About
Jan 2024 -

I’m Alex btw I earned my first paycheck coding Runescape bots in 2004, quickly graduating to larger projects. I leveraged my network to build industrial and financial projects, eventually managing 70+ ICs. Nowadays, I focus on tooling for commodity companies and value investing.

A professional dream’s to make this HTML 2.0 compliant. I love simplifying and taming complex systems, because compression is comprehension. In software, this leads to DSLs and disruptive primitive sets (e.g. APL, Plan9, Elixir, Smalltalk) which unlock individual productivity and creativity, where e.g. fault-tolerant systems, observability, CI/CD etc. come automatically.

In the physical world, this leads to econometrics, value investing, biophysical and energy economics, yea civilizational morphology, combining exotic metrics from peak oilers, MPS, TRIZ etc. with traditional macroeconomic indicators drives insight and add precision to the Kardashev scale.

I have worked with Glencore, Narraduct, Disney Streaming, Mechel, D.TEK, American Apparel, BBVA, Avallon Labs and Pireactor among others.

I love poetry, history and languages, speak Russian, German, French, Spanish, Persian and read many more. Write me: public@alex…

I’m curious about:

  • Lisp (CL, Racket, Guile, LispE, Lambda Talk)
  • declarative programming (Prolog, Datalog, Scallop)
  • APL, Uiua
  • Forth, Factor, DuskOS
  • DSLs, language driven development (Racket), construct programming (cell-lang.net, Winglang, Shuttle.rs, Klo.dev, Pulumi)
  • Plan9 (9Front), SPIN
  • formal methods (TLA+, Lean 4)

Book Shelf

  • Comp Sci
    • ✅ Programmer avec Scheme - Chazarain Hands down the best!
    • ✅ SICP (w/ 1986 Lectures) (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)
    • ✅ PAIP (Paradigms of AI Programming)
    • ✅ CTM (Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming)
    • ✅ Concrete Abstractions - Hailperin, Kaiser, Knight
    • ✅ Schematics of Computation -Little, Manis
    • ✅ Art of Prolog
    • ✅ nand2tetris
    • Computer Science Distilled
    • ✅ Notation as a Tool of Thought - Kenneth Iverson
    • Programming Languages
    • Philosophy of Computer Science - William Rapaport
    • ✅ Elements of Clojure
    • From Mathematics to Generic Programming - Stepanov & Rose
    • Elements of Programming - Stepanov & McJones
    • ✅ Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems - Gul Agha
    • ✅ 7 Concurrency Models in 7 Weeks - Paul Butcher
    • Answer Set Programming
    • Answer Set Solving in Practice
    • The Craft of Prolog
  • Software Engineering
    • ✅ Programming as Theory Building - Peter Naur
    • ✅ Interpretation, Interaction and Reality Construction in Software Engineering - Kari Rönkkö
    • ✅ Software Development & Reality Construction - Züllighoven & Budde
    • Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
    • Introduction to Information Retrieval
    • Transaction Model - Jim Gray
    • ✅ Toward a New Understanding of Data Modelling - Klein & Lytinen metaphors for data modeling are negotiation and law making
    • ✅ Designing Data Intensive Applications
    • ✅ Learning Domain Driven Design - Vlad Khononov
    • ✅ Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout
    • ✅ Web Scalability for Startup Engineers old but gold
    • Software Engineering for Internet Applications
    • 🔲 The Pragmatic Programmer
    • ✅ Code Complete - Steve McConnel
    • ✅ The Practice of Programming
    • ✅ Etudes for Programmers
    • ✅ Exercises in Programming Styles - Christina Lops
    • Philosophy of Software Design
    • Game Programming Patterns Cooler than Gang of Four
    • 🔲 Continuous Delivery
    • ✅ Fuzzing Book
    • ✅ Release it! - Michael Nygard
    • ✅ Pattern Oriented Software Architecture I, III, IV, (🔲 II)
    • ✅ Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
    • 🔲 Software Engineering at Google
    • ✅ About Face: Essentials of Interaction Design - Alan Cooper Full of insights. The concepts can be applied to API designs and architecture. Remember, developers are users too!
    • 🔲 Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
    • 🔲 Confident Ruby - Avdi Grimm These Ruby books apparently cover OOP in a very pleasing manner, a paradigm I’ve not been a fan of.
