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How to Clean Practically Anything
Hot Off the Press: Prints & Politics (Tamarind Papers)
Hikers Guide to the Superstition Wilderness: With History and Legends of Arizona's Lost Dutchman Gold Mine (Hiking & by Jack C. Carlson
Advanced Engineering Mathematics (2nd Edition) by Michael Greenberg
The Origin of Humankind (Science Masters Series) by Richard Leakey
Dr. Jensen's Guide to Body Chemistry & Nutrition by Bernard Jensen
The diary of a drug fiend by Aleister Crowley
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About meI'm a project manager at ASU's Biodesign Institute. Our lab uses genetic engineering techniques to develop new vaccines for humans and animals. I have masters degrees in Computational Bioscience (ASU in Tempe AZ) and Computer Science (Bradley University in Peoria IL) and a B.S. in Mathematics.
I like reading in many diverse topics but always come back to biology, philosophy, and mathematics as my core interests. I love discussing ideas and welcome comments or book suggestions.
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I own almost all the books listed in my catalog (exceptions are tagged @borrowed and @sold) but I’ve only read or started about 15% of them (tagged @finished or @partial). Almost all my books are of the paper variety although I have a few books on tape and electronic versions (tagged @audiobook and @ebook). 
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posted by stellarexplorer at 2:05 am (EST) on Jun 25, 2009
Our tag clouds bear some resemblance as well.
posted by stellarexplorer at 11:51 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2009
posted by Smethers at 1:21 pm (EST) on Mar 14, 2009
posted by cshalizi at 8:00 pm (EST) on Jan 17, 2009
Cindy
(I see you have the complete Art and Imagination series. I think some of these are amazing ("Magic", "Sacred Geometry", "Alchemy", etc.). I'm slowly collecting them and was wondering what your favorites are. The ones I own are tagged "@Art&Imagination".)
posted by malinablue at 6:08 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2008
Hat tip for showing me the pearl. I joined on your rec.
Thanks, E
posted by obeehave at 7:10 pm (EST) on Jul 1, 2008
I noticed "Logic Machines" on your page. I have seen references to it before but I thought it was to do with the tinkertoy computers that he had featured in "Mathematical Games" years ago. I have since picked up a copy from the library.
Thanks for the tip on the tags. I have spent some time cleaning up my tags to make things a little more systematic.
thebigbeluga
posted by thebigbeluga at 6:51 am (EST) on Jun 9, 2008
Thanks for the comment, we do indeed share a number of interests and I have been perusing your collection for ideas. At the moment I am still entering books that I have read, for now I am going to restrict it to non-fiction entries. There are a large number of Math and Computer Science books that I have not entered simply because I have only read parts of them or scanned through them. I suppose it would be simplest if I just entered the ones I want to keep track of and not worry about whether they have been read or not. I noticed that you have devised a method of distinguishing these. When I started the tagging process I did not realize that the tags were case sensitive so now I see that there are a lot of duplicate tags, eventually I will cull these out and re-organize.
Currently I am reading about the History and Philosophy of Science, in particular logic. By profession I am a Forensic Scientist and an important aspect of that job is communicating the nature of Science. I have become fascinated by the relationship between induction and deduction and the entire scientific process. That and lifetheuniverseandeverything.
thebigbeluga
posted by thebigbeluga at 7:31 am (EST) on Jun 5, 2008
I completely agree. The origin of life is a hard nut to crack, but some answer will come from the direction you mention. All it takes is some patience. Not all questions in science can be answered tomorrow. But there is some progress and I love to keep up with it.
posted by yapete at 1:28 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2008
Thanks!
posted by yapete at 12:36 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2008
KatsBooks
posted by KatsBooks at 8:51 am (EST) on Apr 23, 2008
posted by kwamikk at 11:21 am (EST) on Apr 15, 2008
posted by leoban at 10:00 pm (EST) on Apr 14, 2008
Et in Arcadia ego. Or close to it.
posted by Makifat at 1:42 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2008
posted by Makifat at 10:55 am (EST) on Jan 10, 2008
I believe Lilly also wrote an introduction to Franklin Merrill-Wolff's "Pathways Through to Space", another book that was essential to my teenage years. Ah memories!
Anyway, let me know what you think of Lilly when you get the chance.
P.S. I'm kicking myself in an unmentionable place for not having picked up Wilson's "Consilience" at a library shop last week, when I had the chance. The sorrows of book browsing with a 3 year old...
P.P.S. There is a link to a wonderful blog relating to science/biology and art on my webpage. The name escapes me...another consequences of having young children. I'm not trying to blogwhore myself, but this is an interesting link that you might enjoy if you haven't seen it.
Cheers!
posted by Makifat at 10:10 am (EST) on Jan 10, 2008
posted by dhoyt at 5:05 pm (EST) on Dec 13, 2007
posted by _Zoe_ at 7:23 am (EST) on Dec 10, 2007
I really like Hamilton, but you'll have to see if you can stomach the premise of the whole long, long, potboiler. If you can, then it's a fun read.
Otherwise, I prefer the ongoing Commonwealth Universe series. More technological, less supernatural. And, I enjoyed the Greg Mandel novels, and the one-off Count of Monte Cristo-like swashbuckler Fallen Dragon.
posted by yeschaton at 2:35 pm (EST) on Nov 16, 2007
I hear ya. Once upon a time I read books. Now I read LibraryThing feature discussions.
posted by SilentInAWay at 9:28 pm (EST) on Oct 17, 2007
That's what I've done too (a least for a couple thousand books in my catalog). This has the added advantage of keeping the same cover image when Amazon changes theirs (e.g., for a new edition with the same ISBN). The only problem is that the only way I could really control appearance was to resize them to the default catalog size myself. Unfortunately, user-supplied covers are currently not resized using the '+' and '-' buttons in Cover View (only the amazon covers). Now that LT is saving the original uploaded cover files, however, I might consider re-scanning all my covers (argh!) at a larger size so that when LT properly handles resizing of user-supplied covers, at least I'll be ready. Or not...
posted by SilentInAWay at 9:05 pm (EST) on Oct 17, 2007
posted by yeschaton at 7:35 pm (EST) on Oct 17, 2007
posted by SilentInAWay at 3:06 am (EST) on Oct 10, 2007
posted by daubentonia at 8:30 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2007
posted by mkjones at 5:52 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2007
Cheers!
posted by Yiggy at 4:39 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2007
posted by Yiggy at 5:36 am (EST) on Feb 15, 2007
posted by Nycticebus at 10:44 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2006
posted by Nycticebus at 6:30 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2006
The Dance
by Ronald A Pavellas
Between Man and Woman
Between young and old
Between and among one's many inner voices
Of the electron in its field of probabilities
Of the Earth among its solar partners
Of the pen across this page
The Dance is the fundamental unit
The atom of the Ancient Greeks
Of which all things are made
And Zorba is Its Prophet --
"Did you say -- Dance!?
Come on, my boy ..."
03/03/2004
Note: Zorba "The Greek" was a real person. The author of the book by that name (Nikos Kazantzakis) devoted a chapter to Alexis Zorba in his autobiography, "Report to Greco." I recently found a picture of Zorba in Helen Kazantzakis's biography of her decesaed husband (in my library). The quote is from the movie.
posted by rpavellas at 1:08 pm (EST) on Dec 9, 2006
posted by mkjones at 12:05 pm (EST) on Nov 15, 2006