Books and movies and songs

books:

The Sociology of Religious Movements by William Simms Bainbridge
Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat Zinn
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Oringer
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Paul Dirac
The Book of Mormon
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer
Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory by Khinchin
Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdal
Intermediate Classical Dynamics with Applications to Beam Physics by Leo Michelloti
Nonlinear Dynamics and Carleman Linearization by Kowalski, Krzysztof
Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation by Richard Crandall
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
A Mouse To Be Free by Joyce W. Warren
Heaven on Earth: Dispatches from America's Spiritual Frontier by Michael D'Antonio
Three Apples Fell From Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Mr Tompkins by George Gamow

movies:
The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)

Beat the Devil (Humphrey Bogart)
The Maltese Falcon (Le Faucon Maltais)
Casablanca
The Big Sleep (Le Grand Sommeil)

The Matrix
Matrix Reloaded

Cowboy Bebop - The Movie
Cowboy Bebop episodes

From Russia with Love (Bons Baisers de Russie)
Operation Thunderball (Operation Tonnerre)
Goldfinger

Vaquero
In the Mood for Love/ 2046 (Wong Kar Wai)
Blade Runner
Twin Peaks (season 1)
Good Will Hunting
Ocean's Eleven
Chicago
Battlestar Galactica (Season 4)
Enemy at the Gates
Tron
Six Feet Under (Season 1)
Goldfinger (James Bond)
Les Simpsons
Miss Marple (season 1-10)
Batman Begins
A river runs through it (Et au milieu coule une Riviere)
In the Realms of the Unreal (About Henry Darger)
Lain (Navi)
Lain (Knights)
Roma (Fellini)
Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
Le Cave se Rebiffe
The Mystery of Rampo
Harry Potter and the Half blood prince (Le Prince de Sang-mele)
The Name of the Rose (Le Nom de la Rose)
Stargate
Corpse Bride (Les Noces Funebres) by Tim Burton
Le vent nous emportera (Abbas Kiarostami)

Here are some authors to consider reading:
Maurice Druon
Camus
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Amelie Nothomb
Greek authors: Aristotle (Nichomachean Ethics), Plato
Walt Whitman
George Orwell, 'Down and out in Paris and London'

Songs:
She loves you (Lennon and McCartney)
Please Please Me
Here Comes the Sun (Harrison)
This land is your land
Illegal Smil (John Prine)
Heart of Gold
Donald and Lydia
Lay me a pallette (Mississippi John)
316 (Van Halen)
Once I Loved (Jobim)
It Don’t Mean a Thing (Duke)
Chords of Black Orpheus
Alice’s Restaurant
Puff the Magic Dragon (Stookey-Yarrow)
Suzanne (Leonard Cohen)
Freight Train
Green Green Rocky Road
Wave (Jobim)
There but for Fortune (Ochs)
House of the Rising Sun
This World is my World
De Colores
Guantamera
As Tears Go By
The Pinch
Both Sides Now
Stan’s Serenade
The Little Devils
Blackbird
God Bless the Moonshiners
Candy Man (Mississippi John)
Manha de Carnaval (A day in the life of a fool)
Crystal Ship
Air Mail Special
Tra veglia e sonno
Doc’s guitar (Doc Watson)
Autumn Leaves (Johnny Mercer)
Bachianas Brasilienas #5 (Villa-Lobos)
Hesitation Blues
Shades of Gray
Catch the Wind (Donovan)
West Coast Blues (Blind Blake)

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