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Title: Recommendations: Nonfiction books
slug: recommendations/nonfiction-books
date: 1970-01-01
modified: 2025-02-17
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[**The Education of T.C. MITS**](https://archive.org/details/tc-mits-scanfix) | Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, 1942  
An truly unique book. A treatise on the scientific and mathematical thinking written in something akin to free verse. It is a study in mathematics, an analysis of society, a defence of science, and a scaffolding of philosophy all at once. I own multiple copies of this to lend people.

[**The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy**](https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4662/The-End-of-OwnershipPersonal-Property-in-the) | Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz, 2018

[**Schopenhauer's 38 Stratagems (excerpt)**](http://mnei.nl/schopenhauer/38-stratagems.htm) | Arthur Schopenhauer, 1896  
Some (mostly dirty) rhetorical tactics, good to recognize.

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[**On Bullshit**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit) &vert; Harry Frankfurt, 2005

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