Moved from my Old Blog

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Booklist moved from my old booklist blog:
Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Swimming books:

The Complete Book of Swimming by Phillip, Dr. Whitten, Ethan Berry (Illustrator)
Fitness Swimming by Emmett W. Hines
Total Immersion by Terry Laughlin (Author)
Swimming for Total Fitness by Jane Katz, et al
The Essential Swimmer by Steve Tarpinian (Author)

posted by Murali at 3:57 PM
Tuesday, November 25, 2003

The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
by Nathanael West, Alfred Kazin (Designer)

Forum did an extensive review of this book and gave rave reviews.

posted by Murali at 3:09 PM

Life of Pi
by Yann Martel (Author)

posted by Murali at 8:07 AM
Monday, November 24, 2003

Yoga Videos:

If you'd like to add variety into your practice, other relatively short yet challenging yoga routines I'd recommend are
Baron Baptiste's "Unlocking Athletic Power" and Rainbeau Mars "Pure Power" and "Pure Sweat" from her "Sacred Yoga" 4 tape set.
Also Yoga Zone's "Fat Burning" tape is a 20 minute routine that will push you pretty hard for such a short practice.


Living Yoga - Power Stamina Yoga for Beginners (1999)
Living Yoga's Power Strength Yoga for Beginners (1999)

Yoga Journal's Yoga Practice for Intermediates with Rodney Yee (2000)

more intense:
Bryan Kest tape "Energize" or Baron Baptiste's "Hot Yoga 1"

Look at: VHS > Yoga > Power Yoga

posted by Murali at 2:17 PM
Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Indian Book Store WebSites

posted by Murali at 11:32 PM

My Amazon.com wishlist

posted by Murali at 4:49 PM

To Rent From Mountain View Public Library:

649.122
Author Acredolo, Linda P.
Title Baby minds : brain-building games your baby will love / Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn.
Publication New York : Bantam Books, 2000.

371.042
The well-trained mind : a guide to classical education at home / Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer.

Mudpies to magnets : a preschool science curriculum / Robert A. Williams, Robert E. Rockwell, Elizabeth A. Sherwood ; illustrations by Laurel J. Sweetman.

The mudpies activity book : recipes for invention / by Nancy Blakey.

Homeschooling Handbook (Revised 2nd Edition)
by Mary Griffith, Lisa Cooper (Illustrator)

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (Core Knowledge Series) by E. D. Hirsch (Editor), John Holdren (Introduction)



posted by Murali at 4:36 PM
Monday, June 02, 2003

Authors:

California Authors: Here
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Frank Norris: The Octopus

Mark Twain

posted by Murali at 5:19 PM
Thursday, May 22, 2003

"Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health." - Gina Colata
I heard her in Michael Krasny's program. went over interesting facts about how the exercising becomes a fad, how it is addicting due to physiology, etc.

posted by Murali at 5:57 PM

Stephen Ambrose: Nothing like it, men who built the intercontinental railroad

Pacific Railroad Museum

Great book. I started reading it from mountain view public library. (jun 1 - about to finish it. reads like a great novel. we can learn about how history repeats itself. railroad building boom = dotcom buidout boom; several people got rich over it but several others did the hard work on it; chinese built the railroad with backbreaking work but were treated like cattle; indians did much of dotcom work and treated poorly but to be fair much better than chinese; there were no chinese millionaire but many indian dotcom rich guys; benefits of railroad got realized much later than the building boom making modern america; i think building of internet is similar except it will transform the world; we can already see it with much of white collar work moving offshore.

Credit Mobiler of Union Pacific = Enron (both east coast); both greatest scandals of their time
Californian capitalists seem to have been mostly fair; Stanford became popular only because of the univ; other 3 of big 4 names faded in history

Related books to read:
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Louis J. Budd (Editor)
Frank Norris: The Octopus are based on the struggle of the San Joaquin ranchers against the Southern Pacific monopoly,

Related links:
http://cpran.com/
http://www.cprr.com/

posted by Murali at 3:17 PM
Wednesday, May 07, 2003



Call # 629.2092 DUR
Author Weisberger, Bernard A., 1922-
Title The dream maker : William C. Durant, founder of General Motors / by Bernard A. Weisberger.

Call # 658.8 1999
Author Moore, Geoffrey A., 1946-
Title Crossing the chasm : marketing and selling high-tech products to mainstream customers / Geoffrey A. Moore ; with a foreward by Regis McKenna.

Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser

The Universe in a Nutshell Stephen Hawking

Theodore Rex : Edmund Morris (about thodore rosevelt)

What Einstein Didn't Know Robert Wolke

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 Stephen Ambrose

posted by Murali at 6:33 PM

Stephen Ambrose books in mtnview library

posted by Murali at 6:31 PM

Cosmology selections

Black holes and time warps : Einstein's outrageous legacy / Kip S. Thorne.

posted by Murali at 6:29 PM

City of Mountain View Public Library

The nature of space and time / Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose

Black holes and baby universes and other essays / Stephen Hawking

The future of spacetime / Stephen W. Hawking ... [et al.] ; introduction by Richard Price.

Universe [videorecording] / Thirteen WNET; Uden Associates; David Filkin Enterprises co-production in association with BBC-TV.

posted by Murali at 6:27 PM
Tuesday, May 06, 2003

Cosmology
Michael Krasny talks to science writer Michael Lemonick about the latest news from the edge of the universe. His latest book is "Echo of the Big Bang."
Michael Lemonick , senior science writer for Time Magazine. His books include "The Light at the Edge of the Universe" and "Other Worlds."

posted by Murali at 5:05 PM
Monday, May 05, 2003

James Tobin, author of "To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight."

posted by Murali at 6:15 PM

Warren Zimmermann , Zimmermann was the former US Ambassador to Yugoslavia and the author of "Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers" and "First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a Great Power."

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