Bookends Book Club: Tuesdays with Morrie

Bookends A3 building, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai

Subtitled 'An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson, this 1997 memoir by the award-winning sports columnist Mitch Albom is based on a series of Tuesday visits he made to his former sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz [ ... ]

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A Cosmic Voyage: dir Vasilij Zuravlëv (1936)

SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

This Soviet-era silent film was one of the earliest to represent a realistic spaceflight, including weightlessness. It's pitched in the year 1946, with Professor Sedikh, who is planning to lead the first crewed exploration to the Moon, denounced by a [ ... ]

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Book Cellar Dubai: The Elephant in the Brain

Le Brasserie sur le Boulevard Kempinski The Boulevard, Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd, Dubai

Another really interesting pick by Book Cellar. The authors – software engineer and writer Kevin Simler and economics professor Robin Hanson – start from the premise that we are often unaware of the real reasons for our behaviours: they go [ ... ]

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