Showing posts with label Book Stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Stuff. Show all posts
2023/12/29
13 Things You Might Not Have Known About John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’
13 Things You Might Not Have Known About John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’
John Steinbeck’s dog Toby ate the first draft of the manuscript, leading the author to write a friend, “I’m not sure Toby didn’t know what he was doing.”
2023/06/22
The Æsop for Children
About the Æsop for Children
Aesop for Children contains the text of selected fables, color pictures, video, and interactive animations, and will be enjoyed by readers of any age.
“Aesop's Fables”—also called “the Aesopica”—are a collection of stories designed to teach moral lessons credited to Aesop, a Greek slave and story-teller thought to have lived between 620 and 560 BCE.
Aesop's fables are some of the most well known in the world and have been translated in multiple languages and become popular in dozens of cultures through the course of five centuries. They have been told and retold in a variety of media, from oral tradition to written storybooks to stage, film and animated cartoon versions—even in architecture.
The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Younger scholars will be able to trace the origin of aphorisms such as “sour grapes” and “a bird in the hand.”
This interactive book is presented by the Library of Congress, adapted from the book “The Aesop for Children: with Pictures by Milo Winter,” published by Rand, McNally & Co in 1919. This work is considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
Milo Winter’s pictures have been transformed for this interactive book, and now readers can interact with the charming illustrations to see and hear them move: a choosy heron eyes the fish swimming at his feet, a fox swishes his tail, a mouse chews a rope and frees a lion.
2020/07/19
Booky Books Book Update
Update #5
On to the next read! Maybe even finally finish up "Sync" :)
Finished
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover – by Gregory Zuckerman
November 5, 2010
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA, 2009
The Rich Don't Always Win
Sam Pizzigati
(2013-09-26)
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
On the Nightstand
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
Not Started Yet
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Number: The Language of Science
Tobias Dantzig
Plume, 2007
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2014
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin, 2000
A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski
Vintage, 1997
First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid [full-text]
Euclid, with annotations by John Casey
Project Gutenberg, 2007
Measurement
Paul Lockhart
Belknap, 2012
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Jimena Canales
May 26, 2015
As I expected, Jaron Lanier's book "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" went quickly being only 176 pages long. Its an interesting read and a well made argument. What really grabbed my attention were the footnotes. Soooooo much great reference material I want to spend the time reading all the articles and boooks referenced in his book.
On to the next read! Maybe even finally finish up "Sync" :)
Finished
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover – by Gregory Zuckerman
November 5, 2010
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA, 2009
The Rich Don't Always Win
Sam Pizzigati
(2013-09-26)
Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Jaron Lanier
Picador; Reprint edition (August 27, 2019)
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
Not Started Yet
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Number: The Language of Science
Tobias Dantzig
Plume, 2007
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2014
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin, 2000
A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski
Vintage, 1997
First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid [full-text]
Euclid, with annotations by John Casey
Project Gutenberg, 2007
Measurement
Paul Lockhart
Belknap, 2012
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Jimena Canales
May 26, 2015
2020/07/06
Book list mid-year update
Update #4
Finished
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover – by Gregory Zuckerman
November 5, 2010
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA, 2009
The Rich Don't Always Win
Sam Pizzigati
(2013-09-26)
On the Nightstand
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
Not Started Yet
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Number: The Language of Science
Tobias Dantzig
Plume, 2007
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2014
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin, 2000
A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski
Vintage, 1997
First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid [full-text]
Euclid, with annotations by John Casey
Project Gutenberg, 2007
Measurement
Paul Lockhart
Belknap, 2012
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Jimena Canales
May 26, 2015
Things have gone slower than I had hoped. Admittedly, Ive been distracted and haven't kept up with my book reading as I had hoped at the beginning of the year.
I still have my list to get thru this year and "Sync" keeps getting preempted by other interesting distractions. Last up was Giridharadas' book and now Im queuing up Jaron Lanier's book "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now"
The Phoenix library system rocks and they are making it easy for me to both grab and return books during this COVID-19 pandemic. I'll drop off the Giridharadas book and p/u Laniers without even leaving my truck. How sweet is that!
Oh, and I've also discovered a couple of new books to add to the list. :)
"The Privatized State" by Chiara Cordelli is coming out in November this year and "The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time" by Joseph Mazur. Both sound like excellent reads and (obviously) have nothing to do with each other - just stuff that gets me excited to hear more about.
Finished
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover – by Gregory Zuckerman
November 5, 2010
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA, 2009
The Rich Don't Always Win
Sam Pizzigati
(2013-09-26)
Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
Not Started Yet
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Number: The Language of Science
Tobias Dantzig
Plume, 2007
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2014
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin, 2000
A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski
Vintage, 1997
First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid [full-text]
Euclid, with annotations by John Casey
Project Gutenberg, 2007
Measurement
Paul Lockhart
Belknap, 2012
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Jimena Canales
May 26, 2015
2020/05/19
Whats on The Night Table Now
The local library just emailed me that we're good to go for picking up stuff. COVID-19 forced some safety measures which actually I prefer. I park at an assigned spot, call the number and provide my library card number and they walk out with my book.
Can we do this forever?
So the book I finally get my greedy little hands on?
Winners Take All
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
By Anand Giridharadas
Im very excited to devour this little tome.