    • A Mentoring Course on Smalltalk - Andres Valloud
    • ✅ Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Programming qua mathematical transformation from 1 system to another. But only use the 1st edition because it uses a typed language
    • ✅ Grokking Simplicity - Eric Normand
    • ✅ Go With The Domain
    • Rafting Trip
    • Algorithms for Modern Hardware - Sergey Slotin
    • ✅ Fuzz Week - Gamozolab
    • ✅ Advanced Software Design - Jimmy Koppel
    • ✅ Discipline of Programming - Dijkstra Provably solve nontrivial problems, inspiring Dafny
    • Predicate Calculus & Program Semantics - Dijkstra & Scholten
    • Computer Power & Human Reason - Joseph Weizenbaum
    • ✅ Tools for Conviviality - Ivan Illich
    • Computation & Human Experience - Phil Agre
    • Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Richard Hamming
    • Apollo - Murray & Cox
    • ✅ Skunk Works
    • ✅ What Engineers Know and How They Know It - Walter Vincenti
    • ✅ Crawl-Space Computing - Lawrence J. Dickson
    • ✅ Do Committees Invent - Melvin Conway
    • ✅ Domain Modeling Made Functional
    • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
    • ✅ Your Code as a Crime Scene - Adam Tornhill
    • ✅ Kill it with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems - Bellotti
    • ✅ The Art of Doing Science & Engineering - Richard Hemmming !
    • ✅ 7 Languages in 7 Weeks - Bruce Tate
    • ✅ 7 More Languages in 7 Weeks - Bruce Tate
  • Go
    • ✅ Learn Go with Tests
    • ✅ Cloud Native Go - Titmus
    • ✅ Let’s Go Further - Alex Edwards
    • ✅ 101 Go Errors
    • ✅ Go Programming Language
    • ✅ Go Design Patterns - Mario Castro Conteras
    • ✅ Concurrency in Go - Katherine Cox-Buday
    • ✅ Distributed Services with Go Cool, but tests don’t pass. Becomes pure reading experience or struggle session.
  • Lisp
    • ✅ Lisp in Small Pieces
    • ✅ Little Schemer
    • ✅ Seasoned Schemer
    • ✅ Little Typer
    • ✅ Little Prover
    • ✅ Little Learner
    • ✅ Reasoned Schemer
    • ✅ Intro to Functional Programming through Lambda Calculus - Michaelson
    • ✅ SICM (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics)
    • ✅ Clojure Applied - Alex Miller
    • ✅ Clojure Programming - Emerick, Carper, Grand
    • Art of the Metaobject Protocol - Bobrow, Kiczales, Rivières - Gabriel’s Review
  • APL
    • APL: Design Handbook for Commercial Systems - Adrian Smith
    • ✅ Elementary Functions - Iverson
    • ✅ Probability in APL- Alvord
    • Computing in Statistical Science with APL - Anscobm
    • ✅ Applied Linear Algebra with APL - Helzer
    • Abstract Algebra: Computation Approach - Sims
    • 🔲 Applied Mathematics for Programmers - Iverson
    • Elementary Analysis - Iverson
    • Mathematics & Programming - Iverson
    • ✅ Intro to College Math with APL - LeCuyer
    • APL with a Mathematical Accent - Reiter, Jones
    • Neural Networks in APL - Alfonseca Also see Skomorokov
    • Fuzzy Rule Based Expert Systems & Genetic Machine Learning - Geyer-Schulz
    • Convolutional Neural Networks in APL - Šinkarovs, Bernecky, Scholz
    • U-Net CNN in APL - Hsu, Serrao
  • OS & DBs
    • Linux from Scratch
    • ✅ Intro to OS Abstractions Using Plan9
    • Operating Systems - Deitel, Deitel & Choffnes
    • Linux Kernel Development - Love
    • UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures - Schimmel
    • ✅ Derivability, Redundancy and Consistency of Relations Stored in Large Data Banks - Codd Invented RDMS
    • ✅ A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks - Codd
    • ✅ SQL and Relational Theory - Date
    • ✅ Introduction to Database Systems - Date
    • ✅ Database Design and Relational Theory - C. J. Date
    • ✅ Database Design for Mere Mortals - Michael J. Hernandez don’t Google author nor write his name in comments
    • ✅ Understanding Relational Databases with Examples same guy
    • Practical Issues in Database Management
    • ✅ 3rd Manifesto: Databases, Types And the Relational Model
    • SQL Performance Explained - Markus Winland
    • ✅ Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners - Date
    • ✅ Relational Theory for Computer Professionals - Date
    • Principles of Transaction Processing - Bernstein
    • ✅ Seven Databases in Seven Weeks
    • ✅ Thinking Forth - Leo Brodie
    • ✅ Forth for the Atari - Floegel
  • Math & Finance
    • 7 Sketches in Compositionality: Applied Category Theory - Fong & Spivak
    • ✅ Alchemy of Finance - Soros, Volcker
    • ✅ Professional Automated Trading: Theory and Practice in CL
    • ✅ Elements of Mathematics for Economics and Finance Good refresher
    • ✅ A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics Teaches intuition and proofs
    • ✅ Mind over Markets - Jim Dalton
    • ✅ Markets in Profile - Jim Dalton
    • Quantitative Economics with Julia
    • Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management - Michael M. Pompian
    • Statistics with Julia
    • ✅ Basic Math Course for Electronics - Henry Jacobowitz
    • ✅ Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street - Andrew Lo, Craig MacKinlay
    • Primer for the Mathematics of Financial Engineering - Dan Stefanica
    • ✅ Poor Charlie’s Almanack - Charlie Munger
    • Foundations of Technical Analysis: Computational Algorithms, Statistical Inference, and Empirical Implementation - Andrew Lo
    • ✅ Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett 2nd not 3rd Ed. - Greenwald, Kahn et al.
