The Challenge of Global Capitalism by Robert Gilpin

First Published: Princeton University Press, 2000
Edition Read: Princeton University Press, 2002
ISBN: 0 691 09279 6
**** Random Book ****

Never has so much knowledge been so useless to so many. Oh, no, wait. Yes it has. It happens all the time. Why can’t people write these damn books well? Ugh.
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The Vinland Sagas transl. Magnusson & Palsson

First Published: ????
Edition Read: Penguin Books, 1965
ISBN: 0 14 044154 9

The blurb for this book says “Both a record of a fascinating bit of history, and a rich and exciting piece of literature.” It is a record. As for literature, well, it could only be considered “rich and exciting” if the only thing you had ever read in your entire life was the same cereal box 15 times.
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The Code Book by Simon Singh

First Published: 1999
Edition Read: Anchor Books, 2000
ISBN: 0 385 49532
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