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Old 3rd October 2008, 4:58pm   #361
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1. Discurrsive Research in practice - Hepburn and Wiggins Eds.
2. Obedience to authority - Stanley Milgram
3. The lucifer effect - Phillip Zimbardo
4. Developing a questionnaire - Bill graham
5. About Behaviourism - B.F. Skinner
6. Language and Gender: a reader Jennifer Coates (Ed)
7. Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
8. Virtual Ethnography - Christine Hine
9. Wild Minds - Marc Hauser
10. The collected writings of Jung - C. G. Jung (Anthony Storr ed.)
11. Learn to remember - Dominic O'Brian
12. No Country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
13. The memory palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence
14. Look To Windward - Iain M Banks
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. The Steep approach to Garabdale - Iain Banks
17. Mutants - Armand Marie Leroi
18. Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks - Christopher Brookmyer
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre
28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
29. The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson.
30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.
31. The Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
32. Search for the Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steel
34. Its not a runner bean - Mark Steel
35. Clinical Psychology - Andy Field
36. What is psychology? - Andrew Colman
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg
39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer
40. The selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
41. The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
42. Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
43. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
44. The cartoon guide to Statistics - Larry Gonick and Woolcott Smith
45. How to lie with statistics - Darrel Huff.
46. Introduction to research methods in Psychology - Howitt and Cramer
47. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
48. People with Autism behaving badly - John Clements
49. Damned lies and Statistics - Joel Best
50. Statistics without maths for psychology - Christine Dancey and John Reidy
51. Fashionable Nonsense - Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
52. Whats going on? - Mark Steel
53. Belching out the Devil - Mark Thomas
54. The extended phenotype - Richard Dawkins
55. More Damned lies and statistics - Joel Best
56. Reckoning with risk - Gerd Gigerenzer
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Old 11th October 2008, 2:52pm   #362
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1. Discurrsive Research in practice - Hepburn and Wiggins Eds.
2. Obedience to authority - Stanley Milgram
3. The lucifer effect - Phillip Zimbardo
4. Developing a questionnaire - Bill graham
5. About Behaviourism - B.F. Skinner
6. Language and Gender: a reader Jennifer Coates (Ed)
7. Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
8. Virtual Ethnography - Christine Hine
9. Wild Minds - Marc Hauser
10. The collected writings of Jung - C. G. Jung (Anthony Storr ed.)
11. Learn to remember - Dominic O'Brian
12. No Country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
13. The memory palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence
14. Look To Windward - Iain M Banks
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. The Steep approach to Garabdale - Iain Banks
17. Mutants - Armand Marie Leroi
18. Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks - Christopher Brookmyer
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre
28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
29. The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson.
30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.
31. The Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
32. Search for the Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steel
34. Its not a runner bean - Mark Steel
35. Clinical Psychology - Andy Field
36. What is psychology? - Andrew Colman
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg
39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer
40. The selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
41. The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
42. Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
43. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
44. The cartoon guide to Statistics - Larry Gonick and Woolcott Smith
45. How to lie with statistics - Darrel Huff.
46. Introduction to research methods in Psychology - Howitt and Cramer
47. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
48. People with Autism behaving badly - John Clements
49. Damned lies and Statistics - Joel Best
50. Statistics without maths for psychology - Christine Dancey and John Reidy
51. Fashionable Nonsense - Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
