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05-13-2008, 09:07 PM
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Re: What Book Have You Read Recently?
I worked on a textbook that a visually impaired student needed for an accounting class (the text was concerning income tax code.) I have a whole new respect for CPAs.
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05-17-2008, 04:55 AM
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Re: What Book Have You Read Recently?
Accounting, ugh...my most dreaded bugaboo, next to Statistics. So what did I do, masochist me? Took Accounting 1,2 and 3.
And I still can't balance my checkbook! 
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05-20-2008, 11:16 PM
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Re: What Book Have You Read Recently?
Just got home from reading a textbook about the United Nations for a political science major (that was fun.) It was for the same program as the accounting major.
Next week, perhaps it'll be back to accounting.  Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine |
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06-07-2008, 11:29 AM
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FRANCE! You're next.....
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Re: What Book Have You Read Recently?
12 books :P (all audio lol)
Invaders plan - L R Hubbard. Black Genisis - L R Hubbard. An alien affair - L R Hubbard. The enemy within - L R Hubbard. Fortune of fear - L R Hubbard Death Quest - L R Hubbard. Voyage of Vengence - L R Hubbard. Disaster - L R Hubbard. Villany victorious - L R Hubbard. Doomed planet - L R Hubbard. Dianetics - L R Hubbard. Slant on life - L R Hubbard...... Yes, I have been on a downloading rampage lol. lol if you haven't noticed the pattern.... I am looking into Scientology as I have recently found there was so little I really knew about them... This shocked me, that I allowed others to sway my thoughts on something I didn't know about, and what they really didn't know about.... So I want to see them from a fair and just light. |
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06-07-2008, 01:04 PM
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Rider on the storm...
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Re: What Book Have You Read Recently?
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u crack me up dude...
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06-07-2008, 01:21 PM
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FRANCE! You're next.....
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Re: What Book Have You Read Recently?
Good to hear.
Might wish to look in the Alternative forums at the LMFAO thread then 
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06-07-2008, 11:17 PM
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FRANCE! You're next.....
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06-26-2008, 04:22 PM
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Optimistic Realist
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Re: What Book Have You Read Recently?
Right now I'm reading two books. The first is:
Amazon.com: Love, Sex and Long-Term Relationships: What People With Asperger Syndrome Really Really Want: Sarah Hendrickx, Stephen Shore: Books It's pretty good so far. Some of it is common sense. She mostly seems to be saying that people with asperger's are very similar to people who don't have asperger's in terms of what makes a relationship work, how to best meet a partner and so on. The emphasis is just sometimes a little different. The second is: Amazon.com: The Way of the Boundary Crosser: An Introduction to Jewish Flexidoxy: Gershon Winkler: Books This is by Gershon Winkler and I like it a lot more than Magic of the Ordinary. He's not getting into all of the shamanic stuff and, while Magic of the Ordinary is very rooted in Jewish sources, this is even more heavily rooted in Jewish sources. He originally comes from an ultra-orthodox background and his knowledge of Jewish literature is almost encyclopedic. He begins this text as an objection to orthodoxy, not the movement of that name, but to the orthodoxy he sees present in all of the denominations. Through the exhaustive citing of sources -- Tanach, Talmud, Midrash, as well as the medieval commentators, kabbalists and philosophers -- he presents a view of an historical Judaism which was more flexible, not just in terms of belief, but even to some extent in terms of practice. To me his argument seems pretty solid, though I would question his view that at one point this was Judaism. He's presenting counter-texts and they are of course counter to other texts that take a different approach. To me, these counter texts are more rooted in the processes that brought forth rabbinical judaism and allowed for other flourishings of innovation that I think would be rejected in the atmosphere of today's Judaism. I would say that in terms of the way he embraces textual tradition, his approach is more traditional. Like many Orthodox rabbis, he has no problem citing later Jewish texts as sources for information about the Torah. The book breaks down into the following 9 chapters: 1. The Boundary Crosser 2. Flexidoxy 3. Halachah 4. Sacred Seasons 5. Women, Torah and Feminiphobia (incidentally although I have not reached this point I think he probably supports gender-specific rituals in Judaism and is going to more likely link this to the influences of some forms of Christianity on Judaism) Appendix: Tumah and Taharah Reexamined 6. Judaism and the Non-Jew Appendix: Ancient and Medieval Teachings about Conversion to Judaism 7. The Judeo-Christian Myth 8. Capital Punishment 9. Ritual Implements I just did a search and it appears that the book is up on google books here, with a few chapters missing: The Way of the Boundary Crosser: An ... - Google Book Search |
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06-26-2008, 05:10 PM
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Why do cows say MU?
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Re: What Book Have You Read Recently?
The Tao Te Ching
a modern interpretation of Lao Tzu perpetrated by Ron Hogan Free e-book. Highly readable, down-to-earth free-form interpretation using very plain language. It makes the bare-boned approach of Taoism even more bare-boned. |
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07-04-2008, 07:57 AM
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Reveres Sacred Pine Cone
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Re: What Book Have You Read Recently?
The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg
Please read this book. Here's my short review: Get the low-down on peak everything: oil, coal, and natural gas. Begin to understand how the world is on a course towards profound change: an inevitable lower-energy future. Wake up and smell the post-petroleum age. Immense changes in the way we live are coming whether we prepare for them or not. Start thinking about biking and walking instead of driving, about how we are going to get our food in 2050, about war for oil, about the fallacies and failings of biofuel and a "hydrogen economy," and what we need to do collectively now in order to soften the coming transition from a high-energy, high-consumption society to one that has drastically less energy available. Follow with light reading. |
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