French and English books, a few in German.
Many fields, including economics, philosophy and psychology, but lately more into Buddhism of the Zen persuasion.
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In this classic, John le Carré's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world …
"From the author of the acclaimed, PEN/Bingham Prize-winning A Naked Singularity; a shockingly hilarious novel that tackles, with equal aplomb, …
Imperial Bedrooms is a novel by American author Bret Easton Ellis. Released on June 15, …
Always the same thing, no evolution in the style or interests of the author... rather boring as a result if you already read his previous books.
La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. Cécile a dix-sept ans. Elle ne connaît de l'amour que …
Hervé Bazin: Vipère au poing (French language, 1976, B. Grasset)
A chronicle of the mating habits and rituals of America's cultural elite offers a look at topics including sex clubs, …
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the …
Interesting collection of strange tales, each quite short, rather fantastic and bizarre. Entertaining, but I never really got into the spirit, the preoccupations of the writer are just too foreign to me!
Very good book, well written, well structured, perfect for teaching a Masters course.
Sometime going too much into intricacies of the author's own papers. Could go more into modeling of choices and some idea of econometric estimation techniques.
Goes well in combination with Moffatt's "Experimetrics" and with experiments on veconlab.econ.virginia.edu/.
The "learning" part starts at a too high level of abstraction, so I precede it with Holt's "Markets, Games and Strategic Behavior" on Bayesian Learning and Imitation.
The Destruction of the European Jews is a 1961 book by historian Raul Hilberg. Hilberg …
Very clear and well-organized, gives a very complete overview of how German bureaucracy and society progressively excluded, disowned, expelled and exterminated Jews in Europe.
