I'm reorganizing my bibliography, found out that there are many titles that I felt nostalgic towards. Many titles are related to people I used to discuss with or phases in my life. Some of them are:

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (Russell, B.)

one of the very first books I've ever read.

The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Campbell, J.)

I really miss that era of exploring Campbell and psychoanalysis… used to be in a very fun communities.

The Human Web (McNeill et al.)

It was a very hard job for me to get a paper version of this book, I remember reading it in public transportation, in winter.

Being Mortal (Gawande, A.)

Same as previous one, I read it in the same era.

The Naked Ape (Morris, D.)

I've some of the dearest memories with this book. I remember recommending it to somebody, they were too shy to discuss the sex chapter and I found that funny, we never talked or met again.

Your Inner Fish (Shubin, N.)

one of the first books ever that I read about evolution, recommended to me by my neighbor after he saw the documentary.

Totem and taboo (Freud, S.)

My first book to read by Freud, first book to get me very invested into the psychoanalysis theory as well. I even made infographics for this book. It also introduced me to many other European orientalists.

Group Psychology (Freud, S.)

Second book to read for Freud, was recommended to me by the same friend who recommended "Your Inner Fish".

Differential Equations for Dummies (Holzner, S.)

very bad memories with this one.

Algorithms (Sedgewick, R.)

This was my alternative for the common algorithms reference, I don't even remember the name of that reference anymore.

Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis (Shaffer, C.)

My first algorithms book, one of the books that I completed 100% of it. I truly loved it, I had a TODO note to thank the author, but I never did.

So many other memories with the rest of the list! خُلِقتُ أَلوفاً لَو رَحَلتُ إِلى الصِبا لَفارَقتُ شَيبي موجَعَ القَلبِ باكِيا.

• [2025-05-23 Fri 17:26] Sometimes I wonder whether that feeling is healthy.

#Modus Vivendi

Warner Brothers shut down an entire publisher that they owned and destroyed almost all their stock, just to prevent Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman from publishing a book critical of US foreign policy:

Well, unless you’re a very rare person you never saw that book. And the reason was that when the advertising for the book appeared, after 20,000 copies were published, one of the executives of Warner Communications saw the advertising, and didn’t like the feel of it, and asked to see the book, and liked it even less, in fact, was appalled. And then followed a- an interaction which I won’t bother describing, but the end result of it was that the parent company, Warner Communications, simply decided to put the publisher out of business, and to end the whole story that way.

More of that on: Wikipedia. Chomsky used this in his famous analogy of how the elite state has the just different tools than a dictatorship state when it comes to media, in this context he was comparing this incident with the Irani regime response to Rushdie's novel back then. #Chomsky #The limits on the (allowed) freedom of speech