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<h2>Music List</h2>
<ul>
<li>People - Kathryn Lewek</li>
<li>Composers - Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Rachmaninoff</li>
<li>Drama - Shakespeare, Sophocles</li>
</ul>
<h2>Reading List</h2>
<h3>For kids</h3>
<ul>
<li>Journey Through Genius -- a book about math, recommended by Winston Luo</li>
<li>Asimov's Fantasy & Science Fiction science essays -- summary
<a href="http://www.asimovreviews.net/Series.html#FSF">here</a> --
article by article summary <a href="http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/Essays/f_and_sf_essays.html">here</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>General Patton: A Soldier's Life -- Hirshson -- <i>The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk.</i></li>
<li>Patton: War as I knew it -- Patton -- <i>In case of doubt, attack.</i></li>
<li>The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead -- Charles Murray -- <i>Being nice means behaving in ways that have immediately pleasant consequences. Being good means behaving in ways that contribute to the welfare of your fellow human beings. Sometimes being nice and being good call for the same behaviors, but often they do not.</i></li>
<li> The Best Poets of the English Language: from Chaucer to Frost -- Harold Bloom</li>
<li> The Right Stuff -- Tom Wolfe</li>
<li> 3:16 -- Knuth</li>
<li> Nichomachean Ethics -- Aristotle</li>
<li> Isaac Newton's Religious Writings -- <a href="http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=44">link</a></li>
<li> Theology Lectures developed with Newton -- <a href ="http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00244">link</a></li>
<li> Good <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0026%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D1">online Livy</a> -- <i>Starting from the second beginnings of the city which, like a plant cut down to its roots, sprang up in greater beauty and fruitfulness, the details of its history both civil and military will now be exhibited in their proper order, with greater clearness and certainty.</i> </li>
<li> Letters of Jerome, Cyril, Augustine</li>
<li>Top ancient histories: Thucydides, Herodotus, Tacitus, Caesar's Gallic Wars, Polybius</li>
<li>Summarize main points from:
<a href="http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin's%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdf">
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design</a>
</li>
<li> Justin Harvey Smith -- Our struggle for the fourteenth colony: Canada and the American Revolution
<a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924092886070">link</a>
</li>
<li> Shackleton's "South" -- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/South-Story-Shackletons-1914-1917-Expedition-ebook/dp/B0082QC1ZQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1497992620&sr=8-3&keywords=shackleton+endurance">link</a></li>
<li>Pericles' funeral oration -- <a href="http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.asp">link</a></li>
<li>Cato's Distichs -- <a href="https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/collectio-distichorum-uulgarus-common-collection-distichs">link</a></li>
<li>Augustine's Confessions</li>
<li>Pieper on Thomas</li>
<li>William James, Habit</li>
<li>Letters of Seneca the Younger -- "Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est" </li>
<li> Bible books sorted shortest to longest:
<ul>
<li> 3John 294 </li>
<li> 2John 298 </li>
<li> Philemon 430 </li>
<li> Jude 608 </li>
<li> Obadiah 669 </li>
<li> Titus 896 </li>
<li> 2Thessalonians 1022 </li>
<li> Haggai 1130 </li>
<li> Nahum 1284 </li>
<li> Jonah 1320 </li>
<li> Habakkuk 1475 </li>
<li> 2Peter 1553 </li>
<li> Zephaniah 1616 </li>
<li> 2Timothy 1666 </li>
<li> Malachi 1781 </li>
<li> 1Thessalonians 1837 </li>
<li> Colossians 1979 </li>
<li> Joel 2033 </li>
<li> Philippians 2183 </li>
<li> 1Timothy 2244 </li>
<li> James 2304 </li>
<li> 1Peter 2476 </li>
<li> 1John 2517 </li>
<li> Ruth 2574 </li>
<li> SongofSolomon 2658 </li>
<li> Ephesians 3022 </li>
<li> Galatians 3084 </li>
<li> Micah 3152 </li>
<li> Lamentations 3411 </li>
<li> Amos 4216 </li>
<li> Hosea 5174 </li>
<li> Ecclesiastes 5579 </li>
<li> Esther 5633 </li>
<li> 2Corinthians 6046 </li>
<li> Zechariah 6443 </li>
<li> Hebrews 6897 </li>
<li> Ezra 7440 </li>
<li> Romans 9422 </li>
<li> 1Corinthians 9462 </li>
<li> Nehemiah 10480 </li>
<li> Daniel 11602 </li>
<li> Revelation 11952 </li>
<li> Mark 14949 </li>
<li> Proverbs 15038 </li>
<li> Job 18098 </li>
<li> John 18658 </li>
<li> Joshua 18854 </li>
<li> Judges 18966 </li>
<li> 1Chronicles 20365 </li>
<li> 2Samuel 20600 </li>
<li> Matthew 23343 </li>
<li> 2Kings 23517 </li>
<li> Acts 24229 </li>
<li> 1Kings 24513 </li>
<li> Leviticus 24541 </li>
<li> 1Samuel 25048 </li>
<li> Luke 25640 </li>
<li> 2Chronicles 26069 </li>
<li> Deuteronomy 28352 </li>
<li> Exodus 32685 </li>
<li> Numbers 32896 </li>
<li> Isaiah 37036 </li>
<li> Genesis 38262 </li>
<li> Ezekiel 39401 </li>
<li> Jeremiah 42654 </li>
<li> Psalms 42704 </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Odyssey -- Homer -- <a href="http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/translations/Odyssey.html">Web page comparing translations</a>
<ul>
<li>Lattimore (1967) - hexameter, faithful, majestic - Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven // far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel. // Many were they whose cities he saw, whose minds he learned of, // many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea, // struggling for his own life and the homecoming of his companions.</li>
