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You Are What You Read

After spending years reading Conan Doyle, Chesterton, Buchan and other crime stories it is time for some social sciences study. The reading list I have set for myself includes the following books and covers the listed topics below.

Read and Highly Recommended
• Collins, Randall. Sociological Insight. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

On the bookshelf, being read (mostly in later paperback editions)
• Bernays, Edward. Crystallizing Public Opinion. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923.
• Le Bon, Gustave. The Crowd. A study of the popular mind. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896.
• Ekman, Paul. Emotions Revealed. Understanding faces and feelings. London: Phoenix (Orion), 2004.

Books in Writers' Toolkit
• The Chicago Manual of Style -- 14th ed. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Reading Topics
• Criminal anthropology
• Criminal psychology - the study of wills, thoughts, intentions and reactions of criminals.
• Critical theory
• Conflict theory
• Social intelligence
• Collective Behavior and Social Movements
• Social psychology
• Social theory
• Rationality and Society
• Community and Urban Sociology
• Reasoning
• Psychology of reasoning
• Cognitive science
• Logic
• Probability theory
• Linguistics
• Emotional intelligence
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• Propaganda

What to Do in Milan
• Gallerie d'Italia
• Armani Silos, vi Bergognone 40
• Pallazzo Reale
• Mudec, via Tortona 56 Sloan Square bar?
• Museo Diocesano, Cso. di Porta Ticinese

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