    • ✅ Acquirer’s Multiple - Tobias Carlisle
    • ✅ Deep Value - Tobias Carlisle
    • ✅ Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham 2nd edition’s best
    • ✅ Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham, David Dodd
    • ✅ Smartest Guys in the Room (Enron)
    • ✅ Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior - 2000 QUAIB Report 70% of underperformance due to investors withdrawing during market crisis. Then fund fees…
    • ✅ Financial Shenanigans: Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud - Howard Schilit
    • ✅ Asian Financial Statement Analysis: Detecting Irregularities - Chinhwee Tan, Thomas Robinson
    • Mechanics - Irodov
    • Basic Laws of Electronmagnetism - Irodov
    • ✅ Mathematics of Financial Modeling and Investment Management - Fabozzi, Focardi Refresher on linear algebra, calculus, PDE to stochastic calculus and methods in financial mathematics.
    • ✅ Advanced Algebra & Calculus Made Simple - Gondin-Sohmer
    • ✅ Detecting Regime Change in Computational Finance - Chen, Tsang Just uses HMM, GMM, Bayes
    • ✅ Finding Alphas: Quantitative Approach to Building Trading Strategies - Igor Tulchinsky Best
    • ✅ Quantitative Portfolio Management: Art and Science of Statistical Arbitrage - Michael Isichenko
    • ✅ Optimal Trading Strategies - Robert Kissel, Morton Glantz
    • Quantitative Momentum - Gray, Vogel
    • Primer for Financial Engineering: Financial Signal Processing and Electronic Trading
    • ✅ Stochastic Calculus for Finance Vol 2 - Steven Shreve Selfcontained, effective!
    • Accounting Structured in APL - Yuji Ijiri
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    • ✅ Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
    • ✅ Eastward to Tartary - Robert Kaplan
    • ✅ New Silk Roads - Frankopan
    • ✅ Great Chain of Being - Lovejoy
    • ✅ Air America - Robbins
    • ✅ Assassin - Robbins
    • ✅ Coming Anarchy - Robert Kaplan
    • ✅ International Politics and Foreign Policy - Rosenau Data driven in the 60s
    • ✅ Ruling Class - Mosca
    • ✅ Managerial Revolution - Burnham - Read Owell’s review
    • ✅ Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy - Schmitt
    • ✅ Political Parties - Michels
    • ✅ Mind and Society - Pareto
    • ✅ Histories - Polybius
    • ✅ Untergang des Abendlandes - Spengler
    • ✅ Reflections on the Revolution in France - Burke
    • ✅ Shooting an Elephant - Orwell
    • ✅ Power Broker - Caro
    • ✅ Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - Plunkitt
    • ✅ Idea of Decline in Western History - Herman
    • The Gutenberg Galaxy - McLuhan
    • Hero Projects - Paul Josephson - review
    • Great Transformation - Westad, Chen
  • Commodities
    • ✅ The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World - Yergin
    • ✅ Energy and Civilization - Vaclav Smil
    • ✅ Upside of Down - Homer-Dixon
    • ✅ Oil 101 - Morgan Downey
    • ✅ Oil A Beginner’s Guide - Vaclav Smil
    • ✅ The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World - Mark Levinson
    • ✅ Making the Modern World Materials and Dematerialization - Vaclav Smil
    • ✅ Growth from Microorganisms to Megacities - Vaclav Smil
    • ✅ Organic Chemistry Principles in Context: A Story Telling Historical Approach
  • Management
    • Badass: Making Users Awesome - Sierra
    • ✅ Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore
    • ✅ Flawless Consulting - Peter Block
    • ✅ Managing the Professional Service Firm - David Maister
    • ✅ The Manager’s Path - Camille Forunier
    • ✅ The Mythical Man Month - Fred Brooks
    • Phoenix Project - Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
    • ✅ Radical Candor - Kim Scott A summary suffices
    • ✅ Managing Humans - Michael Lopp
    • ✅ Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
    • ✅ Engineering Management for the Rest of Us - Sarah Drasner
    • ✅ An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - Will Larson
    • Coaching Habit - Bungay, Michael Stanier
    • ✅ First 90 Days - Michael D. Watkins
    • ✅ Seeing like a State - James C. Scott
    • ✅ Law for Computer Scientists - Mireille Hildebrandt Many flaws
    • ✅ Planning Extreme Programming - Kent Beck
  • Slavic History
    • Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Union - Ronald Grigor Suny
    • Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union - Francine Hirsch
    • USSR as Communal Apartment - Yuri Slezkine
    • ✅ Biography of No Place - Kate Brown Amazing.