52. Whats going on? - Mark Steel
53. Belching out the Devil - Mark Thomas
54. The extended phenotype - Richard Dawkins
55. More Damned lies and statistics - Joel Best
56. Reckoning with risk - Gerd Gigerenzer
57. The language instinct - Steven Pinker. (A book all grammer nazi's should read - then change their ways...)
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1. Discurrsive Research in practice - Hepburn and Wiggins Eds.
2. Obedience to authority - Stanley Milgram
3. The lucifer effect - Phillip Zimbardo
4. Developing a questionnaire - Bill graham
5. About Behaviourism - B.F. Skinner
6. Language and Gender: a reader Jennifer Coates (Ed)
7. Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
8. Virtual Ethnography - Christine Hine
9. Wild Minds - Marc Hauser
10. The collected writings of Jung - C. G. Jung (Anthony Storr ed.)
11. Learn to remember - Dominic O'Brian
12. No Country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
13. The memory palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence
14. Look To Windward - Iain M Banks
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. The Steep approach to Garabdale - Iain Banks
17. Mutants - Armand Marie Leroi
18. Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks - Christopher Brookmyer
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre
28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
29. The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson.
30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.
31. The Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
32. Search for the Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steel
34. Its not a runner bean - Mark Steel
35. Clinical Psychology - Andy Field
36. What is psychology? - Andrew Colman
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg
39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer
40. The selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
41. The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
42. Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
43. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
44. The cartoon guide to Statistics - Larry Gonick and Woolcott Smith
45. How to lie with statistics - Darrel Huff.
46. Introduction to research methods in Psychology - Howitt and Cramer
47. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
48. People with Autism behaving badly - John Clements
49. Damned lies and Statistics - Joel Best
50. Statistics without maths for psychology - Christine Dancey and John Reidy
51. Fashionable Nonsense - Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
52. Whats going on? - Mark Steel
53. Belching out the Devil - Mark Thomas
54. The extended phenotype - Richard Dawkins
55. More Damned lies and statistics - Joel Best
56. Reckoning with risk - Gerd Gigerenzer
57. The language instinct - Steven Pinker.
58. Eats, shoots and leaves - Lynee Truss (Grammer snobs are to linguists what homeopaths are to doctors)
59. Six easy pieces - Richard Feynman
60. A Brief History of time - Stephen Hawking
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1. Wicked - Gregory Maguire (very good, dark, and not at all musical like surprisingly)
2. Freud's Alphabet - Jonathan Tel
3. Islam, A Short History - Karen Armstrong
4. A wedding in December - Anita Shreve
5. Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
6. Swallowing Grandma - Kate Long
7. Queen Mum - Kate Long
8. Start from Here - Sean French
9. Venus as a Boy - Luke Sutherland
10. The Piano - Jane Campion
11. The Wind Singer - William Nicholson
12. Slaves of the Mastery - William Nicholson
13. The Wind on Fire - William Nicholson
14. Imagined London - Anna Quindlen
15. Love Story - Erich Segal
16. Wintering - Kate Moses (Sem fiction on the last moths of Silvia Plath's life, excellent book)
17. The Self Preservation Society - Kate Harrison
18. The Realm of Shells - Sonia Overall
19. Human Punk - John King
20. Everyday life in the Viking Age - Jacqueline Simpson
21. The Developing Child - Helen Bee
22. A Teachers' Guide to the Psychology of Learning - Michael J.A. Howe
23. Literacy and Language in the Primary Years - Wray and Medwell
24. The Study of Language - George Yule
25. Six Religions int the Twentieth Century - W. Owen Cole
26. Child Development and Teaching Pupils with Special Educational Needs - Tilstone and Layton
27. Drama in the Curriculum - Jon Somers
28. Joan Bakewell - The Centre of the Bed
29. Labrynthe - Kate Mosse
30. Innocence -Kathleen Tessaro
31. A Bit of Crack and Car Culture - Bess Ross
32 The Red Door : the Complete English Stories(1949-76) -,Iain Crichton Smith.
33. The Brown Owls Guide to Life -Kate Harrison
34. The Last Days of Dogtown - Anita Diamant
35. Pitching my Tent - Anita Diamant
36. Buddha Da - Anne Donovan
37. Ant Egg Soup - Natacha du Pont de Bie
38. How i paid for College - Marc Acito
39. Love, Etc. - Julian Barnes
40. For One More Day - Mitch Albom


