What are the greatest books of all time?
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Booksellers say that books are a cheap form of entertainment
That hasn’t stopped me from reading books. But now that I’m of pensionable age I’m pickier. I suspect that I’ll find our new interactive listing of the “greatest books of all time” useful in deciding what to read
I wouldn’t take the ranking as gospel. These days I find it more rewarding to read
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3moQuran is the best book
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4mo„The selfish gene“ by Richard Dawkins. How does reproduction work among organisms? How have humans evolved over the years? These questions bug the minds of even the greatest philosophers, but you can find answers in this summary of the book “The Selfish Gene.” The author, Richard Dawkins, is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and a former Professor of the University of Oxford. “Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.” ~ Richard Dawkins
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4moManagerial Economics (Both theory & Math) are in the lists.
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5moAs I have mentioned, earlier today, to translate one book one must have read a thousand, at least. I translated dozens... Where the Economist folks sit, books might be cheap. Alas, in my country books have long become a luxury. With the quality plummeting, to boot. Yet we Lithuanian readers are, in a sense, richer than, say, the English or the French or many others. Matter is, an unimportant language of an unimportant nation presupposes lots of translations from other languages, both important and not so important. I suspect he Big Five people do not even suspect what uncountable and unimaginable treasuries their Big Five (EN first and foremost) languages lose them... I'm a damn Rich Beggar! 😁