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Here are some of the Books which have influenced me eventhough I must admit that I have not fully understood t he content of these books.
 
 
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Here are some of the Books, which have influenced me even though I must admit that I have not fully understood the content of these books.

Philosophy

1)The Dhammapada:The Way of the Buddha (vol 1-10) by Osho Rajneesh
2) Die O Yogi Die by Osho Rajneesh
3) From Sex to Superconsciousness by Osho Rajneesh
4) The Great Secret by Osho Rajneesh
5) The Supreme Doctrine by Osho Rajneesh
6) Tantra: The Supreme Understanding by Osho Rajneesh
7) Tao: The Pathless Path by Osho Rajneesh
8) The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol.1,2 by Osho Rajneesh
9) Vedanta: Seven Steps to Samadhiby Osho Rajneesh
10) Yoga: The Science of the Soul by Osho Rajneesh
11) Hidden Mysteriesby Osho Rajneeh
12) Zen: The Path of Paradox (vol 1-3)by Osho Rajneesh
13) The True Sage by Osho Rajnees
14) Communism and Zen Fire, Zen Wind by Osho Rajneesh
15) The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance by Fritjof Capra (2007)
16) The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems by Fritjof Capra
17) The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living by Fritjof Capra (2004)
18) The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture by Fritjof Capra (1984)
19) The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra (1990)
20) Wholeness and the Implicate Order (Routledge Classics) by David Bohm (2002)
21) On Dialogue by David Bohm (1996)
22) Science, Order and Creativity by David Bohm (2000)
23) On Creativity by David Bohm (1998)
24) The Ending of Times: Discussions Between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm by David Bohm (1999)
25) Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti by J. Krishnamurti (1996)
26) Commentaries on living;: First, second, and third series, from the notebooks of J. Krishnamurti by J Krishnamurti
27) Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning by J. Krishnamurti (2005)
28) First and Last Freedom, The by J. krishnamurti (1969)
29) Education and the Significance of Life by Krishnamurti (1981)
30) This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience by Alan W. Watts
31) The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts (1999)
32) Logic by Alexandra Getmanova (1989)
33) The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge Classics) by Karl Popper (2002)
34) The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics) by Karl Popper (2002)
35) Open Society and Its Enemies (Volume 1) by Karl Raimund Popper (1971)
36) Open Society and Its Enemies (Volume 2) by Karl Raimund Popper (1971)
37) A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1967)
38) The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
39) Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901-1950 by Bertrand Russell and Robert Charles Marsh (1988)
40) The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell (2007)
41) Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) by Ludwig Wittgenstein (2001)
42) Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973)
43) Wittgenstein: Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief by Ludwig Wittgenstein (2007)
44) Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Meridian) by Walter Kaufmann
45) An Introduction to Existentialism by Robert G. Olson (1962)
46) From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest by T.Z. Lavine (1985)
47) Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre (1956)
48) The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru (1960)
49) A History of Indian Philosophy Vol (1-4) by Surendra Nath Das Gupta
50) Introduction to Religious Philosophy. Second, Revised Edition. by Y. Masih (1991)
51) Logical Positivism by A. J. Ayer ( 1966)
52) Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant (1991)
53) Philosophers of East and West: The Quest for the Meaning of Existence in Eastern and Western Thought by E W F Tomlin (1986)
54) The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb (2002)
55) The main trends in philosophy: A theoretical analysis of the history of philosophy by Teodor Ilich Oizerman (1988)
56) Language, Truth and Logic by A.J. Ayer
57) The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number by Gottlob Frege and J. L. Austin (1980)
58) Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, and Allen W. Wood (Feb 1999)
59) The World As Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
60) Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida and Alan Bass (1985)
61) Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida and Alan Bass (1980)
62) A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (2007)
63) The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, G. W. F. Hegel, C. J. Friedrich, and Charles Hegel (2004)
64) Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter A. Kaufmann
65) Critique of Religion and Philosophy by Walter A. Kaufmann (1979)
66) Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
67) The Rise of the Network Society (The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Volume 1) by Manuel Castells
68) The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume II (The Information Age) 2nd Edition by Manuel Castells (2004)
69) End of Millennium by Manuel Castells
70) The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler (1984)
71) Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century by Alvin Toffler (1991)
72) Future Shock by Toffler Alvin (1970)
73) The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (2007)
74) One Up On Wall Street : How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild (2000)
75) The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and Alan B. Krueger (2003)
76) Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher (1989)
77) Zen Economics: Save the World and Yourself by Saving by Robert van de Weyer (2004)
78) Free Trade: Myths, Realities and Alternatives by Graham Dunkley (2004)
79) The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric Beinhocker (2007)
80) Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction by Morton D. Davis (1997)
81) What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, and Ian Stewart (1996)
82) Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Ian Stewart (1995)
83) The Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell (1996)
84) The Development of Mathematics by E. T. Bell (1992)
85) God Created the Integers by Stephen Hawking (2007)
86) A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1998)
88) On The Shoulders Of Giants by Stephen Hawking (2003)
89) The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
90) Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physicsby Gary Zukav (1879)
91) The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene (2003)
92) The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin (1999)
93) ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell (2001)
94) Einstein's Theory of Relativity by Max Born ( 1962)
95) Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity by Steven Weinberg (1972)
96) Albert Einstein’s Philosophical Views and the Theory of Relativity by D.P. Gribanov; Translator H. Campbell Crei (1987)
97) Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (1988)
98) Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics by Nick Herbert (1987)

