Field Notes From A Catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert
And one or two closer to home...
help me out, recommend a killer nonfiction book for me...
Now available: The Aviator - a speculative fiction involving airships, AIs, and the elixir of life (which is cheese), set in a world being hammered by climate change - The Burning World. "Brilliant and wickedly satirical" - Sonny Whitelaw.
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Skybluemornings
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Was Linda Colley's "Britons: Forging the Nation." Don't know whether British 18th century history is your thing but really a brilliant book.
Skybluemornings wrote:Was Linda Colley's "Britons: Forging the Nation." Don't know whether British 18th century history is your thing but really a brilliant book.
Hmm...doing a definition search, "Forging" comes across as "to make falsely."
Heat by Bill Buford.
Dave
Dave
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Skybluemornings
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Agreed, but also 'forging' as in 'to forge' as in iron!:
1. The action of the vb. FORGE in various senses; an instance of the same. Also, used gerundially with the omission of in.
Forge: 1. trans. To make, fashion, frame, or construct (any material thing); = FABRICATE v. 1. Obs. exc. as coincident with transf. use of 2. to forge together: to frame together, weld.
2. To shape by heating in a forge and hammering; to beat into shape; to coin (money). Also with out.
b. absol. or intr. To work at the forge; to do smith's work.
1. The action of the vb. FORGE in various senses; an instance of the same. Also, used gerundially with the omission of in.
Forge: 1. trans. To make, fashion, frame, or construct (any material thing); = FABRICATE v. 1. Obs. exc. as coincident with transf. use of 2. to forge together: to frame together, weld.
2. To shape by heating in a forge and hammering; to beat into shape; to coin (money). Also with out.
b. absol. or intr. To work at the forge; to do smith's work.
Goldberg, Writing down the bones
Bettger, How I raised myself from failure to success in selling
Bhagavad Gita
Tao Te Ching
Rogers, Fighting to win
Caples, Making Ads Pay
Brande, Wake up and Live
Polya, How to solve it
Pirsig, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations
Carnegie, How to stop worrying and start living
Tolle, The power of now
Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Bettger, How I raised myself from failure to success in selling
Bhagavad Gita
Tao Te Ching
Rogers, Fighting to win
Caples, Making Ads Pay
Brande, Wake up and Live
Polya, How to solve it
Pirsig, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations
Carnegie, How to stop worrying and start living
Tolle, The power of now
Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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vic-k
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Bob!
A Very Happy and Successful New Year
I`ve just noticed: You`ve got the same gap in your smile, as I have in mine
Take care
Vic
A Very Happy and Successful New Year
I`ve just noticed: You`ve got the same gap in your smile, as I have in mine
Take care
Vic
As a professional, you, are your one and only asset. Without integrity you are worthless, but with it, you are priceless.
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Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription; William F. Buckley JR.
http://www.amazon.com/Cancel-Your-Own-Goddam-Subscription/dp/0465002420
Just finished it last night.
Great book.
By the way, perhaps if you read it, you might be able to explain to me what Immanentize the eschaton means.
Best,
Howard
http://www.amazon.com/Cancel-Your-Own-Goddam-Subscription/dp/0465002420
Just finished it last night.
Great book.
By the way, perhaps if you read it, you might be able to explain to me what Immanentize the eschaton means.
Best,
Howard
"She watched him turn and walk out of the park, and she wondered about him all of the rest of the day, this strange man with the intense look, who stood in the middle of the park, in love with it."
The Empty Space by Peter Brook is incredible if that's your thing.
Everything my heart desires, may you achieve and be my accomplice
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vic-k
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Howard,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton
vic
Boys of Summer wrote:you might be able to explain to me what Immanentize the eschaton means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton
vic
As a professional, you, are your one and only asset. Without integrity you are worthless, but with it, you are priceless.
No, don't just tell him! Where's the fun in that? 
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