    • ✅ Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin - Arkady Ostrovsky
    • ✅ Putins People - Catherine Belton
    • ✅ Reading of Russian Literature in China - Mark Gamsa
    • ✅ Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the USSR 1923-1939
    • ✅ History of Russian Thought - William Leatherbarrow, Derek Offord Emigration
    • ✅ Russian Roots of Nazism: White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism - Michael Kellogg
    • Black Sea - Ascherson
    • ✅ Gates of Europe - Plokhii
    • ✅ Reconstruction of Nations - Snyder
    • ✅ Nothing is True - Pomerantsev
    • ✅ Essays in Modern Ukrainian History - Rudnytskii
    • ✅ Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation - Yekelchyk
    • ✅ Formation of Muscovy 1304-1613 - Robert Crummey
    • ✅ Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement - John-Paul Himka
    • Breaking the Tongue - Matthew Pauly
  • American History
    • ✅ The Southern Dreams of a Confederate Empire
    • ✅ Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War by David Keehn
    • Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas and the Future of Latin America - Robert E. May
    • ✅ Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy - Matthew Karp
    • ✅ Our Sister Republics - Caitlin Fitz
    • ✅ The Cultural Life of the American Colonies - Louis B Wright
    • ✅ American Scripture - Making the Declaration of Independence - Pauline Maier
    • Epic of Latin America - John Crow
    • Spain: The Root and the Flowe - John Crow
  • Language History
    • Language Planning and National Identity in Croatia - Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stanti
    • ✅ The study of foreign languages in the Middle Ages - B.B. Ischoff
    • ✅ Lingua d’oltremare: Sulle tracce del ‘Levant Italian’ in età preuni-taria - Francesco Bruni
    • ✅ Lingua franca in the Mediterranean - John Wansbrough
    • ✅ La lingua di cui si vanta Amore: Scrittori stranieri in lingua italiana dal Medioevoal Novecento - Furio Brugnolo
    • Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and Its Readership in 17th. Century England - Margaret Spufford Literacy was very common already
    • Literacy in the Persianate World
  • Mediterannean & Boats
    • Braudel Revisted: Mediterranean 16-1800
    • ✅ The Napoleonic Mediterranean: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire
    • ✅ Arabic into Latin - Charles Burnett
    • ✅ A Crusade from the First: The Norman Conquest of Islamic Sicily 1060–1091 - Chevedden
    • Refugees, Exiles, and Other Forced Migrants in the Late Ottoman Empire - Dawn Chatty
    • Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire - Selim Deringil
    • The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East - Michael Provence
    • ✅ Greek Thought, Arabic Culture - Dimitri Gutas
    • Shock of the Ancient - Larry F. Norman
    • Portuguese Seaborne Empire 1415-1825 - C.R. Boxer
    • ✅ Foundations of Portuguese Empire 1415-1580 - Diffie, Winius
    • ✅ Rise of Merchant Empires: Long Distance Trade 1350-1750 - James D. Tracy
    • ✅ Spain in Italy - Dandelett
    • ✅ Inheritance of rome - Chris Wickham
    • ✅ Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean - Chris Wickham
    • World of Late Antiquity - Peter Brown
    • Some Lesser Officials in Latin Syria - Jonathan Riley-Smith
    • ✅ Criticism of Crusading 1095–1274 - Elizabeth Sibbery
    • Crusades - Thomas Asbridge
    • ✅ Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant - Alex Mallett
    • ✅ The French of Outremer: Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean - Laura Morreale, Nicholas Paul
    • ✅ Learning in a Crusader City - Jonathan Rubin
    • ✅ Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th-13th Centuries - Malcolm Barber, A.K. Bate
    • Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts 1560-1800 - Gregory Hanlon
    • Mediterranean Emporium - David Abulafia
    • ✅ Imperial Spain 1469 -1716 - J. H. Eliot
    • ✅ Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World - Stephan R. Brown
    • ✅ A History of Venice - John Julius Norwich
    • ✅ Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters - Robert Parthesius
    • Storia dell’età barocca in Italia - Benedetto Croce
    • Spanish Rome 1500-1700 - Dandelet
    • ✅ Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World - Noel Malcolm
    • Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul - E. Natalie Rothma
    • Italy In The Nineteenth Century: 1796-1900 - John A. Davis
    • Global City: on the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon
    • ✅ Dutch Republic - Jonathan Israel
    • Embarrassment of Riches: Dutch Culture in the Golden Age - Simon Schama
  • Austria-Hungary
    • ✅ Requiem für eine Monarchie - François Fejtö
    • ✅ Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften - Robert Musil
    • ✅ Embers - Sándor Márai
    • ✅ Radetzkymarsch - Roth