99) Teach Yourself Astronomy by Patrick Moore
100)Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung (1968)
101)The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Kaufmann(1968)
102)Introduction to the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
103) Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark (1972)
104) Goethe, Kant, and Hegel: Discovering the Mind by Walter Kaufmann
105)Freud, Adler, and Jung: Volume Three: Discovering the Mind by Walter Kaufmann
106) Digital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionizing Science, Medicine, and Business by Glyn Moody (2004)
107)Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley (2006)
108)Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature by Steven Weinberg (1994)
109)The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century by John Brockman (2002)
110)Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen (1986)
111) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1994)
112) Classical Samkhya by Gerald James Larson (1979)
113) The Jataka or stories of the Buddhas' formerbirths (Volume I-VII)
114) Bhagvad Gita As it is by AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
115) Yoga Philosophy by Surendranath DasGupta (1974)
116) The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (2008)
117) The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World by Paul Davies (1993)
118)Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues by J. A. Cover and Martin Curd
119)Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by Peter Godfrey-Smith
120)The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
121)An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science [Paperback] Rudolf Carnap
122)Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introductory of Essays by Stephen Korner (Paperback - June 1979)
123)Men of Mathematics by E.T. Bell (Author)
124)An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding by John Locke
125)An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
126)Leibniz (The Routledge Philosophers) by Nicholas Jolley
127)Philosophy of Leibniz by Bertrand Russell
128)The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science) by Roger Penrose and Martin Gardner

Structural Engineering

1) Structure in Architecture: The Building of Buildings by Mario Salvadori (1986)
2) History of Strength of Materials by Stephen P. Timoshenko (1953)
3) Mechanics of Materials by E. Popov (1978)
4) Mechanics of Materials by James M Gere and Stephen P Timoshenko (1987)
5) Matrix Analysis of Framed Structures by William Weaver and James M. Gere
6) Theory of Elastic Stability by Stephen P. Timoshenko, James M. Gere, and Donovan H. Young (1964)
7) Theory of Plates and Shells by Stephen P. Timoshenko and S.Woinowsky- Kreiger
8) Theory of Elasticity by Stephen P. Timoshenko and J.N. Goodier (1970)
9) Strength of Materials, Part II: Advanced Theory and Problems by Stephen P. Timoshenko
10) Numerical methods in finite element analysis (Prentice-Hall civil engineering and engineering mechanics series) by Klaus-Jurgen Bathe and Wilson
11) Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering by Anil K. Chopra (1995)
12) Structural Dynamics: Theory and Computation by Mario Paz and William Leigh
13) Intermediate Structural Analysis by C. K. Wang
14) Structural Analysis: A Unified Classical and Matrix Approach by Amin Ghali
15) Theory of Matrix Structural Analysis by J. S. Przemieniecki (1985)
16) Structures by Daniel Lewis Schodek (2004)
17) Notes on ACI 318 Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete with Design Applications by Portland Cement Association
18) Structural Design Guide to the ACI Building Code by Edward S. Hoffman, David P. Gustafson, and Albert J. Gouwens
19) Properties Of Concrete, By A. M. Neville (1963)
20) Reinforced Concrete Fundamentals by Phil M. Ferguson (Author), John E. Breen (Author), James O. Jirsa
21) Reinforced Concrete: Mechanics and Design by James G. MacGregor
22) Reinforced Concrete by A.K. Jain (1989)
23) Reinforced Concrete Design by Kenneth Leet and Dionisio Bernal (1996)
24) Reinforced Concrete Structural Elements by Purushothaman P (1984)
25) Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design by Verghese P.C. (2003)
26) An Introduction to Cable Roof Structures by H. A. Buchholdt
27) Tensioned Fabric Structures by R.E. Shaeffer (1996)
28) Tensile Structures, Design, Structure, and Calculation of Buildings of Cables, Nets, and Membranes by Otto Frei (1973)
29) Cable Suspended Roofs (McGraw-Hill series in modern structures) by Prem Krishna (1978)
30) Cable Structures by Max Irvine (1992)
31) Analysis of Geometrically Nonlinear Structures by Robert Levy and William R. Spillers (1995)
32) Form-Finding and Analysis of Tension Space Structures by Dynamic Relaxation a thesis by Michael Barnes (1977)
33) Foundation Analysis and Design by Joseph E. Bowles
34) Foundation Design by Wayne C. Teng (1962)
35) AISC Manual of Steel Construction: Allowable Stress Design, 9th Edition (1989)
36) AISC Manual of Steel Construction: Load and Resistance Factor Design, LRFD 3rd Edition by AISC Manual Committee (2001)
37) Structural Engineering Handbook by Edwin H., Jr. And Charles N. Gaylord Gaylord
38) Steel Structures: Design and Behavior (4th Edition) by Charles G. Salmon and John E. Johnson (1997)
39) Steel Structures: Controlling Behavior Through Design by Robert E. Englekirk (1994)
40) Design of Welded Structures by Omer W. Blodgett (1966)
41) Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain by Warren C. Young and Richard Budynas (2001)
42) Civil Engineering Reference Manual by Michael R. Lindeburg (2004)
43) International Building Code, International Conference of Buildings Official (2004)
44) Deformation of Concrete Structures by Dan E. Branson (1977)

Architecture

1) Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi
2) The Urban Pattern by Simon Eisner, Arthur Gallion, and Stanley Eisner (1993)
3) Living Cities: A Case for Urbanism and Guidelines for Re-Urbanization by Jan Tanghe, Sieg Vlaeminck, and J. F. Berghoef (1984)
4) House Form and Culture by Amos Rapoport (1969)
5) Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton (1992)
6) Modern Architecture Since 1900 by William Curtis (1996)
7) Modern Movements in Architecture by Charles Jencks (1987)
8) Language of Post-Modern Architecture by Charles Jencks (1991)
9) The City in History by Lewis Mumford (1968)
10) The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch (1960)
11) Charles Correa by Charles Correa and Kenneth Frampton (1997)
12) Theories and History of Architecture by Manfredo Tafuri (1981)

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