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Book: Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand
A vision of industrialist gods and socialist monsters.
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Book: Lost in Place / Mark Salzman
An autobiography of teenage years lived in throes of both passionate discipline and innocent impressionability.
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Book: The Life and Times of King Henry VIII / Robert Lacey
Monarchs are like a box of chocolates… and this one takes the cake. Keep in mind that all this really happened. Amazon inventory
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Book: The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger
A depressed teenager accosts the world with scathing criticisms in a hopeless search for something genuine.
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Book: King Rat / James Clavell
Prisoners in a Japanese camp in China during WWII have various means of survival, one rising above the rest.
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Book: Great Lakes Solo / Mary Blocksma
An account by an adventurous woman who sets out to travel the length of the United States-side of the Great Lakes coast.
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Book: The Hero with a Thousand Faces / Joseph Campbell
An incredible examination of the universal components of myths with lyrical interpretations and hundreds of examples.
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Book: A Walk in the Woods / Bill Bryson
The story of the author’s attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail.
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Book: Gai-Jin / James Clavell
The Noble House tries to establish a port of trade in Japan.
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Paper: Strange Turns in Renaissance Mathematics
World History 219, Section 802 Dr. Monica E. Podbielski As far as I can tell, mathematicians are an odd lot. I’ve known a few in my varied undergraduate majors of physics, engineering, and computer science. There is always a surprise to be found in the minds of these people, whether it be the amount of…