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Some recommended reading material:

Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us – Duncan J. Watts
Too Fast to Think: How to Reclaim Your Creativity in a Hyper-connected Work Culture – Chris Lewis
Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
On Grand Strategy – John Lewis Gaddis
Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest For Economic Meaning From Gilgamesh To Wall Street
- Tomas Sedlacek
The Economics of Inequality – Thomas Piety
The Rational Optimist – How Prosperity Evolves – Matt Ridley
How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilisation – Mary Beard
Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation – Chris Turner
Not of this World – Peter Kolosimo
Jerusalem: The Biography – Simon Sebag Montifiore
Civilization: The West and the Rest – Niall Ferguson
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty – Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World – Tim Marshall
Eurotragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts – Ashoka Mody
Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-Economics – Stephen F. Szabo
German Europe – Ulrich Beck and Rodney Livingstone
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century – P. W. Singer
War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft – Robert D. Blackwill and Jennifer M. Harris
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth – Tom Burgis
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India – Shashi Tharoor
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World – Andrew D. Lambert
Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans – James G. Stavridis
Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific – Robert D. Kaplan
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia – Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics – John J. Mearsheimer
The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force – Eliot A. Cohen
The Cold War – Mike Sewell
The New Cold War – Edward Lucas
The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century – Peter Watson
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch – Amos Elon
Dangers, Tests and Miracles: The Remarkable Life Story of Chief Rabbi Rosen of Romania
- Joseph Finkelstone
Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History – Joseph Telushkin
I Confess: Revelations in Exile – Kooshyar Karimi
The Islamist – Ed Husain
I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century’s First Muslim Power – Soner Cagaptay
People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East – Joris Luyendijk
Nazi Nexus – Edwin Black
Warrior Poets – Benjamin Gilmour
Krakatoa – Simon Winchester
Eiffel’s Tower – Jill Jones
Alma Rose, Vienna to Auschwitz – Richard Newman/Karen Kirtley
Babylon Berlin – Volker Kutscher
Berlin Diary – William Shirer
Human Smoke – Nicholson Baker
Night Trilogy – Elie Weisel
Germany, Jekyll and Hyde – Sebastian Huffier
Divergent Jewish Thought – Moore and Troen
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines and Future – Karen Elliott House
The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor – W.M. Thackston Jr.
Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics – Raimond Gaita
A Heart Turned East – Adam Lebor
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Deliver Us From Evil: Warlords and Peacekeepers in a World of Endless Conflict – William Shawcross
Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life – Timothy W. Ryback
Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth – Gitta Sereny
Totalitarian Art – Igor Golomstock

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rec·ti·fy (rkt-f)
tr.v. rec·ti·fied, rec·ti·fy·ing, rec·ti·fies

1. To set right; correct.
2. To correct by calculation or adjustment.
3. Chemistry To refine or purify, especially by distillation.
4. Electronics To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
5. To adjust (the proof of alcoholic beverages) by adding water or other liquids.

(The Free Dictionary by Farlex 2011)

rectify (‘rektəˌfī) vb. –fies, -fying, -fied. (tr.)

1. to put right; correct; remedy
2. to separate (a substance) from a mixture or refine (a substance) by fractional distillation
3. to convert (alternating current) into direct current
4. Maths. To determine the length of (a curve)
5. to cause (an object) to assume a linear motion or characteristic. (C14: via Old French from Medieval Latin rectificare rēctificāre to adjust, from Latin rectus rēctus straight + facere to make) – ,recti’fiable adj. – ,rectifi’cation n.

(The Collins Dictionary Of The English Language Second Edition 1986)

rec’tify, v.t. 1. Put right, correct, amend,
reform, adjust, (method, calculation,
statement, position, instrumental) 2.
Abolish, get rid of, exchange for what is
right, (abuse, anomaly, error, omission,
grievance). 3. (chem.). Purify or refine
by renewed distillation or other process.
4. (geom.) Find straight line equal to
(curve). Hence or cogn. ~fiER

(The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, Fifth Edition 1964)

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