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Abebooks.com has it listed starting at $1.36. I adore Abe Books. Geeked
Wow...Thanks.  I have never heard of abebooks.com before either.  I will check those out.
Woah, much cheaper  (on average) than amazon... looks like I can finish getting my book list within the next year, after all.

Thanks a lot :D

Abe Books is an "association of independent used book sellers".

Competition is good, right? Well, effectively, they're all in competition with each other even though they're all in one place.

The last book I ordered was _Britanica 1974 Yearbook Of Science And The Future_, which was one of the books in the day-prison library that I think I was the only one who read.

It's too bad that my kids aren't going to grow up with a 36-volume encyclopedia on the shelf to just take down and browse through, but there just isn't room for it any more.

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Paul replied on Fri, Oct 31 2008 11:53 PM

FWIW, AbeBooks is now owned by Amazon.

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Our Enemy, The State by Nock

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Making Money by Terry Pratchett

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Steve replied on Fri, Nov 14 2008 3:30 PM

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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The works of Aristotle, Bible KJV 1611, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton , Optics, Treatis on Light, Huygens, John Locke "al-l" his works, Karl Heinrich Marx,  Friedrich Engels, Tragedy and Hope, The Republic by P, Humbart Santillo, nature sunshine+ Sassparilla,Fo-Ti, Gotu Kola, Herbs and (loads)more. hahaha

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Okooka replied on Sat, Nov 15 2008 5:15 AM

Hello, Mises

 

Good way to make your introductory post with a largely irrelevant comment :)

 

'Human Action'

'The Deliverance from Error'/'The Niche of Lights' (two works in one book) by Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī .

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http://www.hedweb.com/hedethic/tabconhi.htm

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Okooka:
'The Deliverance from Error'

I think I saw the movie. River trip in rural Georgia?

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Okooka replied on Sat, Nov 15 2008 8:47 AM

No, 11th century religious work by an Islamic scholar XD

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iddqd replied on Sat, Nov 15 2008 11:17 AM

I'm currently reading Atlas Shrugged. When I'm done I'm passing it on to my 13 year old sister, she's a real bookworm and might need a challange. Big Smile

I'm not sure what I'll read next, but I'll probably get Johan Norberg's new book €n Perfekt $torm (A Perfect Storm) when it comes out in March. It's about the financial crisis, and Norberg is one of Sweden's best libertarian debaters, so I'm looking forward to reading it.

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shazam replied on Sat, Nov 15 2008 11:46 AM

The Ethics of Money Production by Jorg Guido Hullsman

Anarcho-capitalism boogeyman

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Just finished The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de La Boetie and I'm nearly done with The Law by Bastiat.

 

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SEK III - New Libertarian Manifesto

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GilesStratton:

SEK III - New Libertarian Manifesto

Oh boy.

 

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Klor replied on Sun, Nov 23 2008 3:18 PM

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GilesStratton:

SEK III - New Libertarian Manifesto

Oh boy.

 

Okay, a response like that is just begging the question. As somebody who is still ignorant of a good amount of literature that this community has to offer... is there something especially controversial/exciting/complex about this work?

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Klor:

Okay, a response like that is just begging the question. As somebody who is still ignorant of a good amount of literature that this community has to offer... is there something especially controversial/exciting/complex about this work?

It's one of the first anarchist texts I read when I came here.  Some devout left libertarians and agorists hold it in high regard.  Sort of an Agorist Manifesto.

It's worth a read, we've already had the pro-con agorist debate here and the topic has died down for awhile now.  I see less people promoting agorism (although that is no sign that it is decreasing, or that the debate here had any influence).

It's not a long read, worth checking out.

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liberty student:

Klor:

Okay, a response like that is just begging the question. As somebody who is still ignorant of a good amount of literature that this community has to offer... is there something especially controversial/exciting/complex about this work?

It's one of the first anarchist texts I read when I came here.  Some devout left libertarians and agorists hold it in high regard.  Sort of an Agorist Manifesto.

It's worth a read, we've already had the pro-con agorist debate here and the topic has died down for awhile now.  I see less people promoting agorism (although that is no sign that it is decreasing, or that the debate here had any influence).

It's not a long read, worth checking out.

The whole agorism thing seemed like a left libertarian backlash to the success of RP if you ask me.

 

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I had just finished "The Man vs. the State" by Herbert spencer, and I was going to start Man, Economy & State, as I've owned it for over a year now, and keep putting off reading it until "after this next book." But I ordered Human Action (SE) last month, and it arrived the very day I finished TMvTS. I was torn over which to begin; Rothbard's or Mises' magnum opus (I've already read several smaller works by each). I decided to start with Human Action, and to MES immediately after. I'm glad I did, so far, as HA has me fascinated. I'm just beginning the second part, on man in society.

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MacFall replied on Sun, Nov 23 2008 7:34 PM

GilesStratton:

The whole agorism thing seemed like a left libertarian backlash to the success of RP if you ask me.

Not at all. In fact, many of us agorists (myself included) became so after realizing the futility of the political process, largely due to the failure of the Paul campaign. But agorism itself has been around much longer - both in theory and in practice - than Ron Paul's recent fame. Since the early eighties, I think.

Pro Christo et Libertate integre!

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