41. The Handmaiden's Tale - Margaret Atwood

42. A pale View of the Hills - Kazuo Ishguro

43. The Island Walkers - John Bemrose

44. City Girls - Patricia Scanlan

45. An Encounter with Reggio Emilia - Kinney and Wharton



The last one is required reading for my course, but took four times what it would take me to read the average book, so I figure it counts.
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1. Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
2. Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age
3. Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One)
4. Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
5. Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
6. China Miéville - The Iron Council
7. Ian Irvine - The Curse on the Chosen (Book Two of the Song of the Tears trilogy, part of the Three Worlds Cycle)
8. Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
9. Joe Abercrombie - Before They Are Hanged (The First Law: Book Two)
10. Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara (Book One of the Sword of Shannara trilogy)
11. Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash.
12. Richard Morgan - Broken Angels
13. Raymond E Fiest - Wrath of a Mad God (Book 3 of the Darkwar saga)
14. Stephen Donaldson - The Power that Preserves (The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book 3)
15. Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle)
16. Terry Brooks - The Elfstones of Shannara (Book Two of the Sword of Shannara trilogy)
17. Cory Doctorow - Little Brother (Released on Creative Commons Licence - download for free )
18. Allen Carr - The Easy Way To Stop Smoking
19. John Gribbin - Science: A History
20. Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter - The Light of Other Days
21. Dan Abnett - The Horus Heresy book 1: Horus Rising (Warhammer 40k)
22. Ian C. Esselmount - Night of Knives (A Novel of the Malazan Empire)
23. William Gibson - Idoru
24. Stephen Fry - Hippopotamus
25. Neal Stephenson - Confusion (Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle)
26. Stephen Hunt - The Court of the Air
27. Naomi Novik - Temeraire (AKA His Majesty's Dragon) - Temeraire Book 1
28. Jack Vance - The Dying Earth
29. Naomi Novik - Throne of Jade - Temeraire Book 2
30. Steven Erikson - Toll the Hounds - A Malazan book of the Fallen Book 8
31. Naomi Novik - Black Powder War - Temeraire Book 3
32. Neal Stephenson - The System of the World (Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle)
33. Joe Abercrombie - Last Argument of Kings (The First Law: Book Three)
34. David & Stella Gemmell - Fall of Kings (Troy book 3)
35. Robin Hobb - Renegade's Magic (Soldier Son Book 3)

36. Various - The Athiest's Bible
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1. Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
2. Neil Gaiman - Stardust
3. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
4. Gary Gibson - Stealing Light
5. Iain Banks - Steep Approach to Garbadale
6. Jed Rubenford - Interpretation of Murder
7. James Patterson - 7th Heaven
8. Tom Reynolds - Touch Me, Im Sick
9. Belle De Jour - Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
10. Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels
11. Nikki Sixx - Heroin Diaries
12. Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
13. James Patterson - The 6th Target
14. Duncan Staff - The Lost Boy
15. Kevin Smith - the Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
16. James Patterson - You've Been Warned
17. Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners
18. Jane Moore - dot.homme
19. Kevin Smith - Tales from the Clerks
20. Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
21. Mark Oliver Everett - Things the Grandchildren Should Know
22. Philip Pullman - Once Upon a time in the North
23. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
24. Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes
25. Michel Houellebecq - Atomised
26. Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
27. Dita Von Teese - Burlesque and the Art of the Teese
28. Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
29. Haruki Murakami - Underground

30. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
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51. Donna Tartt - The Secret History
52. Muriel Spark - The Ballad of Peckham Rye
53. Angela Carter - The Passion of New Eve
54. J.M Coetzee - In The Heart of the Country
55. E. Annie Proulx - The Shipping News

56. Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus
57. Ziauddin Sardar & Merryl Wyn Davies - Why Do People Hate America?
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Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

1. Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
2. Neil Gaiman - Stardust
3. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
4. Gary Gibson - Stealing Light
5. Iain Banks - Steep Approach to Garbadale
6. Jed Rubenford - Interpretation of Murder
7. James Patterson - 7th Heaven
8. Tom Reynolds - Touch Me, Im Sick
9. Belle De Jour - Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
10. Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels
11. Nikki Sixx - Heroin Diaries
12. Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
13. James Patterson - The 6th Target
14. Duncan Staff - The Lost Boy
15. Kevin Smith - the Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
16. James Patterson - You've Been Warned
17. Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners
18. Jane Moore - dot.homme
19. Kevin Smith - Tales from the Clerks
20. Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
21. Mark Oliver Everett - Things the Grandchildren Should Know
22. Philip Pullman - Once Upon a time in the North
23. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
24. Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes
25. Michel Houellebecq - Atomised
26. Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
27. Dita Von Teese - Burlesque and the Art of the Teese
28. Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
29. Haruki Murakami - Underground
30. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children

31. Stephenie Meyer - Twilight
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1. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
2. Permission Marketing - Seth Godin
3. The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
4. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War - Robert Coram
5. A Book of 5 Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
6. Small is the new big - Seth Godin
7. America Unchained - Dave Gorman
8. Starbucked - Taylor Clark
9. Eisenhower on Leadership - Alan Axelrod
10. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bachs
11. Drop the Pink Elephant - Bill McFarlane
12. Choke - Chuck Palanuik
13. Thank you for arguing - Jay Heinrichs
14. Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
15. The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
16. The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
17. The Game - Neil Strauss
18. How to lose friends and alienate people - Toby Young
19. Down and Dirty Movies - Peter Biskind
20. Out of the Ordinary - Jon Ronson
21. J Pod - Douglas Coupland
22. The New Rules of Marketing and PR - David Meerman Scott
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1. The Rules of the Game - Neil Strauss
2. The Hungry Moon - Ramsey Campbell
3. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
4. Still-Watch - Mary Higgins Clark
5. Riverworld and Other Stories - Philip Jose Farmer
6. The Book of Philip Jose Farmer - Philip Jose Farmer
7. Graham Masterton Omnibus: The Hymn and Night Plague - Graham Masterton
8. Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis
9. Me, Hood! - Mickey Spillane
10. The Body Lovers - Mickey Spillane
11. Out of Space and Time - Clark Ashton Smith
12. Tooth and Nail - Ian Rankin
13. Class Dis-Mythed - Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye
14. Myth-Gotten Gains - Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye
15. Against A Dark Background - Iain M Banks
16. Feersum Endjinn - Iain M Banks
17. Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
18. The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
19. Making Money - Terry Pratchett
20. Look to Windward - Iain M Banks
21. Triad - Derek Lambert
22. The Gods that Failed - Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson
23. The Blue Max - Jack D. Hunter
24. Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich
25. Jeeves in the Offing - P.G. Wodehouse
26. Mars - Ben Bova
27. Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
28. Slaughterhouse-5 - Kurt Vonnegut
29. Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark
30. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