Oh, and the quote page before the table of contents? This little gem.
Giddy Up!
2020/03/07
So Many Good Books
Update #3
Im now completely and hopelessly under the spell of Anand Giridharadas. So, yup- another book on the list.
Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
Finished
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover – by Gregory Zuckerman
November 5, 2010
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA, 2009
The Rich Don't Always Win
Sam Pizzigati
(2013-09-26)
On the Nightstand
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
Not Started Yet
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Number: The Language of Science
Tobias Dantzig
Plume, 2007
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2014
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin, 2000
A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski
Vintage, 1997
First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid [full-text]
Euclid, with annotations by John Casey
Project Gutenberg, 2007
Measurement
Paul Lockhart
Belknap, 2012
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Jimena Canales
May 26, 2015
Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
Im now completely and hopelessly under the spell of Anand Giridharadas. So, yup- another book on the list.
Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
Finished
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover – by Gregory Zuckerman
November 5, 2010
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA, 2009
The Rich Don't Always Win
Sam Pizzigati
(2013-09-26)
On the Nightstand
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
Not Started Yet
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Number: The Language of Science
Tobias Dantzig
Plume, 2007
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2014
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin, 2000
A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski
Vintage, 1997
First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid [full-text]
Euclid, with annotations by John Casey
Project Gutenberg, 2007
Measurement
Paul Lockhart
Belknap, 2012
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Jimena Canales
May 26, 2015
Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
2020/02/11
R.I.F.
Update #2
"The Man Who Solved the Market..." is headed back to the library. Ya, I guess I'd recommend it. Its kinnnnnda biography - kinda hearsay history lesson? O.k., basically if this kinda thing interests you there are worse things you can read. I'll have forgotten most of it once Im done with the next three books on my list.
"Logicomix" is a fun intro - its like the entrance to a rabbit hole. I'll get thru it tonight or tomorrow and then I can finish up The "Rich Don't Always Win" and start "Sync..." Those will be good for the plane ride to Key West this week.
A rabbit hole on the internets led me to "The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time" so I added that to my list for 2020.
Finished
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover – by Gregory Zuckerman
November 5, 2010
On the Nightstand
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA, 2009
The Rich Don't Always Win
Sam Pizzigati
(2013-09-26)
Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
Not Started Yet
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Number: The Language of Science
Tobias Dantzig
Plume, 2007
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2014
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin, 2000
A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski
Vintage, 1997
First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid [full-text]
Euclid, with annotations by John Casey
Project Gutenberg, 2007
Measurement
Paul Lockhart
Belknap, 2012
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Jimena Canales
May 26, 2015
"The Man Who Solved the Market..." is headed back to the library. Ya, I guess I'd recommend it. Its kinnnnnda biography - kinda hearsay history lesson? O.k., basically if this kinda thing interests you there are worse things you can read. I'll have forgotten most of it once Im done with the next three books on my list.
"Logicomix" is a fun intro - its like the entrance to a rabbit hole. I'll get thru it tonight or tomorrow and then I can finish up The "Rich Don't Always Win" and start "Sync..." Those will be good for the plane ride to Key West this week.
A rabbit hole on the internets led me to "The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time" so I added that to my list for 2020.
Finished
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover – by Gregory Zuckerman
November 5, 2010
On the Nightstand
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA, 2009
The Rich Don't Always Win
Sam Pizzigati
(2013-09-26)
Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
Not Started Yet
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Number: The Language of Science
Tobias Dantzig
Plume, 2007
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2014
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin, 2000
A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski
Vintage, 1997
First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid [full-text]
Euclid, with annotations by John Casey
Project Gutenberg, 2007
Measurement
Paul Lockhart
Belknap, 2012
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Jimena Canales
May 26, 2015
2020/02/09
Dammit
Finishing up "The Man Who Solved The Market" and as Im wandering around the internets I find yet another book I just have to read
Dammit.
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Dammit.
2020/01/30
Too Many Books Too Little Time
Im still less than half way thru "The Rich Don't Always Win" and "Logicomix" and what happens? The library sends me a note that my hold request for "The Man Who Solved the Market" is ready for pickup.
Looks like I'll be shifting priorities a bit so I can get this devoured and back to the library before times up.
To be time affluent would be a dream.
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Looks like I'll be shifting priorities a bit so I can get this devoured and back to the library before times up.
To be time affluent would be a dream.
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2020/01/27
Never Forget
Lets remember that people are capable of pure evil.
No caveats about also being capable of grace.
Today, just remember the evil
About a year ago I picked up this graphic novel from the library. It was part of my reading list and I'm glad I finally had the opportunity to read it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus
Its a quick read but that doesnt make it an easy read. There was a panel I stared at and re-read over and over. Im not going to share which panel it is because I want you to have your own relationship with this book. Suffice it to say it was the most horrifying thing I can remember ever reading.
Stay vigilant and never forget.
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No caveats about also being capable of grace.
Today, just remember the evil
About a year ago I picked up this graphic novel from the library. It was part of my reading list and I'm glad I finally had the opportunity to read it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus
Its a quick read but that doesnt make it an easy read. There was a panel I stared at and re-read over and over. Im not going to share which panel it is because I want you to have your own relationship with this book. Suffice it to say it was the most horrifying thing I can remember ever reading.
Stay vigilant and never forget.
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2020/01/19
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