2024-05-05 Sunday - Recent Personal Library Additions

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These are some books I recently picked-up through the local Friends of the Library bookstore...or, as I like to call them: treasures collected...

For a grand total of $2.50 (for all of these):

1. Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open The Heart and Rekindle The Spirit (by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen)
2. First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy (by Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebeca R. Merrill)
   
3. Catch Me If You Can (by Frank Abagnale)
   
4. The Birth of an Island (by Francois Clement)
   
5. The Golden Retriever (by Eve Adamson and Wayne Hunthausen)
6. The Not  So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live (by Sarah Susanka)
   
7. The Big Book of Business Games: Icebreakers, Creativity Exercises, and Meeting Energizers (by John Newstrom and Edward Scannel)
8. The Man from St. Petersburg (by Ken Follett)
9. Harrington on Hold'em: Expert Strategy For No-Limit Tournaments, Volume 1: Strategic Play (by Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie)
10. One Day In September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wraith of God" (by Simon Reeve) 
11. Legal Problem Solving: Analysis, Research and Writing (by Marjorie R. Rombauer)
12. Constitutional Amendments: An Encyclopedia of the People, Procedures, Politics, Primary Documents, Campaigns for the 27 Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Volume One: Bill of Rights, Eleventh Amendment to eighteenth Amendment. (by Mark Grossman) 
    
13. Constitutional Amendments: An Encyclopedia of the People, Procedures, Politics, Primary Documents, Campaigns for the 27 Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Volume Two: Nineteenth Amendment to Twenty-seventh Amendment. (by Mark Grossman) 
14. Bon Voyage: Florida Edition, Glencoe French 3 (by Schmitt Brillie Lutz)
    

On another trip, for a grand total of $3.50 (for all of these):

1. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (by Doris Kearns Goodwin)
   
2. Beyond The White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope (by Jimmy Carter)
   
3. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (by Barack Obama) 
4. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (by Navy Seal Chris Kyle, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice) 
   
5. MacMillan: The Great American Grain Family, An Illustrated Biography (by W. Duncan MacMillan, with Patricia Condon Johnston) 
6. The Great Depression: An Eyewitness History (by David F. Burg) 
   
7. Techniques of China Painting (by Gunhild Jorgensen)
8. China Painting: Step by Step  (by Doris W. Taylor, Anne Button Hart)
   
9. The CAREER ARCHITECT Development Planner: An Expert System Offering 96 Research Based and Experience Tested Development Plans and Coaching Tipos, 3rd Edition (by Michael M. Lombardo, Robert W. Eichinger)
10. The Client (John Grisham)
11. The Turing Option (by Harry Harrison, Marvin Minsky) 

New Library Additions: Friend of the Library Book Sale Treasures

 

While reading a local paper this morning, I saw that there was a nearby Friends of the Library sale being held today.

Now, I have resisted the urge to go any such sales in recent years - as my storage is just about full. But, I decided to go and at least look.

I'm glad I did.

For the vast sum of $13.75, I picked-up the following:
(apparently they gave me some discount on the listed prices - as they were just about to wrap-up at 3pm)

Living Language, Ultimate Spanish, Basic-Intermediate (8 CDs, 416 page textbook): $2
- this will be perfect for my next long drive - and I will use this to rebuild my Spanish over the next year, before going on my next voyage - or traveling.

Shakuhachi - The Japanese Flute, Kohachiro Miyata (music, CD): $1
- a 1977 album
- I love the sound of the Shakuhachi

Crosscurrent, Jake Shimabukuro (music, CD): $1
- His 2003, second full length solo ukulele album

Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson (audio book, 7 CDs): $1.50
- For those long cross-country drives that are in my future

Song of Myself, Walt Whitman, read by Stephen Mitchell (poetry, 2 CDs): $1
- An epic poem, from his book, "Leaves of Grass"

Berlitz, French (CD, 224 page phrase book): $2.50
- My French is beyond rusty...I hope to have need of refreshing it in the coming years...

Easy Spanish Reader, A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students, 2nd edition (book, 218 pages): $1
- a good book to practice my Spanish reading comprehension

AMC, For Your Consideration (DVDs, Breaking Bad - pilot and 4 episodes; Mad Men - 4 episodes): $1.50
- cheap entertainment, as I never watched either of those TV series when they were broadcast

Introducción a la Cultura Hispánica (book, 325 pages): $1
- another good book to deepen the practice of my Spanish reading comprehension

Robert Ludum's The Bourne Enigma, by Eric Van Lusterbader (book, 420 pages): $1
- I've enjoyed reading other books by Lusterbader (re: The series of books featuring the character of Nicholas Linnear, starting with The Ninja novel)

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (book, 454 pages): $1.50
- a book that I will enjoy perusing when my 2nd career, as a writer, kicks into gear in retirement

2016-05-21 Saturday - Latest Library Acquisitions

I picked-up to the following books today, to add to my personal library, while at the Bothell, WA Friends of the Library Sale