    • ✅ Kidnapped Souls: Battle for Children in Bohemian Lands 1900-48 - Tara Zahra
    • ✅ Hopeless Struggle: Austro-Hungarian Army and Total War - John Schindler
    • ✅ Collision of Empires: War on the Eastern Front 1914 - Prit Buttar
    • ✅ Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in WWI - Alexander Watson
    • ✅ Dualist Character of the 1867 Hungarian Settlement - Laszlo Peter
    • ✅ Stellung Ungarns in der Monarchie - Peter Hanak
    • ✅ Balkans - Misha Glenny
    • ✅ Victims’ State: War and Welfare in Austria 1868-1925 - Ke-Chin Hsia
    • ✅ Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague - Gary B. Cohen
    • ✅ Budweisers into Czechs and Germans 1848-1948 - Jeremy King
    • ✅ Forging a Multinational State - John Deak
    • ✅ Habsburg Empire - Pieter Judson
    • ✅ Guardians of the Nation: Activists on Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria - John W. Boyer
    • ✅ Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia - Alison Frank Johnson
    • ✅ Habsburg Empire - Paula Sutter Fichtner
    • ✅ Mad Catastrophe: Outbreak of WWI and Collapse of the Habsburg Empire - Geoffrey Wawro
    • ✅ History of the Habsburg Empire - Jean Berenger
    • ✅ Nobles and Nation in Central Europe: Free Imperial Knights 1750-1850 - Willian D. Godsey
    • ✅ Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand und Conrad von Hötzendorf: Strategien zur Stabilisierung der Donaumonarchie - Birgitt Morgenbrod
    • ✅ The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary: The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe - Adam Kożuchowski
    • ✅ Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire - Alan Sked
    • ✅ Limits of Loyalty: Symbolism, Allegiance, State Patriotism
    • ✅ Europe on Trial: The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution during World War II - Istvan Deak
    • ✅ Beyond nationalism: Habsburg Officer Corps - Istvan Deak
  • Other History
    • ✅ Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India - Lawrence James
    • ✅ Nationalsozialismus und die Antike - Johan Chapoutot
    • ✅ Hitler’s Collaborators - Philip Morgan
    • Military Experience in the Age of Reason - Christopher Duffy
    • ✅ The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II
    • ✅ Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims 1821-1922 - Justin McCarthy
    • ✅ History without Borders: Making of an Asian World Region - Gunn
    • Pursuit of Glory: 5 Revolutions that Made Modern Europe
    • Campaigs of Napolean - David G. Chandler
    • Right Wing in France: From 1815 to de Gaulle
    • ✅ Konservativerevolution in Deutschland - Armin Mohler
    • ✅ Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Very pertinent to our struggle today
    • ✅ Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature - Reynolds, Wilson
    Misc. Literature
    • ✅ Tradition and Individual Talent - Eliot
    • ✅ Conjectures on Original Composition - Edward Young
    • Плетнёв
    • ✅ Russische Literaturgeschichte in Einzelporträts - Alexander Eliasberg
    • ✅ Pleasures of Literature - Powys John Cowper
    • ✅ Makamen - Hariri (über. v. Friedrich Rückert)
    • Deutsche Geistesgeschichte aus dem Leben der Dichter - Carstensen
    • ✅ Love of Fame - Edward Young Divine!
    • ✅ Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
    • ✅ Essay on Criticism - Alexander Pope
  • Novels
    • ✅ Prague - Arthur Philipp
    • ✅ The Count of Monte-Christo - Dumas
    • ✅ La Tabla de Flandes - Perez Reverte Arturo
    • ✅ An Artist of the Floating World - ishiguro
    • ✅ The File on H - Ismail Kadare
    • ✅ iPhuck 10 - Виктор Пелевин
    • ✅ Unsong
    • ✅ Die verlorene Handschrift
    • ✅ Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis - Ransmyar
    • ✅ Демоны - Достоевский
    • ✅ Дети Арбата - Анатолы Рыбаков
    • ✅ Обломов - Гончаров
    • ✅ Taugenichts - von Eichendorff
    • ✅ Juden auf Wanderschaft - Joseph Roth
    • ✅ Die Idealisten - Rudolf Lavant Wohl mein Lieblingsbuch
    • ✅ Scherz, satire und Ironie - Christian Dietrich Grabbe
    • ✅ Herzog Theodor von Gothland - Christian Dietrich Grabbe
    • ✅ Catch Me If You Can
    • ✅ Thais - Anatole France
    • ✅ Cuore - Edmondo de Amicis
    • ✅ 3 Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
    • ✅ Club Dumas - Perez Reverte Arturo
    • ✅ Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
    • ✅ Горе от Ума - Грибоедов
    • ✅ 20,000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne
    • ✅ The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
    • ✅ King Solomon’s Mines - Sir. Haggard
    • ✅ Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
    • ✅ Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    • Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
    • Emma - Jane Austen
    • ✅ Мертвые Души - Гоголь
    • ✅ Primogenitor, Clonelord, Manflayer - Josh Reynolds
    • ✅ Master of Mankind - Aaron Dembski-Bowden
    • ✅ Requiem Infernal - Fehervari Darkly sublime!
