Author Archive
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
October 22nd, 2005 by alephnaught
Turing (A Novel about Computation)
Title: Turing (A Novel about Computation) Author: Christos H. Papadimitriou Paperback: 283 pages Publisher: The MIT Press (April 1, 2005) ISBN: 0262661918 I saw this book on a table at a Borders and I wanted a book to take traveling, so I decided to try it. I’m glad I did! This is a very nice […]
October 8th, 2005 by alephnaught
What is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11
Title: What is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11 Author: Kenneth R. Feinberg Hardcover: 213 pages Publisher: PublicAffairs (May 13, 2005) ISBN: 1586483234 This is a must read book! I had two books left on my vacation, and decided to grab this one for the flight home. I read it […]
October 6th, 2005 by alephnaught
Flying to Milan
We ate breakfast and lunch at the hotel, with a little more shopping in the middle – I accidently broke Aviva’s sunglasses and so we went out looking for another pair. The hotel is very nice – I’d recommend it easily. We took a cab to the airport – its a long long way from […]
October 5th, 2005 by alephnaught
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life
Title: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Basic Books; Reprint edition (April, 1998) ISBN: 0465024114 This book was disappointing. There was a lot of raw information about flow (that state where you loose sense of time and become completely focused on achieving some goal), and […]
October 5th, 2005 by alephnaught
Monreale
Today we got going slowly, did a small amount of shopping near the hotel, including finally getting Aviva a European current heating pad, and then took a cab up to Monreale. We arrived outside the Duomo in the main square in Monreale; Monreale is a small town on a hill about 8 kilometres outside of […]
October 4th, 2005 by alephnaught
Palermo
Today we walked to a sporting goods shop to see if I could get a Palermo football jersey – they didn’t have XXL. The, it was over to the Liberte area to shop a little, then caught the City Sightseeing bus to ride around Palermo for an hour or so. We got off near the […]
November 9th, 2005 by alephnaught