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A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice (1955) by Herbert Simon
A Brief History of Software Engineering (2008) by Niklaus Wirth
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996) by John Perry Barlow
A Defence of Common Sense (1925) by George Edward Moore
A Defence of Poetry (1821) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England (1681) by Thomas Hobbes
A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1534) by Thomas More
A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765) by John Adams
A Guess at the Riddle (1891) by Charles Sanders Peirce
A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) by John Locke
A Letter to a Noble Lord (1731) by John Gay
A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) by Claude Shannon
A Message to Garcia (1899) by Elbert Hubbard
A Modest Proposal (1729) by Jonathan Swift
A New Discourse upon a Stale Subject: The Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596) by John Harington
A Note on Two Problems in Connexion with Graphs (1959) by Edsger Dijkstra
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1814) by Pierre Laplace
A Political Romance (1759) by Laurence Sterne
A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking (2019) by Mark Zuckerberg
A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf
A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire (1930) by Mao Tse-Tung
A User's Guide to Détournement (1956) by Guy Debord
Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1984) by Ronald Reagan
Address to Governor William Henry Harrison (1810) by Tecumseh
After Strange Gods (1934) by T. S. Eliot
Against Sainte-Beuve (1954) by Marcel Proust
Agudeza y arte de ingenio (1642) by Baltasar Gracian
Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement (1943) by Gaston Bachelard
All Our Patent Are Belong To You (2014) by Elon Musk
An Apology for Smectymnuus (1642) by John Milton
An Attempt of a Theory of Beta Rays (1934) by Enrico Fermi
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751) by Henry Fielding
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1975) by Chinua Achebe
An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903) by Henri Bergson
Analysis Situs (1895) by Henri Poincare
Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (1995) by Jacques Derrida
Areopagitica (1644) by John Milton
Ask Ann Landers (1955) by Ann Landers
Avowals (1919) by George A. Moore
Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen (1957) by Alan Watts
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Building Global Community (2017) by Mark Zuckerberg
Civil Disobedience (1849) by Henry David Thoreau
Collected Writings (1991) by Zelda Fitzgerald
Commentariolus (1514) by Nicolaus Copernicus
Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems (1949) by Claude Shannon
Considerations on the Assassination of Gérard Lebovici (1985) by Guy Debord
Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline (1734) by Charles de Secondat
Convivio (1307) by Dante Alighieri
Creative Democracy , The Task Before Us (1939) by John Dewey
Crediting Poetry (1995) by Seamus Heaney
Culture and Anarchy (1869) by Matthew Arnold
De l'Esprit géométrique (1657) by Blaise Pascal
De Trinitatis Erroribus (1531) by Michael Servetus
De vulgari eloquentia (1304) by Dante Alighieri
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (1973) by Clifford Geertz
Die Harzreise (1826) by Heinrich Heine
Dioptrics (1637) by Rene Descartes
Discusión (1932) by Jorge Luis Borges
Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curvas (1827) by Carl Friedrich Gauss
Eikonoklastes (1649) by John Milton
El laberinto de la soledad (1950) by Octavio Paz
Emancipate the Mind (1978) by Deng Xiaoping
Eroticism (1957) by Georges Bataille
Essays in Criticism (First Series) (1865) by Matthew Arnold
Essays in Criticism (Second Series) (1888) by Matthew Arnold
Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks (1976) by Bob Metcalfe
Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) by Edgar Allan Poe
Everywhere I Look (2016) by Helen Garner
Existence of Electromagnetic-Hydrodynamic Waves (1942) by Hannes Alfven
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (1972) by Peter Singer
Farewell Address (1837) by Andrew Jackson
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971–2001 (2002) by Seamus Heaney
First Inaugural Address (1829) by Andrew Jackson
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966) by Gay Talese
Go To Statement Considered Harmful (1968) by Edsger Dijkstra
Guarded Commands, Nondeterminacy and Formal Derivation of Programs (1975) by Edsger Dijkstra
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never (1995) by Barbara Kingsolver
Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third (1768) by Horace Walpole
History and Demonstration Concerning Sunspots (1613) by Galileo Galilei
Holy the Firm (1977) by Annie Dillard
Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays (1988) by Chinua Achebe
How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878) by Charles Sanders Peirce
How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (2006) by Bjorn Lomborg
i: six nonlectures (1953) by E. E. Cummings
Idiosyncrasy and Technique (1934) by Marianne Moore
If I Were the Devil, Tiny If I Were the Devil (1965) by Paul Harvey
Illustrations of the Logic of Science (1877) by Charles Sanders Peirce
Inaugural Address (January 20, 1965) (1965) by Lyndon B. Johnson
Inaugural Address of James Buchanan (1857) by James Buchanan
Inner Experience (1943) by Georges Bataille
Inquisiciones (1925) by Jorge Luis Borges
Introduction à la connaissance de l'esprit humain (1746) by Luc de Clapiers
Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography (1955) by Guy Debord
Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci (1934) by Paul Valery
J'accuse…! (1898) by Emile Zola
La Métamorphose des dieux (1957) by Andre Malraux
La Naissance du jour (1928) by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (1900) by Henri Bergson
Le Musée imaginaire (1947) by Andre Malraux
Le Paysan de Paris (1926) by Louis Aragon
Le Pur et l'impur (1932) by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Le racisme expliqué à ma fille (1998) by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Les Paradis artificiels (1860) by Charles Baudelaire
