Maria Ikram Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Bane Chronicles
Cassandra Clare
To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted. —Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles
Paperback, 2015
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Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Deluxe Collector's Edition (Signed Limited Edition), 1
Frank Herbert
“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.” – Frank Herbert, Dune
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Lost Connections
Johann Hari
@RezaAli1980 going back to your tweet on Johann Hari’s, ‘Lost Connections’ — some parallel themes. https://t.co/YD5jtzqYz8
Paperback, 2019
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
“I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray.. "But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire.. My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paperback, 2003
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Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
Ethan Kross
Percipio Live Event - #Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters, and How to Harness it @ethan_kross explores how the dialogues we have with ourselves impact our lives in more ways than we realize. https://t.co/QZaciHEGe0
Paperback, 2022
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Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Andy Clark
Social norms…are entropy-minimizing devices, represented as probability distributions, that serve to make social behaviour predictable. Expectations about our own behaviour are thus simultaneously descriptive and predictive in nature. -Surfing Uncertainty Podcast by Andy Clark
Paperback, 2019
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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
Seamus Heaney
Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracle And cures and healing wells. Call miracle self-healing: The utter, self-revealing Double-take of feeling. —The Cure at Troy, Seamus Heaney https://t.co/k09Q2Qka9i
Paperback, 1991
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