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My current reading pile
I haven’t posted this in a while. I might even post reviews of some of them when I do finish them.
1. A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren
2. The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism by David A. Stockman
3. My Trials: Inside America’s Deportation Factories by Paul Grussendorf
4. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony
5. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
6. My Great Predecessors: Part III by Garry Kasparov
7. Dylan’s Vision of Sin by Christopher Ricks
8. Vergil’s Aeneid, Books I-VI (in Latin) edited by Clyde Pharr
9. Lucy Crawford’s History of the White Mountains
10. Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home by Garry Willis
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In an increasingly digital world, literature is evolving. Sales of e-readers continue to rise, yet the cost of digital books and texts has not necessarily decreased to the extent to which many init?
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Libraries are important! Support them!
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My current reading pile
I’m currently working on ten books:
1. “Information: A History, A Theory, A flood” by James Gleick
2. “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by Thomas Piketty
3. “Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice” by the National Consumer Law Practice
4. “En Contacto: A First Course in Spanish” because my Spanish is really rusty
5. “My Great Predecessors, Part III” by Garry Kasparov
6. “Girls Burn Brighter,” a novel by Shobha Rao
7. Vergil’s Aeneid (in Latin) Books I-VI, edition edited by Clyde Pharr
8. “The Transformations of Man” by Lewis Mumford
9. “Rousseau and Revolution” vol. X of “The Story of Civilization”by Will and Ariel Durant
10. “Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution” by Forrest McDonald
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