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If anyone interested in this approach to security, consult his book: https://books.google.fr/books?id=201Of096E0kC&printsec=front...
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @11:36AM (#8108812)
Dive into the classics.

John Cowper Powys may help you to plan a great journey :

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12914/pg12914.html

(Despite a few bizarre choices. Paul Bourget, seriously ?)

If I had to choose myself : Homer (The Iliad and the Odyssey), the Bible (David's psalms and Job's book), Augustine, Dante, Saint Simon, Shakespeare, Rousseau, Dostoievsky, Proust, Céline.

Aparté :

If you like ambitious history with economic insights, I would strongly suggest to read Fernand Braudel works. He wrote three fantastic triptychs :

- The Mediterranean: And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (his thesis)

- Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century (the best history books I've ever read)

- The Identity of France