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Antero Alli -- State of Emergence: Experiments in Group Ritual Dynamics (amazon)

Tobi Beck -- The Armored Rose (amazon)

Stanislas Dehaene -- The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics (amazon)

Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee -- On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines (amazon)

Aldous Huxley -- The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment (amazon)

Norman Mailer -- Advertisements for Myself (amazon) 

William H. McNeill -- Keeping Together in Time (amazon)

Henry Miller -- On Writing (amazon)

Richard Panek -- The Trouble With Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet (amazon)

Keith E. Stanovich -- The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin (amazon)

Ian Stewart -- Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (amazon)

Alvin Toffler -- Future Shock (amazon)