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Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness

by Nicholas Humphrey

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch by George Eliot

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The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)