[Question] What are you reading?

[Ark]

A Clash of Kings. I won't be reading anything else until I finish the series.

[DanM]

Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig (recommended by Urwumpe)

[NukeET]

Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module by Thomas J. Kelly

Mr. Kelly was the LM chief engineer at Grumman.

Saturn V Flight Manual by NASA. More perusing than reading.

[Marvin42]

Ibm Hazm al-Adalusi (994-1064)
The Ring Of Love
A TREATISE ON THE ART AND PRACTICE OF ARAB LOVE
Edition by Grete Tartler, translated in romanian.
Another (in english) edition can be found also here:
http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hazm/dove/index.html

[Star Voyager]

Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts:

[Graham2001]

The Odyssey File, Arthur C Clarke & Peter Hyams. (1985)

Comprising the e-mails sent between the author and the director during the making of the film and also the first appearance of Clarkes 69th Law:

Quote:

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software."

[jimblah]

Herndon's Informants, compiled and edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis.

I have to re-evaluate my thinking of Lincoln after reading over 600 accounts of people who knew him firsthand through various stages of his life. He's more human to me now, less iconic.

http://durer.press.illinois.edu/wilson/index.html

There's a history channel documentary that covers this material as well.

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Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks by Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer

There are other sources on the web regarding mental calculation, but Professor Benjamin really makes it fun. There's a Great Courses Lecture series reflecting the content of this book. The power of the techniques in this book combined with the ability to graph well visually will undoubtedly lead to a keen mathematical mind that will set you apart from the rest. The techniques are shockingly simple; they just need to be committed to memory. I'm already teaching some of them to a four year old. She has nothing to unlearn, so she just absorbs it. She likes to gather up her dollies and 'Ride up to the Space Station, Jim...' I started teaching her brother trig at twelve and he starts at Harvard in the fall. (I'm already teaching her to draw the shapes of graphs.) I can only imagine where she will go.

[TMac3000]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Star Voyager

 Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts:

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Loved that one! Also, I highly recommend Final Flight and The Minotaur

[Gerdih]

Finished Strange in a Strange Land, awesome novel.

[mode1bravo]

Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story, by David Hitt, Owen K. Garriott, and Joe P. Kerwin

[Eli13]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TMac3000

 Loved that one! Also, I highly recommend Final Flight and The Minotaur

Three of my favorite books!

I'm back to another old favorite of mine, The Lord of The Rings.

[Codz]

Currently Red Storm Rising. Great Cold War era novel!

[Allan]

Just finished reading heinlins Starship troopers again as well as Jack Campbells Dauntless. I am currently reading a novel by Micheal Bradley called The Travelers Club and the Ghost Ship.

[TMac3000]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eli13

 Three of my favorite books!

I'm back to another old favorite of mine, The Lord of The Rings.

Double thanked!

We have all three extended DVD box-set movies

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Codz

 Currently Red Storm Rising. Great Cold War era novel!

Awesome novel! Tom Clancy never disappoints

[Sparrow]

I'm reading 2 books:

Hyperspace - Michio Kaku
Vipers in the storm - Keith Rosenkranz