11 Great non-fiction books

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	"Brilliant and alarming study of obedience in ordinary people.  It will make you distrust authority as never before"

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	"Fascinating study of how people put themselves across"

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	"How the cliches of the Third Reich influenced the way people think.  We could use a book like it about the media world today"

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	"One of the richest, most gripping and most tragic books of 20th century history"

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	"One of the richest, most gripping etc. of 19th century history"

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	"How a droll, cranky guitar player from Sheffield became one of the crucial artists for the new century"

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	"Monumental and well-argued study about the rise , decline and contemporary decay of the Western political tradition"

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	"Horrifying but also really funny in places.  Why well-trained armies sometimes lose battles (and wars) so spectacularly"

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	"Greatest hits in maths!"

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	"What goes on when jazz musicians actually make music.  A mine of interesting stories"

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	"What you need to read in order to begin to understand one of the great works of the human mind (reprinted in Hawking, above)"