Home Page of Dennis J. Darland's Reading
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My Library
I have catalogued my books [updated 1/4/2008].
Now I have almost ALL of my books entered!
[the main exception being some software documentation[mostly obsolete, yet retained]].
I have made an attempt to mark the books that I have read.
[also updated 1/4/2008]
I have not included as read reference books, or books I have read only part of,
although I did include those used as texts in courses, although we may not have covered the entire text.
(Also, I have read many books I don't own, but I do, now, mostly buy them, because I read so slowly,
and also I like to be able to look thing up again, that I have read in the past.
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BOOKS I COMPLETED READING RECENTLY
Albrecht, Ava T., MD and Herrick, Charles, MD - 100 Questions and Answers about Bipolar (Manic-Depressive) Disorder
[Completed 9/1/2008]
Altemeyer, Bob - The Authoritarians[Completed 12/31/2007]
Bergson, Henri - Creative Evolution[Completed 9/2/2008]
Carey, Rosalind - Russell and Wittgenstein on the Nature of Judgement[Completed 11/18/2007]
Church, Forrest - So Help Me GOD, The Founding Fathers and the first great battle over Church and State
[Completed 10/4/2008]
Dennett, Daniel C. - Breaking the spell (Religion as a Natural Phenomenon)[Complete 3/8/2008]
Feynman, Richard P. - The Meaning of it All - Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
[Completed 10/16/2008]
Feynman, Leighton, Sands -
The Feynman Lectures on PHYSICS, Volume I[Completed 11/12/2008]
Goble, Lou, ed. - The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic [Completed 4/13/2008]
Gore, Al - The Assault on Reason[Completed 10/13/2007]
James, William - Essays in Radical Empiricism[Completed 4/21/2008]
James, William - Pragmatism[Completed 3/18/2008]
James, William - The Meaning of Truth [Completed 4/10/2008]
Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason[Completed 9/3/2008]
Kant, Immanuel - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics[Completed 6/13/2008]
Landini, Gregory - Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory[Completed 12/26/2007]
Landini, Gregory - Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell[Completed 12/16/2007]
Linsky, Bernard - Russell's Metaphysical Logic[Completed 1/11/2008]
MapleSoft - Maple 12 - Getting Started Guide[Completed 6/5/2008]
Mooney, Chris - The REPUBLICAN WAR on Science [Completed 4/21/2008]
Murry, William R. - Reason and Reverence, Religious Humanism for the 21st Century[Completed 3/2/2008]
Obama, Barack - Dreams from My Father [Completed 6/4/2008]
Obama, Barack - The Audacity of Hope[Completed 2/23/2008]
Raymond, Eric S. - The Cathedral & the Bazaar
(Musings on Linux and Open Source by an accidental revolutionary)[Completed 1/12/2008]
Strang, Gilbert - CALCULUS[Completed 11/19/2008]
Symon, Keith R. - Mechanics, Third Edition [9/13/2008 to page 469 of 595 pages - became too difficult]
Ullman, Jeffery D. - Elements of ML Programming [Completed 8/17/2008]
Weidlich, Thom - Appointment Denied: The Inquisition of Bertrand Russell
[Completed 7/21/2008]
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ARTICLES I COMPLETED RECENTLY
Ambjorn, Jan; Jurkiewicz, Jerzy; and Loll, Renate - "The Self-organizing Quantum Universe" in Scientific American Volume 299 Number 1, July 2008
[Completed 10/15/2008]
Amesbury, Richard and Wainwright, William - "Is Process Philosophy of Religion Dead?" in
process perspectives, Vol 31, No 1, Spring 2008[Completed 7/1/2008]
Beaney, Michael - Analysis,
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[Completed 8/2/2008]
Beaney, Michael -
Appeciating the Varieties of Analysis: A Reply to Ongley in
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 128-129, November 2005 - February 2006[Completed 8/12/2008]
Beaney, Michael - "Is Analytic Philosophy an Illusion? A Reply to Preston" in
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 132-135, November 2006 - August 2007[Completed 8/13/2008]
Bojowald, Martin - "Follow the Bouncing Universe" in Scientific American Volume 299 Number 4, October 2008
[Completed 10/6/2008]
Carr, H. Wildon - "On Mr. Russell's Reasons for Supposing That Bergson's Philosophy Is Not True" in CPBR 6
[Completed 10/1/2008]
Carrol, Sean M. - "The Cosmic Orgins of Time's Arrow" in Scientific American Volume 298 Number 6, June 2008
[Completed 10/15/2008]
Ford, Lewis S. - "Whatever Happened to 'Efficient Causation'?" in
process studies Vol 34, No 1, Spring-Summer 2005[Completed 7/4/2008]
Ford, Lewis S. - "Whitehead's Creative Transformations: A Summation" in
process studies Vol 35, No 1, Spring-Summer 2006[Completed 7/3/2008]
Fromm, Erich - "Psychoanalytic Characterology and its Application to the Understanding of Culture" in
Fromm Forum No 12, 2008[Completed 7/11/2008]
Fromm, Erich - "The Automaton Citizen and Human Rights" in
Fromm Forum No 12, 2008[Completed 7/9/2008]
Griffin, Nicholas - "Bertrand Russell and Harold Joachim" in
russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies Vol 27, No 1, Winter 2007-08[Completed 7/4/2008]
