So, What Are You Reading?

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  1. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Reading Project #3: Great Political Theorists of the Western World:

    American State Papers/Federalist Papers
    St. Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law
    Aristotle, Politics and The Athenian Constitution
    Francis Bacon, Novum Organum and The New Atlantis
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophy of Right
    Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    John Locke, Concerning Civil Government
    Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince
    Karl Marx, Capital and Manifesto of the Communist Party
    John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Representative Government, and Utilitarianism
    Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
    Plato, The Republic, Statesman, The Laws, and The Seventh Letter
    Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Origin of Inequality, On Political Economy, and The Social Contract
    Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
     
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    Ted Heiks, Dec 20, 2014
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  2. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    I don't even know what to say. In most contexts in my life, even when rubbing elbows with degreed professionals and academics, I stick out as the nerd in the room. Ted makes me look like a Jersey Shore meathead in comparison to him. :tragedy:

    Anyhoo- I'm looking for some books on nutrition/dietics that will take me beyond the basics and allow me to competently discuss such matters with professionals and safely brush off fringe diet dogmatists. I can't find anything that looks useful in any of my nearby libraries. I'm thinking of getting some straight up (used :smoker:) college textbooks. How cool would it be if I knew a thing or two or hundred about "biochemical nutrition"- a phrase I had never even heard of before this morning, but sounds like some really smart people stuff. I mean, I won't be a Ted Heiks by any means, but I may be empowered to continue to eat healthfully (most of the time :approve:)and encourage others to do so.
     
    Maniac Craniac, Dec 20, 2014
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  3. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

    Just read "The Martian" by Andy Weir (purchased from Costco for $8.99).

    An astronaut is stranded on mars and figures out how to survive. In my opinion the astronaut is creative but when it comes to his rescue there are too many long shot actions.
    But I could not put the book down until I finished it.
     
    Ian Anderson, Dec 24, 2014
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  4. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    [video=youtube;YUdjiGbNkA8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUdjiGbNkA8[/video]
     
    Maniac Craniac, Dec 24, 2014
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  5. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.
     
    Ted Heiks, Jan 1, 2015
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  6. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Edward Hastings Ripley's Vermont General.
     
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  7. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Started reading Dyan Eliot's Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Mediaeval Wedlock.
     
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  8. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    So, more than friends, but without benefits?
     
    SteveFoerster, Jan 2, 2015
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  9. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    I guess so.
     
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  10. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator


    This is the exact sort of situation where a MOOC would be helpful. Minimally you'd get a line of a good textbook.
     
    Kizmet, Jan 2, 2015
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  11. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    I'm guessing the primary requirement for such an arrangement was access to other "resources.":smlove2:
     
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  12. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Okay??????
     
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  13. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Some mediaeval scholars seem to think that many of the spiritual marriages were just a monk and a nun sharing housekeeping, but I'll have to see what Dyan Eliot has to say about that.
     
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    Ted Heiks, Jan 7, 2015
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  14. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    I don't know that it would require other resources; if you go long enough without sex, not having sex begins to seem normal.
     
    Ted Heiks, Jan 7, 2015
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  15. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Finished reading Dyan Eliot's Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Mediaeval Wedlock.
     
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    Ted Heiks, Jan 18, 2015
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  16. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Vernon Lane Wharton's The Negro in Mississippi, 1865-1890.
     
    Ted Heiks, Jan 18, 2015
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  17. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read John Witherspoon DuBose's Alabama's Tragic Decade
     
    Ted Heiks, Jan 29, 2015
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  18. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    What is a Jersey Shore meathead?
     
    Ted Heiks, Jan 29, 2015
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  19. Tireman 44444

    Tireman 44444 Well-Known Member

    Killing Patton by O'Reilly and Revolutionary Mothers by Berkin
     
    Tireman 44444, Jan 30, 2015
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  20. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    I recently read The Martian by Andy Weir. I bought it because it was the only book at the airport kiosk that looked interesting, but it turned out to be fantastic. You just wouldn't expect a book about an astronaut left behind on Mars to be so funny.
     
    SteveFoerster, Jan 30, 2015
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