes American Fascists & War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning) – torrents
(audio & text) 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric Cline – torrents (Also see an earlier book, The Chalice & the Blade)
(2 books) 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus | 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles Mann – torrents (Columbus created the new world?)
(audio) 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann – torrents
(audio) 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles C. Mann – torrents
Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA, by Mumia Abu-Jamal – torrents
(online book) The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, by Joost A. M. Meerloo (1956) – link (He escaped from the Nazis)
(online book) Delusion and Mass Delusion, by by Joost A. M. Meerloo (1949) – link
(online summary) The Invention of the White Race, by Theodore Allen – link
The American Indians: People of the Lakes – torrents
(audio) The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, by Amy Stewart – torrents
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army & Other Diabolical Insects, by Amy Stewart – torrents (both Wicked Plants & Wicked Bugs together)
Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities, by Amy Stewart – torrents (both Wicked Plants & Wicked Bugs together)
(audio) Advanced Bird Language (series) by Jon Young – torrent
(audio) Seeing Through Native Eyes (series) by Jon Young – torrent
The Memory of the World: The Treasures That Record Our History from 1700 BC to the Present Day (UNESCO) – torrents
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia – torrents
Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape – torrents
The Arrow Impossibility Theorem, by Eric Maskin – torrents
Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams, Joy James – torrents
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, by Radley Balko (2013) – torrents
(audio & text) Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman – torrent (large file) | torrent (smaller file)
(audio & text) Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, by Mason Currey – torrents
(audio & text) Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, by Peter Kropotkin – torrents (The 520 meg audio version is terrible) | free for Kindle | other PDF
The Fourth Turning by W Strauss and N Howe – torrents (about cycles in history, with America as a focus)
(audio & text) Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman – torrents
(audio) The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons – torrents
(audio & text) Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (Revised and Expanded Edition) – torrents
(audio & text) The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley – torrents
(audio & text) The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – torrents
(audio & text) Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson – torrent
(audio & text) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander – official site | study guides | torrents
Totally Incorrect: Conversations with Doug Casey – PDF
(audio & text) The Market for Liberty by Morris Tannehill – torrents | Mises.org files
(audio & text) The Machinery of Freedom: A Guide to a Radical Capitalism by David Friedman – torrents (audio version stops after chapter 40)
Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul – torrents
The Darwin Awards by Wendy Northcutt (stupid people accidentally killing themselves) – Torrents: books 1,2,3 | books 1-6
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov – torrents
Murray Rothbard 10 Books on Libertarianism, Ethics, etc – torrents
The Law that Never Was (Volumes one & two) by Bill Benson – torrents | read the summary at TPB
The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad – torrents
Punished By Rewards by Alfie Kohn – torrents
Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen – torrent
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler – torrent
(audio & text) What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe – torrents
The Origin and History of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment (1881) – archive.org
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker – torrents
The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide by James Fadiman – torrents
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca – torrents
Judicial Tyranny and Your Income Tax by Jeffrey Dickstein – PDF
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts – torrents
Seeking Wisdom From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin – torrents
Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights by Gary Klein – torrents
Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley by Eric Weiner – torrents
(audio & text) The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan – torrents
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware – torrents
(audio & text) 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class The Thought Processes, Habits and Philosophies of the Great Ones by Steve Siebold – torrents
(audio & text) The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson – torrents
(audio) As A Man Thinketh by James Alden – torrent / Text version is here
(audio & text) Gandhi: An Autobiography – The Story of My Experiments with Truth – torrents
(audio & text) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey – torrents
(audio) The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey – torrents
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg – torrents
The Whole Earth Catalog (2 books, 1968 and 1984) – torrents
Cool Tools: a catalog of possibilities by Kevin Kelly – torrents
(audio) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – torrents
(audio) Age of Reason by Thomas Paine – torrents
(audio) Common Sense by Thomas Paine – torrents
On the Natural History of Destruction by W. G. Sebald – torrent
Jacques Ellul Collection – torrent

