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How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond

by Levy Rozman

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A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

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"Finished the chapters on middle Asia and Anatolia, Mongols and Turks which are very enjoyable" — Sep 05, 2025 12:12PM

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France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle

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Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

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we can finally rephrase the question about the modern world’s inequalities as follows: why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents? Those disparate rates constitute history’s broadest pattern and my ...more

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“Like all Chinese youth, the first sentence he’d learned in school was “Long live Chairman Mao!” To be carrying out the chairman’s orders gave the precocious eleven-year-old a powerful sense of purpose and self-worth. “The more ruthless we are to enemies, the more we love the people,” the team would chant together.”
― John Pomfret, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

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“The train gives off an earsplitting insect hum. It seems like you’re watching something physically impossible, like a person lifting a house, or hearing a joke so funny the laughter threatens to rip you apart, and then, with a puff of air, it’s over. When”
― Matthew Amster-Burton, Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

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“poker is an incredibly mathematical game that depends on making probabilistic judgments amid uncertainty, the same skills that are important in any type of prediction.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction

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“The idioms also revealed that Chinese shared a barnyard bawdiness with American English. My favorite was “taking off your pants to fart”—wasted effort.”
― John Pomfret, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

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“Players from Sweden, Lebanon, and China, for instance, have a reputation for being more aggressive than those from France, England, or India. Younger players are presumed to be looser and more aggressive than older ones. Men are assumed to be more likely to bluff than women. These stereotypes, like any others, are not always true: at the hold ’em games I used to play in at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the best players were very often women, and they were good in part because they were much more aggressive than their opponents assumed.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction

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