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1. Discurrsive Research in practice - Hepburn and Wiggins Eds.
2. Obedience to authority - Stanley Milgram
3. The lucifer effect - Phillip Zimbardo
4. Developing a questionnaire - Bill graham
5. About Behaviourism - B.F. Skinner
6. Language and Gender: a reader Jennifer Coates (Ed)
7. Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
8. Virtual Ethnography - Christine Hine
9. Wild Minds - Marc Hauser
10. The collected writings of Jung - C. G. Jung (Anthony Storr ed.)
11. Learn to remember - Dominic O'Brian
12. No Country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
13. The memory palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence
14. Look To Windward - Iain M Banks
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. The Steep approach to Garabdale - Iain Banks
17. Mutants - Armand Marie Leroi
18. Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks - Christopher Brookmyer
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre
28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
29. The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson.
30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.
31. The Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
32. Search for the Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steel
34. Its not a runner bean - Mark Steel
35. Clinical Psychology - Andy Field
36. What is psychology? - Andrew Colman
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg
39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer
40. The selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
41. The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
42. Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
43. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
44. The cartoon guide to Statistics - Larry Gonick and Woolcott Smith
45. How to lie with statistics - Darrel Huff.
46. Introduction to research methods in Psychology - Howitt and Cramer
47. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
48. People with Autism behaving badly - John Clements
49. Damned lies and Statistics - Joel Best
50. Statistics without maths for psychology - Christine Dancey and John Reidy
51. Fashionable Nonsense - Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
52. Whats going on? - Mark Steel
53. Belching out the Devil - Mark Thomas
54. The extended phenotype - Richard Dawkins
55. More Damned lies and statistics - Joel Best
56. Reckoning with risk - Gerd Gigerenzer
57. The language instinct - Steven Pinker.
58. Eats, shoots and leaves - Lynee Truss
59. Six easy pieces - Richard Feynman
60. A Brief History of time - Stephen Hawking
61. How the mind works - Steven Pinker
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1. Discurrsive Research in practice - Hepburn and Wiggins Eds.
2. Obedience to authority - Stanley Milgram
3. The lucifer effect - Phillip Zimbardo
4. Developing a questionnaire - Bill graham
5. About Behaviourism - B.F. Skinner
6. Language and Gender: a reader Jennifer Coates (Ed)
7. Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
8. Virtual Ethnography - Christine Hine
9. Wild Minds - Marc Hauser
10. The collected writings of Jung - C. G. Jung (Anthony Storr ed.)
11. Learn to remember - Dominic O'Brian
12. No Country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
13. The memory palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence
14. Look To Windward - Iain M Banks
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. The Steep approach to Garabdale - Iain Banks
17. Mutants - Armand Marie Leroi
18. Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks - Christopher Brookmyer
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre
28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
29. The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson.
30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.
31. The Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
32. Search for the Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steel
34. Its not a runner bean - Mark Steel
35. Clinical Psychology - Andy Field
36. What is psychology? - Andrew Colman
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg
39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer
40. The selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
41. The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
42. Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
43. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
44. The cartoon guide to Statistics - Larry Gonick and Woolcott Smith
45. How to lie with statistics - Darrel Huff.
46. Introduction to research methods in Psychology - Howitt and Cramer
47. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
48. People with Autism behaving badly - John Clements
49. Damned lies and Statistics - Joel Best
50. Statistics without maths for psychology - Christine Dancey and John Reidy
51. Fashionable Nonsense - Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
52. Whats going on? - Mark Steel
53. Belching out the Devil - Mark Thomas
54. The extended phenotype - Richard Dawkins
55. More Damned lies and statistics - Joel Best
56. Reckoning with risk - Gerd Gigerenzer
57. The language instinct - Steven Pinker.
58. Eats, shoots and leaves - Lynee Truss
59. Six easy pieces - Richard Feynman
60. A Brief History of time - Stephen Hawking
61. How the mind works - Steven Pinker
62. Climbing Mount Improbable - Richard Dawkins
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1. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
2. Permission Marketing - Seth Godin
3. The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
4. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War - Robert Coram
5. A Book of 5 Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
6. Small is the new big - Seth Godin
7. America Unchained - Dave Gorman
8. Starbucked - Taylor Clark
9. Eisenhower on Leadership - Alan Axelrod
10. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bachs
11. Drop the Pink Elephant - Bill McFarlane
12. Choke - Chuck Palanuik
13. Thank you for arguing - Jay Heinrichs
14. Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
15. The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
16. The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
17. The Game - Neil Strauss
18. How to lose friends and alienate people - Toby Young
19. Down and Dirty Movies - Peter Biskind
20. Out of the Ordinary - Jon Ronson
21. J Pod - Douglas Coupland
22. The New Rules of Marketing and PR - David Meerman Scott
23. The Pirates Dillemma - Matt Mason
24. Stick To Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! - Scott Adams
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1. Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
2. Neil Gaiman - Stardust
3. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
4. Gary Gibson - Stealing Light
5. Iain Banks - Steep Approach to Garbadale
6. Jed Rubenford - Interpretation of Murder
7. James Patterson - 7th Heaven
8. Tom Reynolds - Touch Me, Im Sick
9. Belle De Jour - Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
10. Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels
11. Nikki Sixx - Heroin Diaries
12. Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
13. James Patterson - The 6th Target
14. Duncan Staff - The Lost Boy
15. Kevin Smith - the Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
16. James Patterson - You've Been Warned
17. Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners
18. Jane Moore - dot.homme
19. Kevin Smith - Tales from the Clerks
20. Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
21. Mark Oliver Everett - Things the Grandchildren Should Know
22. Philip Pullman - Once Upon a time in the North
23. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
24. Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes
25. Michel Houellebecq - Atomised
26. Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
27. Dita Von Teese - Burlesque and the Art of the Teese
28. Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
29. Haruki Murakami - Underground
30. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
31. Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

