Doctorate

Doctorate is an achievement in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

There are 29 unique eBooks scattered throuought the world in Deus Ex: Human Revolution in addition to "common" eBooks found in multiple, various places. Finding these unique books will each provide a 200 XP "Scholar" award and by finding all 29 of them in one playthrough, you can achieve the Doctorate Achievement/Trophy.

To receive the Doctorate achievement, the player must read 29 special eBooks in the game at least once. A list as well as a table of all the locations for the eBooks are available below.

Sarif HQ – 3 eBooks

 * 1) Pritchard’s office, on his desk, to the right of Pritchard.
 * 2) On a desk inside office 25, on the second floor of Sarif HQ.
 * 3) Next door, there is another eBook inside office 27.

Sarif Manufacturing – 2 eBooks

 * 1) After finding a Praxis Kit, enter a room with a security hub. It's just past the hall with a camera and a turret. Throw away the cardboard boxes to get at it.
 * 2) Before confronting Zeke Sanders, find the eBook near the double doors leading to Josie Thorpe's office.

Detroit City (1st) – 7 eBooks

 * 1) Inside Jensen’s apartment.
 * 2) While in the Detroit Police Station, find the eBook inside the morgue.
 * 3) Inside the MCB gang’s apartment building, enter the merchant Seurat’s bedroom.
 * 4) In the Downtown Apartments with O’Malley, one floor above, an apartment has a level five locked door. Break into the bedroom to find a cage, hack the lock to find the eBook inside. Use the code 2356 to get inside the apartment, and 3663 to get inside the cage.
 * 5) Check Greg Thorpe’s apartment, the same apartment guarded by Detective Chase. Find his apartment on the third floor.
 * 6) Inside the LIMB clinic, look in the back hallway.
 * 7) In Derelict Row, inside the building under the mission-objective Transmitter.

FEMA Underground Base – 1 eBook

 * 1) In the fourth basement floor near the end of the level, enter a cafeteria and look inside the locked door.

Hengsha Island – 6 eBooks

 * 1) Inside the Hive, look inside a security room upstairs from Tong’s office.
 * 2) At the Hive, win the conversation with Tong to get access to Tong’s office.
 * 3) To the left of the main entrance into the Hengsha Court Gardens, or right to leave the apartment building from the elevator, there is a locked apartment with an eBook inside.
 * 4) Climb up to the Youzhao District roof, and look for the entrance into the apartments leading down. Break into the second floor apartment to find the eBook inside.
 * 5) In the Youzhao District, on the roof, break into the first apartment to the left across a walkway.
 * 6) Find this book in the Alice Garden Pods. Look on the second floor, in pod number 143.

Lower Tai Yong Medical – 1 eBook

 * 1) On the highest level before entering the actual Tai Yong Medical building with an elevator, look for a vent. Stack boxes to enter the vent, crawl through, and jump down to find a corpse with a Darrow book nearby.

Upper Tai Yong Medical – 2 eBooks

 * 1) In the center of the Lee Geng Memorial Laboratory, look on a box in the center of the large room.
 * 2) In the Hangar with two large mechs, find the eBook in the top left security room.

Picus Communications – 2 eBooks

 * 1) After an ambush, ride an elevator to a new floor with a locked door on the right side of the first hallway you enter. Hack the door and take the stairs up. The eBook is on a counter in the rear of this room, which has a window overlooking a large, open, two story tall room.
 * 2) Ride the Funicular down to enter the Illuminati office, look on the 2nd floor, in the locked corner office.

Detroit City (2nd) – 2 eBooks

 * 1) Detroit Convention Center, backstage, inside a room where several bodyguards are watching a TV. At the back of this break room, you’ll find the eBook.
 * 2) Inside Isaias Sandoval’s bunker, on his desk.

Harvester Hideout – 1 eBook

 * 1) Lowest floor of the hideout, inside the surgery room in the northwest room of the map. Faridah Malik is inside if she died earlier.

Omega Ranch – 2 eBooks

 * 1) Inside the same building as Nia Colvin, on the same floor. Look in the room just south of the room with the elevator.
 * 2) After the boss fight with Namir, find the last eBook inside Megan Reed’s office, inside her level 5 security safe.

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