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List of book that I read

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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A novel about Tsukuru Tazaki, a man who at 36 is still haunted by his sudden rejection by his four closest friends when he was 20. He embarks on a journey to discover the truth behind this rejection and to come to terms with his past, exploring themes of identity, belonging, friendship, and the search for meaning.

In Praise of Idleness: A Timeless Essay
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How less work can bring relative happiness and more leisure for everyone

The unbearable lightness of being
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The novel is not the author's confession, but an exploration of human life in the trap called the world.

Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations
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One of the most fascinating things in this field is that motivation often leads us to difficult, challenging, and painful achievements.

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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Bad ideas can have infinite characteristics, but lasting ideas have 6 common characteristics: simple, unexpected, concrete, valid, emotional, story.

Creating the Perfect Design Brief: How to Manage Design for Strategic Advantage
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Transparency and mutual understanding first: this book tries to find reasons for some of the challenges in the field of design and to offer solutions for them.

Blindness
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A dystopian novel about a mysterious epidemic of "white blindness" that suddenly strikes an unnamed city. As the contagion spreads, society rapidly breaks down into chaos and violence. The story follows a group of quarantined victims, including the only person who mysteriously retains her sight. Through this allegory, Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago explores themes of social breakdown, human dignity, compassion, and the fragility of civilization when stripped of its veneer.

Between Security and Insecurity
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A collection of essays exploring the nature of modern society through 19 short, interlinked meditations. Klíma takes a humanist's stroll through our inhumane century and ponders our millennial prospects, discussing rationality and irrationality, the artificial world, modern idols, mass media, and movements for change. The Czech writer examines the fundamental questions of security and insecurity in contemporary life, reflecting on civilization's moral challenges and humanity's capacity for both rational thought and self-destruction. Part of the "Prospects for Tomorrow" series.

Brave New World
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A dystopian novel set in a futuristic World State where citizens are genetically engineered and conditioned from birth for predetermined social roles. The society operates under the motto "Community, Identity, Stability" and maintains control through the elimination of family, culture, art, religion, and human emotions, replacing them with mass consumerism and instant gratification.

When Nietzsche Wept
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A novel of obsession set in Vienna, Austria, in 1882, relating a fictional meeting between the doctor Josef Breuer and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. When distinguished physician Josef Breuer finds himself struggling with obsessive thoughts about a former patient, he agrees to meet with the poverty-ridden, unknown philosopher Nietzsche. Breuer must cure Nietzsche's despair without his knowledge by posing as the patient himself and begging Nietzsche's help. The ensuing month of daily talks becomes increasingly compelling as both men uncover their forgotten pasts and delve into unconscious desires and fears. With the revolutionary ideas of young Sigmund Freud influencing them, their dialogue becomes the origin of psychoanalysis and explains how Nietzsche received the inspiration to write "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."

Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice
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The history of cryptanalysis shows that a problem that seems insolvable from one perspective can be found to have a solution if looked at in an entirely different way.