The Discoverers : A History of Man's Search to Know Himself and the World

by Daniel J. Boorstein.

The Creators : A History of Heroes of the Imagination

by Daniel J. Boorstein.

The Seekers : The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

by Daniel J. Boorstein.
The Lucifer Principle : A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History

by Howard K. Bloom
The Global Brain : The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century

by Howard Bloom.
Why Things Bite Back : Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences

by Edward Tenner
The Encyclopedia of Mathematics : The CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics

by Eric W. Weisstein
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective
Wisdom Shapes

by James Surowieck
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne