Books (Books and mini-reviews and links and
why and what this text maybe meant):
Books I've Heard About that Sound
Interesting
Books I've Got Queued (Physically)
to Read But Haven't Read Yet
Books I've Read and Liked
and Why
Food Books (listed on another
page)
Book Related Links
Books of Low Priority, Passing Interest
Books I've Heard About that Sound Interesting:
- Bucky by Hugh Kenner. Chris H. writes, "I'm a longtime fan
of Buckminster Fuller; and wanted to read just a simple/informative biography.
But this guy goes above and beyond. Its more like a biography of art, design,
science, futurism, progress, and social ideas. Every page is a battle of opposing
viewpoints. I haven't seen anything this rich in years. Highly recommended."
(7/10)
- Empire of the Summer Moon, By S. C. Gwynne (Fresh
Air June 23, 2010)
- Adventures Among Ants, By Mark Moffett (Fresh
Air June 17, 2010) slideshow here too!
- SUM
- Wolf Brother, by Michelle Paver - Part of the Chronicles of Ancient
Darkness set 6000 years ago
- The Three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment,
by Philip Kapleau (1965)
- The Gateless Gate, by Wumen (1228)
- Nature's Law—The Secret of the Universe, by Ralph Nelson
Elliott (1946) (financial technical analysis)
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton Malkiel (financial technical
analysis)
- Outliers: the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell. 10,000 hours
- The Big Short by Michael Lewis. Mini
review/snippet on Planet Money
- The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies (SETI researcher)
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (1954)
- The Harvard Psycedelic Club
- Black Widow, Vol. 1: Homecoming, Graphic Novel, Richard K. Morgan
- The 47 Ronin: A Story of Samurai Loyalty and Courage, Pomegranate
Communucations, 0764932098
- Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
- Anne Frank Book Sheds New Light on Diarist http://news.discovery.com/history/anne-frank-book.html
- Walden, Henry D. Thoreau
- The Allegash and East Branch, section in The Maine Woods,
Henry D. Thoreau - One of the best portraits of the Native American by a white
writer in 19th century literature *
- Volume which contains 50 letters from Henry D. Thoreau to Harrison Grey
Otis Blake - a correspondence given to philosophical issues and principles
that Thoreau was best remembered for * "Do what you love. Know your own
bone; gnaw it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not be too moral.
You cheat yourself of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply
good - be good for something."
- * = Credit due - above Thoreau bullets gleened from Milton Meltzer's biography
of Thoreau
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - Get for kid about 10th grade
(or sooner) especially if in SF
- Zen
Teaching of Homeless Kodo, Kosho Uchiyama, Kyoto Soto Zen Centre, 1990
- The Empathic Civilization - Jeremy Rifkin. Interesting stuff about
revolutions in the meetings of Energy and Communication changes, resulting
in shifts in global human consciousness.
- The biography of (Mrs.?) Highsmith (who wrote the Talented Mr. Ripley) sounds
like a thrilling read of a disturbed author
- Automatic Millionaire - David Bach
- Buddism For Dummies
- Schmelvis: In Search of Elivis Presley's Jewish Roots, Max Wallace
and Johnathan Goldstein (2001?)
- Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!, Johnathan Goldstein (2009) -
per reviews audiobook is preferable to deadtree
- City of Darkness: Life In Kowloon City - sounds like an excellent
photo documentry (and writen) account of a post-apocolipical no-mans-land
city removed in 1992. (Pricy, will be a library read.)
- Outside Over There by Muriece Sendek - Love Where the Wild things
Are and The Night Kitchen and others, haven't read this one!
- The Natral Mind - Andrew Weil (1972, 1986)
- Persephone's Quest - Gordon Wasson (1986)
- How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker (1997)
- On Drugs - David Lenson (1995)
- Sexual Personae - Camille Paglia (1990)
- The Birth of Tragedy - Friedrich Nietzsche (1872)
- The Red Queen - Matt Ridley
- Books by Marriane Williamson
- Happiness, Thich Nhat
Hanh
- Books by Robert
Thurman
- The Greatest Show On Earth - Richard
Dawkins (2009)
- The Wallmart Revolution by Nelson Licktonstein
- David Foster Walace - Infinate Jest, other works too
- Thomas Pynchon
- author to check out
- More cyberpunk!
