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Read - Want to Read: The Boneshaker by Kate Milford (Clarion Books) Thirteen-year-old Natalie Minks loves machines, particularly automata--self-operating mechanical devices, usually powered by...
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Read - Want to Read: The Raconteur's Commonplace Book by Kate Milford (Clarion Books) Nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story as a group of strangers trapped in an...
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Read - Want to Read: Modern Welsh by Gareth King (Routledge) This new expanded edition of Modern Welsh is the ideal reference source for all speakers and learners of Welsh, suitable for use in...
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Read - Want to Read: The Cathedral & the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond (O'Reilly Media) Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56...
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Bookmarked The Purpose of the Biblical Genealogies by Marshall D. Johnson (Wipf & Stock Publishers) with Special Reference to the Setting of the Genealogies of Jesus Genealogical material occurs...
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Read - Want to Read: Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya V. Hartman (Oxford University Press) In this provocative and original exploration...
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Read - Want to Read: Collected Ancient Greek Novels by Bryan P. Reardon (Editor) (University of California Press) Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact...
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Read - Want to Read: Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work by Michael P. Farrell (University of Chicago Press) Many artists, writers, and other creative people do their best...
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Read The Famous Five (novel series) (Wikipedia) The Famous Five is a series of children's adventure novels written by English author Enid Blyton. The first book, Five on a Treasure Island, was...
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Read - Want to Read: The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents by F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press) An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and...
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Read - Want to Read: The Constitution of Liberty by F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press) From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus...
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Read - Want to Read: Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society by Ronald J. Deibert (House of Anansi Press) In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and...
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Read - Want to Read: The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam (Simon & Schuster) An eminent political scientist's brilliant analysis of...
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Read - Want to Read: American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam (Simon & Schuster) American Grace is "perhaps the most sweeping look yet at contemporary American...
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Read - Want to Read: The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin (Penguin Group) Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. Set in...
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Read - Want to Read: What Works: Gender Equality by Design by Iris Bohnet (Belknap Press) Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing...
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Bookmarked Independent Together: Building and Maintaining Values in a Distributed Web Infrastructure by Jack Jamieson (dissertation.jackjamieson.net) This dissertation studies a community of web...
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Read - Want to Read: The Thief Knot: A Greenglass House Story by Kate Milford (Clarion Books) Ghosts, a kidnapping, a crew of young detectives, and family secrets mix in this new standalone mystery...
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Read - Want to Read: Teaching Aboriginal Cultural Competence: Authentic Approaches by Barbara Hill (Springer) This book examines a collaborative partnership model between academia and Indigenous...
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Read - Want to Read: Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Dip below the ocean's surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that...
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Read - Want to Read: Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Cambridge University Press) This book is a further contribution to the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy...
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Read - Want to Read: Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg (Penguin Press) From the New York Times-bestselling author of How...
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Read - Want to Read: Unplugged by Gordon Korman (Balzer & Bray/Harperteen) From New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman comes a hilarious middle grade novel about a group of kids forced to...
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Read - Want to Read: Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova (Harmony) A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can...
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Read - Want to Read: How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say about Human Difference by Adam Rutherford (Experiment) Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not...
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Read - Want to Read: A Promised Land by Barack Obama (Crown Publishing Group) In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his...
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Read - Want to Read: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House) The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste...
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Read - Want to Read: Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America by Martha S. Jones (Cambridge University Press) Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws...
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Read - Want to Read: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark (Knopf Publishing Group) "Finally, the biography that Sylvia Plath deserves . . . A spectacular...
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I’ve just gotten a copy of Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova which came out earlier this week. I’ve thumbed through it quickly and done some targeted searches of...
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Bookmarked Jenea Cohn's Writing by Jenea Cohn (Jenae Cohn) Writing I explore emergent questions about how technology impacts the ways that we read, write, and communicate, particularly in higher...
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Bookmarked 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Annotation (library.educause.edu) Collaborative annotation tools expand the concept of social bookmarking by allowing users not only to share...
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Bookmarked An Excerpt From The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Penguin) Science fiction is often described, and even defined, as extrapolative. The science fiction writer is supposed to...
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Bookmarked Media and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 by Matthew Daniel Eddy (University of Chicago Press) I can’t wait to read Media and the Mind: Art, Science and...
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Read - Want to Read: Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker (Allen Lane ) In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific...
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Liked a tweet by Dr. Matthew Everhard (Twitter) Now available here: https://t.co/zMpGSptDKh DM me or email me at "doctor" plus "my last name" (all one word) at g mail dot you know, and I will send you...
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Bookmarked The Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies Companions (2 book series) by Robert L Boss, Sarah B. Boss, eds. (JESociety Press) The Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies Companions are products of JESociety's...
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Read - Want to Read: Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord by Nicola Scaldaferri (ed.) (Harvard University Press) In the 1930s, Milman Parry...
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Read - Want to Read: Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott (Yale University Press) Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent...
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Read - Want to Read: Radio Fifth Grade by Gordon Korman (Scholastic ) Mayhem breaks out in the fifth grade when the Venice Menace bullies his classmates into letting him become a regular guest on...
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