Body, Health, Food, Sex, Exercise

(audio & text) Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health by Gary Taubes torrents (official page)
(audio & text) The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith – torrents
The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat by Tim Spector – torrents
(audio & text) The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz – torrent
The Microbiome Diet – torrents
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders – torrent
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong – torrents
Body By Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training – torrents
Pure, White and Deadly (and Fat Chance) by John Yudkin (books about sugar and gaining weight) – torrents
Know Your Fats by Mary Enig – torrents
Grain Brain – torrents
Wheat Belly – torrents
Disease Proof: The Remarkable Truth About What Makes Us Well by David L. Katz MD – torrents
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee – torrent
Feed Zone Portables: A cookbook of on-the-go food for athletes by Biju Thomas and Allen Lim – torrents (for cyclists, runners, triathletes, mountain bikers, climbers, hikers, and backpackers, etc)
Pavel Tsatsouline exercise collection (not just kettlebells) – torrents
You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises for Men and Women by Mark Lauren; Joshua Clark – torrents
Starting Strength – torrents
The Fasting Cure by Upton Sinclair (1910)
(audio) The Mood Cure by Julia Ross – torrents
4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Time Ferris – torrents
(audio) Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price – The author did research in 1930s by traveling to different remote tribes all over the world and proved how modern food destroys peoples teeth and health in general – torrents

(audio & text) The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won’t Prevent Heart Disease by Jonny Bowden, Stephen Sinatra – torrents
(audio & text) Slow Sex by Nicole Daedone – torrents
I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide by Dorian Solot, Marshall Miller – torrents
The Illustrated Guide to Extended Massive Orgasm by Steve and Vera Bodansky – torrents
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell (largest nutrition and disease study in human history) – text & audio torrents >>> Also see *this essay* disputing the China Study
The Anabolic Diet by Mauro DiPasquale – torrent
7 Steps to a Pain Free Life: How to Rapidly Relieve Back & Neck Pain by Robin McKenzie – torrents
Escalating Density Training – torrents

Science

(audio & text) How the Brain Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by M.D., Norman Doidge – torrents
The Brain’s Way of Healing by Norman Doidge – torrent
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, by Donald Prothero (2007) – torrents
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin – torrent
(audio & text) Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne – torrents
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George Church & Ed Regis – torrents
(audio & text) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn – torrents
Stephen Jay Gould audio books collection – torrents
Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and Diet of Worms, by Stephen Jay Gould – torrents
Wonderful Life, by Stephen Jay Gould – torrents
The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen Jay Gould – torrents
Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do by Wallace J. Nichols – torrents
Ever Since Darwin, by Stephen Jay Gould – (offline)
(audio) The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion by Wendy Williams – torrent

Business / Money

(audio & text) Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist – torrents
(audio & text) The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life – torrents
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickards – torrents
The Death of Money by James Rickards – torrents
(audio & text) The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone – torrents
(audio & text) The Innovators: by Walter Issacson – text torrents | audio torrent
Instant – The story of Polaroid by Christopher Bonanos – torrents
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper – torrents
Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber – torrents
Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters, by Walter Friedman (2013) – torrents
(audio & text) Milton Friedman – Capitalism and Freedom – torrents
The Atlas of Economic Complexity – PDF
A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World’s Greatest Market by Jim Rogers – torrents (from a man who’s been in China since 1984)

Cannabis / Hemp

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer – PDF | torrents | online text version (Highly recommend buying the print version since it’s loaded with great illustrations)
Cannabis Pharmacy: The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana – torrents
Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana – torrents
Smoke Signals – A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific – torrent
The Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness by Steve DeAngelo
The Cannabis Health Index by Uwe Blesching (available December 2015)
Marijuana: Gateway to Health by Clint Werner – torrents
The Gospel of Hemp – torrents (free at Amazon, too)
Doug Fine books: Too High to Fail, Hemp Bound, and others – link
Marijuana Horticulture – The Indoor & Outdoor Medical Growers Bible – torrrents
The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis (many contributors) – torrents
Marijuana Legalization: everything you need to know by Angela Hawken (and 3 other authors) –(2014 c-span discussion)

The Hempcrete Book: Designing and Building with Hemp Lime by William Stanwix and Alex Sparrow – torrents
A New Leaf: The End of Marijuana Prohibition by by Alyson Martin & Nushin Rashidian – torrents

Drugs / Drug War

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World by David T. Courtwright – torrent
(audio & text) Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari – official site | torrents
(audio & text) Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, by Gary Webb – text | audio
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System, by Roberto Saviano – torrents – This was made into a fiction movie produced by Martin Scorcese. The author had to go into hiding after he was marked for death by the Naples Comorra.
Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction by David T. Courtwright – torrent
High Price: A Neuroscientists Journey of Self Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart – torrent
(audio) Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge. A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution, by Terence McKenna – torrents
(audio) True Hallucinations, by Terence McKenna – torrents