<li>Chapman (1616) - pentameter, archaic - The Man, O Muse, informe that many a way // Wound with his wisedome to his wished stay; That wandered wondrous farre when He the towne // Of sacred Troy had sackt and shiverd downe. // The cities of a world of nations, // With all their manners, mindes and fashions, // He saw and knew; at Sea felt many woes, // Much care sustaind, to save from overthrowes // Himself and friends in their retreate for home.</li>
<li>Pope (1725) - rhymed pentameter, very paraphrased - The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd, // Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound; // Who, when his arms had wrought the destined fall // Of sacred Troy, and razed her heaven-built wall, // Wandering from clime to clime, observant stray'd, // Their manners noted, and their states survey'd, // On stormy seas unnumber'd toils he bore, // Safe with his friends to gain his natal shore</li>
<li>Mandelbaum (1990) - pentameter, lines shuffled for readability - Muse, tell me of the man of many wiles, // the man who wandered many paths of exile // after he sacked Troy's sacred citadel. // He saw the cities - mapped the minds - of many; // and on the sea, his spirit suffered every // adversity - to keep his life intact, to bring his comrades back.</li>
<li>Fitzgerald (1961) - unrhymed irregular lines - Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story // of that man skilled in all ways of contending, // the wanderer, harried for years on end, // after he plundered the stronghold // on the proud height of Troy. // He saw the townlands // and learned the minds of many distant men, // and weathered many bitter nights and days // in his deep heart at sea, while he fought only // to save his life, to bring his shipmates home.</li>
<li>Cook (1967) - loosely hexameter, line for line match, linguistically accurate - </li>
</ul> <!-- Odyssey samples -->
</li>
<li> Greek Translators generally:
<ul>
<li>Ann Carson -- terrible -- "if I keep this rule, I'll be ok"</li>
<li>Storr -- bad -- "My children, latest born to Cadmus old"</li>
<li>Murray -- moderate -- "My children, fruit of Cadmus' ancient tree // New springing"</li>
<li>Campbell -- good -- "Nurslings of Cadmus, children of my care, // Why press ye now"</li>
<li>Francklin -- moderate -- "O my loved sons! the youthful progeny // Of ancient Cadmus" --
Morley's intro says "best 18th century translator of Sophocles".
<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mqEfAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA8&ots=h-gOGRqQcC&dq=best%20translation%20sophocles&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q=best%20translation%20sophocles&f=fals">full test on google</a></li>
<li>Yeats -- terrible -- In the last scene of the play, for example, he has omitted 90
of the 226 lines Sophocles wrote, and he has moved parts of speeches as much as a
hundred lines away from their true position.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Christopher Columbus primary sources:
<ul>
<li>Diego Alvarez Chanca, translated by R.H. Major --
Letter of Dr. Chanca on the Second Voyage of Columbus
(in <i>Northmen, Columbus, and Cabot, 985-1503: The Voyages of the Northmen</li>
ed Julius E Olson and Edward Gaylord Bourne, pgs 279-313</i>)</li>
<li>A. M. Fernandez de Ybarra -- A Forgotten Medical Worthy, Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca,
of Seville, Spain, and His Letter Describing the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus
to America (in <i>Medical Library and Historical Journal</i> 4(3):246-263)</li>
<li>Washington Irving -- A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
(<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=V0i3w-c9__cC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false">full text</a>)</li>
<li>R. H. Major -- Letters of Christopher Columbus, with other original documents,
relating to his four voyages to the new world
(Second edition; page 88 is letter on second voyage about converting cannibals)
(<a href="https://archive.org/stream/selectlettersofc00colurich#page/88/mode/2up">full text</a>)</li>
</ul> <!-- Columbus sources -->
</li>
<li>95 Theses - Luther</li>
<li>Matt Peterson's Thesis - <a href="http://www.academia.edu/10521988/In_Defense_of_Beauty">
A Defense of Beauty</a></li>
<li>A Man for All Markets - Thorp</li>
<li>The Stranger in the Woods - Finkel (it's about the North Pond hermit)</li>
<li>Top books on persuasion:
<ul>
<li>Influence by Cialdini</li>
<li>The Feldman Method (by the best life insurance salesman of all time)</li>
<li>SPIN Selling</li>
<li>Cold Calling Techniques that really work</li>
<li>High Probability Selling</li>
<li>Endless Referrals</li>
<li>Selling Retail</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Moldbug discussion thread with many reading ideas:
<a href="https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7022ee224729569cf91fcdd528f00d3e">link</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Speyer Reading Assignments</h2>
Fourth Grade:
<ul>
<li>Jean Fritz -- Where do you think you're going, Christopher Columbus?</li>
<li>Jerry Spinelli -- Maniac Magee</li>
<li>Jacqueline Woodson -- The Other Side (racial divide story)</li>
<li>Jane Yolen -- Encounter (semi-revisionist history of Columbus vs noble savages?)</li>
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