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CLICK HERE FOR NEW LIST OF ALL THE BOOKS THAT CHONGO HAS WRITTEN
(Now at thirty different titles, with several more near completion)


HOMELESS INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, No Math
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THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BIG WALL CLIMBING
Volume One: The Groung Manual

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NEW BOOK, TO BE AN IDIOT, A GUIDE TO THE CHOICES
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NEW BOOK, The Quotable Chongo, ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, VOLUME TWO, INSIGHT
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NEW BOOK, The Quotable Chongo, ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, VOLUME THREE, COMPASSION
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NEW BOOK, The Quotable Chongo, ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, VOLUME FOUR, LIBERTY
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NEW BOOK, The Quotable Chongo, ON HOW TO BE BITCHINER, VOLUME ONE, DISCIPLINE  
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NEW BOOK, THE ORIGIN STORY, How We Got Here
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CLICK HERE FOR NEW, FREE BOOK, CONFUCIUS, According to Chongo

CLOCKS ON A TRAIN
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The Quotable Chongo, ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, VOLUME ONE, COURAGE
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THE INFINITE VOID, Relativity's Space and Time Without Math
>>>Relativity's geometry illustrated online (Supplements Clocks on a Train above)
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MONKEY IN THE MIRROR, Simple Courage, A Story About Life
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         An Essay by Chris Hedges   Or, A Short and Stunning Speech by Chris
         Neil Degrasse Tyson Speaks Candidly
         Paul Hawken                                                               'GREEN LIST' (BELOW) INCLUDES TWELVE BOOKS THAT EVERYONE SHOULD READ + MORE
                 DRAWDOWN: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever to Reverse Global Warming 
         Carl Sagan   1   2
                 Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey 
                 The Demon Haunted World  (Or click here to hear it in its entirety on YouTube)
                     Broca's Brain 
                     Dragons of Eden 
          Dwight Eisenhower
                   Presidential Farewell Speech 1961  (Or click here to hear the speech in its entirity on YouTube)
                     A Two-Thousand Year Old Parallel (And A Commentary on 'Justice')
          Albert Einstein  (The one and the only, among the smartest humans to have ever lived, a truly enlightened individual)
                 Ideas and Opinions
                 Clocks on a Train  Relativity -- The Pamphlet  
SPRING 2017 EDITION!
                            
