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    Books for Visiting the World War I Battlefields, recommended by sophiemaynard

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    World War I Bicycle Tour Book
    by Carl Ooghe

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    The Battlefields of Flanders and Artois
    by Michelin Guide

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    The Battlefields of the Somme
    by Michelin Guide

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    4

    The War Poets: An Anthology
    by Various

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    Great War 1914 - 1918 Map
    by Institut Geographique National

Books for Visiting the World War I Battlefields

by sophiemaynard

     

    The Best Books on the Theory of Constraints, recommended by Michael Clingan

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    1

    It's Not Luck
    by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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    Reaching The Goal: How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt's Theory of Constraints
    by John Arthur Ricketts

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    3

    Throughput Accounting
    by Thomas Corbett

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    4

    The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving
    by H. William Dettmer

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    5

    Critical Chain Project Management (Artech House Technology Management and Professional Development L
    by Lawrence P. Leach

The Best Books on the Theory of Constraints

by Michael Clingan

     

    Books for software developers, recommended by Merrion

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    1

    Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
    by Kathryn Schulz

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    2

    Domain-Driven Design Distilled
    by Vaughn Vernon

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    3

    Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition
    by Steve McConnell

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    4

    The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
    by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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    5

    TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
    by Chris Anderson

Books for software developers

by Merrion

     

    Our irrational choices, biases, and inherent ignorance, recommended by Kaveh Daneshvar

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    1

    Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
    by Dr. Dan Ariely

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    2

    The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto)
    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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    3

    Thinking, Fast and Slow
    by Daniel Kahneman

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    4

    You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction,
    by David McRaney

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    5

    Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    by Steven D. Levitt

Our irrational choices, biases, and inherent ignorance

by Kaveh Daneshvar

     

    The Best Piano Books for Intermediate Players, recommended by Sophie Roell

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    1

    Piano Sonata In C Major K545
    by Mozart

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    Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 846
    by Johann Sebastian Bach

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    3

    Moonlight Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2 (Complete) (Alfred Masterwork Edition)
    by Ludwig van Beethoven

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    4

    Sonatinas, Op. 36, 37, 38
    by Clementi

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    5

    Scenes from Childhood: Op. 15
    by Schumann

The Best Piano Books for Intermediate Players

by Sophie Roell

     

    On Cosmic Perspective, recommended by Rohit Kulkarni

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    1

    Star Maker (SF Masterworks)
    by Olaf Stapledon

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    2

    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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    3

    The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
    by Sean Carroll

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    4

    Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
    by Edward O Wilson

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    The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
    by Steven Weinberg

On Cosmic Perspective

by Rohit Kulkarni

     

    Five books I’ve enjoyed in 2018, recommended by calflyn

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    1

    Black Wave
    by Michelle Tea

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    2

    Bluets
    by Maggie Nelson

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    3

    Translations: A Play
    by Brian Friel

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    4

    Dept. of Speculation
    by Jenny Offill

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    5

    Reservoir 13
    by Jon McGregor

Five books I’ve enjoyed in 2018

by calflyn

     

    Introduction to Islam, recommended by Muhammad Naeem

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    1

    Understanding Islam by Frithjof Schuon (1994-04-02)
    by Frithjof Schuon

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    2

    Islam and the Destiny of Man
    by Charles Le Gai Eaton

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    3

    The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity
    by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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    4

    Unveiling Islam (Islamic Texts Society)
    by Roger Du Pasquier

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    5

    The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary
    by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Introduction to Islam

by Muhammad Naeem

     

    The Best Books I Haven’t Read, recommended by DuncanAStuart

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    1

    The Republic
    by Plato

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    2

    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

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    3

    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

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    4

    The Origins of Totalitarianism
    by Hannah Arendt

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    5

    Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1
    by Marcel Proust

The Best Books I Haven’t Read

by DuncanAStuart

     

    My Favourite Hungarian Novels You Can Read in English, recommended by TheAnnaGat

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    1

    The Case Worker (Noran 1998) (Written in Hungary)
    by George Konrad

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    2

    Katalin Street (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Magda Szabo

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    3

    Captivity
    by György Spiró

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    4

    Kaddish For An Unborn Child
    by IMRE KERTESZ

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    5

    Traveler and the Moonlight
    by Antal Szerb

My Favourite Hungarian Novels You Can Read in English

by TheAnnaGat

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