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<div>== Books to Buy ==<br />
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* Chance and Necessity - Jacques Monod<br />
* What is the Name of this Book: Raymond Smullyan<br />
* On Growth and Form - D'Arcy Thompson<br />
* Thought Contagion: How Ideas Act Like Viruses - Aaron Lynch<br />
* The Scheme of Things (and others) - Allen Wheelis<br />
* L'homme microscopique - Pierre Auger<br />
* The Hidden Spring - mark solms<br />
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* Eric Ambler - Cause for Alarm <br />
* Alpha and Omega - https://www.amazon.fr/dp/1961341417<br />
* the Whole is Simpler than its Parts - https://www.amazon.fr/dp/1961341158<br />
* Language, Thought, and other Biological Categories<br />
* Open Socrates - Agnes Callard<br />
* Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI (out in paperback Jan 30 2025)<br />
* A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (awaiting paperback)<br />
* How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology<br />
* Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel<br />
* Grey Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery - not yet in paperback<br />
* The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium<br />
* Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization<br />
* Consolations - David Whyte<br />
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== Books to Read ==<br />
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* Reading to Learn - William Zinger<br />
* Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut<br />
* A Little History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton<br />
* The Flat Mind <br />
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== Currently Reading ==<br />
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* [[Atomic Habits]] - James Clear<br />
*[[Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern]] - Douglas R Hofstadter<br />
*[[Die Montez-Juwelen]] - Sabine Vôhringer<br />
*The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles<br />
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== Books Read ==<br />
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=== 2025 (week 22) ===<br />
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* 25. [[The French Lieutenant’s Woman]]<br />
* 24. [[Short Stories in German for Beginners]] - Olly Richards<br />
* 23. [[On the Calculation of Volume: 2]] - Solvej Balle<br />
* 22. [[Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity, and the Emergence of Life]] - John Gribbin<br />
* 21. [[Das Ludwig Thoma Komplott]]- Sabine Vöhringer<br />
* 20. [[Maus]] - Art Spiegelman<br />
* 19. [[On the Calculation of Volume: 1]] - Solvej Balle<br />
* 18. [[The Concept of Mind]] - Gilbert Ryle<br />
* 17. [[Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction]] - Richard Passingham<br />
* 16. [[The Experience Machine]] - Andy Clark<br />
* 15. [[Why We Remember: Revealing the Hidden Power of Memory]] - Dr Charan Ranganath<br />
* 14. [[From Bacteria to Bach and Back]] - Daniel Dennett (re-read)<br />
* 13. [[The Village of Eight Graves]] - Seishi Yokomizo<br />
* 12. [[Science: A History]] - Richard Crockett<br />
* 11. [[Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World]] - John Gribbin<br />
* 10.[[The Inugami Curse]] - Seishi Yokomizo<br />
* 9. [[The Rise and Reign of the Mammals]]<br />
* 8. [[Four Ways of Thinking]] - David Sumpter<br />
* 7. [[I've Been Thinking]] - Daniel Dennett<br />
* 6. [[Serendipities: Language and Lunacy]] - Umberto Eco<br />
* 5. [[I Am Dynamite: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche]] - Sue Prideaux<br />
* 4. [[A Brief History of Intelligence]] - Max S. Bennett<br />
* 3. [[Foucault’s Pendulum]] - Umberto Eco (re-read)<br />
* 2. [[Kant and the Platypus]] - Umberto Eco<br />
* 1. [[Le cerveau m’a beaucoup déçu. L’esprit, non]] - Antoine Sénanque<br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
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* The Plot - Will Eisner<br />
* The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco<br />
* The Nonjin Murders - Seishi Yokomizo<br />
* When We Cease to Understand the World - Labatut<br />
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig (reread)<br />
* The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities - Fauconnier and Turner<br />
* The Singularity is Nearer - Ray Kurzweil<br />
* Physics and Philosophy - Werner Heisenberg<br />
* Le Ton Beau de…<br />
* The Origins of Creativity - Edward O Wilson<br />
* Psychonauts - <br />
* The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut<br />
* In Search of Memory - Eric R. Kandel<br />
* Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction - Hobson<br />
* Les Effinger - Gabriele Target<br />
* Triad - Tom Keve<br />
* Nietzsche - Stefan Zweig<br />
* The Weirdest People in the World - Joseph Henrich<br />
* How Language Works - David Crystal<br />
* The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wolf<br />
* [[The Song of the Cell]] - Siddhartha Mukherjee<br />
* [[Gödel, Escher, Bach]] - Douglas Hofstadter<br />
* [[From Bacteria to Bach and Back]] - Daniel Dennett<br />
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