    • ✅ God Eater’s Son - Noah Van Nguyen
    • ✅ A Colder War - Stross Perfect aesthetic
    • ✅ Beyond the Black Circle - Robert E Howard
    • ✅ El renacimiento - Gobineau
    • Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge Programmer archaeologist…
    • Ambassadors - Henry James
    • Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
  • Gothic Literature
    • ✅ Adolphe - Benjamin Constant
    • ✅ Leiden des jungen Werthers - Goethe
    • ✅ Oberman - Étienne Pivert de Senancour
    • ✅ Fungi from Yuggoth - H.P. Lovecraft
    • ✅ Elixiere des Teufels - ETA Hoffman
    • ✅ Die Serpionsbrüder - ETA Hoffman
    • ✅ Nachtstücke - ETA Hoffman
    • ✅ Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
    • ✅ Vathek - William Beckford
    • ✅ El Estudiante de Salamanca - José de Espronceda
    • Mysteries of Udolpho - Anne Radcliffe
    • Romance of the Forest - Anne Radcliffe
    • Glenarvon - Lady Caroline Lamb
    • ✅ The Monk - Matthew Lewis
    • Old English Baron - Clara Reeve
    • The Italian - Anne Radcliffe
    • ✅ Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
    • ✅ The Vampyre - Polidori
    • Bride of Lammermoor - Sir. Walter Scott
    • ✅ Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin
    • Siebenkäs - Jean-Paul
    • ✅ Undine - Fouqué
    • Fantôme de l’Opéra - Gaston Leroux
    • ✅ Das Marmorbild - von Eichendorff
    • ✅ Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
    • Cathy - Emily Brontë
    • ✅ Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
    • House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • ✅ Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
    • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
    • ✅ Dracula - Bram Stoker
    • ✅ King in Yellow - Robert Chambers
    • ✅ Supernatural Horror in Literature - H.P. Lovecraft
    • Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
    • ✅ Music of Erich Zann - H.P. Lovecraft
    • ✅ Call of Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft
    • ✅ Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath - H.P. Lovecraft
    • ✅ At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
    • ✅ Светлана - Жуковский
    • ✅ Лила - Мещевский
    • ✅ Ольга - Катенин
    • Остров Борнгольм - Карамзин
    • ✅ Mysteries of London - George Reynolds
    • ✅ Пиковая дама - Пушкин
    • ✅ Русские Ночи - Одоевский Русский Фауст
    • ✅ Миргород - Гоголь Вий!
    • ✅ Арабески - Гоголь
    • Демон - Лермонтов
    • Дон Корорадо де Геррера - Гнедич His Iliad’s the standard Rus. translation.
  • Deutschtum
    • Shakespeare und der deutsche Geist - Gundolf
    • Dichter und Helden - Gundolf
    • Michelangelo und Leonardo - Gundolf
    • Romantiker - Gundolf
    • Romantiker Briefe - Gundolf
    • ✅ Goethe - Gundolf
    • ✅ The Poet as Cultural Savior: Friedrich Gundolf’s Goethe - Osterkamp
    • ✅ Literary Criticism of Friedrich Gundolf - René Wellek
    • ✅ Phänomenologie des Geistes - Hegel
    • ✅ Dritte Reich - Moeller van den Bruck
    • ✅ Preußentum und Sozialismus - Spengler
  • Philosophy
    • ✅ Über die ästethische Erzheiung des Mennschen - Schiller
    • ✅ The Act of Creation - Arthur Koestler Bisection
    • ✅ Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten
    • Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie - Friedrich Überweg
    • ✅ Welt als Wille und Vorstellung - Schopenhauer
    • ✅ Vidas Paralelas - Plutarco
    • ✅ They Became What They Beheld - Edmund Carpenter
    • ✅ Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought - Mortimer Adler Important!
