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Human Action
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In a world when millions of people buy bestselling authors, true intellectual gems are often gathering dust. I don't know how many copies this book sells, but I know it's less than Harry Potter. And that's a shame, because the insights (written in a clear language) in this book are useful for many, maybe even most people who don't want to live on the s... »
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Boltzmanns Atom: The Great Debate That Launched A Revolution In Physics
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Born in Austria and something of a bumpkin by nature, the 19th-century physicist Ludwig Boltzmann did not fit in easily in the highly cultured German universities at which he taught for many years. To add to his difficulties, Boltzmann stirred up controversy by proposing that scientists could make intelligent guesses about the behavior of atoms, which,... »
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The Fall of the House of Habsburg
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One of Crankshaw's best, this forthrightly conservative and sympathetic book is premised on the idea that, whatever its faults, Austria's solution to the problems of nationalism and the Balkans were not self-evidently worse than what followed in Europe. He's deliberately rebutting A.J.P. Taylor, as he also does in his biography of Bismarck.
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