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Good books:

The Science & Fine Art of Fasting	— Herbert M. Shelton
A Study of History - vol. I-XII	— Arnold J. Toynbee
The Book of Tea	— Kakuzō Okakura
Hyperion; or, The Hermit in Greece	— Friedrich Hölderlin
Bible: King James Version	—
The Torah: The Five Books of Moses	—
The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations	— Jane Armstrong
Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English	— Eric Partridge
Zibaldone	— Giacomo Leopardi
Orthodoxy	— G.K.Chesterton
Parerga et Paralipomena	— Arthur Schopenhauer
Lonely Planet South America	— Lonely Planet
The Aleph	— Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones	— Jorge Luis Borges
Wholeness and the Implicate Order	— David Bohm
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert	— Joseph Joubert
Deschooling Society	— Ivan Illich
Pensées	— Blaise Pascal
Jerusalem and Athens	— Leo Strauss
On Learned Ignorance	— Nicolas of Cusa
Catechism of the Catholic Church	— The Catholic Church
Complete Poems	— Charles Baudelaire
Schindler	— James Steele
Conversations with Students	— Tadao Andō
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime	— Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason	— Immanuel Kant
Critique of Cynical Reason	— Peter Sloterdijk
Intelligence and Spirit	— Reza Negarestani
The Ever-Present Origin	— Jean Gebser
Selected Poetry and Prose	— Alexander Pope
Leisure: The Basis of Culture	— Josef Pieper
Tao Te Ching	— Lao Tzu
Ressentiment	— Max Scheler
Saint Francis of Assisi	— G.K.Chesterton
Patterns In Nature	— Peter S. Stevens
An Immanent Metaphysics	— Forrest Landry
Deceit, Desire and the Novel	— René Girard
Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s	— Otto Friedrich
The Politics of Experience	— R.D.Laing
Awaiting God	— Simone Weil
Faust: Part I and II	— J.W.Goethe
The Decline of the West	— Oswald Spengler
The Conference of the Birds	— Attar of Nishapur
The Guide for the Perplexed	— M. Maiomonides
On Exactitude in Science	— Jorge Luis Borges
The Cambr. His. of Nineteenth-Century Polit. Thought	— G.S.Jones
What's Wrong with the World	— G.K.Chesterton
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics	— Ludwig von Mises
Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith	— Gianni Vattimo
100 Whites	— Kenya Hara
Amiel's Journal	— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The Confessions of St. Augustine	— Augustine of Hippo
Virtuous War	— James Der Derian
The Life Divine	— Sri Aurobindo
Progress and Its Critics	— Christopher Lasch
The Bitcoin Standard	— Saifedean Ammous
What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason	— Hubert L. Dreyfus
The Use of Knowledge in Society	— Friedrich Hayek
Karl Löwith's View of History	— Berthold Riesterer
Process and Reality	— Alfred North Whitehead
Process-Relational Philosophy	— C. Robert Mesle
The Aims of Education	— Alfred North Whitehead
Adventures of Ideas	— Alfred North Whitehead
The Hegel Dictionary	— Glenn A. Magee
Philosophy of History	— G.W.F.Hegel
The Holographic Universe	— Michael Talbot
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace	— John Perry Barlow
The Hedgehog and the Fox	— Isaiah Berlin
Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History	— Jan Patocka
Culture and Anarchy	— Matthew Arnold
On Liberty	— John Stuart Mill
Think on These Things	— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Passions and the Interests	— Albert O. Hirschman
The Last Temptation of Christ	— Nikos Kazantzakis
Speed and Politics	— Paul Virilio
Battling to the End	— René Girard
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes	— Jacques Ellul
Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority	— Emmanuel Levinas
The World of Silence	— Max Picard
Man and Technics	— Oswald Spengler
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations	— John Bartlett
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956	— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You Are not a Gedget	— Jaron Lanier
Understanding Gregory Bateson	— Noel G. Charlton
War and Peace	— Leo Tolstoy
The Kingdom of God Is Within You	— Leo Tolstoy
Accounting for the Numberphobic	— Dawn Fotopulous
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism	— Joel Kotkin
Three Critics of the Enlightenment - Vico, Hamann, Herder	— Isaiah Berlin
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World	— René Girard
The Right to Useful Unemployment and its Professional Enemies	— Ivan Illich
Breaking Smart	— Venkatesh G. Rao
A Free Man's Worship	— Bertrand Russell
Albert Einstein	— Albrecht Fölsing
Anti-Education	— Friedrich N.
