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Four famous self-help books

Published by davinci on September 6, 2010 in a life in books. 0 Comments Tags: , .

This picture shows four of the most famous self-help books of all time: How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz, and The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino.

I didn’t find these books particularly inspiring or helpful… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss

Published by davinci on December 7, 2009 in a life in books. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

The previous post advertising the Perimeter Institute‘s Master’s program reminded me of this book, which continues my series “a life in books”.

The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss is geared more towards Star Trek fans than towards physicists… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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Horizons: Exploring the Universe, by Michael A. Seeds

Published by davinci on October 9, 2009 in a life in books. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

It’s been a while since I’ve made a post in the series “a life in books”.

This textbook was a gift from Dr. John Percy, professor of astronomy at the University of Toronto. I did some research on Be stars with Dr. Percy while I was in high school, and I had expressed to him my interest in studying astronomy and astrophysics in university.… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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Two popular books on fuzzy logic

Published by davinci on September 22, 2009 in a life in books and personal. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

These are two popular books on fuzzy logic: Bart Kosko’s Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic, and Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger’s Fuzzy Logic.

Fuzzy logic was pioneered by Dr. Lotfi Zadeh, whom I met when he gave a lecture at the University of Toronto… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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365 Ways to Kiss Your Love by Tomima Edmark

Published by davinci on September 21, 2009 in a life in books and personal. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

This was a gift from my ex-girlfriend while we were still dating. The lip print on the transparent card is actually hers, and the silk handkerchief is what the book was wrapped in when she gave it to me.

It was a very thoughtful and romantic gift… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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Funk & Wagnalls Canadian College Dictionary

Published by davinci on September 20, 2009 in a life in books and personal. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

I had actually obtained this book shortly after arriving in Canada at the age of eight. I think it was either a gift or a hand-me-down, but I don’t remember exactly how I got it… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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Object Oriented Turing

Published by davinci on September 19, 2009 in a life in books and personal. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

I suppose that this post is a continuation of the one on old software and books.

The Turing programming language (named after Alan Turing) was developed at the University of Toronto as an introductory language for teaching computer programming at the high school level. It was (and apparently still is) widely used in Ontario… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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Web of Hate and Dragons of Crime

Published by davinci on September 17, 2009 in a life in books and personal. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Continuing on the Nazi theme established by the two previous posts, today we have Warren Kinsella’s Web of Hate, which is about Canada’s “far right” network, a book that was controversial when it was first published and continues to be controversial today… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, by Art Spiegelman

Published by davinci on September 16, 2009 in a life in books and personal. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Merging the Nazi theme from yesterday with the comic book theme from the previous post, today we have Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, one of the most famous and significant graphic novels of all time… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

Published by davinci on September 15, 2009 in a life in books and personal. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

This post continues the series on “a life in books”.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer, is one of the standard reference books on World War II. The book that I owned was actually the illustrated and abridged version of this work. Abridged versions of books are very rarely better than the original, but this one is an exception, due to the inclusion of many large high-quality colour photographs which the non-abridged edition does not have… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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