Sparks Commentary

Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.

Thursday, March 3, 2022

A review of “Bargain Hunters, Contrarians, Cycles, and Waves” (audiobook)

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So I was recently listening to an audio series about investment . This particular installment was called “Bargain Hunters, Contrarians, Cycl...
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...
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By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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