Just received in the mail. Leonardo da Vinci The Complete Paintings and Drawings. Just an incredible book. Filled with great reproductions of his work. It will take me days to go through it all.
And it is a huge book as well. About as wide and as long as a legal size file folder and as thick as a NYC telephone book. East Press did a great job with this edition. Continue Reading »
I think I have come up with three new projects to put together for future reading. I shall call them Project: Eminent Lives, Project: Weird Fiction (this latter project title may be changed depending on the contents of the project), and Project: Great Discoveries.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. Well I think that as I grew up I wanted to be a scientist but to tell the truth, what I wanted to be when I grew up is obscured by the fog of memory. I don’t know if it is because of the time elapsed from when I was a kid or the lack of passion for a certain career. Either way I always loved science (if you haven’t noticed from prior entries). These two books are great examples of why I love science. And Peter Atkins does a great job of imparting his love for science to the reader.
Just delivered from Clarkesworld Books (which by the way is open for the holidays so buy stuff from Neil.)
What is it you ask? Well the limited edition of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson from Hill House Publishers.
More photos to come in due time.
Two trips to the book store this week brings about new purchases.
I have been moving through Project: Nightstand at a steady pace and hope to finish it up before the end of the year if not sooner. I have taken on teaching myself calculus, so I split my down time reading and doing math (my wife thinks I’m a geek)
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Alan Charles Kors, Book
Defining the Enlightenment as the “long eighteenth century,” the Encyclopedia focuses on the entire range of philosophic and social changes engendered by the Enlightenment. It extends the conventional geographical boundaries of the Enlightenment, covering not only France, England, Scotland, the Low Countries, Italy, English-speaking North America, the German states, and Hapsburg Austria but also Iberian, Ibero-American, Jewish, Russian, and Eastern European cultures. Nor does the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment limit itself to major centers like Paris in France and Edinburgh in Scotland, but shares the rich lode of recent scholarship on “secondary” and “provincial” centers such as Berlin and Geneva; Philadelphia and Milan.
The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment brings a similar spirit of inclusion to the new theoretical and methodological approaches that have flowered in the humanities during the past two decades. Including feminist and various post-modernist reassessments alongside more traditional perspectives, the four volumes offer the broadest possible range of current knowledge.
Accessibility combined with scholarly rigor make the Encyclopedia the first choice for researching any aspect of the Enlightenment.
It is on my wishlist and I will soon own it. Soon. Very soon. The only thing keeping ffrom getting it is the space on my shelves and possibly spousal backlash.
Easton Press has my number. In the past two months I have received promotions for new books or series of books from them and I was compelled, no compelled is too passive a word, I was forced to order a new series and a few individual books.
Damn them for feeding and enabling my addiction.
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