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Experiments in Ethics (Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Harvard University Press, 2008
Satisfied with book, but not completely
Kwame Appiah is a distinguished Princeton philosopher, and the publisher of this book, Harvard University Press, is one of the most distinguished scholarly publishers in the world. This combination must command respect even before the book is as much as opened.
The ...
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The Essence of Chaos (The Jessie and John Danz Lecture Series)
Edward N. Lorenz
University of Washington Press, 1996
Excellent Chaos Primer
My first intro to chaos was Gleick's book *Chaos: Making a New Science* which focused on the history of the discovery of chaos. Although this was fascinating - and a good read for those just learning about dynamical systems, strange attractors, and the like - ...
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The Secrets of the Power of Intention: Live Lecture (6-CD Set)
Wayne W. Dyer
Hay House, 2004
This is it!
I wrote a review for the book and this is what I was talking about. Wayne Dyer is best talking to an audience. He is real. He is connected. He is insightful. He is intersting.
Get this and Deepak's The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite ...
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Security, Territory, Population (Lectures at the College De France)
Michel Foucault
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Indespensible
These are the complete course lectures in which Foucault developed his theory and history of "governmentality" as a discursive threshold of modern society.
This volume is critical to any student of Foucault or government in general. To the Foucault student, it ...
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One Writer's Beginnings (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)
Eudora Welty
Harvard University Press, 1998
To learn to listen for the stories
This is an outstanding memoir. In telling of her own development as a writer Welty devotes much time to telling the story of her parents, and their families. She writes of them with respect, understanding and appreciation. She also by telling the story of the families ...
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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 (Lectures at the College de France)
Michel Foucault
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
this liberal governmentality. This involves describing the political rationality within which the specific problems of life and population were posed: "Studying liberalism as the general framework of biopolitics". What are the specific features of the liberal art of government as they were outlined in the Eighteenth century? What crisis of ...
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Making Your Thoughts Work For You 4-CD Live Lecture
Wayne W. Dyer, Byron Katie
Hay House, 2007
Great!!!!
One of the best work, I have heard on the subject. It's the primary source of inspiration as I drive every time I hear it I learn something new. Vincent
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman's Tips on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, ...
Addison Wesley, 2005
The Greatest Physics Tutorial Ever Written
Feynman doesn't just teach physics in these books: he teaches you to think like a physicist should. One complaint I've heard is that there's not enough math in them. "Too many words." (Kinda reminds you of Armadeus.) There are plenty of books that have the math. ...
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Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture (DIY Science)
Robert Thompson
Make Books, 2008
Solid chemistry in a down-to-earth approach to learning...
Are you a frustrated chemist who never outgrew their fascination with the home chemistry kits of the good old days? Back when people took responsibility for their actions and "product liability" wasn't the fear of every company out there? This is the EXACT book you ...
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The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Hyperion, 2008
Moving Description of Father's Tribute to his Children
Randy Pausch is an inspiration and a wonderful example of what people should be doing with their lives NOW. Randy takes the accounts and descriptions of his life and childhood dreams and weaves them into an assortment of life's lessons. The book is just as ...
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Richard Phillips Feynman
Addison Wesley Longman, 1970
It's not just about physics
The joy of these books is not that you learn physics from them. What these books offer is Feynman's contagious wonder about things, his command of the material, and his unique way of presenting complicated ideas from a perspective understandable even to laymen. In the ...
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The Courage to Be
Paul Tillich
Yale University Press, 2000
Surprised me by how much it spoke to my situation
It seemed at the beginning that it would be too abstract. Too involved in a history of philosophy in its discussion of the Stoics. That Tillich was asserting too much, as if "ex cathedra". But even in the early chapters, I sensed something special and by the time I ...
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Entering the Castle: Exploring Your Mystical Experience of God: 9-CD Live Lecture!
Caroline Myss
Hay House, 2007
One of her best!
I have only words of gratitude and praise for this particular work of Caroline Myss. Having read her books and listened to many of her other audio lectures over the years, for me this was the most powerful, honest, and uplifting. I did not find any part of this lecture ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bantam Classics, 1990
At long last: someone worth reading....
I discovered Emerson at age 34, and it was like coming home. I have always been, I guess, a natural "transcendentalist". In other words, I instinctively and intuitively fell into a transcendentalist mindset and way of thinking without ever having read any. So I've ...
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Theories of Modern Art A Source Book by Artists and Critics (California Studies in the History of Art)
Herschel B. Chipp
University of California Press, 1984
facinating look into modern artists thoughts and beliefs
Even if you are not interested in the arts but simply in thought process- I think you will find this book very interesting. You could say this is the history of modern art without pictures (although there are some pictures)- bringing the reader facinating insights into ...
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