Posted on 12/25/2017 8:34:15 AM PST by Psalm 73
Some of us LOVE getting books, especially for Christmas. There's something special about unwrapping a book on Christmas morning - and enjoy sharing with others.
I rarely post anything, (maybe ten articles in 16 years on Free Republic), but thought this would be a good time for book-lovers to share what we received this morning.
Merry Christmas!
Я получал русская библия.
I got 6 books - The New Haven Railroad, The New Haven: The final decades, American Passenger Trains and Locomotives, Vintage Snowmobiles, understanding Trump, and Building a Fiberglass Boat. (My interests!)
About a dozen books on World War One.
An illustrated directory of Guns, by David Miller. Great resource.
I have been reading the Bosch novels for awhile and they aare good. I love the series on Amazon.
Great reading! I have read all Corbett's books.
“The Venona Files” and “The Reporter Who Knew Too Much”.
Trump and the Art of the Deal, Concealed Carry and Home Defense Fundamentals, The Mediterranean Diet and The Athletes’ Meatless Diet.
Gave our 16 year old son Brothers Karamazov and he finally truly loved a gift.
The Domino Effect by Davis Bunn, one of my favorite authors, also writes under T. Davis Bunn. Really enjoyed it - hope he makes a series out of it.
Synopsis:
Esther Larsen, a leading risk analyst at one of the country’s largest banking institutions, is becoming more and more convinced that she has uncovered a ticking bomb with the potential to overshadow 2008’s market crash. And as her own employer pursues “investment” strategies with ever-increasing levels of risk, she becomes convinced she must do something.
The markets are edging closer to a tipping point—like the teetering first domino in a standing row that circles the globe. And when Esther does sound the alarm, she wonders if anyone will take her seriously. But as public support grows for her ideas, so does the desperation of those whose conspiracy of greed she seeks to expose. With global markets on the brink, and her own life in danger, Esther is locked in a race with the clock to avert a worldwide financial meltdown.
Thank you so much for sharing Dostoyevsky with him!
We too, are blessed with a young-un who loves to read.
Merry Christmas!
Grant
Andrew Jackson
Stoked!
Merry Christmas to you as well!
Can’t take credit for sharing Dostoyevsky with him as his Christmas list included anything by Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy, Dante’s Inferno and another work by a French author that I can never remember.
My kids all love to read, he just craves more depth.
Hard to believe he is also the lead singer in two bands (classic rock and jazz). A kid with a wide variety of interests!
Scott confronts conventional historians and looks at the evidence, archaeological and textual, for the proposition that three centuries, roughly between 615 and 915, never existed and are "phantom" years. The author shows in detail how no archaelogy exists for these three centuries, and that the material remains of the seventh century closely resemble those of the tenth, and lie directly beneath them. This is the first book on this topic in the English language, though Heribert Illig's books on the same topic, 'Das erfundene Mittlealter' and 'Wer hat an der Uhr Gedreht?' have been best sellers in German-speaking Europe.This theory is startling, fun and fascinating as it has implications for everything we know about today's nations, cultures, and religions...And it is unnervingly credible."Just the first two pages which cover the "FOREWORD" will hook the reader:
"Using the most up to date mathematics as well as knowledge of celestial mechanics, modern astronomers can calculate very precisely where and when each and every solar eclipse was visible over the past few thousand years. This "retro-calculation", as it is known, has placed an invaluable tool in the hands of historians. It so happens that eclipses - particularly those that were total - were of great interest to ancient writers, who though understanding them to be a natural phenomenon, nonetheless invested them with a quasi-religious significance. The writings of the ancients are full of these events. From late antiquity alone, that is form the beginning of the first century to the end of the eighth, occidental authors reported well over forty solar eclipse and often also included information about precisely where the phenomenon was visible.As might be expected, modern scholars have examined these reports with great interest. They can, after all, either confirm or refute the accuracy of the ancient writers: Were these men trustworthy reporters of actual events, or were they fabulators who freely indulged their imaginations? What then do the records say?
The astonishing thing is that not a single solar eclipse reported by the ancient authors can be confirmed by modern retro-calculation! One or two come reasonably near, within half a decade or so; but the vast majority show no correlation whatsoever between the ancient report and the modern calculation.
What, we might ask, could possibly be wrong? Were the ancient authors after all fantasists who invented eclipses to spice up their histories? Or were they just ignorant of events to which they provided such precise chronological information? Modern experts have in fact resorted to both these answers in explanation. However, scholars have now also noted a curious feature of the eclipse record. If three centuries is added to the date of the ancient eclipse, as provided by the Roman (or Greek or Frankish) author, then it fits almost precisely with the modern calculation. In fifteen of the forty-odd reports the discrepancy amounts to precisely three hundred years minus forty six days. In five, the discrepancy is three hundred and one years, and in two cases it is two hundred and ninety-nine years. In short, if we assume that the events reported by the writers of ancient Rome and Byzantium occurred three centuries closer to our own time, the eclipse record fits perfectly!
What can all this mean?
M1 Carbine Owners Manual.
Gave “Let Trump Be Trump” to my in-laws.
Enjoy Bosch on Amazon...Will reading the books kill the series for me????? Titus Welliver is Harry Bosch.
I’ve played with it today. It’s really good. Nothing formal yet. My son laid a mattress on the floor and was ‘training” jumping and firing.
I enjoyed both. Books as usual are better.
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