Books: Book(s) you are Currently Reading | Part 3

[Babe Ruth]

Author analyzes Washington's attitudes and policies toward American Indians in 3 stages of his life.. as a soldier in the French and Indian War.. Revolutionary War.. and during his two presidential terms.

 

[Babe Ruth]

A biorobotics guy attempts to solve the obstacles with animal tracking devices & computer models in studying wild animals. The biorobotics expert & author (Long) builds a simple robotic creature in an effort to follow it thru its evolutionary development in the wild.
Book is kinda dry & technical so far.. but it did sound like an intriguing concept.

 

[Babe Ruth]

The New Church Ladies (Jim Goad. 2017)

Funny, but scathing, analysis of (specifically White) Liberals and leftists.
The author's basic premise is that the modern Left operates with a religious zeal, so they are the modern, overbearing "church ladies".
An inexpensive book, and I already feel the first three, brief chapters were worth the book's price of admission.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Overview of the political events between the 1860 election of Lincoln, and the start of the Civil War. A period I don't think is well understood/analyzed by Americans.

 

[Hippasus]

Discrete Mathematics; by Sherwood Washburn, Thomas Marlowe, and Charles T. Ryan

Discrete mathematics is basically logic for computer science majors.

Contents:
1. Sets, subsets, induction, and recursion
2. Integers, remainders, and the Golden Ratio
3. Functions, relations, and counting
4. Graphs (i.e. configurations of nodes)
5. Proof techniques and logic
6. Boolean algebras, Boolean functions, and logic
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7. Graphs and relations
8. Algorithms
9. Combinatorics
10. Models of computation

 

[Babe Ruth]

The board game backstory on Monopoly. Lots of tangents, which makes sense because the creation of a board game might have a hard time filling an entire book.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Kind of an interesting topic.. Something I never thought about, because Germany lost some of their colonial natural resources as condition of their WWI surrender.. they turned disproportionately to synthetic stimulants. This book covers their relationship and struggle with synthetic stimulants/amphetamines.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Quick read on famous tight ends, and how they contributed to the position. Starts with Mike Ditka and Cardinal: Jackie Smith, who both ended up in Dallas for a while.
Gronk, Gonzalez, Sharpe, Shockey, etc.

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Thucydides]

Discrete Mathematics; by Sherwood Washburn, Thomas Marlowe, and Charles T. Ryan

Discrete mathematics is basically logic for computer science majors.

Contents:
1. Sets, subsets, induction, and recursion
2. Integers, remainders, and the Golden Ratio
3. Functions, relations, and counting
4. Graphs (i.e. configurations of nodes)
5. Proof techniques and logic
6. Boolean algebras, Boolean functions, and logic
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7. Graphs and relations
8. Algorithms
9. Combinatorics
10. Models of computation

Are you a math major, or just nerding out on math textbooks? At least, I’m assuming based on the contents you provided it’s a textbook? Just curious haha

Have you read Euclid’s Elements yet ?

 

[Hippasus]

Are you a math major, or just nerding out on math textbooks? At least, I’m assuming based on the contents you provided it’s a textbook? Just curious haha

Have you read Euclid’s Elements yet ?

Thank you for asking. No, I have not read Elements, This might be a dream for the future. Yes, I am a math major and I was on-time in all regards this past week (first week of the semester). Discrete Mathematics? No that was a failed experiment, although I may attempt to take an intro to computer science class in the spring. I got to page 80 out of 360 or so, but I kept shuffling around my particular courses for this fall and spring. To be honest, the subject matter really interests me. But I want to graduate in greater than or equal to a year. Knock on wood.

 

[Thucydides]

Thank you for asking. No, I have not read Elements, This might be a dream for the future. Yes, I am a math major and I was on-time in all regards this past week (first week of the semester). Discrete Mathematics? No that was a failed experiment, although I may attempt to take an intro to computer science class in the spring. I got to page 80 out of 360 or so, but I kept shuffling around my particular courses for this fall and spring. To be honest, the subject matter really interests me. But I want to graduate in greater than or equal to a year. Knock on wood.

Good luck to you this year.

