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Bread and Circuses: Historical Sociology and Political Pluralism by Paul Veyne
Arguing about Slavery : John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress (Vintage) by William Lee Miller
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge by Bernard S. Cohn
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward
Gothic Art 1140-C 1450: Sources and Documents (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, 20) by Teresa G. Frisch
Man of Straw (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Heinrich Mann
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About my libraryHow did this happen? Well, with a library this size you know that we didn't buy much at full price! Library, college, and AAUW book sales are the biggest source. There's a lot here from bargain remainder booksellers. There's also a steady drip of acquisitions from second hand bookstores.
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I said I'd make it an annual tradition to stop by. The third anniversary of my first message here was two days ago. You're still at the top of our weighted list of libraries with our books. Chuck_ralston pulled away by two in the raw total. We still seem to be about twentieth on your weighted list.
You've been adding a lot of "how to" art books recently. Is this a recent interest or have you been doing art for a while?
Have a good summer,
John
posted by johnandlisa at 4:28 pm (EST) on Jul 31, 2009
It's good to finally meet, in the virtual sense of course.
Yes, I picked up the Blumenberg when I was in Germany some 30 years ago. I've always had a strong interest in the theme of transition from the medieval to the modern. I was a bit surprised that the book got translated into English though.
I see that we're now up to about twentieth on your list of members with your books. I think we may have risen up a little higher than that at some point. I just find it fascinating that through all of the permutations of both of our libraries, you've managed to stay at the top of our list of members with our books. In fact, you are currently at the top of both our weighted and raw total lists. I've seen your library at the top of a lot of other people's weighted lists as well. That is probably because you have a comparatively "pure" educated layman/academic collection (as pure as any collection of 4600 books is likely to be). We've got all kinds of side collections (baseball books here, our childrens' books there) that make us less aligned with more focused collections.
posted by johnandlisa at 11:57 am (EST) on Feb 8, 2009
What is your blog site? i tried various versions of deletantscholar.blogspot.com but didn't get anything :(
Give my best to Lawanna. :)
Hope you had a safe flight. I look forward to seeing you again. Will write an e-mail when i get a chance sometime.
Amit
posted by amitw1981 at 3:20 am (EST) on Jan 10, 2009
Another year gone by. Time flies. I think I'll make it an annual tradition to stop by.
It looks as if you've been adding quite a few books recently. You still come out at the top of our list of members with our books. It looks like we still come out about fiftieth on your list. We may be adding a lot of books again soon. I'll be interested to see whether that affects either of our standings relative to the others.
posted by johnandlisa at 5:09 pm (EST) on Jul 23, 2008
posted by DanoStone at 2:30 am (EST) on Jan 4, 2008
posted by Makifat at 2:51 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2007
John
posted by johnandlisa at 2:23 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2007
posted by Romanus at 2:39 pm (EST) on May 4, 2007
You may not have noticed us since we're kind of far down on your list of common users, but you've been at the top of our list since we got to 500 books entered. We're about half way done with entering our books, so the really big libraries like ellenandjim may eventually surpass you in raw total. But since we started with the core of our collection, I think you will take the crown as most similar collection.
Best wishes
posted by johnandlisa at 6:45 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2006
posted by Robertgreaves at 11:55 pm (EST) on May 7, 2006