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. | 7/10/2008 11:14:14 | 303.48273 | The Book of Tiki: The Cult of Polynesian Pop in Fifties America | Sven A. Kirsten | | | Out of print and ridiculously priced on the used market; I'd probably be willing to loan my copy for the right price. | | Trying to locate |
. | 7/10/2008 10:59:59 | 420.9 | Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language | Seth Lerer | | | a breezy, anecdotal survey | | Accepted |
. | 7/10/2008 11:08:51 | 470.9 | Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin | Nicholas Ostler | | | I haven't read this yet, but it's in my queue. By the same author is "Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World", which I'm reading presently; it is worth looking at for Dewey class 409, but at 640 pages it is long and occasionally boring. | | Accepted |
. | 7/10/2008 10:57:50 | 686.24 | The Elements of Typographic Style | Robert Bringhurst | | | Everything you always wanted to know about diacritics, picas, and versals (but were afraid to ask). | | Accepted |
. | 7/10/2008 11:11:50 | 725.71097 | Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture | Alan Hess | | | Once you learn about Googie architecture, you start seeing it everywhere. | | Trying to locate |
. | 7/10/2008 11:17:59 | 937.05 | Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic | Tom Holland | | | | | Accepted |
. | 7/10/2008 11:19:27 | 938.05 | The Peloponnesian War | Donald Kagan | | | occasionally slow but mostly worth it | | Accepted |
. | 7/10/2008 11:03:47 | 954.0359 | Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire | Alex Von Tunzelmann | | | a gossipy/horrific history of Nehru, Jinnah, Gandhi, the Mountbattens, and Indian partition | | Accepted |
. | 7/10/2008 13:08:47 | | Soul of a new machine | Tracy Kidder | | | Pultizer prize winning book on computers | | Already read |
. | 7/10/2008 13:17:40 | | Mountains beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder | 301 | 2003 | One of the best book by one of the greatest non fiction writers of our time | Chris King | Biography...tough category |
. | 7/10/2008 13:19:00 | | Fire in the Valley | Freiberger & Swaine | 448 | 2000 | The history of the creation of the personal computer | Chris King | Trying to locate |
. | 7/11/2008 14:06:31 | 427 | Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-downs, and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present | Hugh Rawson | | | | | Accepted |
. | 7/24/2008 18:33:06 | | Molecules of Emotion | Candace B. Pert, Ph.D. | 368 pages | 1997 | Covers fascinating discoveries about the biomolecular basis of emotion ie the Mind-Body connection | Laura King | Already read this category (612) |
. | 7/24/2008 18:37:21 | | Pythagorus' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars | Margaret Wertheim | 279 | 1995 | Fascinating, details the manner is which the all-male religious priesthood, and male-dominated education through history has led to marginalization of women and their ideas in hard science fields | Laura King | Accepted |
. | 7/24/2008 18:50:04 | | Descartes Secret Notebook | Amir D. Aczel | 273 | 2005 | Biographical sketch on Descartes and his relationship with Leibniz, covering a fascination with the intersection of mysticism and mathematics | Laura King | Accepted |
. | 7/24/2008 19:06:13 | | The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World | Matthew Stewart | 351 | 2006 | A philosophical and theological struggle over ideas about the Nature of God and the World, between two fascinating characters, at a time when it was dangerous to think new thoughts on these topics. | Laura King | Accepted |
. | 7/24/2008 19:10:31 | | Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why | Bart D. Ehrman | 242 | 2005 | The Bible did not fall from the skies, pre-translated into the King James Version. Considering the trend toward Biblical literalism in the U.S., this is information that is good to know. | Laura King | Accepted |
. | 7/24/2008 19:13:06 | | Lost Christianities; The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew | Bart D. Ehrman | 294 | 2003 | History is written by the victors. The Christianity of today looks much different than the Christianity of the 1st Century C.E. | Laura King | Accepted |