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Book list

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

  1. Count Zero by William Gibson link
  2. Orientalism by Edward Said
  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. dogs of war by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. The Shallows by Nicholas G. Carr
  18. The Big Fix
  19. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  20. Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
  21. Salt: A World History
  22. Dune by Frank Herbert
  23. The Mesopotamian Riddle Joshua Hammer
  24. Ibn Fattouma, by Naguib Mahfouz,
  25. Ibn Battouta’s travel logs
  26. The World: A Brief Introduction Richard Haass
  27. Lugma Bahraini cookbook by Noor Murrad
  28. Cities of salt by abdelrahman Munif - خماسية مدن الملح لعبدالرحمن منيف
  29. A Genocide Foretold Chris Hedges
  30. Mohamed Choukri’s “For Bread Alone”
  31. ‘the season of migration to the north’
  32. William by Mason Coile
  33. Orientalisim by Edward Said
  34. All Quiet on the Western Front
  35. Throne of the Crescent Moon by Salah’din Ahmed
  36. Genocide Bad by Sim Kern
  37. Works of ghassan Kanafani
  38. Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
  39. Blindsight by Peter Watts
  40. Hand Drawn Vancouver by Emma Fitzgerald
  41. Simple Origami by Adeline Klam
  42. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  43. On Character Gen. Stanley McChrystal
  44. Humble Pi(e?)
  45. Passion within Reason
  46. The City of Ember. // Forgot who recommended this, I know nothing about it.
  47. V for Vendetta
  48. Jurassic Park novels
  49. All that Remains - Walid Khalidi

CompSci books

  • *CodeThe Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
  • Operating System Concepts, by Silberschatz
  • Data Oriented Design - Richard Fabian. Online here or paperback
  • Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
  • Clean Code by Robert C. Martin1
  • System Design Interview by Alex Xu // a system arch playbook with real examples that happens to train your interview skills
  • Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (DDIA)
  • Database Internals by Alex Petrov
  • The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone by J. Clark Scott
    • Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards & Neal Ford
  • Release It! by Michael Nygard
  • Making Embedded Systems 2nd Edition by Elecia White
  • Operating Systems - Three Easy Pieces
  • Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
  • Mathematics for Computer Science by MIT, here.
  • Gang of Four: OOP design patterns.
  • Head first Design patterns: OOP design patters
  • Design Patterns Elements of Reusable OO Software by Erich Gamma and Co.
  • Refactoring by Martin Fowler
  • Test-Driven Development By Example by Kent Beck
  • https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
  • The Pragmatic Programmer - David Thomas and Andrew Hunt

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