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  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
    Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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    My name is Mikael Säker. I am a game designer and writer. I am currently working as a contractor for EA/DICE on the upcoming "Battlefield 4".

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    If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is “Probably because of something you did.” — Jack Handey

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    • Taming the Infinite: The Story of Mathematics from the First Numbers to Chaos Theory
      Taming the Infinite: The Story of Mathematics from the First Numbers to Chaos Theory by Ian Stewart
    • The TeXbook
      The TeXbook by Donald E. Knuth
    • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
      Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan, Lewis H. Lapham
    • The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
      The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker

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    • Matilda by Roald Dahl
    • The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Second Edition by Edward R. Tufte
    • Points of View — a tribute to Alan Kay by Ian Piumarta and Kimberly Rose (eds)
    • Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence by Gerard Jones
    • A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
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    • Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
    • Adaptation: The Shooting Script by Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman
    • The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon
    • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
    • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
    • Blod Eld Död by Jon Jefferson Klingberg, Ika Johannesson
    • Poetics by Aristotle
    • Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives by Jeff Howard
    • The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
    • QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
    • Film Structure and the Emotion System by Dr Greg M. Smith
    • The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
    • Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
    • Usual Suspects (Faber Reel Classics) by Christopher McQuarrie
    • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
    • Flow: The Classic Work on How to Achieve Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    • The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
    • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
    • The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
    • The Boat by Nam Le
    • Walking by Henry David Thoreau
    • Godel’s Proof by Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter
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    • The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why by Richard Nisbett
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    • Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
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    • JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
    • The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
    • Victoria by Knut Hamsun
    • Geim by Anders de la Motte
    • Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet
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    • Chinatown: Screenplay (Faber Reel Classics) by Robert Towne
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