 

[Speyer]

 

[Babe Ruth]

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I had a curiosity about the Black Dahlia case for a while.. and drove down to the location where her body was found. Back in the 40s it was an empty lot, but it's a typical, working class street in LA now.. if I remember right, it's on the edge of South Central..

 

[Babe Ruth]

Subtitle basically encapsulates its content. Wood is an anthropologist, who critiques the context & objectives of the NY Times' 1619 project.

 

[Speyer]

I had a curiosity about the Black Dahlia case for a while.. and drove down to the location where her body was found. Back in the 40s it was an empty lot, but it's a typical, working class street in LA now.. if I remember right, it's on the edge of South Central..

Reading the book I was looking up some information about the case and was wondering why some people were (and still are) so obsessed with the Dhalia. Including Ellroy himself. Maybe its a generational thing or you actually have to be from LA/California to really understand it...

 

[Babe Ruth]

Reading the book I was looking up some information about the case and was wondering why some people were (and still are) so obsessed with the Dhalia. Including Ellroy himself. Maybe its a generational thing or you actually have to be from LA/California to really understand it...

I think its appeal definitely goes beyond LA. In part because it was like an early harbinger of all the gruesome serial killings that would happen thru the rest of the 20th century..
But within LA, I think Short's story uniquely resonates with transplants who come to LA to become stars.. and things end up in disappointing and/or dark ways. Obviously not fates as grim as Short's.. but the Dahlia death is kind of a powerful meme of broken Hollyweird dreams.

I used to manage a phone bank that had flexible scheduling so it was staffed with a lot of aspiring actresses like Short. They would split time making phone calls, and going to auditions, or working as extras etc.. and there were all kinds of stories that had tragic and perverted twists. God only knows how Short came in to contact with her killer.

 

[Babe Ruth]

I had never heard of this author (Zadek), but i was intrigued by the title, and it's only $10 on Amazon.
I guess he's a radio or podcast host. The book is a brief collection of transcribed interviews he did on-air. Basically the backstory on how the Federal government took ultimate power from the states, & ideas on how states can reclaim lost power.

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Babe Ruth]

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This looks cool..

I subscribed to Peacock for a month a while back.. and they have a catalog of old Nitro & Thunder episodes. I saw myself (& girlfriend at the time) in a couple of the crowd shots from one of the episodes. Good memories. It was from the era when WCW was on life support. I also remember (same time frame) watching the terrible David Arquette' WCW movie, in an empty theater.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Very thorough (almost 550 pages) history of city of Jerusalem. Good stuff..

 

[Hippasus]

Godel's Proof, by Nagel and Newman (revised edition).

 

[Thucydides]

This looks cool..

I subscribed to Peacock for a month a while back.. and they have a catalog of old Nitro & Thunder episodes. I saw myself (& girlfriend at the time) in a couple of the crowd shots from one of the episodes. Good memories. It was from the era when WCW was on life support. I also remember (same time frame) watching the terrible David Arquette' WCW movie, in an empty theater.

That’s awesome , did you ever make it to any wcw shows at its peak? Crow sting?

this is the second book I’ve read about the fall of wcw. This one, Nitro, is the better. Meticulous research went into it.

I’m not into wrestling these days, but was a huge mark for it through the late 80’s until shortly after the fall of the WCW, so these books are a great trip down memory lane!

nWo 4 life, lol

 

[Babe Ruth]

That’s awesome , did you ever make it to any wcw shows at its peak? Crow sting?

this is the second book I’ve read about the fall of wcw. This one, Nitro, is the better. Meticulous research went into it..
nWo 4 life, lol

The live WCW filming we were at, had the Crow, baseball bat incarnation of Sting.. but the promotion was past its prime. It was the Jeff Jarrett' slap nuts era.. I think all the red & white NWOs were extinct, etc.
And it was the end of my interest in wrestling. I grew up on NWA, and I guess felt some brand loyalty to its' WCW descendant. When WCW went out, I didn't migrate to the WWF.

I appreciate you mentioning the book, got it in my <to buy> list. I've heard Vince Russo bitterly recount WCW's demise. But a well-researched book will probably give more context & objectivity.

 

[Thucydides]