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The Story of English in 100 Words
State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Selected Poems
Complete Works
Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism
An Historical and Critical Dictionary Translated Into English with Many Additions and Corrections Made by the Author Himself
Great Paintings
Shelley's Nature Poems
Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology
The Lakota Way: Native American Wisdom on Ethics and Character
It was good and interesting listening , I expected to find something about the deep relationship between native American and nature , maybe I should read their mythology .
Discover Music of the Romantic Era
Schopenhauer was right , music is the highest form of art , Nietzsche was mistaken , god's second mistake was Wagner not woman . The Romantic era was the ' golden age' of music and Wagner had spoiled it up . 
A short interesting easy readable story , I read it enthusiastically because I love Zen in the first place and I had such experience in gun shooting . it happened to be that the most succeed and most precise shoots were those that had not much focusing and attention from me . even in Billiards the over-attention and focusing on the ball will make it out of the pocket , that's what the master was teaching the author in the art of archery , forget everything and just let the arrow goes , and " it " will hit the target . Zen is the philosophy of letting go.I always have a problem with "spiritual" things and try to find rational explanation for everything , I see what is spiritual in Zen , is common in nature , the experience which Herrigel spent six years to learn (he spent six years learning archery as a step to understand Zen ) is naturally embodied in animals, take the Stork for example it practices that " spiritual exercises" and the " letting go of one self " in hunting .the stork stands still for long time in the river watching fishes come and go , until the right fish comes in the right place at the right moment , then the bird pick it up in a fast and perfect way , surely there is no spiritual connection between the stork and the fish nor a philosophy of catching fishes , it just used to do it congenital , calling this practice spiritual does not make it so , just like calling the tail a leg does not make it a leg , in another word its nature and I see there's nothing mysteries about nature .
Zen philosophy is the philosophy of nature , Zen interpret nature in such away we can understand ,certainly no one will leave the city to trace birds and snakes to take lessons in wisdom ( even Socrates is not willing to do it ) .Since we the civilized ones have taken far and separated from nature ,we see everything belong to it as mystic and incomprehensible . Zen is just the philosophy of melting down with nature and letting go of all that does not belong to it .
ديوان العباس بن الأحنف
شعر العباس يستوفي شروط الشعر الرديء بنظري , تمله فور قراءة عشرة قصائد له , لا بل لتشعر أنك لم تقرأ شيئا بعد الإنتهاء من ديوانه , معظمه لوم وعتاب , و اذا أراد البعض تسمية بعضه غزلا , أظنه سيكون أوضع ما قيل في الغزل .
Maybe Plato decided to give up philosophy and turn back to poetry , or sophistry who knows , that's why his last dialogue was that bad .
A Closer Look at Biology, Microbiology, and the Cell
Because one star rating means " extremely bad " , I'll give it 2 stars .Actually I came here by accident,I was searching for The Cell A Very Short Introduction , and found this one by accident , I thought it would be better to read it than the latter , specially that it's been written in a simple and encyclopedic way , but I was mistaken.It tells no more than what a single detailed image of the cell can do , besides that its end was just like a car crash , full stop , go and find another useful book -_-
I love Montaigne and his essays , I'll read his complete as soon as I can , This short one didn't gratify my appetite for solitude , I found an interesting article on the internet which I thought it would be better to post it here .http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199802/the-call-solitude
ديوان أبي العتاهية
كلام مرصوف لغير أجل , لا بلاغة فيه ولا جزل , يخبرنا فيه عن أخرة وخطب جلل , يذم فيه حياة كلها ملل , ويعظ بـ موت ليس لنا من بعده أمل , تراني لا يعجبني شعره ولا تجريح المقل , تعجبني حياتي هذه و إن كانت معلولات وعلل .
Famous Poems Explained (Granger poetry library)
Bad selected poems , for the most famous poets ( that don't include poetess ) , Most of the poems are about war , people , nationality , one maybe or tow about love .
No wonder that professor Dawkins gained the world's top thinker poll this year , and that his masterpiece takes a place between top 25 greatest science books, as one of the essays noted here , Richard The Golden Pen , he is really so .I still remember the situation very clearly , The Selfish Gene left me completely shocked for almost a week , it was ( and still ) the greatest science book I have ever read .
The Wreck Of The Hesperus (Phoenix 60p paperbacks)
He wrote this heartbreaking poem in less than an hour ??!! How amazing
Cosmic Collisions: The Hubble Atlas of Merging Galaxies
This book is like a traveler's guide to the galaxies , explains and views the origins , evolution and collision of the galaxies , We know that a picture is worth a thousand words and that's real here in this book , few and simple texts , too much and very complex images thanks to Hubble. Man !! even Helen Keller can't understand what the galaxy actually is , without images and that's what made this book amazing .I liked Messier 82 galaxy , a cup of tea would be pleasurable there :D .
Tyson and only Tyson ( after the death of Carl Sagan ) can brings the cosmos down to earth , he is the hero of contemporary astrophysicists ,I am chasing him on YouTube , Star Talk and Twitter , unfortunately part of his book are unavailable here on the internet :/ This book is one of few books that leave your face like this :( when it came to the end .
Well , I don't know the real expression which describes this book " not that bad " would be useful .I wanted to read something for Lawrence before reading A Universe From Nothing and I came here by accident , the book was good for me I found here many things which I wanted to know about , beside time travel , I found dark matter , holograms , warmholes , cosmic string and many others .. 2.5*