Boundaries of Order	— Butler D. Shaffer
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory	— David Graeber
The China Study	— Colin T. Campbell
The Coddling of the American Mind	— Jonathan Haidt
The Coming World Civilization	— William Ernest Hocking
Commentaries on Living Vol.I-III	— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Concept of the Political	— Carl Schmitt
Conjectures and Refutations	— Karl Popper
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind	— Gustave Le Bon
The Disinherited Mind	— Erich Heller
War and Christianity	— Vladimir Solovyov
Divine Sophia	— Vladimir Solovyov
Don Quixote	— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Dumbing Us Down	— John Taylor Gatto
Early Retirement Extreme	— Jacob Lund Fisker
Emile, or On Education	— Jean Jacques Rousseau
Escape from Freedom	— Erich Fromm
Essays of Schopenhauer	— Arthur Schopenhauer
The Genesis of Desire	— Jean-Michel Oughourlian
The Bhagavad Gita	— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Designing Japan	— Kenya Hara
The Gnostic Gospels	— Elaine Pagels
Goethe's World View	— Rudolf Steiner
Gravity and Grace	— Simone Weil
The Greeks and Greek Civilization	— Jacob Burckhardt
The High Price of Materialism	— Tim Kasser
A History of Western Philosophy	— Bertrand Russell
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits	— Friedrich N.
The Hundred-Year Marathon	— Michael Pillsbury
Ideas Have Consequences	— Richard M. Weaver
iGen	— Jean M. Twenge
Interaction of Color	— Josef Albers
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel	— Alexander Kojève
It's the Way You Say It	— Carol A. Fleming
Japanese Death Poems	— Yoel Hoffmann
Japanese Fashion Designers	— Bonnie English
Designing Japan	— Kenya Hara
Krishnamurti‘s Notebook	— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Letters of Oswald Spengler: 1913-1936	— Oswald Spengler
Life Ahead	— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Lighthouse at the End of the World	— Jules Verne
Living Time and the Integration of the Life	— Maurice Nicoll
Love in the Western World	— Denis de Rougemont
Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti	— Radha Rajagopal Sloss
Meaning in History	— Karl Löwith
The Medium and the Light	— Marshall McLuhan
The Mystique of Enlightenment	— U.G.Krishnamurti
Nature	— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Representative Men	— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why the West Rules—for Now	— Ian Morris
On Creativity	— David Bohm
On Dialogue	— David Bohm
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life	— Friedrich N.
One Taste	— Ken Wilber
Oration on the Dignity of Man	— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Paradise Lost	— John Milton
Paradise Regained	— John Milton
The Passion of the Western Mind	— Richard Tarnas
Persecution and the Art of Writing	— Leo Strauss
The Philosophy of Freedom	— Rudolf Steiner
Poor Charlie's Almanack	— Charles T. Munger
The Present Age	— Søren Kierkegaard
Psychological Commentaries Vol.I-V	— Maurice Nicoll
The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution	— Maurice Nicoll
Provocations	— Søren Kierkegaard
Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life	— Gilles Deleuze
Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing	— Søren Kierkegaard<
The Reflexive Universe	— Arthur M. Young
Religion and Nothingness	— Keiji Nishitani
René Girard's Mimetic Theory	— Wolfgang Palaver
The Return to the Mystical	— Peter Tyler
The Philosophy Book	— Will Buckingham
The Revolt of the Masses	— José Ortega y Gasset
The Riddles of Philosophy	— Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner	— Gary Lachman
The Richest Man in Babylon	— George S. Clason
Science, Order and Creativity	— David Bohm
Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser	— Jeremy D. Johnson
Seeking Wisdom	— Peter Bevelin
Selected Essays	— Oswald Spengler
Selfhood and Sacrifice: René Girard and Charles Taylor	— Andrew O‘Shea
Self-Reliance and Other Essays	— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skin in the Game	— N.N.Taleb
The Sovereign Individual	— James Dale Davidson
Spiral Dynamics in Action	— Don Edward Beck
Spiral Dynamics Integral	— Don Edward Beck
Spiral Dynamics	— Don Edward Beck
Studies in Pessimism: The Essays	— Arthur Schopenhauer
The Sufi Path Of Knowledge	— William C. Chittick
The Tao of Physics	— Fritjof Capra
A Taste of Life: The Last Days of U.G.K.	— Mahesh Bhatt
Tertium Organum	— P.D.Ouspensky
The Wholeness of Nature	— Henri Bortoft
Thinking Architecture	— Peter Zumthor
Profit First	— Mike Michalowicz
Thought as a System	— David Bohm
Thus Spoke Zarathustra	— Friedrich N.
