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Essential TOK books

recommended by Paul Sharry

I continually use these books as references for ideas and real life situations

  • 1

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    The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
    by Siddhartha Mukherjee

  • 2

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    The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildl
    by Lucy Cooke

  • 3

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    Modern Classics the Uses of Literacy: Aspects Of Working-lass Life (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Richard Hoggart

  • 4

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    History of Beauty
    by Umberto Eco

  • 5

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    Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
    by Andrea Wolf

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