Archive for November, 2005
Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption
Aviva and I went to the “Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption” exhibit at the Field Museum. This was a very good exhibit (even if visting it on the Saturday after Thanksgiving may not have been good timing). It was very very busy – there was some crowd control but not too much, and the [...]
November 28th, 2005 by alephnaught
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tails of Terror
Title: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tails of Terror
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Del Rey; Reissue edition (September 13, 1991)
ISBN: 0345329457
My son Nathan recommended this book to me – I had nearly finished the book I brought along for the flights and hotel room, and he said this was really cool and [...]
November 19th, 2005 by alephnaught
The Great Heresies
Title: The Great Heresies
Author: Hilaire Belloc
Paperback: 161 pages
Publisher: T A N Books & Publishers (October, 1991)
ISBN: 0895554755
This book was a waste of my time. The author is obviously Catholic – the viewpoint of the book is that all heresies are wrong, the Catholic Church is the one right church, and that capitalism, communism and [...]
November 9th, 2005 by alephnaught
The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars
Title: The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars
Author: Stephen O’Shea
Publisher: Profile Books (May 21, 2001)
ISBN: 1861973500
I bought this book at Waterstones on Kalverstraat in Amsterdam – I had almost finished the book I brought along with me (A War Like No Other : How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War [...]
November 7th, 2005 by alephnaught
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Title: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374292884
I’m glad I got to read this book – I got it by responding to a survey by Infosys. Friedman ties a bunch of seemingly separated things into a cloth that defines the [...]
November 5th, 2005 by alephnaught
The Life of David
Title: The Life of David
Author: Robert Pinsky
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken (September 6, 2005)
ISBN: 0805242031
I’ve read the Old Testiment and the Torah, but I knew little about the life of the King that probably marks the height of Judaism. This book was worth reading, but I feel it rambles a bit and could use more [...]
November 5th, 2005 by alephnaught
A War Like No Other : How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Title: A War Like No Other : How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Author: Victor Hanson
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Random House (October 4, 2005)
ISBN: 1400060958
I read this book on my most recent trip to Amsterdam, and right after finishing a book on the life of King David.
This book brings a lot of research together [...]
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November 28th, 2005 by alephnaught