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                     Relativity by Albert Einstein (Prerequisite conceptual understanding of relativity is highly recommended. Click here to see prerequisite.)
                     Relativity as Explained by Chongo in The Infinite Void   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<
                     Relativity as Explained by David Mermin in It's About Time
                     Relativity as Explained by Charles Steinmetz
                     Relativity as Explained by a Textbook ------> Special Relativity: Straight Lines   General Relativity: Curves
R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)
            Howard Zinn
                 The People's History of the United States (The history of poor people of the United States)
          Nancy Isenberg
                     White Trash.  The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (The origins of our modern, backward country)
          Niccolo Machiavelli
                     The Prince (An examination of the genuine character of common human ambition in government)
          Christopher Hitchens   1   2   3   4   5
                 God Is Not Great  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube)
                     The Portable Atheist
          Sam Harris (Or click here to listen to Sam Harris on YouTube)
                     Letter to a Christian Nation
                     End of Faith
                     The Moral Landscape
           H. L. Mencken                                                                                               'GREEN LIST' CONTINUES BELOW -- CLICK HERE TO BRING INTO VIEW
           Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
           Confucius
                     Analects  (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)
          Lao Tzu
                     Tao Te Ching  (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)
          Eric Ladizinsky (The individual most responsible for the rich content of this Library page)
                     Magical Science
                     More Magical Science
          The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski (Video Presentation)
          Laurence G. Boldt
                 Zen and the Art of Making a Living 
          Albert Camus
          Wise Arabic Sayings (Desert Wisdom)
          Aesop (Click here for condensed version of Fables)
                   Aesop's Fables   (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)
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         Ardea Skybreak
                 Evolution and the Myth of Creationism Knowing What's Real and Why It Matters
          Richard Dawkins
                    The Greatest Show on Earth (Dawkins most recent look at Evolution)
                 The Selfish Gene (A physical explanation for the self-serving origins of altruistic behavior and wants)
                    The Blind Watchmaker (Evolution and design)
          Jared Diamond
                 Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fate of Human Societies  (The pre-history and history of humankind)
                 Collapse  How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed  (A Treatsie on Empires)
          Julian Jaynes
                 The Origin of Consciousness In the Break-Down of the Bicameral Mind <Fixed the Link>
                     Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind
                     Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jayne's Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited
                     Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind, The Theories of Julian Jaynes
           Nick Lane                                                                                                                  'BLUE LIST' BEGINS BELOW -- CLICK HERE TO VIEW START OF LIST
                     Why Energy Shapes Evolution, An Essay
                    The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life  (Information, Energy, and Living System)
                    Life Ascending: Ten Great Inventions of Evolution 
                    Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and The Meaning of Life
          Erwin Schroedinger
                    Mind and Matter (An early, brilliant definition of life)
          Yuval Noah Harari
                Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind (The most recent work on human origins, and the best.)
          Douglas Hofstadter
                    Godel, Esher, Bach, The Eternal Golden Braid   (A great and stunning work of explanation and understanding that is wholly unique and encompassing.)
          Davis, Hersh
                The Mathematical Experience
          Scott Aaronson
                Quantum Computing Since Democratus
          Murray Gell-Mann  (Among the greatest minds on Earth)
                The Quark and the Jaguar  (Explorations in the simple and the complex)
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          Melanie Mitchell
                Complexity, A Guided Tour  (The most recent worthwhile book on complexity)
          Richard Feynman
                     Q.E.D. (Quantum Electrodynamics) The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
                    The Meaning of It All 
                     The Character of Physical Laws (Advanced Reading)
                     The Feynman Lectures (Extremely Advanced Reading)
           Chongo (Click here to see ALL the books by Chongo at end of Library below)          'BLUE LIST' CONTINUES BELOW -- CLICK HERE TO VIEW REST OF LIST
                 CLOCKS ON A TRAIN (Hour Long Introduction to Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<
                     HONOUR THY FATHER Foundations of Monotheism
                     THE CHRISTIAN STATE, Whn Religious Law Rules a Nation
                     THIS BOOK IS INTENDED TO OFFEND... Series
                     THE QUOTABLE CHONGO: ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, Volume One (Philosophy)
                     NEW!!!  THE QUOTABLE CHONGO: ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, Volume Two: Insight 
            ...in collaboration with José
                     THE AN ETERNITY OF TOMORROWS, Everlasting Life and Quantum Theory (The Uncertainty Principle)   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<
                     DECISIONS OF NATURE, A Story About God (The Scientific One)   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<
                     TOUCH OF THE OBSERVER, Life, the Multiverse, and Immortality (The Deepest Truth in Nature)   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<
                     THE INFINITE VOID, Relativity's Space and Time Without Math (In-Depth Relativity)   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<
                             (The Infinite Void provides the recommended prerequisite conceptual understanding for Albert Einstein's great work, Relativity, above.)
                     HOMELESS INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, No Math  (Quantum Theory, inluding Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<
                             (The Homeless Interpretation provides recommended prerequisite understanding for David Deutsch's great work, The Fabric of Reality, just below.)
                     PHYSICS FOR PHUCKHEADS, No Math  (Quantum Theory, inluding Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<
                             (The Infinite Pattern can provide recommended prerequisite understanding for David Deutsch's great work, The Fabric of Reality, just below.)
          David Deutsch  (Dean of Physics, Cambridge, England, and one of the formost thinkers in science today, as well as a champion writer)
                
The Fabric of Reality (Prerequisite conceptual understanding of both relativity and modern quantum theory are highly recommended)
                      The Beginning of Infinity
          Leonard Susskind   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9
                  Quantm Mechanics, The Theoretical Minimum (Nothing short of a great work by a great teacher.)
                             Basics of Quantum Theory from a Textbook
          Greenstein
                The Quantum Challenge
          David Wallace
                  The Emergent Multiverse (The most recent book on the multiverse, math and all)
          James V. Stone
                Information Theory, A Tutorial Introduction
           Roger Penrose
                         The Road to Reality, A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (An epic work, slightly dated in light of new experiments since publication.)
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          Lewis Carroll Epstein
                  Thinking Physics (Nothing short of a masterpiece work)
          Joseph Campbell
                   The Hero's Journey (Short)
                   The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Common to all cultures)
                       The Power of Myth 
          Gilgamesh Epic Folk Myth (The Original Recorded Legend of the Hero, 4,000 B.C.)
          Sun Tzu
                   The Art of War
          Daniel Dennet
                       Consciousness Explained    Chapter 7   Chapter 8   Chapter 12
          Sigmund Freud (on social psychology)
                   The Future of an Illusion  (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)
                   Civilization and Its Discontents (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)