32. Donna Tartt - The Secret History
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1. Discurrsive Research in practice - Hepburn and Wiggins Eds.
2. Obedience to authority - Stanley Milgram
3. The lucifer effect - Phillip Zimbardo
4. Developing a questionnaire - Bill graham
5. About Behaviourism - B.F. Skinner
6. Language and Gender: a reader Jennifer Coates (Ed)
7. Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
8. Virtual Ethnography - Christine Hine
9. Wild Minds - Marc Hauser
10. The collected writings of Jung - C. G. Jung (Anthony Storr ed.)
11. Learn to remember - Dominic O'Brian
12. No Country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
13. The memory palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence
14. Look To Windward - Iain M Banks
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. The Steep approach to Garabdale - Iain Banks
17. Mutants - Armand Marie Leroi
18. Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks - Christopher Brookmyer
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre
28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
29. The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson.
30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.
31. The Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
32. Search for the Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.
33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steel
34. Its not a runner bean - Mark Steel
35. Clinical Psychology - Andy Field
36. What is psychology? - Andrew Colman
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg
39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer
40. The selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
41. The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
42. Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
43. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
44. The cartoon guide to Statistics - Larry Gonick and Woolcott Smith
45. How to lie with statistics - Darrel Huff.
46. Introduction to research methods in Psychology - Howitt and Cramer
47. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
48. People with Autism behaving badly - John Clements
49. Damned lies and Statistics - Joel Best
50. Statistics without maths for psychology - Christine Dancey and John Reidy
51. Fashionable Nonsense - Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
52. Whats going on? - Mark Steel
53. Belching out the Devil - Mark Thomas
54. The extended phenotype - Richard Dawkins
55. More Damned lies and statistics - Joel Best
56. Reckoning with risk - Gerd Gigerenzer
57. The language instinct - Steven Pinker.
58. Eats, shoots and leaves - Lynee Truss
59. Six easy pieces - Richard Feynman
60. A Brief History of time - Stephen Hawking
61. How the mind works - Steven Pinker
62. Climbing Mount Improbable - Richard Dawkins
63. Higher Superstition - Paul Gross and Norman Levitt
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