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What books and other written works have had major impact on this world?
Off the top of my head:
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Galileo's A Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and The Capital
The bible, the Koran, and similar holy books.
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February 10, 2003, 04:01
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President of the OT
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Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
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February 10, 2003, 04:01
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Anatoliy Golitsyn's "New Lies for Old" and "The Perestroika Deception." 
And oh yeah, The Bible.
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February 10, 2003, 04:07
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Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Uncle Tom's Cabin by someone I forget, lots of the stuff by enlightenment philospohers...
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February 10, 2003, 04:14
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Koran, bible
guess those were obvious choices. they were already mentioned.
Don't forget nearly all scientific work by Lenardo Da Vinci, Newton, Einstein etc.
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Barack Obama- the antichrist
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February 10, 2003, 07:54
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Hobbes - Leviathan
Rousseau - Le contrat social
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February 10, 2003, 07:57
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The GNU General Public License 
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February 10, 2003, 08:08
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The US declaration of Independence.
Various confucian works.
that is, of course, added to the texts already mentioned.
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February 10, 2003, 08:16
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Newton's Principia Mathematica
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February 10, 2003, 08:26
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Mein Kampf
(apologies, but someone had to say it)
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February 10, 2003, 08:31
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one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish
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February 10, 2003, 08:31
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hi ,
the Talmud
have a nice day
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February 10, 2003, 08:32
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George Orwell's 1984.
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February 10, 2003, 08:43
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin by someone I forget"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I'm gonna go with Augustine's Confessions and City of God. Also with Luther's 95 theses, as well as Aquinas' Summa Theologica.
And let's not forget the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution! 
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February 10, 2003, 09:03
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Originally posted by Asher
Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
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The Magna Carta
Plato - Symposium and The Republic
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
More - Utopia
John Nash's Undergrad Paper/Thesis (whatever it was called )
Anything by Shakespeare (if only because we have to study them  )
The Treaty of Versailles
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February 10, 2003, 09:13
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Luther's 95 theses
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completely forgot about Luther's work.
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February 10, 2003, 09:29
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Friedrich Nietzsche - Also sprach Zarathustra.
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February 10, 2003, 09:35
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Civ2 Manual 
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February 10, 2003, 10:11
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Vel's SMAC strategy guide.
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February 10, 2003, 10:32
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John Locke's Two Treatises on Government.
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February 10, 2003, 11:01
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Ulysses - James Joyce.
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February 10, 2003, 11:35
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Catch 22- Joseph Heller
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February 10, 2003, 11:39
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Thanks Alex!
-=Vel=-
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February 10, 2003, 12:58
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February 10, 2003, 14:01
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Isn't the Declaration of Independence a copy of the Magna Carta?
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February 10, 2003, 14:31
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Geez, I can't believe all you Civers missed the obvious one:
Sun Tzu's Art of War
Shame on you all!
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February 10, 2003, 14:33
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Too true, Alva! But I hope the guide comes down on the side of the forces of good....
-=Vel=-
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February 10, 2003, 14:38
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The Prince, Machiavelli
Leviathan, Hobbes
Utopia, More
The Republic, Plato
those are some political ones off the top of my head, god knows there are hundreds more influential books.
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February 10, 2003, 15:33
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Is the Darma the buddhist one? That's pretty influential.
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February 10, 2003, 15:42
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Originally posted by Velociryx
Too true, Alva! But I hope the guide comes down on the side of the forces of good....
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The forces of good pour from those wise pages, my friends.
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