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- Boomerang, Michael Lewis, 2011
- Connections, James Burke, 1978, on YouTube
- Freethinkers, A History of American Secularism, Susan Jacoby, 2004 (https://www.npr.org/2004/07/16/3457084/freethinkers-americas-secularist-tradition)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond, 1997
- Nothing Like It In The World, The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869, Stephen E. Ambrose, 2000
- Rocky Mountain Warden, Frank Calkins, 1971
- Samurai William, The Englishman Who Opened Japan, Giles Milton, 2002
- The Big Score, Michael Malone, 1985
- The Innovators, Walter Isaacson, 2015
- The Man Who Walked Through Time, Colin Fletcher, 1968
- The Secret of Shelter Island, Money and What Matters, Alexander Green, 2009 (https://insidepersonalgrowth.com/podcast-102-the-secret-if-shelter-island-with-alexander-green/)