A History of Mexico, Revised Edition
by Henry Bamford Parkes

Canoecraft, A Harrowsmith Illustrated Guide to Fine Woodstrip Construction
by Ted Moores and Merilyn Mohr

Fungi
by Christian Epinat and Paul Starosta

The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman

How & Where to Prospect for Gold
by Verne H. Ballantyne

Fateful Triangle, The United States, Israel & The Palestinians, Updated Edition
by Noam Chomsky

Basho's Ghost
by Sam Hamill

The Tale of the Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu
Translated by Edward G. Deidensticker

How To Repair Small Appliances, Volumes 1 & 2
by Jack Darr

How To Repair Major Appliances
by Ernest Tricomi

How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin
The easy-natural way using only hand tools and the woods around you
by W. Ben Hunt

Getting Started In Consulting
by Alan Weiss, PhD

2016-01-24 Sunday - New Personal Library Additions

A trip to the Mercer Island Thrift Store today...and obtained these treasures...

Boat Maintenance, The Essential Guide to Cleaning, Painting, and Cosmetics
William M. Burr Jr.

Woodworking for the Serious Beginner
Pamela Philpott-Jones and Paul L. McClure

Drawing: Space, Form, & Expression, Second Edition
Wayne Costice and Melody Peters

The Not So Big House, A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
Sarah Susanka, with Kira Obolensky

Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell

How To Read Bridges, A Crash Course in Engineering and Architecture
Edward Denison and Ian Stewart

Voyaging Under Sail
Eric C. Hiscock

Cruising Under Sail
Eric C. Hiscock

2016-01-09 Saturday - New Personal Library Additions

Today I visited the Bainbridge Island Public Library - as they were having a monthly Friends of the Library Sale.

Here are the treasures I picked up...

Confucianism and Chinese Civilization
Edited by Arthur F. Wright

Chinatown, A Portrait of a Closed Society
Gwen Kinkead

After 50,000 Miles
Hal Roth

Blue Latitudes, Boldly Going Where Captain Cook has Gone Before
Tony Horowitz

The Dolphin's Gift
Elizabeth Gawain

Gunkholing in the Gulf Islands
Al Cummings and Jo Bailey-Cummings

California's Channel Islands, 1001 Questions Answered
Marla Daily

The Fyddeye Guide to America Maritime History
Edited by Joe Follansbee

Sea and Sardinia
D.H. Lawrence

Surveying, Principles and Applications, Fourth Edition
Barry F. Kavanagh, S. J. Glenn Bird

Liberty Defined, 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
Ron Paul

Live From New York, An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller

Japan, The Story of a Nation, Third Edition
Edwin O. Reischauer

Game Over, How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy
Stephen Leeb, PhD

Inventing America, Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
Gary Wills

With Malice Toward None, A Biography of Abraham Lincoln (7 CDs)
Stephen B. Oates

Framers of the Constitution

Editors James H. Charleton, et. al.

The Long Tail, Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson

First King of Shannara
Terry Brooks

2016-01-02 Saturday - New Additions to My Personal Library

Some recent additions to my library, include the following, sourced from the Bellevue Public Library's used book shop - and the Mercer Island Thrift Store:

Built to Last, Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
James C. Collings and Jerry I. Porras

Mr China, A Memoir
Tim Clissold

Tulipomania, The Story of the Worl's Most Coveted Flower & The Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
Mike Dash

America's Handyman Book
The Staff of The Family Handyman Magazine

The New Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards

Do-It-Yourself House-Building Step-by-Step
Charles D. Neal

An Introduction to Art Techniques
The DK Art School

Drawing The Head & Figure
Jack Hamm

De Cristoforo's Complete Book of Power Tools, Both Stationary and Portable
R. J. Dde Cristoforo

Sunset Ideas for Hot Tubs, Pas & Home Saunas
Editors of the Sunset Books and Sunset Magaine

Tales of the South Pacific
James A. Michener

The Great Divorce
C.S. Lewis

Pour Your Heart Into It, How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup At A Time
Howard Schultz and Dorl James Yang

The Asian Mystique, Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
Sheridan Prasso

Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia
Vin T. Sparano

Teach Yourself: 101 Key Ideas - Buddhism
Mel Thompson

A Brief History of The Knights Templar
Helen Nicholson

An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth
M. K. Gandhi

The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
Louis Fischer

Physics for Future Presidents, The Sciencce Behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

A Short History of Islam
S.F. Mahmud

The Everything Store, Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone

21 dog years, a cube dweller's tale
Mike Daisey

How Do They Do That, Wonders of the Monder World Explained
Caroline Sutton

Good Boss, Bad Boss - How to be the Best...Learn From the Worst
Robbert I. Sutton, PhD

Riding the Iron Rooster, By Train Through China
Paul Theroux

Takin' Care of Business, The Big Idea for Small Business
Brian Buffini & Joe Niego

