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One of three Milan Kunderas: The Joke, The Unbearable Lightness of Being or Life is Elsewhere. Take your pick; I favor The Joke particularly now that we know Kundera was ratting for the Communists. Jeron Lanier's You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto despite the fact that I disagree with almost every point he makes. Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational. Conrad Lorenz's On Agression or for those who need Austrian psychology broken down in bite-sized pieces and delivered to the through the artifice of a talking ape, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn or for those who wish to discount everything Conrad Lorenz had to say and replace the talking ape with Anthony Hopkins, Instinct the movie. Thank You For Arguing by Jay Heinrichs.