Saturday, December 05, 2009

Reading list

This is just the non-fiction that I have an intention to read. This effort is an act of faith that some understanding and perhaps even some use of the ideas will follow. Some of it will probably never be completed, as new directions reveal themselves.

Grouped together, but in no particular order:-

Russell L. Ackoff's Ackoff's Fables, Recreating the Corporation, The Art of Problem Solving; Ralph de la Vega's Obstacles Welcome;

a 1996 symposium - Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, edited by Tian Yu Cao; Gregory Naber's pair of books on Topology, Geometry and Gauge Fields; Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality as a sort of overarching road-map;

Shrikant Talageri's The RigVeda and the Avesta (he may be wrong, but he is brilliant); Jaswant Singh's Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence. These last two books are part of a long ongoing "project". Then I have for pride of ownership's sake a book I cannot really read - Christoph Luxenberg's "The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran. There is the comforting thought that perhaps another lifetime will be vouchsafed for me to get some understanding of this field. Hey, what is the point of being a Hindu without punarjanma?

Lastly but not leastly - remember these are in no particular order- Don Margulis' Photoshop Lab Color, a basic book, Richard Harrington's Understanding Photoshop CS4 and Tom Ang's Digital Photography Masterclass.

So, if I neglect to pick up the phone, you can imagine what I might be doing :)

PS: Luxenberg's book is the 2007 **English** edition.

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