Author/Title | My Ratings |
J. Didion, "Salvador" | |
C. McNamara, "Because our fathers lied" | |
A. Kershenbaum, "The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy" | |
S. Wolfram, "What is ChatGPT" | |
J. Didion, "Miami" | |
H. Gee, "A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth" | |
V. Levesque, "Common sense, the Turing test, and the quest for real AI" | |
S. Urbansky, "Beyond the steppe frontier. A history of the Sino-Russion border" | |
J. Bridle, "Ways of being. Animals, plants, machines: the search for a planetary intelligence" | |
N. Gogol, "Dead Souls" | |
A. Sen, "Identity and violence" | |
T. Friedman, "From Beirut to Jerusalem" | |
D. Seward, "The Burning of vanities" | |
P. Modian, "The occupation trilogy" | |
F. Johnson, "At the center of all beauty" | |
O. Wilde, "Picture of Dorian Gray" | |
M. Pigliucci, "How to be a stoic" | |
J. Seinfeld, "Is this anything?" | |
J. Didion, "The white album" | |
I. Asimov, "I, Robot" | |
M. Mazower, "The greek revolution" | |
M. Santagata, "Dante" | |
J. Tinsley, "It was all a dream. Biggie and the world that made him" | |
W. Herzog, "The twilight world" | |
S. Lem, "Solaris" | |
S. Witte, "The memories of count Witte" | |
M. Mooney, "The love of learning" | |
M. Rothko, "Towards the light in the chapel" | |
K. Bojs, "My European family" | |
P. A. Thompson, "The quest for freedom. A life of Alexander Kerensky. The Russian unicorn" | |
T. Hurka, "The best thing in life" | |
A. Moro, "Impossible languages" | |
A. Doblin, "Berlin Alexanderplatz" | |
I. Origo, "A chill in the air. An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940" | |
G. Tergitt, "Kasebier takes Berlin" | |
I. Niccolini, "How the Beatles knew" | |
C. S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity" | |
S. Zipper, "Pogrom. Kishinev and the tilt of history" | |
E. Galeano, "Open veins of Latin America" | |
R. Hakakian, "A beginner's guide to America" | |
V. Ullrich, "Eight days in May" | |
D. Greenwald, "Painting by numbers. Data-driven histories of nineteenth-century art" | |
T. Wilkinson, "The rise and fall of ancient Egypt" | |
Y. Noah Harari, "Sapiens" | |
J. Lande and D. Feeney, "How literatures begin. A global history" | |
K. Schwab, "Stakeholder capitalism" | |
A. Kurosawa, "Something like an autobiagraphy" | |
D. Rivera, "My art, my life" | |
A. Miller, "The artist in the machine" | |
J. Sancton, "Madhouse at the end of the Earth" | |
G. Greene, "The Quiet American" | |
T. Chevalier, "Girl with pearl earring" | |
T. Russert, "Big Rus & Me" | |
D. H. Fisher, "Washington's Crossing" | |
E. Teller, "Memoirs" | |
H. R. Clinton, "Living History" | |
S. Schama, "Citizens. A Chronicle of the French Revolution" | |
J. Eszterhas, "Hollywood Animal" | |
M. Cheney, "Tesla. Man out of Time" | |
Tagore, "Gora" | |
G. Wawro, "The Franco-Prussian War. The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871." | |
M. Macmillan, "Paris 1919. Six Months that Changed the World" | |
I. Kertesz, "Fateless" | |
S. Nasar, "A Beautiful Mind" | |
E.R. Ellis, "The Epic of New York City" | |
J. Parker, "The Gurkhas" | |
J. Goldsworthy, "The Punic Wars" | |
W. G. Beasley, "The Japanese Experience" | |
R. Feynman, "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" | |
A. Beevor, "The Fall of Berlin" | |
H. R. Patapievici, "Politice" | |
N. Djuvara, "Amintiri din Pribegie" |  |
M. Magnusson, "Scotland. The story of a nation" | |
S. Strogatz, "Sync: The Emerging Science of SpontaneousOrder" |  |
F. Gilot and C. Lake, "Life with Picasso" |  |
D. J. Watts, "Six Degrees. The Science of a Connected
Age" |  |
R. Nixon, "No More Vietnams" |  |
B. Woodward, C. Bernstein, "The Final Days" |  |
M. Albright, "The Mighty & The Almighty" |  |
N. Kazantzakis, "The Last Temptation of Christ" |  |
H. W. Brands, "The first American. The Life and Times of
Benjamin Franklin" |  |
P. Lendvai, "The Hungarians. A Thousand Years of Victory
in Defeat" |  |
W. Manchester, "The Last Lion. Winston Spencer Churchill" |
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K. Vonnegut, "Slaugther House-Five" |
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R. Dawkins, "The Blind Watchmaker" |
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Plutarch, "Twelve Lives" |
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P. Maas, "Serpico" |
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R. McNamara, "In Retrospect. The Tragedy and lessons of Vietnam" |
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P. Beaulieu Presley, "Elvis and Me" |
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A. Solzhenitsyn, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" |
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J. Noble Wilford, "We Reach the Moon" |
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E. M. Goldratt, "Sifting Information Out of the Data Ocean. The Haystack Syndrome;" |
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T. Dungy, "Quiet Strength" |
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L. Mlodinow, "The Drunkard's Walk. How Randomness Rules Our Lives" |
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W. Poundstone, "Prisoner's Dilemma. John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb; |
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J. Kluger, "Simplexity. Why Simple Things become Complex (and how Complex Things can be made simple)" |
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C. Christensen, S. Anthony, E. Roth, " Seeing What's Next. Using the Theories of Innovations to Predict Industry Change" |
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M. Gladwell, " Outliers. The Story of Success" |
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B. Bueno de Mesquita, " The predictioneer's Game. Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future" |
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J. Fodor, M. Piatelli-Palmarini" What Darwin Got Wrong" |
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D'Arcy Thompson," On Growth and Form" |
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R. Sole, B. Goodwin, " Signs of Life, How Complexity pervades Biology" |
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S. H. Kim, " Essence of Creativity. A Guide to Tackling Difficult Problems" |
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B. Woodward, C. Bernstein, " The Final Days" |
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A. Kann, " A History of the Habsburg Empire" |
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E. Goldratt, " The Goal" |
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T. Kuhn, " The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" |
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S. Kaufmann, " The Origins of Order" |
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J. Surowiecki, " The Wisdom of Crowds" |
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E. Hemingway, " Men at War" |
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F. Johansson, " The Medici Effect" |
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T. Schelling, " The Strategy of Conflict" |
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M. Glenny, " The Balkans" |
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G. Van Hensbergen, " Gaudi" |
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A. Agassi, " Open" |
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