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July 10
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Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe)
by Peter Hopkirk
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February 01
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Miles
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Cathedral (Paperback)
by Raymond Carver
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Miles
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Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
by Mark C. Taylor
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Miles
marked as to-read:
Ten Nights Of Dream, Hearing Things, and The Heredity of Taste (Paperback)
by Natsume Soseki
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Miles
marked as to-read:
I Am a Cat: Three Volumes in One (Paperback)
by Natsume Soseki
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Miles
marked as to-read:
The Master of Go (Paperback)
by Yasunari Kawabata
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Miles
marked as to-read:
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by Haruki Murakami
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Miles
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to:
Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 ("Rebel Inc" S.)
by Richard Brautigan
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November 16
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Miles
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Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
by Stephen Jay Gould
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Miles said:
"A fun book about the way two competing views of the nature of time have influenced scientific ideas, especially geology. He also points out how these views of time reemerge in many of our other efforts to conceptualize the world, and also in the work...more
A fun book about the way two competing views of the nature of time have influenced scientific ideas, especially geology. He also points out how these views of time reemerge in many of our other efforts to conceptualize the world, and also in the work of an incredible, eccentric, artist-of-sorts, James Hampton. He focuses on a few key founding texts of the field of geology and focuses on the way their theses were fundamentally divided on their conception of time. It is also interesting for its examples about how theories become distorted historically and are made to serve purposes quite distinct from their actual content....less
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Miles
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to:
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author!)
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Miles said:
"A great book. Also full of fun, amazing trivia about the mind-blowing diversity of life as well as the easily over looked fundamental links and commonalities between huge classifications of organisms. I learned from books like this that the full impl...more
A great book. Also full of fun, amazing trivia about the mind-blowing diversity of life as well as the easily over looked fundamental links and commonalities between huge classifications of organisms. I learned from books like this that the full implications of the scale of universal time and space, as well as the far more finite scale of earthly life and development, and the implications of evolution are still only scarcely and slowly seeping into our consciousness and our view of ourselves and the world....less
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