Timaeus and Critias	— Plato
Etica nicomachea	— Aristotle
The Time Paradox	— Philip G. Zimbardo
To Double Business Bound	— René Girard<
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart	— Gordon Livingston
Total Freedom	— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Walden	— Henri David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience	— Henri David Thoreau
White	— Kenya Hara
The Wizards of Ozymandias	— Butler Shaffer
The World in 2050	— Laurence C. Smith
The Meaning of Love	— Vladimir Solovyov
War, Progress, and the End of History	— Vladimir Solovyov
Anarchy and Christianity	— Jacques Ellul
Taking Appearance Seriously	— Henri Bortoft
The Heart of Matter	— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Laws of Imitation	— Gabriel Tarde
The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra	—
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations	— Adam Smith
Karl Marx: His Life and Environment	— Isaiah Berlin
City of God	— Augustine of Hippo
A History of God	— Karen Armstrong
Antifragile	— N.N.Taleb
Basic Economics	— Thomas Sowell
A Universal History of Iniquity	— Jorge Luis Borges
Better Never to Have Been	— David Benatar
Bohm-Biederman Correspondence	— David Bohm<
Bureaucracy	— Ludwig von Mises
The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe	— Chris Langan
Maxims	— François de La Rochefoucauld
The Collected Poems	— William Blake
Hyperobjects	— Timothy Morton
Graphs, Maps, Trees	— Franco Moretti
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning	— René Girard
Bolivia	— Lonely Planet
Selected Poetry	— Robinson Jeffers
The Fable of the Bees	— Bernard Mandeville
The Gutenberg Galaxy	— Marshall McLuhan
The Idea Of Progress	— J.B.Burt
The Information Bomb	— Paul Virilio
The Japanese Way of Tea	— Sōshitsu Sen XV
The Kant Dictionary	— Lucas Thorpe
The Struggle with the Daemon	— Stefan Zweig
The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light	— William Irwin Thompson
Weaving the Web	— Tim Berners-Lee
Weakening Philosophy	— Santiago Zabala
The Enneads	— Plotinus
Ethics	— Baruch Spinoza
Theological-Political Treatise	— Baruch Spinoza
The Ecology of Wisdom	— Arne Naess
Ecology, Community and Lifestyle	— Arne Naess
On War	— Carl von Clausewitz
Cosmopolitanism	— Kwame Anthony Appiah
Technological Slavery	— T.J. Kaczynski
Reflections on the Revolution in France	— Edmund Burke;
On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful	— Edmund Burke
Untimely Meditations	— Friedrich N.
A Hunger Artist	— Franz Kafka
Essays and Letters	— Friedrich Hölderlin
Scienza Nuova	— Giambattista Vico
On the Study Methods of Our Time	— Giambattista Vico
Collected Works	— John Stuart Mill
The Essence of Religion	— Ludwig Feuerbach
The Essence of Christianity	— Ludwig Feuerbach
What is Called Thinking?	— Martin Heidegger
Heidegger Dictionary	— Daniel O. Dahlstrom
Tears and Saints	— Emil M. Cioran
Philosophy: Who Needs It	— Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness	— Ayn Rand
In Praise of Idleness	— Bertrand Russell
A Secular Age	— Charles Taylor
The Trouble with Being Born	— Emil M. Cioran
A Short History of Decay	— Emil M. Cioran
Anathemas and Admirations	— Emil M. Cioran
History and Utopia	— Emil M. Cioran
A Treatise of Human Nature	— David Hume
Saint Thomas Aquinas	— G.K.Chesterton
Principles of Human Knowledge	— George Berkeley
All Art is Propaganda	— George Orwell
Passions	— Giacomo Leopard
Homo Sacer	— Giorgio Agamben
The Origins of Totalitarianism	— Hannah Arendt
Laughter	— Henri Bergson
Russian Thinkers	— Isaiah Berlin
The Roots of Romanticism	— Isaiah Berlin
Vico and Herder	— Isaiah Berlin
Against Pure Reason	— J.G.Herder
Philosophical Writings	— J.G.Herder
Conversations of Goethe	— J.P.Eckermann
Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power	— Josef Pieper
The Conservative Mind	— Russell Kirk
How to Be a Conservative	— Roger Scruton
Conversations with Roger Scruton	— Mark Dooley
Beauty	— Roger Scruton
From Hegel to N	— Karl Löwith
God, Locke, and Equality	— Jeremy Waldron
The Theory of Money and Credit	— Ludwig von Mises
Degeneration	— Max Nordau
Rudolph Schindler	— David Gebhard
The Sacred and The Profane	— Mircea Eliade
Essays	— Michel de Montaigne
The Prince	— Niccolò Machiavelli
Metaphysic of Contraction	— Nicolas of Cusa
Metaphysical Speculations	— Nicolas of Cusa
Hymns to the Night	— Novalis
Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia	— Novalis
Philosophical Writings	— Novalis
The Disciples at Sais and Other Fragments	— Novalis
A New Model of the Universe	— P.D.Ouspensky
The Psychology of Man‘s Possible Evolution	— P.D.Ouspensky
The Aesthetics of Disappearance	— Paul Virilio
You Must Change Your Life	— Peter Sloterdijk
Bubbles: Spheres I	— Peter Sloterdijk