Les Voix du silence (1951) by Andre Malraux
Letter of the Seer, Tiny Letter of the Seer (1871) by Arthur Rimbaud
Letter to a Hostage (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Letter to Benedetto Castelli (1613) by Galileo Galilei
Letter to Can Grande della Scala (1321) by Dante Alighieri
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615) by Galileo Galilei
Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001) by Christopher Hitchens
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor (1974) by Garrett Hardin
Little Rivers: A Book of Essays (1895) by Henry Van Dyke
Look Homeward, Angel (1935) by Edna Ferber
Master Plan, Part Deux (2016) by Elon Musk
Memoir on Fuchsian Functions (1881) by Henri Poincare
Mixed Essays (1879) by Matthew Arnold
Monolingualism of the Other; or, The Prosthesis of Origin (1996) by Jacques Derrida
Mortality (2012) by Christopher Hitchens
My Pedagogic Creed (1897) by John Dewey
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (1969) by Flannery O'Connor
No Treason No. 6: The Constitution of No Authority (1870) by Lysander Spooner
No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (1867) by Lysander Spooner
Nobel Lecture (1967) (1967) by George Wald
Nobel Lecture (Hannes Alfvén, 1970) (1970) by Hannes Alfven
Nobel Lecture (Literature) (1993) by Toni Morrison
Nobel Lecture (On the Application of Symmetry Principles in Quantum Mechanics) (1963) by Eugene Wigner
Notes on Structured Programming (1970) by Edsger Dijkstra
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) by T. S. Eliot
Novanglus (1774) by John Adams
Numerical Inverting of Matrices of High Order (with H. H. Goldstine) (1947) by John von Neumann
Objections and Replies (to the Meditations) (1641) by Rene Descartes
Of Cannibals (1580) by Michel de Montaigne
Of Education (1644) by John Milton
Of Population: An Enquiry Concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind (1820) by William Godwin
Of the Education of Children (1580) by Michel de Montaigne
On a New List of Categories (1867) by Charles Sanders Peirce
On an Absolute Thermometric Scale (1848) by Lord Kelvin
On Continued Gravitational Contraction (1939) by J. Robert Oppenheimer
On Contradiction (1937) by Mao Tse-Tung
On Fairy-Stories (1939) by J. R. R. Tolkien
On Linguistic Aspects of Translation (1959) by Roman Jakobson
On Love (1822) by Stendhal
On New Democracy (1940) by Mao Tse-Tung
On Practice (1937) by Mao Tse-Tung
On Rings of Operators (1936) by John von Neumann
On Solitude, Tiny On Solitude (1580) by Michel de Montaigne
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) by Mao Tse-Tung
On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science (1989) by Edsger Dijkstra
On the Dynamics of the Electron (1905) by Henri Poincare
On the Mathematical Foundations of Theoretical Statistics (1922) by Ronald Fisher
On the Natural History of Destruction (1999) by W. G. Sebald
On the People's Democratic Dictatorship (1949) by Mao Tse-Tung
On the Quantum Correction for Thermodynamic Equilibrium (1932) by Eugene Wigner
On the Quantum Theory of Molecules (1927) by J. Robert Oppenheimer
On the Secular Cooling of the Earth (1862) by Lord Kelvin
On the Study of Greek Poetry (1797) by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
On the Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics (1890) by Henri Poincare
On Translating Homer (1861) by Matthew Arnold
On Unitary Representations of the Inhomogeneous Lorentz Group (1939) by Eugene Wigner
On Vortex Atoms (1867) by Lord Kelvin
Otras inquisiciones (1952) by Jorge Luis Borges
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory (1988) by Judith Butler
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) by Toni Morrison
Prediction and Entropy of Printed English (1951) by Claude Shannon
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978 (1980) by Seamus Heaney
Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components (1956) by John von Neumann
Program Development by Stepwise Refinement (1971) by Niklaus Wirth
Programming a Computer for Playing Chess (1950) by Claude Shannon
Prohibitions del Roy (opinion) (1607) by Edward Coke
Proof of an External World (1939) by George Edward Moore
Psychoanalysis of Fire (1938) by Gaston Bachelard
Pyrrhus and Cinéas, Tiny Pyrrhus and Cinéas (1944) by Simone de Beauvoir
Quaestio de aqua et terra (1320) by Dante Alighieri
Race and History (1952) by Claude Levi-Strauss
Reflections of a Non-Political Man (1918) by Thomas Mann
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes (1830) by Charles Babbage
Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) by Ken Thompson
Regular Expression Search Algorithm (1968) by Ken Thompson
Remarks on the Mind–Body Question (1961) by Eugene Wigner
Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1964) by Lyndon B. Johnson
Remarks Upon Signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (1965) by Lyndon B. Johnson
Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan (1927) by Mao Tse-Tung
Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency's Conditions of Organization and Action (1957) by Guy Debord
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955–1982 (1983) by Philip Larkin
Research on the Secular Inequalities of Jupiter and Saturn (1785) by Pierre Laplace
Responsio ad Lutherum (Answer to Martin Luther) (1523) by Thomas More
Rodin (1903) by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1701) by Rene Descartes
Second Inaugural Address (1833) by Andrew Jackson
Self-stabilizing Systems in Spite of Distributed Control (1974) by Edsger Dijkstra
Serve the People (1944) by Mao Tse-Tung
Shifters, Verbal Categories, and the Russian Verb (1957) by Roman Jakobson
Siete noches (1980) by Jorge Luis Borges
Simulating Physics with Computers (1982) by Richard P. Feynman
So God Made a Farmer (1978) by Paul Harvey
Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control (1965) by Edsger Dijkstra
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) by John Locke
Space–Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics (1949) by Richard P. Feynman
St. Paul and Protestantism (1870) by Matthew Arnold
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