Sunday, February 27, 2022

A review of “Investment Philosophers and Financial Economists” (audiobook)

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This audiobook was my introduction to “Secrets of the Great Investors,” an audio series about investment. This particular installment was c...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

A review of “Arthur Schopenhauer” (audiobook)

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“To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.” – Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer is known as a pe...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

A review of “Astronomy: The Heavenly Challenge” (audiobook)

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The battle over the Sun-centered universe was as much political as it was scientific. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , a th...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

A review of “The Mexican-American War” (audiobook)

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Living in Arizona, one doesn’t have to ask why the  “Mexican-American War”  is important. I live in a part of Arizona that was once part of...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

A review of “Dimensions of Scientific Thought” (audiobook)

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What is science, and how does it work? Are scientific theories certain, or can they change with the evidence? These are the kinds of questio...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

A review of “The War of 1812” (audiobook)

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How did the War of 1812 begin? Why did we fight it? Was it worth fighting? These are questions that people have asked ever since the war hap...
Monday, January 3, 2022

A review of “Stoics and Epicureans” (audiobook)

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There’s a brief mention of the Epicureans and Stoics in the New Testament . Specifically, in “The Acts of the Apostles,” it is said that “c...