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Enda Duffy  -- The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism (amazon)

James Paul Gee -- The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning (amazon)

Alfred Gell -- Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory (amazon) 

Stewart Elliott Guthrie -- Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion (amazon) 

Anna Lembke -- Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (amazon)

Michael Lewis -- Shame: The Exposed Self (amazon)

Dave Lowry -- Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai (amazon)

Marc MacYoung -- Multiple Attackers: Your guide to recognition, avoidance, and survival (amazon)

Patrick McCarthy -- Bubishi: The Classic Manual of Combat (amazon)

Colin McGinn -- The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy (amazon)

Rory Miller -- Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence (amazon) [

John Schroeter, Ray Kurzweil (et al) -- After Shock: The World's Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shock—and Look Ahead to the Next 50 (amazon)