          Marcus Arelius
                   Meditations  (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)
          Jean-Jacques Rouseau
                   Discourse on Inequality  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)
                   The Social Contract  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)
          Baruch Spinoza
                   The Complete Works  (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)
          Bertrand Russel
                   The History of Western Philosophy  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)
                   Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
                       Essay Collection
                       Basic Writings
                       All Works
          Karl Popper
                      The Logic of Scientific Discovery
                      The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume I , Volume II
  R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)  
         Benjamin Franklin
          Leonardo da Vinci
          Edward Gibbon
                   History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
          Adam Smith
                     The Wealth of Nations  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)
                     The Theory of Moral Sentiments  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)
          Marx -- Engles
          Thomas Paine
                     The Age of Reason  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)
                     The Rights of Man
  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)
          Thomas Jefferson
                     The United States Constitution
                     The United States Declaration of Independence
          Noam Chomshy
                     Imperial Ambitions (2005)
                     Understanding Power (2002)
          Yanis Varoufakis
                  The Global Minotaur (The Future of the World Economy)
          Carl Sandburg
          Raj Patel
                  The Value of Nothing  (Economics)
          William Blum
                       Rogue State
          Bernal Diaz (A direct, first hand observer)
                  The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (The genuine character of cultural conflict)
          William H. Prescott
                  The History of the Conquest of Peru (An examination of the character of the cultural conflict in the Inca world)
                  The History of the Conquest of Mexico (An examination of the character of cultural conflict in the Aztec World)
  R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)  
          Seth Lloyd
                   Programming the Universe
                   The Universe as a Quantum Computer
          Julian Brown
                  Minds, Machines, and the Mutiverse
          Hugh D, Young
                  Fundamentals of Waves, Optics, and Modern Physics 
          Paul Davies
                  The Forces of Nature
          Desmond Morris
                   The Naked Ape (An examination of the character of the human animal)
          Michael Pollan
                   In Defense of Food (Healthy Eating)
          Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddah)
          Eugene Herrigel
                   Zen and the Art of Archery
          Gabriel Garcia Marquez
                   A Hundred Years of Solitude (Not exactly fiction)
                   Cien Años de Soledad (No es precisament ficción, pero chido lo es)
          Kahlil Gibran
                   The Voice of the Master (Among other considerations, the disadvantages of power)
          Miyamoto Musashi     1    2    3 
                   The Book of Five Rings (Journey of a homeless samurai)
          Lance Fortnow
                 The Golden Ticket  P, NP, and the Search For the Impossible
  R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)  
          John C, Taylor
                  Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws 
          David Berlinski
                Tour of the Calculus
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          Chongo
                  The Quotable Chongo: On How to Be Bitchin (Philosophy)
                     NEW!!!  The Quotable Chongo: On How To Be Bitchin, Volume Two: Insight 
                  Honour Thy Father, Foundations of Monotheism
                     The Christian State, When Religious Law Rules a Nation
                     This Book Is Intended to Offend... Series
                  Monkey in the Mirror Episode One: Simple Courage
                  Love and Hate at Sea, A Book About Wall Partners (An Exploration in Relationships)
                  Clocks on a Train (Hour Long Introduction to Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<
            Chongo in collaboration with José
                  An Eternity of Tomorrows, Everlasting Life and Quantum Theory      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<
                  DecisionsofNature, A Story about God (The Scientific One)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<
                  Touch of the Observer, Life, The Multiverse, and Immortality      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<
                 The Infinite Void, Relativity's Space and Time Without Math (In-Depth Relativity)   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<
                                   (The Infinite Void provides the recommended prerequisite conceptual understanding for Albert Einstein's great work, Relativity, above.)
                  Homeless Interpretation on Quantum Mechanics, No Math  (Quantum Theory, inluding Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<
                                   (The Homeless Interpretation of Q.M. provides the recommended prerequisite conceptual understanding for David Deutsch's great work, The Fabric of Reality, above.)
                  Physics for Phuckheads, No Math  (Compact Quantum Theory, inluding Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<
                                   (Physics for Phuckheads can serve to provide the recommended prerequisite conceptual understanding for David Deutsch's great work, The Fabric of Reality, above.)
ADVANCED TECHNICAL ROCK CLIMBING BOOKS BY CHONGO   >>>Click here to go to the .COM site, the other chogonation web site, oriented toward big wall rockclimbing, slacklining, and highlining<<<
IF YOU ARE A TECHNICAL ROCKCLIMBER OR ARE CURIOUS ABOUT BOOKS THAT EXPLAIN TECHNICAL ROCKCLIMBING (SPECIFICALLY, BIG WALL CLIMBING), THEN LISTED BELOW ARE SOME OF THE MOST ESSENTIAL TITLES ON THE SUBJECT (BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ARE VERY TECHNICALLY ADVANCED BOOKS THAT EXPLAIN THE MOST TECHNICAL FORM OF CLIMBING IN EXISTENCE, SO PLEASE, UNDERSTAND THIS, AND UNDERSTAND ALSO THE GREAT DANGERS SUCH ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN SUCH AN EXTREME SPORT PRESENT):
CLICK HERE TO READ IMPORTANT WARNING ABOUT BOOKS ON EXTREME OUTDOOR SPORTS!  
                           THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BIG WALL CLIMBING: Volume One, The Ground Manual
                                        (Unquestionably, the most comprehensive how-to book ever written on modern big wall methods. Also known as the Big Wall "Bible")
                       Advanced Big Wall Stations and Hauling
                       Advanced Big Wall Ropes and Rope Management
                       Big Wall Racking
                       Advanced Big Wall Leading Equipment
                       Advanced Big Wall Personal Rack
                       Love and Hate at Sea, A Book About Wall Partners
  © 2016, Charles Victor Tucker III (Chongo), All rights reserved.
              ADVANCED TECHNICAL ROCK CLIMBING BOOKS BY AUTHORS OTHER THAN CHONGO (Below)
                                CLICK HERE TO READ IMPORTANT WARNING ABOUT BOOKS ON EXTREME OUTDOOR SPORTS!
            Ryan Jenks
                     THE BOLTING BIBLE, The Holy Guide to Bolting Highlines
            Roger Putnam and Erik Sloan (w/ significant contributions by Don Reid)
                     YOSEMITE BIG WALLS, A Compltete Guide (The most up-to-date and comprehensive guide in existence)
          RockClimbingYosemite.com
                       ROCKCLIMBING YOSEMITE VALLEY, 750 Best Free Routes (A beautiful work filled with colorful pictures.)

