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Nicholas Carr -- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (amazon)

Morris Kline -- Mathematics in Western Culture (amazon)

Mark McGurl -- The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (amazon)

Carl Sagan -- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (amazon)

Victor J. Stenger -- Physics and Psychics (amazon)