An Appeal to the Young	— Pyotr Kropotkin
The Divine Milieu	— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Life of Teilhard de Chardin	— R.Speaight
The Future of Man	— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Phenomenon of Man	— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Writings in Time of War	— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
An Essay on the Beautiful	— Plotinus
The Philosophy of Progress	— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
God is Evil, Man is Free	— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The Poetry	— Rainer Maria Rilke
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature	— Richard Rorty
Summa Contra Gentiles	— Thomas Aquinas
Disputed Questions on the Virtues	— Thomas Aquinas
Introduction to the Devout Life	— Francis de Sales
Food of the Gods	— Terrence McKenna
History of Germany 1780-1918	— David Blackbourn
Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich	— David Irving
The Art of War	— Niccolo Machiavelli
Rerum Novarum	— Pope Leo XIII
The French Revolution, a History	— Thomas Carlyle
Zen and the Birds of Appetite	— Thomas Merton
The Intimate Merton	— Thomas Merton
The Age of Reason	— Thomas Paine
Democracy Is Self-Government	— Harold W. Percival
Thinking & Destiny	— Harold W. Percival
The American Replacement of Nature	— William Irwin Thompson
Lives of the Trappists Today	— Frank Bianco
The Law	— Frédéric Bastiat
Roget's International Thesaurus	— Peter Mark Roget
A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline	— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State	— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Dark Enlightenment	— Nick Land
Evolution: A Theory In Crisis	— Michael Danton
Meditations on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri	— A.S. Kline
The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I & II	— Georges Bataille
Analytical Psychology, Its Theory and Practice	— C.G. Jung
The Thirst for Annihilation	— Nick Land
Seeing the Form	— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Token Economy	— Shermin Voshmgir
Knots	— R.D. Laing
Steps to an Ecology of Mind	— Gregory Bateson
Leftism Revisited	— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations	— Mencius Moldbug
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	— Max Weber
Theological-Political Treatise	— Baruch Spinoza
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	— David Hume
Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem;	— Heinrich Meier
The Pure Theory of Politics	— Bertrand De Jouvenel
The Ethics of Redistribution	— Bertrand De Jouvenel
On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth	— Bertrand De Jouvenel
Sovereignty: An Inquiry into the Political Good	— Bertrand De Jouvenel
Economics and the Good Life	— Bertrand De Jouvenel
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939	— Edward Hall
The Worldly Philosophers	— Robert L. Heilbroner
The Turgot Collection	— Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
All for Love	— John Dryden
The Works of John Dryden	— John Dryden
Essays	— Michel de Montaigne
Chronicles of Bustos Domecq	— Jorge Luis Borges
As You Like It	— William Shakespeare
Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical	— Herbert Spencer
The Essays	— Francis Bacon
For a New Liberty	— Murray N. Rothbard
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature	— Murray N. Rothbard
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations	— Jacob Soll
The French Revolution	— Thomas Carlyle
Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour	— Helmut Schoeck
Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School	— Ralph Raico
The Infinite Machine	— Camila Russo
Industrial Society and Its Future	— Theodore J. Kaczynski
Second Treatise of Government	— John Locke
The Cynic's Breviary	— Nicolas Chamfort
The Characters	— Jean de La Bruyère
Maxims and Thoughts	— Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
Letters to a Young Contrarian	— Christopher Hitchens
Notes from Underground	— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Good articles:

Weizenbaum examines computers and society
Stages of Man's Mind	— J.W.Goethe
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System	— Satoshi Nakamoto

Good classical pieces:

Notwithstanding the copyright breach, I’ve decided—under the overwhelming pressure of uber-law aesthetic reasons and my passion for classical music—to nonetheless share my favourite pieces:

Your browser does not support the audio element.	— Robert Schumann
Your browser does not support the audio element.	Henry Purcell — Overture
Your browser does not support the audio element.	Henry Purcell — Ciacona in G Minor, Z. 730