Category Archives: weekly book
Screw It, Let’s Do It
Branson, Richard. Screw It, Let’s Do It: Lessons in Life and Business. London: Virgin, 2009. Print.
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To watch: Don’t Look Down (2016) Daniel Gordon
The Graveyard Book
Gaiman, Neil, and Dave McKean. The Graveyard Book. New York: Harper, 2010. Print.
Why “A” Students Work for “C” Students
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Why “A” Students Work for “C” Students: And “B” Students Work for the Government. Scottsdale, AZ: Plata, 2013. Print.
The Pilgrimage
Coelho, Paulo, and Alan R. Clarke. The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom. New York: HarperTorch, 2004. Print. First ed. 1987.
The 4-hour Workweek
Books February 2017
Enchiridion
Epictetus, translated by George Long. Enchiridion. Mineola, NY: Dover Thrift, 2004. Print. First ed. 125 AD.
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Thoreau
Podcast Thoreau and the American Idyll
In Our Time Podcast BBC
Melvyn Bragg; Kathleen Burk, Professor of American History at University College London; Tim Morris, Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Dundee; Stephen Fender, Honorary Professor in English Literature at University College London.
Unitarianism
Jesus inspired by God but not divine.
Transcendentalism
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson-intuitive nature of the divine.
Romanticism:
-Walt Whitman
-Emily Dickinson
Dark Romanticism:
–Herman Melville
–Nathaniel Hawthorne
–Edgar Allan Poe
“The Dark romantic authors represented a response to the optimism of the ideology of Transcendentalism.” from “Dark Romanticism.” Dark Romanticism – New World Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Feb. 2017.
Quaker’s Inward light, follow your own conscience.
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Socrates: The examined life is not worth living.
William Paley‘s Of the Duty of Civil Obedience
Roger Williams founder of Rhode Island and advocate of religious freedom (separation of church and state).