    • ✅ Über Sinn und Bedeutung - Gottlob Frege
    • ✅ Naming and Necessity - Saul Kripke
    • ✅ Jenseits von Gut und Böse - Nietzsche
    • ✅ Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Wittgenstein
    • Wissenschaftslehre - Fichte
    • ✅ Vorlesungen über die Bestimmung des Gelehrten - Fichte
    • ✅ Beitrag zur Berichtigung der Urteile des Publikums über die französische Revolution - Fichte
    • ✅ Sein und Zeit - Heidegger
    • ✅ Open Society and its Enemies - Karl Popper
    • ✅ Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
    • ✅ Kritik der reinen Vernunft - Kant
    • ✅ Wissenschaft der Logik - Hegel
    • ✅ Etymologiae - Isidorus Hispalensis
    • ✅ Consolatio philosophiae - Boethius
    • Summa theologica - Thomas Aquinas
    • ✅ Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
    • ✅ De Amicitia - Cicero
    • ✅ Politics - Aristotle
    • ✅ Categoria - Aristotle
    • ✅ Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
    • ✅ De Rerum Natura - Lucretius
    • ✅ Enneads - Plotinus
    • ✅ Elements - Euclid
    • ✅ Proclus’ 6 Books
    • ✅ 庄子 Zhuāngzi
    • 抱朴子 Baopuzi
    • 道德经 Daodejing
    • 墨子 Mozi
    • 论语 Analects - Kongzi
    • 孟子 Mèngzǐ
    • 中庸 Zhōngyōng - Zǐsī
    • 大學 Dàxué - Zēngzǐ
  • Unsorted
    • Colloquial French - R.A. Humphrey My favorite French book!
    • Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers - Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert
    • ✅ Syriac World - Daniel King
    • ✅ To Train his Soul in Books: Syriac Asceticism
    • Students of the Bible in 4-5th Century Syria
    • ✅ The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences - Ephrem Barsoum, Matti Moosa
    • Empires of the Silk Road - Christopher Beckwith
    • ✅ Inside central Asia a political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Iran - Dilip Hiro
    • ✅ Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain - Dario Fernandez-Morera
    • ✅ From Hellenism to Islam Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East
    • ✅ The Afterlife of al-Andalus Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives - Christina Civantos
    • Medieval Sicily, al-Andalus, and the Maghrib Writing in Times of Turmoil
    • ✅ The Sultan’s Renegades: European Converts and the Ottoman Elite - Graf, Tobias
    • ✅ Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuam Yew
    • ✅ Open Society and its Enemies - Karl Popper
    • ✅ Coup d’État: Practical Handbook - Edward Luttwak
    • ✅ Im Stahlgewitter - Ernst Jünger
    • ✅ The Landscape of History - John Lewis Gaddis
    • ✅ The Politics of Authoritarian Rule - Milan W. Svolik
    • ✅ Amerika ist an allem schuld - Gerhard Herm
    • ✅ Verge: Reformation, Renaissance - Patrick Wymann On institutions which fueled the Great Divergence
    • ✅ From Dawn to Decadence - Jacques Barzun
    • ✅ How to Read a Book - Mortimer Adler
  • Also unsorted
    • ✅ Pageant of Poetry - Leonard
    • ✅ Plunkitt of Tammany Hall Features defense of ‘honest graft’
    • ✅ Hugo Swedish in 3 Months (1959)
    • ✅ Briefe - Stifter
    • ✅ Caucasian Republics - Margaret Kaeter
    • ✅ Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland - Iván & Mary Völgyes
    • ✅ Polish August - Neal Ascherson
    • ✅ Civil Wars - Enzensberger
    • ✅ Peasants & Peasant Societies - Teodor Shanin
    • ✅ International Communism in the Era of Lenin - Helmut Grubber
    • ✅ Revolutions: comparative Study - Lawrence Kaplan
    • ✅ World Turned Upside Down - Christopher Hill
    • ✅ Hagestolz Stifter
    • ✅ Letture Italiane per Straieri (1970)
    • ✅ Smartest Guys in the Room - McLean, Elking
    • ✅ Da Vinci: Aspects of Renaissance Genius - Morris Philipson
    • ✅ Introduccion a la historia del derecho mexicano - Margadaní
    • ✅ Colloquial Persian - Elwell-Sutton
    • ✅ Teach Yourself Turkish - G.L. Lewis
    • ✅ Historia de la literatura latina - Millares Carlo
    • ✅ Poetas Novohispanos - Méndez Plancarte
    • ✅ Thrilling Cities - Ian Flemming
