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Behrooz Parhami
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I have been on GoodReads for 5 years but hadn't gotten around to starting a blog. I have 300+ posted reviews and have read and reviewed 99 books so far in 2021. My next review, to come soon, will complete my goal of reading 100 books this year. Wishing you joyous holidays and a bright new year!
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This informative book, written by a Princeton emeritus professor of Near Eastern Studies, begins with four maps of the Middle East and North Africa: - The Age of Caliphs - The Ottoman Empire - The Age of Imperialism - The Middle East Today Lewis argues th ...more |
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Munson wrote this self-help book as a reaction to the self-help industry’s mindless positivity, which isn’t practical or helpful to most people. Chapter 1 features Charles Bukowski, who had the two words of the chapter title (“Don’t Try”) on his grave ...more |
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[This review is for the book's 2026 edition] This 304-page volume is a reference work, which should be perused by familiarizing oneself with the definitions and taking note of the parts & chapters for future reference. Having recently retired from acad ...more |
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| A philosopher of science by training, Gardner wrote the “Mathematical Games” column for Scientific American for 25 years. I was an avid reader of his fascinating columns. He later turned collections of material from his columns into several books. In ...more | |
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[I wrote this review on October 1, 2011, and posted it on GoodReads, Facebook, and X on October 1, 2026.] I listened to the unabridged audio version of this title (on 5 CDs, read by Judith Brackley, Tantor Audio, 2009). Theft of rare books, though qui ...more |
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| This book is about a dilemma we face every day when we enjoy someone’s art: writings, poetry, music, paintings, sculptures, or filmmaking. A key question is whether we should pay any attention at all to the artist’s moral principles. In other words, ...more | |
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
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I listened to the unabridged 10-hour audio version of this title (read by the author, Macmillan Audio, 2025). The focus of this book is on the three stages of decay in almost everything digital: - The service starts and gains market share by being good ...more |
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| Environmental activists are frequently arrested in Iran and charged as foreign spies. For many years, I did not understand the connection between environmentalism and spying, but after learning about IRGCs many underground weapons production and ammu ...more | |
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| On September 23, 2026, I attended a book talk entitled “Real Optimism”: The talk was sponsored by UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Author Dr. Deepika Chopra discussed her book, The Power of Real Optimism: A Practical, Scien ...more | |
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| It seems that no matter what philosophical, behavioral, or motivational idea you think about today, someone wrote about it a century or two ago. Florence Scovel Shinn [1871-1940] wrote and self-published this book in 1925, with a second edition issue ...more | |