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time,, A Long Short Story
David Einhorn

The Financial Numbers Game, Detecting Creative Account
Charles W. Mulford and Eugene E. Comiskey

Financial Shenanigans, Third Edition
Howard M. Schilit and Jeremy Perler

Understanding DNA and Gene Cloning, A Guide for the Curious, Third Edition
Karl Drlica

Land of the Seven Rivers, A Brief History of India's Geography
Sanjeev Snyal

200% of Nothing, An Eye-Opening Tour Through The Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy
A. K. Dewney

Principle-Centered Leadership
Stephen R. Covey

The San Juan Islands, Third Edition
Marge & Ted Mueller

Middle Puget Sound & Hood Canal
Marge & Ted Mueller

Gunkholing in South Puget Sound, A comprehensive Cruising Guide from Kingston/Edmonds South to Olympia
Jo Bailey and Carl Nyberg

Habors and High Seas, An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian
Dean King with John B. Hattendorf
Maps by William Clipson and Adam Merton Cooper

What Ship is That, A Field Guilde to Boats and Ships
Bob Basnight

Middle Easter Mythology, From the Assyrians to the Hebrews
S.H. Hooke

So, Anyway
John Cleese

The Design of Design, Essays From A Computer Scientist
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

I Remember Nothing, and Other Reflections
Nora Ephron

Sailing Around The World, A Family Retraces Joshua Slocum's Voyage
Guy Bernardin

The Modern Stylists
Donald Hall, Editor

The Future of War, Vol: Thor's Hammer
Reginald Bretnor, Editor

Woe is I Jr., The Younger Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English
Patricia T. O'Conner

Fluent in 3 Months, How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak any Language Anywhere in the World
Benny Lewis

On Language
Noam Chomsky

2014-01-26 Sunday - Library Book Sale Treasures

This weekend I was able to pick-up the following books for $43 at a local Friends of the Library book sale:

A Sea of Words
A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales
Dean King, with John B. Hattendor and J Worth Estes

Patton: A Study in Command
Hubert Essame

The Four-Color Problem
Assaults and Conquest
Thomas L. Saaty and Paul C. Kainena

Mathematical Recreations & Essays
W.W. Rouse Ball and H.S.M. Coxeter

A Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare
A Topical Guide to over 3,000 great passages from the plays, sonnets, and narrative poems
Selected by Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
An American Slave
Ferederick Douglass

Bobos in Paradise
The New Upper Class and How They Got There
David Brooks

Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations
R.C. Bell

The Capable Cruiser
Lin and Larry Pardey

The Rise of Nuclear Iran
How Tehran Defies the West
Dore Gold

The World of Leonardo 1452-1519
Robert Wallace and the Editors of Time-Life Books

This I Believe
Selections from the 1950s Radio Series
Edward R. Murrow

The Essential Gandhi
Edited by Louis Fischer

The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
Louis FIscher

The Unfettered Mind
Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master
Takuan Soho

New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton

Memories of Silk and Straw
A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan
Dr. Junichi Saga

Radical Islam
Medieval Theology and Modern Politics
Emmanuel Sivan

My Brain is Open
The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos
Bruce Schechter

Currency Trading for Dummies
Mark Galant and Brian Dolan

To The Top of Denali
Climbing Adventures on North America's Highest Peak
Bill Sherwonit

Tuning Yachts & Small Keelboats
Lawrie Smith

Gaff Sail
Robert Simper

Lateral Puzzles
David J. Bodycombe

Challenging False Logic Puzzles
Norman D. Willis

Recreations in Mathematics
Sliding Piece Puzzles
L.E. Hordern

Math Logic Puzzles
Kurt Smith

Game, Set, & Math
Enigmas and Conundrums
Ian Stewart

The Cunning Caliph
And Other Number Puzzles To Test Your LogicKenneth Kelsey

Mathematical Games
C. Lukacs and E. Tarjan

The Smarter Bet Guide to Blackjack
Basil Nestor

Winning Blackjack For the Serious Player
Edwin Silberstang

Mastering Sketching
A complete course in 40 lessons
Judy Martin

Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
Dox, Melloni, Eisner

2013-01-28 Monday - New Library Additions

Last week I had the chance to visit another thrift store one evening, while traveling on business.

I picked-up the following additions to my library:

"A Sea of Words, A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales"
By Dean King, John B. Hattendorf, and J. Worth Estes

"Practical Beekeeping"
by Enoch Tompkins and Roger M. Griffith

"Words I Wish I Wrote, A Collection of Writing That Inspired My Ideas"
by Robert Fulghum

"The Fatal Shore, The Epic of Australia's Founding"
by Robert Hughes

"Go Basics, Concepts & Strategies for New Players"
by Peter Shotwell

"The Stock Market: Theories and Evidence, 2nd Edition"
by James H. Lorie, Peter Dodd, and Mary Hamilton Kimpton