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David Graeber: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004, Prickly Paradigm Press, Distributed by University of Chicago Press)
Stephen King: Rita Hayworth & Shawshank redemption (2020, Hodder)
Alvin Toffler: Future Shock

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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: The Doomed City (Russian language, 1988, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura)
Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas: The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition (2019, The Pragmatic Programmer, LLC)
Frederick P. Brook: The Mythical Man Month and Other Essays on Software Engineering (1974)

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Hyrum Wright, Tom Manshreck, Titus Winters: Software Engineering at Google (paperback, 2020, O'Reilly Media)

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reviewed Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell: Power (Paperback, 2003, Kessinger Publishing)

Review of 'Power' on 'Storygraph'

Although I am a keen admirer of Russell, this book has produced the weakest conclusions of all the works I've read of him so far. Either he lazily arrives at already existing truths about the topic of power, or in other cases, where things get a little messy, he dismisses the logical outcome as something too remote to cover in this work. Throughout the whole book I had a feeling someone was watching over Bertie's shoulder when writing this, threatening him with a stick whenever he'd dare to reach an outlandish conclusion, which is quite ironic for a work on Power.