{"id":3072,"date":"2009-04-08T04:15:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T04:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2009-04-09T22:53:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T22:53:22","slug":"building-the-antilibrary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3072","title":{"rendered":"Building the Antilibrary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to\u00a0a combination of good fortune, review copies\u00a0sent by\u00a0publishers and exercising wide-ranging discretion over a budget account at work, I’ve added\u00a0an eclectic mix\u00a0of tomes to the ever rising Antilibrary<\/a> book pile.\u00a0 Some of these are recommendations from readers left in my comment section last January <\/a>( working on improving my traditionally\u00a0lame following -up skills)<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Alexander II The Last Great Tsar<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Edvard Radzinsky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Engaging the Muslim World<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 by Juan Cole<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by Peter Bergen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1: The Spell of Plato<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and\u00a0 The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 2: Hegel and Marx<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Karl Popper<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

and\u00a0\u00a0 Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Steven Johnson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How the Mind Works<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Steven Pinker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by Charles Murray<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Outliers: The Story of Success<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Malcolm Gladwell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by Clay Shirky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0by Joseph Turow<\/a><\/strong> & Lokman Tsui<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Islands in the Clickstream: Reflections on Life in a Virtual World<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by Richard Thieme<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Engaging the Muslim World<\/em><\/strong> is not long for the Antilibrary, as I have already begun reading it and will review it here soon. Some of these books can be read relatively quickly, a day or two but others, like The two volume The Open Society<\/em><\/strong>, I expect will require a greater investment of time and thought. It pays rich dividends though.<\/p>\n

Note, Richard Thieme<\/strong>, despite his past as a scholar-clergyman of the Episcopalian Church, is not t be confused with the historicist,\u00a0fundamentalist, theologian,\u00a0Colonel R.B. Thieme<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

UPDATED!:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ha! A good\u00a0one arrived today, courtesy of Columbia University Press<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by Antoine Bousquet<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due to\u00a0a combination of good fortune, review copies\u00a0sent by\u00a0publishers and exercising wide-ranging discretion over a budget account at work, I’ve added\u00a0an eclectic mix\u00a0of tomes to the ever rising Antilibrary book pile.\u00a0 Some of these are recommendations from readers left in my comment section last January ( working on improving my traditionally\u00a0lame following -up skills) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Alexander […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,555,420,133,128,343,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-antilibrary-blog","category-authors","category-book","category-personal","category-readers","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}