News and views from the Fact or fiction?
Sometimes books can be both. Yesterday, I stumbled across two factual spins on the Star Trek theme: The Physics of Start Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss (791.4572K868p) and To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek by Athena Andreadis (791.4572St284a). Read these books if you want to find out whether or not it's actually possible to beam up, to wield a laser scalpel in the Holodeck, to do a Vulcan mind-meld, or to travel at warp-10. If you've already taken the leap of faith, check out the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual, "researched" and compiled by Franz Joseph (791.4572St281991).
The fun doesn't stop there. What do Bruce Lee, Bart Simpson, and Winnie-the-Pooh all have in common? Easy. They are all philosophers. Take a look at The Tao of Bruce Lee: A Martial Arts Memoir by Davis Miller (791.43028092L51m), The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer edited by William Irwin, Mark T. Conard, and Aeon J. Skoble (791.4501Si587), and my favorite, Pooh and the Philosophers, In Which It Is Shown That All of Western Philosophy Is Merely a Preamble to Winnie-the-Pooh by John Tyerman Williams (823M63wYw).
Finally, there is Reel vs. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction by Frank Sanello (791.43658Sa575r). Find out how well Hollywood captured the events at Pearl Harbor, Bonnie and Clyde's adventures, Gandhi's (and a bunch of other people's) lives, the quiz show scandals of the 1950s, etc.
The fun doesn't stop there. What do Bruce Lee, Bart Simpson, and Winnie-the-Pooh all have in common? Easy. They are all philosophers. Take a look at The Tao of Bruce Lee: A Martial Arts Memoir by Davis Miller (791.43028092L51m), The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer edited by William Irwin, Mark T. Conard, and Aeon J. Skoble (791.4501Si587), and my favorite, Pooh and the Philosophers, In Which It Is Shown That All of Western Philosophy Is Merely a Preamble to Winnie-the-Pooh by John Tyerman Williams (823M63wYw).
Finally, there is Reel vs. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction by Frank Sanello (791.43658Sa575r). Find out how well Hollywood captured the events at Pearl Harbor, Bonnie and Clyde's adventures, Gandhi's (and a bunch of other people's) lives, the quiz show scandals of the 1950s, etc.
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Wasn't "The Tao of Pooh" by Benjamin Hoff (1983) the first of the "Tao of..." genre?
This is a test of the emergency commenting system. Rumor has it, people have been unable to post anonymously, even though my settings ought to allow it. Humph.
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This is a test of the emergency comment system. Though I've enabled it (and it's worked in the past), anonymous posting seems to be broken. Now I'm testing registered-user commenting.
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Sorry for all the deletions. We went from non-posting to massive posting of all the duplicate attempts!
IN Pearl Harbor The pilots didn’t know what their mission was before they left, and all long-range radios were removed from the bombers, preventing radio monitoring of the raid. BAD MOVIE
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Take a look at The Tao of Bruce Lee: A Martial Arts Memoir by Davis Miller (791.43028092L51m)
I agree a definite good read and I just added some more martial arts articles up on http://www.martialarm.info so check it out.
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