http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:44:58 +0000 Copyright 2010 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/glad-i-read-it.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(DB) http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/glad-i-read-it.html?_c=feed-rss http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/glad-i-read-it.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:44:58 +0000 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/book/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc01240b8cec46860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc01240b8cec46860e-50si" alt="Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/glad-i-read-it.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123dde688bf860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/im-guessing-what-its-really-about.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(DB) http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/im-guessing-what-its-really-about.html?_c=feed-rss http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/im-guessing-what-its-really-about.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:36:47 +0000 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/book/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddcc7c0d860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddcc7c0d860b-50si" alt="An Outcast of the Islands (Twentieth Century Classics)" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Clearly it's about betrayal and isolation in alien surroundings. But Conrad is too literary for my taste, so there has to be a sub-text. I suspect it's something to do with Conrad not being English. I wonder if he also betrayed a benefactor at som... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/im-guessing-what-its-really-about.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123dde16947860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/bleak---but-an-important-read.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(DB) http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/bleak---but-an-important-read.html?_c=feed-rss http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/bleak---but-an-important-read.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:09:29 +0000 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/book/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123dddfb4dd860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123dddfb4dd860c-50si" alt="Germinal" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I must see the Depadieu film of it. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/bleak---but-an-important-read.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddcac6bf860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/eddie-izzard-last-night-at-the-o2.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(DB) http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/eddie-izzard-last-night-at-the-o2.html?_c=feed-rss http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/eddie-izzard-last-night-at-the-o2.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:01:41 +0000 We took the daughters (& eldest daughter's boyfriend, who didn't know about EI). Great fun had by all. However my wife & I had previously seen him in the 90's at the Stadium, when he wasn't well known at all outside the UK, and I thought the earl... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/eddie-izzard-last-night-at-the-o2.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddf23166860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/another-funny-german-book.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(DB) http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/another-funny-german-book.html?_c=feed-rss http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/another-funny-german-book.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:57:55 +0000 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/book/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddf1d59a860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddf1d59a860d-50si" alt="Ich Und Kaminski: Roman" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> That's two in a year! It's probably all a dream! <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/another-funny-german-book.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddde2455860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/good-fun-and-some-important-concepts.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(DB) http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/good-fun-and-some-important-concepts.html?_c=feed-rss http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/good-fun-and-some-important-concepts.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:51:53 +0000 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/book/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc01240b848437860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc01240b848437860e-50si" alt="Saturn&#39;s Children" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The problem with virtually all space operas is that you have to suspend disbelief, because it seems highly unlikely that human interstellar travel will ever happen. So it was good to read an SF book that recognises this and suggests a way around it. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/good-fun-and-some-important-concepts.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddf1d54e860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/an-important-read-even-if-you-dont-find-the-pac-concept-particularly-useful.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(DB) http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/an-important-read-even-if-you-dont-find-the-pac-concept-particularly-useful.html?_c=feed-rss http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/an-important-read-even-if-you-dont-find-the-pac-concept-particularly-useful.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:29:27 +0000 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/book/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddc9358b860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddc9358b860b-50si" alt="I&#39;m OK, You&#39;re OK" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> because, of course, lots of psychologists do find it useful, & you need to know what they are talking about. I found the chapter on reiligion particularly interesting - I had come to similar conclusions from a completely different starting point -... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/an-important-read-even-if-you-dont-find-the-pac-concept-particularly-useful.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123f187ef0d860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/recommended-by-a-colleague-from-munich.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(DB) http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/recommended-by-a-colleague-from-munich.html?_c=feed-rss http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/recommended-by-a-colleague-from-munich.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:27:43 +0000 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/book/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123dddcc92a860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123dddcc92a860c-50si" alt="Der Knochenmann." /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Grisly black comedy. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/recommended-by-a-colleague-from-munich.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123f1869631860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/must-admit---id-never-heard-of-it-until-i-found-it-on-the-bookshelf.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(DB) http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/must-admit---id-never-heard-of-it-until-i-found-it-on-the-bookshelf.html?_c=feed-rss http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/must-admit---id-never-heard-of-it-until-i-found-it-on-the-bookshelf.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:22:18 +0000 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/book/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddf0772e860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123ddf0772e860d-50si" alt="The History of Henry Esmond (English Library)" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> My wife had put it there. As regular visitors here will be aware, I've got a campaign going to tick off a lot more 19th century English classics, but before I go shopping on Amazon, I'm going through some of my wife's old books (she's been this wa... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/must-admit---id-never-heard-of-it-until-i-found-it-on-the-bookshelf.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123dddcc8fe860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/silly-title-stupid-cover-pretty-good-book-mostly.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(DB) http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/silly-title-stupid-cover-pretty-good-book-mostly.html?_c=feed-rss http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/silly-title-stupid-cover-pretty-good-book-mostly.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:16:46 +0000 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/book/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123dddcc413860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123dddcc413860c-50si" alt="The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I reviewed this on amazon.co.uk <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://dpbirk.vox.com/library/post/silly-title-stupid-cover-pretty-good-book-mostly.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0123f18690ef860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>