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Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Books On-Line
martin skinny madden - Google Search
Google offers a great many books on-line. A significant number of them are offered at no charge.
I have right next to me a shelf of unread books taller and and wider than I am. I am not lacking reading material at the moment.
My genealogist sister tells me that the Mr. Madden click-able above is a relative of mine. A very brief review of the works available on "Skinny" indicates the wide variety of works available.
You can begin your search for reading subjects more interesting to you than Skinny Madden might be by clicking the "Google Search" above.
Google offers a great many books on-line. A significant number of them are offered at no charge.
I have right next to me a shelf of unread books taller and and wider than I am. I am not lacking reading material at the moment.
My genealogist sister tells me that the Mr. Madden click-able above is a relative of mine. A very brief review of the works available on "Skinny" indicates the wide variety of works available.
You can begin your search for reading subjects more interesting to you than Skinny Madden might be by clicking the "Google Search" above.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Eveyen Morozov
I may be returning to my childhood reading faults. I remember reading a neat book about a guy with a bow and arrow. I tried to tell someone about it, but was having trouble. I couldn't recall or had never learned the title of the book nor the name of its author. I was ask for the name of the guy. I couldn't name the protagonist. It was Robinhood or something like that.
A Russian thinker has written a book in English
about the effect of human manipulation of the internet on their world.
With lots of wonderful examples from the way the world of nations, NGOs,individuals are using the internet, he seems to be suggesting that we have a lot to learn about using the www effectively.
One of the points he may be making is that principles and assumptions ought to be well clarified before Internet tools are applied to policy.
He is trying to help us remember the value of first principles and first assumptions.
Practical suggestions he seems to be making
include:
1. know yourself
2. know your audience
3. know your objective
2. know your tools
3. clarify the knowing among yourselves.
A flying review of what people are saying about the book on the Internet makes me think that Morozov probably feels he is attempting to communicate with ants.
A Russian thinker has written a book in English
about the effect of human manipulation of the internet on their world.
With lots of wonderful examples from the way the world of nations, NGOs,individuals are using the internet, he seems to be suggesting that we have a lot to learn about using the www effectively.
One of the points he may be making is that principles and assumptions ought to be well clarified before Internet tools are applied to policy.
He is trying to help us remember the value of first principles and first assumptions.
Practical suggestions he seems to be making
include:
1. know yourself
2. know your audience
3. know your objective
2. know your tools
3. clarify the knowing among yourselves.
A flying review of what people are saying about the book on the Internet makes me think that Morozov probably feels he is attempting to communicate with ants.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
THE AGE OF WIKILEAKS | By GREG MITCHELL | Blurb
THE AGE OF WIKILEAKS | By GREG MITCHELL | Blurb
Wikileak stuff and beyond.
He's published a book too.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
The Constitution
If you have read Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution 1787 - 1788 by Pauline Maier please tell me if you think I might enjoy it.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
"The Flood"
Young Joe Flood's excellent new book, The Flood, has just been released. I think that reading it might be an excellent step toward learning an important bit about the past and likely future workings of internal U.S. politics.
Let me know what you think.
Let me know what you think.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Books
I've selected three books from my shelves to take to South America with me:
Monkey Translated from Chinese by Arthur Waley. I guess it could be called a picaresque folk novel, but there is more to it than that. It is a fun fantasy and a funny fable. It's adventurous allegories welded into an artistic whole. It's been highly popular for 500 years. I've just started it, but bet it offers multiple levels of meaning and wisdom while being very entertaining.
Meetings With Remarkable Men translated from Russian by the author, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff reminds me a bit of a few interested and interesting picaros I met in my early travels. He seems an accomplised liver of life, and interesting teacher, and a good story teller.
The Magic of Dialogue by Daniel Yankelovich. It's one of the several works on the skills and practices of dialogue that have been published i the last couple of decades. According to a blurb, Bill Moyers seems to like it.
Monkey Translated from Chinese by Arthur Waley. I guess it could be called a picaresque folk novel, but there is more to it than that. It is a fun fantasy and a funny fable. It's adventurous allegories welded into an artistic whole. It's been highly popular for 500 years. I've just started it, but bet it offers multiple levels of meaning and wisdom while being very entertaining.
Meetings With Remarkable Men translated from Russian by the author, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff reminds me a bit of a few interested and interesting picaros I met in my early travels. He seems an accomplised liver of life, and interesting teacher, and a good story teller.
The Magic of Dialogue by Daniel Yankelovich. It's one of the several works on the skills and practices of dialogue that have been published i the last couple of decades. According to a blurb, Bill Moyers seems to like it.
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