Open Culture Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio Is Giving Away Free Copies of His New Book "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World" to High School & College Teachers and Their Students https://www.openculture.com/2022/05/ray-dalio-giving-free-copies-of-his-new-boo-to-high-school-college-teachers-and-their-students.html https://t.co/vYBXtGEz9A
Hardcover, 2021
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
The Story of Ziggy Stardust Gets Chronicled in a New Graphic Novel, Featuring a Foreword by Neil Gaiman https://t.co/S5aZbCjwZV https://t.co/Hmlnd7NsVO
Paperback, 2021
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
How Insomnia Shaped Franz Kafka’s Creative Process and the Writing of The Metamorphosis: A New Study Published in The Lancet https://t.co/H5SEaZ5zuY https://t.co/cETZCuAZny
Out of stock

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, "Brave New World" https://t.co/59iR3r4pnI https://t.co/Lz8rLtFBM5
Paperback, 2006
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: The Real Perceptual Disorder That May Have Shaped Lewis Carroll’s Creative World https://t.co/sdITbNA77S https://t.co/89zr9N7q9F
Paperback, 2015
$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell
David Bowie Dreamed of Turning George Orwell’s 1984 Into a Musical Hear the Songs That Survived the Abandoned Project https://www.openculture.com/2016/04/david-bowie-dreamed-of-turning-george-orwells-1984-into-a-musical.html via @openculture https://t.co/TsDaFjlRfa
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses: Second Edition
James Joyce
Read the Original Serialized Edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1918) https://t.co/jeennEbY8w https://t.co/Nagy80nqvI
Paperback, 2022
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Graveyard Book: A Harper Classic: A Newbery Award Winner
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman & Famous Friends Read Aloud the Entirety of Coraline (and The Graveyard Book Too) https://t.co/fZcWaIaXWE https://t.co/To6fc4yCBs
Out of stock

A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
Anthony Bourdain
Watch Anthony Bourdain’s First Food-and-Travel Series "A Cook’s Tour" Free Online (2002-03) https://t.co/Pk60Zrighy https://t.co/mQFzDdo9yv
Paperback, 2002
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
James Joyce
Richard Ellmann
On Substack, Patti Smith talks late night about Richard Ellmann's biography of James Joyce and shows us one of her cats. https://t.co/RHeAWPCpJR
Paperback, 1983
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book