Hardcastle, Gary - "Preston on Analytic Philosophy" in
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 136-139, November 2007 - August 2008[Completed 11/3/2008]
Hunter, Bruce - Clarence Irving Lewis ,
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosopy[Completed 11/9/2008]
Ongley, John -
Properties of Analysis: Reply to Beaney in
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 128-129, November 2005 - February 2006[Completed 8/12/2008]
Ongley, John -
What is Analysis? Review of Michael Beaney, 'Analysis',
Stanford Encyclopedia pf Philosophy in
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 127, August 2005[Completed 8/12/2008]
Pincock. Christopher - "Preston on the Illusory Character of Analytic Philosophy" in
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 136-139, November 2007 - August 2008[Completed 11/3/2008]
Preston, Aaron - Implications of Recent Work on Analytic Philosophy in
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 127, August 2005[Completed 8/6/2008]
Preston, Aaron - "Reply to Beaney" in
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 132-135, November 2006 - August 2007[Completed 8/13/2008]
Preston, Aaaron - "Replies to Hardcastle and Pincock" in
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 136-139, November 2007 - August 2008[Completed 11/3/2008]
Russell, Bertrand - "Metaphysics and Intuition" in CPBR 6[Completed 9/9/2008]
Russell, Bertrand - "Mr. Wildon Carr's Defence of Bergson" in CPBR 6[Completed 10/1/2008]
Russell, Bertrand - "The Philosophy of Bergson" in CPBR 6[Completed 10/1/2008]
Russell, Bertrand - "The Professor's Guide to Laughter" in CPBR 6[Completed 9/9/2008]
Stone, Peter - "Chomsky and Russell Revisited. Review of Three Recent Works by Noam Chomsky" in
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 132-135, November 2006 - August 2007[Completed 8/2/2008]
Young, Brandon - "On the Russell Tribunal: An Interview with Noam Chomsky" in
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 132-135, November 2006 - August 2007[Completed 7/8/2008]
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COURSES I COMPLETED RECENTLY
Maple 11: The Maple Tour[Completed 5/2/2008]
Maple 11: Maple 11 Training Videos[Completed 5/2/2008]
Maple 11: Doing Math with Maple Training Videos[Completed 5/2/2008]
Maple 11: Clickable Calculus.[Completed 5/5/2008]
Maple 11: Clickable Calculus II.[Completed 5/12/2008]
Maple 12: Introduction to Maple 12 for Professionals.(had free upgade to Maple 12 since purchased after 4/1/2008)[Completed 5/17/2008]
The ACM online course on A Manager's Introduction to Business Law[Completed 2/12/2008]
The ACM online course on Advanced HTML Design Elements[Completed 2/5/2008]
The ACM online course on Contracts in Commercial Transactions[Completed 4/21/2008]
The ACM online course on Perl [Completed 2/2/2008]
The ACM online course on Programming XHTML 1.1: Basic Concepts[Completed 1/31/2008]
The ACM online course on Web Development Fundamentals(HTML 4.01)[Completed 2/2/2008]
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BOOKS I AM CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF READING
Barnes, Thomas G. - Foundations of Electricity and Magnetism[11/18/2008 to page 243 of 350 pages]
Boolos, George S. and Jeffery, Richard C. - Computability and Logic, third edition
[11/18/2008 to page 112 of 300 pages]
Durant, Will and Ariel - The Age of Reason Begins[11/18/2008 to page 453 of 647 pages]
Feynman, Leighton, Sands -
The Feynman Lectures on PHYSICS, Volume II[11/18/2008 to Chapter 13 of 42 Chapters]
James, William - The Varieties of Religious Experience[11/18/2008 to page 384 of 527 pages]
Kant, Immanuel - Logic[11/18/2008 Intro page cxv of cxv; Text itself page 102 of 150 pages]
Lewis, C. I. - An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation[11/18/2008 to page 26 of 554 pages]
Pauling, Linus - General Chemistry[11/18/2008 to page 56 of 863 pages]
Russell, Bertrand - Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell ; A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice,
and Truth in Letters to the Editor[11/18/2008 to page 182 of 412 pages]
Schey, H. M. - div, grad, curl, and all that[11/19/2008 just starting of 154 pages]
Singer, Peter, ed. - A Companion to Ethics[11/18/2008 to page 134 of 545 pages]
Strang, Gilbert - Linear Alghebra and its applications[11/19/2008 just atarting of 414 pages]
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ARTICLES I AM CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF READING
Eastman, Timothy E. - "Cosmic Agnosticism" in
process studies Vol 36, No 2, Fall-Winter 2007
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COURSES I AM IN THE PROCESS OF TAKING
The ACM online course on C++
The ACM online course on Intellectual Property and Proprietary Rights
The ACM online course on Java 2 Programming[Last studied 10/23/2008]
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BOOKS I PLAN TO READ [OR FINISH READING] SOON (GOALS)
Friedman, Thomas L. - The World is Flat[635 pages]
Wang, Hao - Reflectionns on Kurt Goedel[to page 210 of 319]
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