Below I've listed 7 books I've read related to the book's topic, published between 2017 and 2023.

All are excellent, each for different reasons. Perspectives range from economics, law generally, intellectual property law, social control, the manufacturing of inequality to espionage technologies.

5/5: Articles rarely change mindsets or worldviews. Books often do.

Top row books made me think differently:
Arakel of Tabriz - on Armenian topics
Fairfield - on law's potential
Pierie - on law's assumptions
Pistor - on using law for change
Aslanian - on Armenians of suburb of New Julfa in Isfahan

4/5: I'm passionate about music. My tastes are eclectic and include blues, R&B, jazz & classic rock.

The Last Sultan was the most fun to read, exceptionally well-written. Greenfield had me from chapter 1 on Ahmet Ertegun meeting in LA with Armenian patriot in the United States, Harut Sassounian.

3/5: Writing styles:

from:
- passionate (eg Arakel of Tabriz, Chaliand, Fairfield) - PICTURED
- framework formulating (eg Acemoglu, Aslanian)
- fresh & enlightening (Pistor, Lessig and Noble)
- view-changing (Fairfield)

to:
- OK, but a bit juvenile (Mostaque)
- mediocre to a dud (the last book).

2/5: In the first row I've ranked highly books on Anglophone law & change, and my speciality, Armenian history and culture.

The middle three on law (pictured) I highly recommend. They explain how to oppose the takeover of tech, question assumptions about law, and the link between law and capital.

See the linked excellent book chapter by Australian genocide scholar A. Dirk Moses “Raphael Lemkin, culture, and the concept of genocide”.

It's the first chapter of the 2012 book The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies by Donald Bloxham & A. Dirk Moses (Editors). www.dirkmoses.com/.../moses_le...

It was back in early 2020 when I was last inspired to write a similar piece. I titled it "The greatest unleashing of monetary stimulus in the history of the world". I see now that much of what I noted in 2020 created what is evident in the 185 slides and my 25 notes. www.linkedin.com/pulse/notes-...

Giblin, Rebecca & Doctorow, Cory (2022) Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back.

Two chapters are exclusively on music:

• Chapter 5: Why streaming doesn’t pay
• Chapter 6: “Why Spotify wants you to reply on playlists

In 2024 I read 24 BOOKS, many were on my shelves for years. A green asterisk is a top FIVE STAR RATING. The list is eclectic, I had little direction. All but two were nonfiction. As in 2023, anthropology & sociology perspectives for me were fresh, deep and useful. History remains my main addiction.

As pictured, my reading was disciplined in 2023. Most I bought that year. My style preferences became acute. Favourites remain waterfalls of facts with footnotes, communicating insightful observations in finely wrought English.

I have a huge priorities list for 2025, aiming to direct book reading.