Books That Changed The World (Easton Press)

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"These are the books that set the world on a different course, for better or for worse. They encompass the classics of philosophy, politics, sociology, science, and religion. These books brought about reforms and revolutions; toppled governments; started wars. They changed people’s hearts and minds; altered people’s lives. Even today, these books continue to stir passions and cause controversy.

This collection includes 47 titles as chosen by the Editorial Advisory Board of the Easton Press."

  1. 1.
    The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
    by Charles Darwin
  2. 2.
    Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
    by Martin Luther
  3. 3.
    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More
  4. 4.
    The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous
  5. 5.
    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous
  6. 6.
    Democracy in America
    by Alexis de Tocqueville
  8. 8.
  9. 9.
    De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
    by Nicolaus Copernicus
  10. 10.
    Common Sense
    by Thomas Paine
  11. 11.
    The State And Revolution
    by V. I. Lenin
  12. 12.
    Beyond Good and Evil
    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  13. 13.
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    On Liberty
    by John Stuart Mill
  14. 14.
    The Social Contract and The Discourses (Everyman's Library)
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  15. 15.
    Two Treatises Of Government
    by John Locke
  16. 16.
    Magna Carta
    by J. C. Holt
  17. 17.
    Das Kapital, Gateway Edition
    by Karl Marx
  18. 18.
    The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)
    by Adam Smith
  19. 19.
    The Principles of Scientific Management
    by Frederick Winslow Taylor
  20. 20.
  21. 21.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  23. 23.
    The Interpretation Of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud
  25. 25.
    The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian
    by Marco Polo
  26. 26.
    The Affluent Society
    by John Kenneth Galbraith
  27. 27.
    Discourse on Method and Related Writings (Penguin Classics)
    by Rene Descartes
  28. 28.
  29. 29.
    The Theory Of The Leisure Class
    by Thorstein Veblen
  31. 31.
    Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas: God and the Order of Creation
    by Aquinas, Saint Thomas
  32. 32.
    Psychology of the Unconscious (Dover Value Editions)
    by C. G. Jung
  33. 33.
    The Jewish State
    by Theodor Herzl
  35. 35.
    Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)
    by Mohandas K. Gandhi
  36. 36.
    Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
    by Mao Tse-Tung
  38. 38.
    The Republic (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato
  39. 39.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli
  40. 40.
    The Torah

  41. 41.
    The New Testament

  42. 42.
    The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexander Hamilton
  43. 43.
    Euclid's Elements
    by Euclid
  45. 45.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank
  46. 46.
    Walden : An Annotated Edition
    by Henry David Thoreau
  47. 47.
    On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Thoreau's Classic Essay
    by Henry David Thoreau
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