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Book list

// This could do with some organization by topic and genre or something.

  1. Mathematics for Computer Science by MIT, here.
  2. Count Zero by William Gibson link
  3. The Crusades through Arab eyes by Amin Maalooug
  4. The Bleeding of the Stone نزيف الحجر by Ibrahim Al-Koni
  5. Books on Arab and Persian (and other SWANA) Philosophies and their champions.
  6. The Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-kurd
  7. Palestine, A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
  8. The Return by Hisham Matar
  9. 10th-century Arabic cookbook by Ibn Sayyār Al-Warrāq
  10. The Slave Yards Najwa Bin Shatwan
  11. Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
  12. Do androids dream of electric sheep by Phillip K. Dick
  13. Signals & Systems by Oppenheim
  14. Behrouz A. Forouzan, Data Communications and Networking with TCP/IP Protocol Suite, 6th Ed, 2022, McGraw-Hill.
    1. Available at BCIT library: https://innopac.lib.bcit.ca/record=b2052555
    2. here
    3. Communications and Networking with TCPIP Protocol Suite (Behrouz A. Forouzan) (2022).pdf
  15. J.F. Kurose, K.W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 7th Ed, 2017, Pearson Education, Inc. • Resources available on author’s website: http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross/index.php
  16. The Shallows by Nicholas G. Carr
  17. The Big Fix
  18. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  19. Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
  20. Salt: A World History
  21. Dune by Frank Herbert
  22. The Mesopotamian Riddle Joshua Hammer
  23. Ibn Fattouma, by Naguib Mahfouz,
  24. Ibn Battouta’s travel logs
  25. The World: A Brief Introduction Richard Haass
  26. Lugma Bahraini cookbook by Noor Murrad
  27. Cities of salt by abdelrahman Munif - خماسية مدن الملح لعبدالرحمن منيف
  28. A Genocide Foretold Chris Hedges
  29. Mohamed Choukri’s “For Bread Alone”
  30. ‘the season of migration to the north’
  31. William by Mason Coile
  32. Orientalisim by Edward Said
  33. All Quiet on the Western Front
  34. Throne of the Crescent Moon by Salah’din Ahmed
  35. Genocide Bad by Sim Kern
  36. Works of ghassan Kanafani
  37. Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
  38. Blindsight by Peter Watts
  39. Hand Drawn Vancouver by Emma Fitzgerald
  40. Simple Origami by Adeline Klam
  41. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  42. On Character Gen. Stanley McChrystal
  43. Humble Pi(e?)
  44. Passion within Reason
  45. The City of Ember. // Forgot who recommended this, I know nothing about it.
  46. V for Vendetta
  47. Jurassic Park novels
  48. All that Remains - Walid Khalidi

CompSci books

  • Making Embedded Systems by Elecia White
  • Gang of Four: OOP design patterns.
  • Head first Design patterns: OOP design patters
  • Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
  • Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
  • Design Patterns Elements of Reusable OO Software by Erich Gamma and Co.
  • Refactoring by Martin Fowler
  • Test-Driven Development By Example by Kent Beck

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