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Description of how researchers can build a community around a research topic

The Wealth of Networks, by Yochai Ben

C Helicon Publishing Ltd 1996 MANAGING EDITOR Denise Dresner x.perts Choose Their Favourites iN SUPPORT OF THE OXFAM LITERACY FUND BEST EXPERTS CHOOSE THEIR FAV OURITES BEST BOOKS EXPERTS CHOOSE THEIR FAVOURITES EDITOR Chris Murray C Helicon Publishing Ltd 1996 Ingrid von Essen Jo Linzey MANAGING EDITOR Denise Dresner TEXT EDITORS First published 1996 Paperback edition 1997 All rights...

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The Fifty Worst (and Best) Books of the Century The turn of the century is a time to take stock of the path we have followed, the better to discern where we ought to be going. Historical discernment requires coming to judgment about what has been noble, good, and beneficial in our timebut also about what has been base, bad, and harmful. In the life of the mind, what has our century produced tha...

A library of recommended books by subject, chosen by experts

A library of recommended books by subject

A modern rendering of the I-Ching, with quotations from Western literature

Popular Chinese expressions explained

English-Chinese maxims for success

Word doc composed of at least four recommended libraries (The List of Books, Oxfam Best Books, Harvard Guide to Influential Books, Interleaves Great Book list), by subject

Treasury volume of interesting Britannica articles

Britannica Propaedia, introductory volume of the 15th set. Outline of general knowledge.

"How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren

Books recommended by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto in his book "Ideas that Changed the World"

Advanced Spoken Chinese, part 1