A series of book recommendations for young people seeking to build a broad and thorough background in human knowledge. The library is organized as a series of courses. I recommend reading through an entire course before beginning the next.

Architecture

• The New Architecture and The Bauhaus - W. Gropius ISBN-13: 978-0262570060 ISBN-10: 9780262570060

Urban Planning

• The City of Tomorrow ant Its Planning - Le Corbusier ISBN-13: 978-0486253329 ISBN-10: 0486253325

History

Game Theory

Ancient

• The Histories - Herodotus ISBN-13: 978-0199535668 ISBN-10: 9780199535668
• The Greeks - H.D.F. Kitto ISBN-13: 978-0202309101 ISBN-10: 020230910X
• The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius ISBN-10: 9780140455168 ISBN-13: 978-0140455168
• The Cambridge History of Ancient China - M. Loewe & E.L. Shaughnessy ISBN-13: 978-0521470308 ISBN-10: 0521470307
• The Wonder That Was India - A.L. Basham ISBN-10: 033043909X

World

War and Strategy

East/South Asia

• Japanese Modernization
• Imperialism in China
• The British Raj
• Asia in WWII
• Chinese Revolution
• India After Gandhi
• Japan After WWII
• Modern China

North America

• American Revolution

• Mexican Revolution

• American Civil War

• Early 20th century American Society

• WWII

• Post-war prosperity

• Cold War

• Global American Supremacy

• America Today

Middle East / North Africa

• Islamic Golden Age
• Ottoman Empire
• Turkish Revolution
• Iranian Revolution
• Modern Middle Eastern History

Europe

• French Revolution
• Renaissance Italy
• Age of Discovery
• Age of Enlightenment
• Age of Revolutions
• Russian Revolution
• WWI
• Weimar Germany
• WWII
• 20th century Russia/USSR
• 20th century England
• 20th century France
• 20th century Germany/Austria

Business Management

Industrial Engineering

Algebra

Linear Algebra

Analysis

Elementary

Financial

Statistics & Probability

Ancient

European/Russian

Asian

American

Ancient

Aesthetics

Epistemology

Philosophy of Science

Ethics

Political

Computer Science

UNIX

Programming Languages

Theory of Computation

Electrical Engineering

Computer Engineering

Materials Science

Chemistry

Genetics/Genomics

Neurology

Physics

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