What are you reading?

[ADandelion]

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

[Ethnography]

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Maria Montessori

Her Life & Work

How do you like it? =)


I am currently reading boring administrative stuff.

[Siggie]

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The Lore of Running
Tim Noakes, M.D.


Amazon Link

Lore of Running gives you incomparable detail on physiology, training, racing, injuries, world-class athletes, and races.

Author Tim Noakes blends the expertise of a physician and research scientist with the passion of a dedicated runner to answer the most pressing questions for those who are serious about the sport:


-How your body systems respond to training, the effects of different training methods, how to detect and avoid overtraining, and genetic versus trainable potential

-How to train for the 10K up through ultramarathon with detailed programs from Noakes and several leading running experts

-How to prevent and treat injuries, increase your strength and flexibility, and use proper nutrition for weight control and maximum performance

You'll also find a candid analysis of supplements and ergogenic effects and training aids. The book includes new interviews with 10 world-class runners who share their secrets to success and longevity in the sport. Features on legendary figures and events in running history provide fascinating insights.

And that's just scratching the surface. Lore of Running is not only the biggest and best running publication on the planet. It's the one book every runner should own.

[MrHyeSev]

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Maria Montessori

Her Life & Work

[Siggie]

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche,
Kavkazskii Plennik by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Welcome back Pedro. We (well, I...) missed you. Hope you're well.

[Pedro Xaramillo]

Re: What are you reading?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche,
Kavkazskii Plennik by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

[Mikael]

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Moem - "The moon, and a pence"

[Hyegirl]

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Primarily income tax textbooks and Bram Stoker's Dracula, and I'm in the middle of a couple of books by/about comedians including Howie Mandel's biography and the less humorous Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream by Garin Hovannisian.

[Siggie]

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Unfamiliar Fishes
Sarah Vowell

http://www.amazon.com/Unfamiliar-Fishes-Sarah-Vowell/dp/1594487871

Book Description

From the bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates, comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.

Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight.

Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'état of the missionaries' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to xxxxxs, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade.

With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.

[Gaya]

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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Really inspiring