- Sounds like Balzac
wrote some rightious pieces, I need to read him
- Finding Beauty in a Broken World - Terry Tempest Williams. TTBOOK
sense of home
- The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
- Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson, 0393067041
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - A classic that I never read, ties in no doubt
to the racism at the heart of the USA
- The Thing about Life is that One Day You'll Be Dead - David Shields.
TTBOOK: "a meditation on how our bodies decay and die"
- Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
- P. W. Singer
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into
a War on American Ideals - Jane Mayer - 2008 0385526393
- Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, Edited by Paul
D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid - 0262633639
- The Brave Little Toaster - Thomas Dish - Has a sequel, children's
book by SF author
- A Summer of Hummingbirds - Christopher Benfey (TTBOOK) Sounds interesting,
jumps around a bit,
- The Chemical Muse - David Hillman, Heard on WPR's To the Best of
Our Knowledge, recreational drug use in antiquity; drug use was common in
Greco-Roman times, and that the ancients thought it helped them get closer
to the gods.
- Born On A Blue Day - Daniel Tammet. Heard on WPR's To the Best
of Our Knowledge, book is a memoir from a rare autistic sevant who can verbalize
his reality.
- Waiting for Daisy - Peggy Orenstein. Heard on WPR's To the Best
of Our Knowledge, its about ambivalence about having children, sounds funny
and poigent.
- Not for Mothers Only - Catherine Wagner, Rebecca Wolff. Heard
on WPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge, a poetry anthology.
- Sherman Alexie wrote a book, title unknown, to teach his kids about war
(not sure if I want to read this as it might be preachly/predictable/to violent),
also the auther of Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (on
which the movie Smoke Signals was based), from an WPR's To the Best
of Our Knowledge podcast, of course.
- Lush Life - Richard Price. Heard on WPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge,
its a lower East Side of New York novel.
- Classics for Pleasure - Michael Dirda. Heard on WPR's To the Best
of Our Knowledge, classics are books that merit repeated re-reading, regardless
of genre.
- The Detox Book: How to Detoxify Your Body to Improve Your Health, Stop
Disease, and Reverse Aging - Bruce Fife, ISBN 0941599329
- The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity
(Paperback) - Donna Gates (Author), Linda Schatz (Author) amazon
- Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of
Capitalism (Co-author: Karl Weber); Public Affairs; 2008; wikipedia
- Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President
- Lincoln Chafee (Fresh Air, WHYY, NPR interview) Rhode Island Senater during
"W," while I don't think I'm gonna go out and buy this, it sounds
very honest and rightious and informative and I wanted to note it here
- Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
- Bill McKibben. Makes the case that "more" does not lead to a happier
life and that people seem to be happier with what's good for the planet. Heard
on WPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge GOING GREEN Program 07-05-27-B.
Kind of depressing as one realizes how off purpose they are while listening!
- Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving,
Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging - Jeff Ferrell. Dumpster diver tells
about the underground world of street scavenging in a consumer society. Heard
on WPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge GOING GREEN Program 07-05-27-B.
I liked this guy.
- Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being
and Why No One Saw It Coming - Paul Hawken. Over a million people and
organizations who are quietly trying to save the world. Heard on WPR's To
the Best of Our Knowledge GOING GREEN Program 07-05-27-B.
