Robert B. Downs's Books that Changed the World

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Books selected by Robert B. Downs for his "Books that Changed the World".
1
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
by Nicolaus Copernicus
515 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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2
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
16,651 members
133 reviews
4.1
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3
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
by Albert Einstein
5,124 members
40 reviews
3.9
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4
The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
6,279 members
56 reviews
½ 3.5
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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
by William Harvey
288 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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6
Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
4,816 members
97 reviews
½ 2.7
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7
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
27,990 members
305 reviews
½ 3.7
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8
The Geographical Pivot of History
by Sir Halford John Mackinder
29 members
½ 3.3
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9
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
by A. T. Mahan
839 members
7 reviews
3.8
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10
An Essay on the Principle of Population
by Thomas Robert Malthus
1,026 members
12 reviews
½ 3.5
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11
Das Kapital
by Karl Marx
2,361 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
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12
Principia Mathematica
by Isaac Newton
1,379 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
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13
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
6,076 members
71 reviews
3.9
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14
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
7,251 members
55 reviews
3.9
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15
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
19,689 members
209 reviews
3.8
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16
Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
1,899 members
33 reviews
3.8
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