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Notes on some of the books I’ve read. For those I liked and learned a lot from (⭐), the notes are a lot more extensive and detailed.

Books are grouped by theme and within each theme sorted by title.

Business

• The Inovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen ⭐

Biographies

• Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela.

History

Africa

• Peoples and Cultures of Africa - Southern Africa, Peter Mitchell

South Africa

• An Arid Eden, Garth Owen-Smith ⭐

America

South America

• O Brasil Antes the Cabral, Reinaldo José Lopes

Asia

East Asia

• A New Illustrated History of Taiwan, Wan-yao Chou ⭐
• Formosa Betrayed, George H. Kerr
• Imperial China, F. W. Mote ⭐

South Asia

• India in the Persianate Age, Richard M. Eaton

Southeast Asia

• Perfume Dreams, Andrew Lam
• Singapore: A Very Short History, Alvin Tan

Europe

• The Anglo-Saxons, Marc Morris ⭐
• Moorish Spain, Richard Fletcher ⭐

Oceania

• The Penguin History of Aotearoa, Michael King ⭐

Philosophy

• Letters from a Stoic, Seneca ⭐

Psychology

• The Art of Thinking Clearly, Rolf Dobelli ⭐
• The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine N. Aron