    • ✅ Teufelskreis - Bayer
    • ✅ Treibhaus - Koeppen
    • ✅ Begegnung mit Caroline (1979)
    • ✅ Goethe erzählt sein Leben
    • ✅ Goethe 0 Friedenthal
    • ✅ Scientific German - Condoyannis
    • ✅ Scientific French - Locke
    • ✅ Scientific Russian - Condoyannis
    • ✅ Frühlingserwachen - Wedekind
    • ✅ При билета до Эдвенчер Джеральд Даррелль
    • ✅ Когда Боги смеются - Александра Маринина
    • ✅ Qué es el clasicismo? - Peyre
    • ✅ Greek Civilization & Character - Toynbee
    • ✅ Carl Maria von Weber - Michael Lenart
    • ✅ Cities of the Mediterranean - Kolluoğlu, Toksöz
    • ✅ Девушки со скромными средствами - Мюриэл Спарк
    • ✅ Глазами человека моего поколения - И.В. Сталине
    • ✅ Kleine Geschichte Ungarns - István Lázár
    • ✅ Persian Grammar - Lambton
    • ✅ Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
    • ✅ History of Venice - Norwich
    • ✅ Rätsel des Silbermodes - Hubert Horstmann
    • ✅ Unheimliche Erscheinungsformen auf Omega XI - Johanna & Günter Braun
    • ✅ Intro to Old Norse - Gordon
    • ✅ Science Fiction Hall of Fame Vol. 1
    • ✅ Adventura del cine mexicano - Ayala Blanco
    • ✅ Silla del moro y nuevas escenas andaluzas - Garcia Gómez
    • ✅ Mediterraneo es un hombre disfrzado de mar - María Gironella
    • ✅ Personas, ideas, mares - María Gironella
    • ✅ Istanbul - Orhan Pamuk
    • ✅ Meurtes a la cour du Roi-Soleil - Arlette Lebirge
    • ✅ Classical Influences on English Poetry - Thomson
    • ✅ Classical Influences on English Prose - Thomson
    • ✅ Early Middle Ages - Brentano
    • ✅ El Quijote - Cervantes
    • ✅ Islamic Literature - Najib Ulllah
    • ✅ Sueños - de Quevedo
    • ✅ Colloquial Italian (1982) - Flavio Andreis
    • ✅ Soirées de Saint Pétersbourg - Joseph de Maistre
    • ✅ Lutrin et l’art Poétique - Boileau
    • ✅ Colloquial Russian (1973) - Clarkson, Harrison, Le Fleming
    • ✅ Requiem für eine Monarchie - Fejtö
    • ✅ Ungarische Kulturideale - Kornis
    • ✅ Complete Intro to Devout Life - de Sales
    • ✅ Pueblo Abandonado - Maestre Fuentes
    • ✅ Bright’s Old English Grammar & Reader
    • ✅ Fire & Stone - Christopher Duffs
    • ✅ Red Mafiya - Friedman
    • ✅ Shakespeare: Arranged for Moder Reading - Cady, Cartmell
    • ✅ Towards a Better World - Gorbachev
    • ✅ Roman des Abendlandes - Meissinger
    • ✅ Amerika ist an allem Schuld - Gerhard Herm
    • ✅ Essais - Montaigne
    • ✅ Nibellungesage - Heinrich Lentz
    • ✅ Leben auf dem Lande - Duiliu Zampfirescu
    • ✅ Liebesschule - Heyer
    • ✅ Führer der deutschen Friedensbewegung - dr. Hans Wehberg
    • ✅ Томек у истоков амазонки - Шклярский
    • ✅ Learn Romani - Ronald Lee
    • ✅ EuroComRom: Sieben Siebe - Horst G. Klein
    • ✅ Japaese Reader - Miller
    • ✅ Essential Japanese - Martin
    • ✅ Historical Geography of the Greek World - Spiridonakis
    • ✅ Raumfahrt - Hans Barth
    • ✅ Gedichte - Lenau
    • ✅ Геополитические стратегия Украины - Дмитрий Базив
    • ✅ Bel-Ami - Maupassant
    • ✅ Shorter Novels - Hermann Melville
    • ✅ Loom of Language - Bodmer
    • ✅ Teach Yourself Irish - Dillon, Cróinín
    • ✅ Liaisons dangereuses - Laclos
    • ✅ Vom Wunder der Seele - Meister Eckehart
    • ✅ Undine - Fouqué
    • ✅ Renaissance, Humanismus, Reformation … reclam
    • ✅ Griechische Philosophie (3 Bände) - dr. Wilhelm Capelle (Sammlung Göschen)
    • ✅ Astrophysik: Beschaffenheit der Himmelskörper - Prof. W.F. Wislicenus, dr. H. Ludendorff (Sammlung Göschen)
    • ✅ Transsibieren Express - Konsalik
    • ✅ Bewegungslehre, Statik und Festigkeitslehre (1921) - N. Schmitt
    • ✅ Hugo’s Russian Grammar Simplified
    • ✅ Russian Grammar & Self-Educator (1943) - dr. Louis Segal Special war paper
    • ✅ Das bleib vom Doppeladler - Ernst Trost
    • ✅ Flucht aus dem Alltag - Gustav Shröer
    • ✅ Teach Yourself Afrikaans - Schalkwyk
    • ✅ Colloquial Serbo-Croat (1986) - Celia Hawkesworth
    • ✅ Teach Yourself Latin - Kinchin Smith

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