Jack: "Hidden Harmony" does look like an interesting read. How soon can we expect to see you in Santa Fe to give a presentation (and book signing?) at the Santa Fe Complex (www.sfcomplex.org)?
-tom johnson On 11/6/08, Jack Leibowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Kennison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" < > [email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 11:19 AM > Subject: [FRIAM] Book List > > > >> It's getting close to that time of year when I tell my relatives which >> books I would like to receive for Christmas. (This is looked on as a favor >> as I am otherwise a tough person to shop for). I have already gotten some >> good leads (including the David Wilson books and The Hemingses and Paul >> Krugman). I would be delighted to receive more suggestions. >> >> John >> > > > OK John, > > Now that the election is over and we are all near saturation over that and, > as well, with purported causes and solutions for the financial meltdown, how > about a change of pace in books? (Not that one has exhausted useful inputs > on those subjects.) > > In all lack of humility, may I suggest my new book, which should appeal to > some of the FRIAM people, oriented analytically and scientifically as many > of us are. While it is really oriented toward non-technical people, it does > take a fresh look at how physics and the visual arts touch each other. > > To get a glance on the Internet, put in " Hidden Harmony Leibowitz." and > look at the Amazon entry as well as the Johns Hopkins Press one. > > It's awkward to toot one's own horn, but when you write for people with > whom you want to share ideas, it is compelling to wish to reach out to them. > (All of you who've been involved in such projects well know one doesn't do > it for the money. I have 36 color prints in the book and have had to pay for > permissions for most of them, so, if the book sells out, I will have paid > off the cost of the first printing, and would need to start all over again > if there are additional printings.Maybe the next one should have a nude on > the cover instead of a Cezanne still life and a detail of the double slit > interference experiment.) > > Of course, I would want the usual FRIAM exchange of discussion Thatt's what > it's all about, isn't it. > > Jack > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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