Question What are you reading?
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Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module by Thomas J. Kelly
Mr. Kelly was the LM chief engineer at Grumman.
Saturn V Flight Manual by NASA. More perusing than reading.
Mr. Kelly was the LM chief engineer at Grumman.
Saturn V Flight Manual by NASA. More perusing than reading.
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Ibm Hazm al-Adalusi (994-1064)
The Ring Of Love
A TREATISE ON THE ART AND PRACTICE OF ARAB LOVE
Edition by Grete Tartler, translated in romanian.
Another (in english) edition can be found also here:
http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hazm/dove/index.html
The Ring Of Love
A TREATISE ON THE ART AND PRACTICE OF ARAB LOVE
Edition by Grete Tartler, translated in romanian.
Another (in english) edition can be found also here:
http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hazm/dove/index.html
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Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts:
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The Odyssey File, Arthur C Clarke & Peter Hyams. (1985)
Comprising the e-mails sent between the author and the director during the making of the film and also the first appearance of Clarkes 69th Law:
Comprising the e-mails sent between the author and the director during the making of the film and also the first appearance of Clarkes 69th Law:
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Abraham Lincoln: Biographical
Herndon's Informants, compiled and edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis.
I have to re-evaluate my thinking of Lincoln after reading over 600 accounts of people who knew him firsthand through various stages of his life. He's more human to me now, less iconic.
http://durer.press.illinois.edu/wilson/index.html
There's a history channel documentary that covers this material as well.
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Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks by Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer
There are other sources on the web regarding mental calculation, but Professor Benjamin really makes it fun. There's a Great Courses Lecture series reflecting the content of this book. The power of the techniques in this book combined with the ability to graph well visually will undoubtedly lead to a keen mathematical mind that will set you apart from the rest. The techniques are shockingly simple; they just need to be committed to memory. I'm already teaching some of them to a four year old. She has nothing to unlearn, so she just absorbs it. She likes to gather up her dollies and 'Ride up to the Space Station, Jim...' I started teaching her brother trig at twelve and he starts at Harvard in the fall. (I'm already teaching her to draw the shapes of graphs.) I can only imagine where she will go.
Herndon's Informants, compiled and edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis.
I have to re-evaluate my thinking of Lincoln after reading over 600 accounts of people who knew him firsthand through various stages of his life. He's more human to me now, less iconic.
http://durer.press.illinois.edu/wilson/index.html
There's a history channel documentary that covers this material as well.
---------- Post added 06-03-12 at 08:46 AM ---------- Previous post was 06-02-12 at 07:06 PM ----------
Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks by Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer
There are other sources on the web regarding mental calculation, but Professor Benjamin really makes it fun. There's a Great Courses Lecture series reflecting the content of this book. The power of the techniques in this book combined with the ability to graph well visually will undoubtedly lead to a keen mathematical mind that will set you apart from the rest. The techniques are shockingly simple; they just need to be committed to memory. I'm already teaching some of them to a four year old. She has nothing to unlearn, so she just absorbs it. She likes to gather up her dollies and 'Ride up to the Space Station, Jim...' I started teaching her brother trig at twelve and he starts at Harvard in the fall. (I'm already teaching her to draw the shapes of graphs.) I can only imagine where she will go.
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Loved that one! Also, I highly recommend Final Flight and The Minotaur:thumbup:Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts:
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Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story, by David Hitt, Owen K. Garriott, and Joe P. Kerwin
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Three of my favorite books! :thumbup:
I'm back to another old favorite of mine, The Lord of The Rings.
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Currently Red Storm Rising. Great Cold War era novel!
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Double thanked!:thumbup::thumbup:
We have all three extended DVD box-set movies
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Awesome novel! Tom Clancy never disappoints:thumbup:
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Im reading the Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Richard Feynman)
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Volume I (Richard Feynman)
Starting to see a pattern?
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman! (Richard Feynman)
Magnificent Desolation (NOT Richard Feynman!:thumbup
Orbital Mechanics (Howard Curtis)
I also dabble in University prospectuses from time to time
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Volume I (Richard Feynman)
Starting to see a pattern
?Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman! (Richard Feynman)
Magnificent Desolation (NOT Richard Feynman!:thumbup
Orbital Mechanics (Howard Curtis)
I also dabble in University prospectuses from time to time
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Me too (at final exams time)-Brian Greene: The Fabric of the Cosmos.
Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality.
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"Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell (pen name Don A. Stuart):
