Dear Extropes,
Many months ago, I pulled together a list of books that I thought
might be a good start to help a person to think/be more like a
renaissance human, but in today's world: so some 'basics' plus more
ideas to expand one's vision of the universe.
This list is totally subjective of course, and yes, this list is
lacking a number of areas (I would next add more philosophy,
probably starting with Aristotle)
happy holidays,
Amara
Feynman Lectures on Physics
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201021153/qid=/sr=/ref=lm_lb_1/
National Geographic Atlas of the World
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792275284/qid=999297417/sr=2-1/
Atlas of the Heavens by A. Becvar
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0933346085/qid%3D999299336/
Modern Mathematical Analysis by M. Protter
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201059959/qid=999297840/sr=1-11/ref=sc_b
_11/
Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385199732/qid=999297232/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
Goedel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465026567/qid=999296746/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
The Illiad by Homer (Lattimer)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226469409/ref=cm_mp_wl/
The Divine Comedy : Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
(Mandelbaum)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679433139/qid=1009489727/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2
_75_1/
The Music of Man by Yehudi Menuhin and Curtis Davis
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-glance/Y03Y5815933Y2685164/qid=9993
01698/sr=1-2/ref=aps_sr_z_2_2/
History of Art by H.W. Janson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810934469/qid=999295565/sr=1-3/ref=sc_b_
3/
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451191153/qid=999295763/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691017840/qid=999298476/sr=2-1/
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965603679/qid=999299144/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
The Rubaiyat of Omar
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312695276/qid=999300877/sr=2-2/
Koka Shastra (Comfort)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684839814/qid=999300598/sr=1-2/ref=sc_b_
2/
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (Hofstadter)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465020941/qid=999298639/sr=2-3/
The World According to Wavelets by Barbara Hubbard
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568810725/qid=999295934/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
Chaos by James Gleick
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140092501/qid=999299625/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
Paradigms Lost by John Casti
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380711656/qid=999301105/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit Mandelbrot
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0716711869/qid=999301285/sr=2-2/
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0961392142/qid=999299005/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
The Color of Nature by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811813576/qid=999295331/sr=1-15/ref=sc_b
_15/
The Artful Universe by John Barrow
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316082422/qid=999333470/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
Paddling My Own Canoe by by Audrey Sutherland
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0824806999/qid=1009489070/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1
_0_1/
Meetings with Remarkable Men by G.I. Gurdjieff
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140190376/qid=999297071/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812515285/qid=999300074/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
and
Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812536355/qid=999299831/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_
1/
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0525457232/qid=999300259/sr=1-2/ref=sc_b_
2/
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Amara Graps, PhD email: amara@amara.com
Computational Physics vita: ftp://ftp.amara.com/resume.txt
Multiplex Answers URL: http://www.amara.com/
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"If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into
you." - -Nietzsche
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