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| Prof. António Marques Mendes: | Recently read and highly recommended |
... more readings:
 For a synopsis of what great investors had to say about
investing "The
investor's anthology" by Charles D. Ellis is a good
start. |
| To understand the danger of paranoid dictators and sleeping
moles
"MAO the unkown story" by Jung Chang offers numerous
hints. |
| To know why 200 hundred years after the enlightenment
some people are still killing in the name of religion Martin Gilbert's book
"Letters to Auntie Fori" published in Portuguese by Alêtheia Editores
com o título "Os 5000 anos de história e fé do povo Judeu" , gives a unique
insight. | ||||
| Richard Dawkins's "The
God Delusion", is probably the most compreheensive and best written case
for atheism. Still, it fails to address why god, like money and weapons were
created in most civilizations no matter how primitive. | ||||
| To realize the relative importance of fanaticism and the
supremacy of weapons for conquering empires John Keegan's "A
History of Warfare" (published in Portuguese by Tinta-da-China),
provides an interesting read. | ||||
On the history of Portugal and Brazil the "Empire
adrif - The Portuguese court in Rio de Janeiro 1808-1821" by Patrick
Wilcken is a great book (published also in Poruguese by Civilização Editora)
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To glimpse at life under the so-called
peoples-democracy in China the novel