August Bookends

I went on holiday for a few weeks this month and in anticipation of missing a few episodes of The History of Rome Podcast, I read Donald R. Dudley's The Civilization of Rome. It's from 1962, and half the fun of reading it was catching glimpses of new theories that in some cases have since been accepted and debunked in the intervening forty years. The other bit of fun was the cover's tagline about "The Glory That Was Rome", reminding me of the slogan for this film.

I was also impressed yet again by Graham Greene, as his short novel The Tenth Man was reconstructed from an idea that he had thrown away decades before. Oh to have so many successful ideas that I can just throw a couple away to no loss.

Books Read

Donald R. Dudley, The Civilization of Rome (1962)

Graham Greene, The Tenth Man (1983)

Jeb Brugman -Welcome to the Urban Revolution (2009)

Gerald L. Gutek - Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education (2005)

Currently reading:

Gary Small - iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind (2009)

J. Lloyd Trump - A School For Everyone (1977)*

Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter - Rich Dad, Poor Dad (1997)*

*I'm in no hurry to finish these, but for different reasons

Books Acquired

Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin (2009)

Jack Whyte - Order In Chaos (2009)

Sean Caulfield, Timothy Caulfield - Imagining Science (2009)

David Townsend, Pamela Adams - The Essential Question: A Handbook For School Improvement (2009)

Richard DuFour, et al., Learning By Doing (2006)