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Books That Changed The World (Easton Press)

"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. The Origin Of Species
by Charles Darwin
  
2. Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
by Martin Luther
  
3. Utopia (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas More
  
4. The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
5. The Koran (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
6. Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
  
7. The Meaning of Relativity, Fifth Edition: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field (Princeton Science Library)
by Albert Einstein
  
8. The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
by Isaac Newton
  
9. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
by Nicolaus Copernicus
  
10. Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
  
11. The State And Revolution
by V. I. Lenin
  
12. Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  
13.
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 On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
  
14. The Social Contract and The Discourses (Everyman's Library)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
15. Two Treatises Of Government
by John Locke
  
16. Magna Carta: Second Edition
by J.C. Holt
  
17. Das Kapital, Gateway Edition
by Karl Marx
  
18. The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
  
19. The Principles of Scientific Management
by Frederick Winslow Taylor
  
20. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
21. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
22. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (Modern Library Classics)
by Mary Wollstonecraft
  
23. The Interpretation Of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
  
24. The Journal of Christopher Columbus (during His First Voyage, 1492-93) and Documents Relating to the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real
by Christopher Columbus
  
25. The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian
by Marco Polo
  
26. The Affluent Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith
  
27. Discourse on Method and Related Writings (Penguin Classics)
by Rene Descartes
  
28. An Essay on the Principle of Population (Oxford World's Classics)
by Thomas Malthus
  
29. The Theory Of The Leisure Class
by Thorstein Veblen
  
30. Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition
by Lao Tsu
  
31. Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas: God and the Order of Creation (Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas)
by Aquinas, Saint Thomas
  
32. Psychology of the Unconscious (Dover Value Editions)
by C. G. Jung
  
33. The Jewish State
by Theodor Herzl
  
34. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series)
by John Maynard Keynes
  
35.
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 Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)
by Mohandas K. Gandhi
  
36. Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
by Mao Tse-Tung
  
37. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself
by Frederick Douglass
  
38. The Republic (Penguin Classics)
by Plato
  
39. The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
  
40. The Torah  
41.
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 The New Testament  
42. The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics)
by Alexander Hamilton
  
43. Euclid's Elements
by Euclid
  
44. The Art of War: The oldest military treatise in the world (Miniature book)
by Sun-Tzu
  
45. Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl  
46. Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
  
47. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Thoreau's Classic Essay
by Henry David Thoreau
  
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