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Cliff Pickover Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Increase your sense of wonder. (Author of 50 books & 800 patents. Yale Ph.D.) "Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." ~NY Times

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Book Cover for: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne
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"The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants ... can be produced or developed." ~Jules Verne (1828–1905), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea https://t.co/ega5kIGSHe

Hardcover, 2021

$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Le Petit Prince: The Little Prince (French Edition), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Le Petit Prince: The Little Prince (French Edition)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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"That which is essential is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one sees rightly." ~Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Le Petit Prince, 1943 https://t.co/KuON7T1rL5

Hardcover, 2001

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum
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Glimpse the past. This is an image from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1910), the first film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's famous book. https://t.co/rG8gF9VeDA https://t.co/rSERH6J1WM

Hardcover, 2000

$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Cosmos, Carl Sagan

Cosmos

Carl Sagan
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"It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million." ~Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980 https://t.co/D5Pr7TPvGz

Paperback, 2013

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle

Stillness Speaks

Eckhart Tolle
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“The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn’t mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.” — Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks Image: Mandelbrot Set https://t.co/fD8DqBpjTY

Hardcover, 2003

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin Abbott
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Hi, I'm Edwin Abbott (1838–1926), author of "Flatland." My book describes the lives of creatures in a 2-D world who attempt to understand creatures living in higher dimensions. https://t.co/MzpJcITgFI

Paperback, 2017

$4.99$2.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Michael Pollan

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Michael Pollan
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“You are what what you eat eats.” ― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food Image source: https://t.co/Ucg2bm9upP https://t.co/XKWSZfUsI6

Paperback, 2009

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne
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“I dream with my eyes open.” ― Jules Verne (1828–1905), Journey to the Center of the Earth https://t.co/OqmdqR1fXI

Paperback, 2013

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust
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"The only true voyage of discovery... would be to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is." ~Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time https://t.co/7mPerp9IPt

Paperback, 2015

$29.90$14.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Paradise Lost, John Milton

Paradise Lost

John Milton
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Depictions of other worlds, realities, and dreams. Here, French artist Gustave Doré (1832–1883) shows Satan, cast out Heaven. Illustration for John Milton’s "Paradise Lost." https://t.co/3jHiCJBYCC

Paperback, 2003

$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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