Then I recommend you read this book… highly entertaining..!  Check Davis’s other books here

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“Our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly large deviations.”

A Preface: The Black Swan theory concerns “high-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare events beyond the realm of normal expectations. The “Black Swan Theory”  refers only to events of large magnitude and consequence and their dominant role in history. “Black Swan” events are considered extreme outliers.” In other words [...]

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I just finished reading Steve Coll’s book and I must say, it gave excellent insight on the dynamics and strategies of US foreign piolicy makers and the dynamics behind the decisions made in times of conflict, setting the stage for one of the biggest oversights made in US foreign policy.
Offers revealing details of the CIA’s involvement in [...]

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I do the bulk of my reading during the summer. One of my favorite things to do in London is to visit the big Waterstones next to Piccadilly Circus and spend an afternoon looking for books. I managed to get a different collection this time around. Most of them are either historical or fantasy fiction, [...]

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Here’s a list of my summer reads… Enjoy.

 
1- Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
2-  بين القصرين- نجيب محفوظ
3- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4- ثرثرة فوق النيل - نجيب محفوظ
5- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
6- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
7- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Malia
8- Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin
9- Wandering Star [...]

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