Books I've Got Queued (Physically) to Read But
Haven't Read Yet:
- The Eternal Way: The Inter Meaning of the Bhagavad Gita by Roy
Eugene Davis
- (Kyira books)
- (zen books)
- Kabir: Ecstatic Poems - Robert Bly - Robert Bly has re-translated
some of the work of a fifteenth century poet-saint from India, Kabir; Kabir
often writes about the soul's longing for the divine. (TTBOOK) 0807063843
- My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey - Jill
Bolte Taylor - (TTBOOK) ISBN 1430300612 - Amazing first person look at left/right
brain perseption/cognition/emotion, strong ties into spirituality
- Bhagavadgita -
- How to Use Your Creative Imagination by Roy Eugene Davis
- A Master Guide to Meditaiton & Spiritual Growth by Roy Eugene
Davis
- Goals! by Brian Tracy. Gripping and actual techniques (seems parallel
to "the secret" and Kriya's creative imagination too
- A Million Is Not Enough -
- Altered Carbon -
- I Am Jewish -
- Essential Chomsky -
Books I've Read and Liked and Why:
- Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff - learned a lot about breathing
and what Yoga really is at its core
- Richard K. Morgan books and links
- The so-called Takeshi Kovacs series:
- Altered Carbon (2002) -Awesome! The next cyberpunk author.
This is cyberpunk combine with mystery. A bit too violent for some.
Consciosness stored digitally in a spinally implanted stack and storable,
etc., bodies as "sleaves", consciously controllable endocroin
systems, mad bio-engineering, religion's take on the soul in this
world, immortality and the human pysche, combat, sex, virtual reality,
AIs, more.
- Broken Angels (2003) - First ones' the best, but here is
less mystery, more politics and milatary, and especially extra-terestrial
life and tech.
-
- Woken Furies (2005) - Nice wrap up, great read, I still
want to see more
- Market Forces () - still reading this...
- 13 () - 'Nother awesome one!
- Richard K. Morgan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Morgan
- Quellcrist Falcone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quellcrist_Falconer
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa
Yogananda (1946) - Amazing book. Inspiring, thought provocing, enlightening.
Kirya Yoga focused. Nice overview of the life of a monk in India. Amazing
first person account of life from the inside of a India Saint. Enjoyable.
- Buddhism, from the World of Beliefs (junior readers) series (Anita Ganeri)
- Great pictures and drawings, well put together, consise
- The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White - One from my list to share
with my kid(s). Merlan does a wonderful job of teaching values to the Wart
by looking at the world from the poit of view of animals. The geese see no
borders, the fish rule by size, the hunting birds have a militeristic respect
order.
- The Botany of Desire: A plant's-eye View of the World by Michale
Pollan - Co-evolution from a object-subject point of view, from the plant's
point of view. Overall framing of the arguments is Apollo
("one", uniformity, orderliness, monoculure of plants and people,
control over nature and wild) vs Dionysus
("many", variability wantonness, diversity) contrasts
.Kind of rambling newspaper blurb style writing, interesting and informative,
but sometimes feels unstructured. Some of the facts given are kind of bizare!
Overall very enjoyable and informative and recomended. (Some potato trivia:
Russet Burbank (sans net necrosis) is the McDonalds fry, the Lumper was Ireland's
favorite pre-1846 famine type, the Incas were masters of potato polyculture.)
"Does a rose exist that I might
behold it? Or do I exist that a rose
might be beheld?" ~ Robert Brault (RT @shekhinahshaman @iamwun)
- Sptimus Heap - Quest by Angie Sage
- Sptimus Heap - Physik by Angie Sage
- Sptimus Heap - Flyte by Angie Sage
- Sptimus Heap - Magyk by Angie Sage - A fun junior read about the
seventh son of the seventh sun in a magical land
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (2002) - Doublesheaving,
needlecasts, virtual tourture, hidden in plain sight Martian artifacts, clones,
neuro-enhancers, dipping. A magnificent cyberpunk scifi read.
- Th1rte3n by Richard K. Morgan (2007) - Overall great scifi;
imagry and sense of place well done. Like the AIs. Mystery plot twists
slightly disapointing as the book gets into it's last third, maybe a little
to much culturally lead evolution dialog here and there too.