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  Immortal Technique (Genius)  
  Tupac Amaru Shakur   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10
Calle 13   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13
Eminem (Marshall Mathers)   1   2   3   4   5
Stevie   1   2   3   4   5   6
D M X   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10
Indigo Girls   1   2   3   4   5   6
Spice
Los Tigres
Los Plebes del Rancho   1   2   3   4
Scott D. Davis

Manu Chau   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10

Philip Wesley

Helen Jane Long

Ryan Stewart

Jennifer Thomas

Rada Neal

Medwyn Goodall

Adantino

Dallas String Quartet

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William Orbit

ATB

Josh Vietti

Omar Akram

Spanish Guitar 1 2 3 4

Eklipse 1 2

Lorena McKinnett

Yakuro 1 2

Chill 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Relaxing Music 1 2 3 4 5 6
Calming Music 1 2 3 4
Arabian Music 1 2 3 4
Stive Morgan 1 2 3 4 5 6
Bluestone

Roberto Cacciapaglia

Ludovico Einaudi 1 2 3

Diosil

Michele McLaughin

Isaac Shepard

Yurima

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Solar Fields

Alex Grant

Elijah Bossenbroek

Future World

Ray Sharp

Medieval

Joey Fehrenbacha

Etheogenic

Manoeuvres

Dreamtree

Ishvaei

Mantra

Psybient Mix

Arabic

Arabic/Indian

Indian Dub

Kevin Bluemel
Theivery Corporation

Luminous

Devaldi - Eudemonia

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Catoma

Isaac Sheppard

The Piano Guys

G-Spliff

Apparat

Greg Maroney

Medwin Goodall

Yanni
Mehdi 1 2 3 4
Royksopp

Magna Carta

Enigma

Glitch Mob

Iluminate

Fat Freddy's Drop

Buena Vista Social Club

Vangellis

Richard Clayderman

Paul Cardall

Ryan Farish 1 2 3

Pachelbel Cannon

Violin

Mozart
Beethoven   Fifth   Sixth   Seventh

Pandora

Classical 1 2 3

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