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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5171205" data-attributes="member: 54707">FactionThe History of the Medieval World - I like the way she arranges and lays out the book. Both very useful, and extremely interesting.The Independent Inventor's Handbook - useful.The Elements of Investing - I'm seeking to simplify my investment portfolio. This little book is reductive and helpful.The Letters of Saint Clement of Rome and Saint Ignatius of Antioch - part of my preliminary studies for the priesthood. Just finished them and they were extremely good.FictionThe Burning LandThe Other Lands - I got these two books because I'm a big fan of historical fiction, and Cornwell's Burning Land is about King Alfred (one of my personal heroes) and Harald Bloodhair. The Other Lands is a fantasy book about an entirely invented world (I'm far less of a fan of most of these types of works). In any case I thought it would be an interesting experiment as I read both works to note and compare the different methods and techniques used by both authors in constructing their works. See if I could spot the similarities of methods and goals, as well as the divergences and differences in manners and methods.LecturesEvery week until the end of May I'm getting the training classes for my CERT Training (it's supplementary to my squadron training, but the Captain wants us all to have it), as well as the materials we have to read, and the demonstrations and simulations we have to run. I like the fact that the officer running the course is so hands on and half of our time is spent doing triage, rescue, basic medical response, fire suppression, etc. I detest training that is mostly lecture. When it comes to training I prefer mostly hands-on, light classroom and lecture.Giants of Philosophy Series: St. Thomas Aquinas - this was a little book on CD that I listened to on Aquinas that was narrated by Charlton Heston. I already knew that Heston had admired Aquinas, but hearing him narrate the book was really neat. His voice is superb.A Way with Words: Poetry - I just finished Michael Drout's series of lectures on the Anglo-Saxon World. Now I'm listening to his lectures on Poetry. They are really interesting.The Building Blocks of Human Life - Professor John Young, Howard University School of Medicine. I'm listening to this set of lectures with my kids as part of their homeschooling. He has some very interesting points to make about stem cell development and cell differentiation.</blockquote>

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