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Five CDs in World Music

Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club

Vivencias Imaginadas, Vicente Amigo

Live in America, Paco de Lucia

Talking Timbuktu, Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder

Feijão com Arroz, Daniela Mercury

Five CDs in Jazz Music

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Kind of Blue, Miles Davis

Forever Ella, Ella Fitzgerald

The Köln Concert, Keith Jarrett

The Dial Masters - Original Choice Takes, Charlie Parker

Five CDs in Classical Music

Bach, Brandenburg Concertos, Il Giardino Armonico, Teldec

Beethoven, Choral Symphony 9, Furtwängler, Philharmonia Orchestra Lucerne Festival Chorus, Archipel

Mozart, Clarinet Concerto K622 and Clarinet Quintet K581, Thea King, Jeffrey Tate, Gabrieli String Quartet, and English Chamber Orchestra, Hyperion

Tschaikovsky, Ballet Suites, Rostropovich, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon

Verdi, La Traviata, Gheorghiu, Lopardo, Nucci, Covent Garden, Solti, Decca

Five books that every student should read  

The Elements of Style, Strunk and White

The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data, David Spiegelhalter

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

Factfulness, Hans Rosling

Calling Bullsh*t, Bergstrom and West

Three reference books

Robert's rules of order

Roget's Thesaurus

Mostly harmless econometrics, Angrist and Pischke

Five books

Genome, Matt Ridley

Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall

21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari

Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker

Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond

Five places

Coral reefs in Aqaba

Niger river in Timbuktu

Life starts at 20 knots

Angkor Wat

Kilimanjaro