- The Hacker's Diet: How to
lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition, by John Walker
The Hacker's Diet, notwithstanding its silly subtitle, is
a serious book about how to lose weight and permanently maintain whatever
weight you desire. It treats dieting and weight control from an engineering
and management standpoint, and provides the tools and an understanding of
why they work and how to use them that permit the reader to gain control of
their own weight. The book is intended primarily for busy, successful engineers,
programmers, and managers who have struggled unsuccessfully in the past to
lose weight and avoid re-gaining it.
- Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons. ISBN-10: 0763623296.A
faux nonfiction handsome volume about dragons, for kids. (April 2009)
- Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady. 1-55365-016-6.
582.16-Su99t. Another very nice tree book, chronicals the life of a Douglas
Fir and what's going on in Human history at the same time thereby providing
the whole history of life on Earth to date - with a strong focus on trees,
of course. P90 introduced to me "ethonosphere", ...all culture
together, the knowledge they contain, sum of the ways of human beings have
imaginged the world. Diversity withing the ethnoshpere critical for species
existance in a variety of ecosystems. P134 touched on Carpenter Ants and Aphids's
honeydew and ant gardens. P135 spoke to Grizzlys feeding on Bison! (This is
rarely referenced.) Also want to check out Methuselah in the Inyo National
Park, CA now.
- Trees by Andreas Feininger. This is one
of the best books I've ever read! It's a non-fiction science/biology/history
book, It touches on so much and ties everything together and is spiritually
uplifting too. (Mar 2009) 582.15-F327t
- You - the Owner's Manual, funny pix, good reference
- Just like we're reading Chonicles of Narnia to Nastasja summer 2008, there
is another series whos name I need to remember as I'd like to share with her
- time traveling and dancing with the microcondria kids?
- The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs,
ISBN: 0963926209 and Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier
in 10 Days by Peter Glickman, ISBN: 0975572229; (some
links here) Burroughs created the diet and laid down
the rule and logic behind it and his book is intense, Glickman evangelizes
the diet and I guess is behind therawfoodsite.com,
from whence a good chunk of his book comes, a great pair together, but if
you're only gonna get one, go for Burroughs'.
- Dr. Jensen's Guide to Better Bowel Care, By Bernard Jensen, ISBN
0895295849; awesome text, really ties everything together, I'm not gonna try
the whole colmic thing with the slant board and all, but there is a wealth
of info here about the body, foods, society, and much more
- The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, by Barbera T, excellent
writting, engrossing, un-biased, insightful releaving of history
- Zig Zag Zen by
- Comet in Moominland (this might be the title of a book I really liked as
a kid and want to share again with Nastasja. 0140302867) Tove Jansson
- Dune
- God Emperor of Dune
- Catch 22
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintinance
- Layla
- Cryptomiton
Book Related Links:
Narnia Maps:
http://acct.tamu.edu/smith/narnia/narnia_map.jpg
http://www.moviecitynews.com/arrays/images/2004/narnia/NarniaMap_fullsize.jpg
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=120153
- Classic Comics - Graphic Novel
adaptations of classic literature. TTBOOK program 09-03-15B
- wikibooks - a Wikimedia
community for creating a free library of educational textbooks
- http://www.wpr.org/book/ (you can
also get here via ttbook.org)- Here the last
few books reviewed or discussed or whos auther's were interviewed on Wisconsin
Public Radio's To the Best of Our Knowledge are listed
- amazon
- books.google
- bookpool - lower priced tech books
- wikipedia
Books of Low Priority, Passing Interest:
- Seven-Day Magic by Edward Eager. I'm sure it's great for it's intended ages.
Need to check out E. Nesbit now.
- Tim Gallagher "The Grail bird"
- Tim Gallagher "Falcon Fever"
- Book referenced in "GOOD HUNTING", TTBOOK Program 09-01-18-A
written by some king in the 13th century
- Laura Miller, "The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia."
- don't want to buy this one either, but it definitely sounds interesting
and resonates a little
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