the selfish gene | richard dawkins
this is the first book that I have finished from the re-reading list I compiled a while ago. And this is the book, the one I would take with
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notes
shorts, fragments, travel notes, culture, books, stray observations
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"surely you're joking, mr. feynman!"
i finished reading Surely You’re Joking on the last day of November and it is definitely one of the most amusing, pleasurable, and inspiring books I’ve read. Feynman
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the remains of the day | ishiguro
ok. Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in 2017 and I’m happy to report that I was a bit ahead of the curve. I had already read Never Let Me
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the end of faith | sam harris
i picked up this book because it promised to express a bold position not only against religion in general but, given the state of affairs since 9/11, Islam in
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meditations | marcus aurelius
marcus aurelius, the last of the Five Good Emperors, wrote one of the final classical books of stoicism. The Greek title, Ta Eis Heauton, simply means “To Himself”. Someone, somewhere,
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norwegian wood | murakami
our perception of time is not linear, but logarithmic. It feels as if every new day were shorter than the previous day. Today, at 40, each year passes almost unnoticed
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byzantium: the decline and fall
and then, gradually and inexorably, the fire begins to fade, and worse: the flames are not extinguished by themselves or by the Islamic powers of Asia but by their Christian brethren of Europe
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byzantium: the apogee
this is volume II of III of the history of the Byzantine Empire. This volume, unlike the first one, covers a relatively short period of time: from the year 800
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byzantium: the early centuries
"our civilization has never adequately acknowledged the debt it owes to the Empire of the East," writes John Julius Norwich in the introduction of this magnificent book. In
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the odyssey
It was a long overdue debt with “literature.” A checkmark on a list of titles that the scholarly-bent reader thinks is required to enter the dignified club of literarte.
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