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Richard Ober Hammer
Books I am Reading
| Title and Author | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|
| Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover (2018) | 12/6/2019 | |
| Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, 2nd edition by Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto (2018) |
11/24/2019 | |
| Permanent Record by Edward Snowden (2019) |
10/31/2019 | finished 12/8/2019 |
| Varina, a novel by Charles Frasier (2018) | 10/13/2017 | finished 10/29/2019 |
| A Woman Is No Man, a novel by Etaf Rum (2019) | 10/12/2019 | finished 10/23/2019 |
| Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur Brooks (2019) | 10/1/2019 | finished 10/16/2019 |
| From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel Dennett (2017) |
9/15/2019 | finished 10/12/2019 |
| His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis (2004) |
9/6/2019 | finished 9/15/2019 |
| Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell by Dennis Bray (2009) |
9/5/2019 | finished 10/10/2019 |
| Manache Shlok: Verses to the Mind by Samarth Ramdas, compiled by Grace Meadow (2019) |
8/24/2019 | finished 10/23/2019 |
| Introducing the Old Testament by Clyde T. Francisco (1950) |
8/16/2019 | finished 11/16/2019 |
| Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments by Martin Cohen (2005) |
7/26/2019 | finished 9/6/2019 |
| Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools: How to Philosophize with a Digital Hammer by Stefano Gualeni |
7/21/2019 | 7/24/2019 |
| Origin, by Dan Brown (2017) | 7/17/2019 | finished 7/23/2019 |
| Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin (2008) |
7/12/2019 | finished 7/19/2019 |
| You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned:
John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices by Swen Nater and Ronald Gallimore (2006) |
7/11/2019 | finished 9/3/2019 |
| The Charlemagne Pursuit, by Steve Berry (2008) | 6/14/2019 | finished 7/3/2019 |
| Maps of Meaning: the Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson (1999) |
6/12/2019 | |
| Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich (2001) |
6/11/2019 | finished 7/11/2019 |
| The Tiber and the Potomac: Rome, America, and Empires of Trust,
(audio book by The Modern Scholar) by Thomas F. Madden (2008) |
5/31/2019 | finished 6/13/2019 |
| Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, by Lewis Thomas (1980) | 5/23/2019 | 6/7/2019 |
| How to become a rainmaker: The rules for getting and keeping customers and clients by Jeffrey J. Fox (2000) |
5/24/2019 | finished 5/27/2019 |
| Holman QuickSource Guide: Atlas of Bible Lands, Introduction and Text by Paul H. Wright (2002) |
5/5/2019 | 5/22/2019 |
| Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker (2018) | 4/28/2019 | 5/9/2019 |
| Descartes: Discourse on Method and the Meditations translated by F.E. Sutcliffe (1968) |
4/22/2019 | finished 7/19/2019 |
| The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak (2005) | 4/19/2019 | finished 5/7/2019 |
| Mind of the Raven, by Bernd Heinrich (2016) | 4/5/2019 | finished 4/27/2019 |
| The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What you See, What You Think,
and How You Vote by Sharyl Attkisson (2017) |
3/19/2019 | finished 4/5/2019 |
| The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas (1942) | 3/17/2019 | finished 4/15/2019 |
| Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended Upon It by Christopher Voss (2016) |
3/8/2019 | finished 3/18/2019 |
| Out of the Fog: A Story of the Sea by C.K. Ober (1911) |
3/4/2019 | finished 3/11/2019 |
| The Last Week: The Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem by Marcus Borg and J.D. Crossan (2006) |
3/3/2019 | finished 5/2/2019 |
| Characterizing Jesus: A Rhetorical Analysis on the Fourth Gospel’s Use of Scripture in its Presentation of Jesus by Alicia D. Myers (2012) |
2/15/2019 | 4/17/2019 |
| The Pigeon Needs a Bath!, by Mo Willems (2014) | 2/13/2019 | 2/13/2019 |
| Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse Engineer the Mind by Matthew Hurley, D. Dennett, and R. Adams (2011) |
2/11/2019 | finished 3/4/2019 |
| Green Eggs amd Ham, by Dr. Seuss (1960) | 1/18/2019 | 1/18/2019 |
| The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age (a Great Courses audio book) by Eamonn Gearon |
1/13/2019 | finished 1/27/2019 |
| Beat Your A-Fib: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Cure by Steve S. Ryan |
1/12/2019 | 1/25/2019 |
| Driving Like Crazy by P.J. O'Rourke (2009) | 12/28/2018 | finished 1/11/2019 |
| Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams (1995) |
12/25/2018 | 5/29/2019 |
| Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen Toulmin (1990) |
12/13/2018 | finished 2/28/2019 |
| The Existentialist Posture: A Christian look at its meaning, impact, values, dangers by Roger L. Shinn (1959) |
12/2/2018 | finished 12/13/2018 |
| Coolidge, by Amity Shlaes (2012) | 11/25/2018 | finished 12/28/2018 |
| The Ninth Hour, by Alice McDermott (2017) | 11/16/2018 | finished 11/25/2018 |
| The First Christmas:
What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan (2009) |
11/15/2018 | finished 2/2/2019 |
| Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (2003) |
11/12/2018 | 11/27/2018 |
| The Cast by Danielle Steel (2018) | 11/6/2018 | finished 11/16/2018 |
| Clear and Simple as the Truth:
Writing Classic Prose by Francis-Noël Thomas & Mark Turner (1994) |
10/28/2018 | 11/27/2018 |
| A Different Sun: A Novel of Africa by Elaine Neil Orr (2013) |
10/26/2018 | finished 12/25/2018 |
| The Black and White of Racism:
A commentary from a different perspective about Race Relations,
and reason for concern by Waylon Allen (2017) |
10/22/2018 | finished 10/28/2018 |
| The Collapse of Materialism:
Visions of Science, Dreams of God by Philip Comella (2014) |
10/21/2018 | finished Parts 1&2 11/16/2018 |
| A Faith Journey:
No Boundaries, No Conclusions by Robert L. Maddox (2018) |
10/7/2018 | finished 11/8/2018 |