Political Corruption

(audio) The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind George Guidall – torrents
935 Lies: the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity, by Charles Lewis (2014) – torrents | audio book
The War on Freedom: How & Why America was Attacked, by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – torrents

Political(other)

On Politics: A History of Political Thought, by Alan Ryan – torrents
Norman Finkelstein – torrents

Wealth Creation / Generating Wealth / Biz Strategy / Running a Biz / Sales

(audio & text) Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras – audio | epub (this is a better audio version, but it’s missing CD5)
(audio & text) Good to Great by Jim Collins – torrents
How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins – torrents
(audio & text) Great by Choice by Jim Collins – torrents
(audio & text) How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – audio | text
The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won’t Learn in College About How to Be Successful, by Michael Ellsberg – torrents
(audio & text) Think and Grow Rich (21st Century Edition), by Napoleon Hill – torrents (Mr. Hill was around at the time of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Alexander Graham Bell. He met them and used their life examples and many others for the content of this highly practical book.
(audio & text) The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham – torrents
(audio & text) A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G Malkiel – torrents
(audio & text) The Success System That Never Fails, by Clement Stone (an associate of Napoleon Hill) – torrents
(audio & text) The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future, by Chris Guillebeau – torrents
(audio & text) Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki – torrents and many of his other works (includes Rich Dad, Poor Dad)
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, by C.K. Prahalad – torrents
(audio) Innovation and Entrepreneurship, by Peter Drucker – torrents
(not linked) Millionaire Dropouts: biographies of the worlds most successful failures, by Woody Woodward
Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years, by Cameron Herald – torrents
Spin Selling, by Neil Rackham – torrents “…the best-documented account of sales success ever collected and the result of the Huthwaite corporation’s massive 12-year, $1-million dollar research into effective sales performance…” 35,000 sales calls were used for the content of the research project.
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works , by A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin – torrents (Proctor & Gamble related)
(audio & text) Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future – torrents
(audio & text) Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre – torrents
Zig Ziglar audio and text – torrents | youtube (some full audio books are here)
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman – torrents
Market Wizards by Jack Schwager – torrents
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter Senge – torrents
(audio & text) Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher – torrents
(audio & text) Abundance: The Future is Better than You Think – torrents
(audio & text) Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World – torrents
Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World’s Greatest Investor by Jeremy C. Miller – torrents

Also see: + 50 books w/ summary + Best business books by Rob Kelly + List of favorite investing books posted to Reddit.com/r/investing + Reddit.com/r/investing comments section contains more recommendations + Books mentioned by economically successful people ADD (some links from the other books notepad, such as Democracy Inc.)

History of Money and Banking in the United States by Rothbard Murray
Aldous Huxley Collection
Gore Vidal Collection
Ayaan Hirsi Ali – The Caged Virgin
Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Infidel
In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik
When Google Met WikiLeaks
Madness: A Brief History, by Roy Porter
Mad in America
Maggie Tallerman – The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution
Serial Killers Peter Vronsky
Starting Strength 3rd edition
The Bible Of Bodyweight Exercises For Men And Women
Stephen Jay Gould Audiobooks
(audio) The Filter Bubble
The Googlization of Everything – And Why We Should Worry
(audio) The Great Influenza; The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
The Knowledge Encyclopedia
The Language of Life DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine by Francis S. Collins
Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible
Foundations – Their Power and Influence [1993 Covenant House Edition] (1958) by Rene A. Wormser
Killing Hope – US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II [2nd Edition] (2003) by William Blum

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Respect for Acting – Uta Hagen
The Popular Handbook of Archaeology and the Bible
The Routledge Dictionary of Gods, Goddesses, devils and Demons – M. Lurker (Routledge, 2004)
White Collar Crime – An Opportunity Perspective (2009) – Michael Benson et al
Dear Leader (N.Korea)
Enlightenment – Roy Porter
Plutocrats – The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
For God Country and Coca Cola
Spice – Jack Turner
The Evolution of Useful Things
The Secret World of Oil
The Tunnels of Cu Chi
Godless – How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists
Book of Woe

Courses, lectures

Audio: The Great Courses by The Teaching Company (280 courses) – piratebay
Noam Chomsky – Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind – torrent

Books! (building blocks & wrecking balls)

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