Saturday, January 27, 2007

Nov.01.2006 to Jan.20.2007

There are two quotes I have to have it here. Both of them are equally impressive and meaningful to those who survived. (including YOU)

One age, he is hag-ridden, bewitched;; the next, priestridden, befooled;[then he is greed-ridden, be-exploited;] in all ages, bedevilled.(added on Carlyle on Man in Sartor Resartus)

“An Age of ____” (fill in: Reason, Faith, Science, Absolutism, Democracy, Anxiety, Communication) is always a misnomer because insufficient, except perhaps “An Age of Troubles,” which fits every age in varying degrees.

Non-book items:
http://af-north.org/other%20pamphlets/luxemburg.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_functionalism
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2006/06/people.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/01/01/SPG66NB8FO1.DTL
many more…

Books read:
Body Mind and Sport, John Douillard, 1994
High Performance Rowing, John McArthur, 2005
Getting Stronger, Bill Pearl, 1986
Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, Viking Penguin Inc, 1989
World without borders, Lester R. Brown, Random house, 1972
Cochabamba, Oscar Olivera, South End Press, 2004
The end of the world as we know it, Immanuel Wallerstein, 1999
Mayan Vision, June Nash, Routledge, 2001
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond, 1999
Making Globalization Work, Joseph Stiglitz, 2006
Models of My Life, Herbert Simon, 1991
Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest, Steve Stern
Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins, 1989
From Dawn to Decadence, 1500-Present, Jacque Barzun, NY, USA, 2000 ISBN 0-06-017586-9
After the waste land: A democratic economics for the year 2000, Samuel. B, David. Gordon, Thomas. Weisskopf, New York, USA, 1999
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams, 2006
China. Inc, Ted Fishman

You can take the notes I made from here as a pdf file