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What Are You Reading Right Now?

From Eternity To Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
Sean Carroll / Dutton / 2010 / 438pp /

An in-depth and extensive philosophical/scientific sojourn into the realm of Time.

Sean Carroll Ph.D. - Theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. Harvard/MIT/University of Chicago.
 
I recently finished:

Maya Angelou-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Saul Bellow-Ravelstein

Going to have to re-read portions for this weekend/next week:

Alexander Bloom-Prodigal Sons

Irving Kristol-Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of An Idea

Edited by Thomas Jeffers-The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s

Joseph Dorman-Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in their Own Words

Edited by Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol-Confrontation: The Student Rebellion and the Universities

James Mann-Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet

Allan Bloom-The Closing of the American Mind

Then some essays in The Public Interest, I am sure.
 
A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad
Robert S. Wistrich / Random House / 2010/ 1184 pp.

This is without a doubt the most comprehensive book on anti-Semitism I have ever read or encountered. Twenty-Five chapters + Epilogue/Notes.

Robert S. Wistrich Ph.D - is the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He previously held the Chair for Jewish Studies at University College, London, as well as visiting professorships at Harvard, Brandeis, and Oxford universities and at the Royal Institute of Advanced Studies in the Netherlands.
 
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Absolutely worth reading this book! Not only does Brinkley do a wonderful job of documenting the immediate aftermath of Katrina and the effect it had on New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf coast, but he also convincingly documents the failure of FEMA to adequately respond to the disaster, and what part the actions and inactions of Pres. Bush, Secy. Chartoff, FEMA Dir. Michael Brown, Gov. Blanco, and Mayor Nagin played in contributing to the disaster.
 
I am currently going back and forth between Moby Dick and the Divine Comedy.
 
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek.
 
Crime and Punishment - by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
Just finished "A Child Called It"

I'm going back to less psyche damaging book......
 
The Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith
Civil disobedience- Henry David Thoreau
 
I am currently reading the late great Barbara Olson's Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Excellent book!
 
The Economic Development of Midevil Europe
 
Emotional Intelligence, I can't remember the author's name, however... It's been a pretty popular discussion.
 
Edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Sheldon S. Wolin- The Berkeley Student Revolt: Facts and Interpretations, 1965.

This paperback was in terrific condition for a first edition (like..wow) when I got it-then I just had to ruin it by opening it and actually read it.:doh
 
Reading:
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

By J Maarten Troost.
 
I am currently reading The Dark Side of Liberalism by Phil Kent.
 
The Fouth Star by Cloud and Jaffe.

It covers four Generals who were all involved in Iraq. Pretty good.
 
Rereading Watership Down, Richard Adams.
After this, probably reread Shardik.
 
Areopagitican said:
My bookshelf
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Hey, sweet. I can't believe I didn't think about this before. It gave me the idea to actually count how many books I currently have in my university apartment and not at home. Ended up finding out I have over 100 titles sitting on my desk at this moment.

Oops.

Hey, is there a way to quickly label all books as "I own"?

Here's Mine
 
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I am currently reading Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass by Dr. Theodore Dalrymple.
 
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