Books read this Year 35 Books out of 50 books, including Philosophy Audiobooks Progress Report
This List is updated every time I finish a book be it Audiobooks which are in Italics and normally from Librivox or conventional paper copy.
1.Book 1 Study is Hard Work Armstrong
2.Book 2 Gang Leader for a Day
3.Book 3 Jeffrey Deaver The Broken Window
4.Book 4 Snyder and Mitchell Cultural Locations of Disability
5.Book 5 Some said it [...]
Book 12 LIBRIVOX AUDIOBOOK Friedrich Nietzsche ‘Beyond Good and Evil’
This is my first ever test of listening to a Philosopher’s Work in Audiobook (MP3) Format.
Over a week or two I have taken a Section at a time working my way through about 10 hours of’ Reading’.
During this time I was not able to take in my Latest attempt at Tome Reading; the full 766 [...]
Book 11 Doris Lessing ‘The Golden Notebook’ read in a novelistic interlude between heavyweight Philosophy Tomes NEW
This is Book 11 this Year making Martha Nussbaum ‘Upheaval of Emotions The Intelligence of the Emotions’ is Book 12 a work in progress.
I noticed this book in Tesco and decided to buy it as the Storyline looked interesting and pertinent and she also won the Nobel Prize for Literature making this the first Nobel [...]
Book 10: Naomi Klein ‘The Shock Doctrine’ or watch a new phenomenon at work!
This is a shocking account of Shock Therapy which tells how Milton Friedman. Chicago School Economists one size fits all Policies . Resulted in gross inequalities and poverty for many Nations round the World.
She shows us how . Shock Therapy Regimes are imposed to circumvent grassroots resistance which is an eye [...]
Book 9: Charles Taylor ‘Sources of the Self: the making of Modern Identity’ a Six Month read into my first adventures into ’selves’
This book is the start of me formally attempting to reply to the Research Draft Proposal Draft with something pertaining to a sensible answer without of course having the elementary qualifications those in Academia are blessed to have Charles Taylor is part of two Philosophers I am reading that attempt to go beyond [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book 1 of 2009 ‘Study is Hard Work’ William H Armstrong
William H Armstrongs book which I found via Librarything is a Study Skills Guide in the most traditonal educational sense, the kind of education you see in Public Schools rather than State run Classrooms, and it is definitely School Masterish but don’t let that put you off
William H Armstrong is a a devil for the [...]
Friday 2nd Jan 2008 3,086 words done Public Lecture LSE Radio Style Listen Ancient Philosophy Lecture Notes and at least 3 Stanford Book Salons at around 12 minutes each
Yippee! I have done 3,086 very rambling throughout the day words editing posts on Blog which go back to it’s inception in the original Amateur Social Science Bookworm blog which was transferred to WordPress.
Intellectual input today: at least 3 Book Salons Stanford:Alice Rayner Phenomonology of theatre (interesting), Adam Johnson, and Tales of Ovid by Hughes [...]
I know ALL ABOUT Academic Wounding…..
I KNOW ALL ABOUT ACADEMIC WOUNDING……..
Greyfriars lady killing look. Maths teacher male who touched me up depriving me of much needed extra encouragement in maths. Family background in education and our family is renowned for our love of education especially the University the found of all love and affection. Evidence by massive libraries, adverse environments, [...]
2000 Books What they look like a Photo of a 2000 Book Library
Just think I book at a time. I am reading Ehenriech Nickeled and Dimed at the moment (Exploring Self in Society) and have 150pp to finish of ‘Fields of Reading’ As its the Summer hols I might ease up a bit and just feed brain every now and then
2000 Book Library what does 2000 books [...]
Tom Bailey Writing Short Stories American MIT OCW resource that needs it’s UK Equivalent
This guy explains it like no other. A must for all writers not just those of Short Stories. Aim Atlantic Monthly or in UK Terms Professional Writer (and Academic by the way) the British Qaulity Press and Journals. This book is read alongside ‘Fields of Reading Motives for Writing Conley et al’ important point. It [...]
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