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"Reading accounts is dull; economic detective work is the easy way to get to the same conclusion." Tim Harford in Undercover Economist.

Books: read, started, getting

This is more of a "current todo" section, as well as books that I own, since many of these are also todo. There are numerous papers as well, for my research. Separating them by read and unread or partially read works is a foible.

Graphical models, Markov random fields, learning, inference

1. Heckerman, D., A tutorial on learning with Bayesian networks. In Learning in Graphical Models, M. Jordan, ed.. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. link
2. Butine, Wray, A Guide to the Literature on Learning Probabilistic Networks From Data. IEEE transactions On Knowledge and Data Engineering 1996. link
3. Paul J. Krause, Learning Probabilistic Networks, The Knowledge Engineering Review, Volume 13, Issue 4 (February 1999). link
4. POMDPs for Dummies link
5. Edwards, Introduction to graphical models. 1995.
6. Xiang, Probabilistic reasoning in multiagent systems. 2002.

Some resources from UMD's Graphical Models Reading Group, 2003

• Graphical Models for Machine Learning and Digital Communication, by Brendan J. Frey. 1998.
• McEliece, et al., "Turbo decoding as an instance of Pearl's 'belief propagation' algorithm," IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 16, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 1998, pp. 140-152.
• Ihler, Fisher, Willsky, "Nonparametric hypothesis tests for statistical dependency," IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOL. 52, NO. 8, AUGUST 2004, pp. 2234-2249.
• Chris Hans (OSU Stats prof), et al., "Stochastic Computation For Gaussian Graphical Models," paper and software: http://xpress.isds.duke.edu:8080/softwarelinks/ggm.html

Applied statistics, machine learning, information theory

• Probabilistic Robotics, by Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, and Dieter Fox. 2005.
• An introduction to information theory : symbols, signals, and noise / John R Pierce. 2nd ed., 1980.
• Robert, Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods. 1999.
• Variational Bayesian filtering
• Relevance vector machines

Stanford has a set of courses centered around data mining: http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/programs/certs/statistics.htm.

• Huge tome of electrical engineering: from circuits to communications to information theory: http://cnx.org/content/col10040/latest/
• Introduction to probability (pdf) http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html
• All of statistics : a concise course in statistical inference / Larry Wasserman
• All of nonparametric statistics / Larry Wasserman
• Three books on probability and random variables are
  • Introduction to Probability, by Dimitri P. Bertsekas and John N. Tsitsiklis
  • Intuitive Probability and Random Processes using MATLAB, by Steven Kay
  • The Art of Probability, by R. W. Hamming

Art

• Chinese Landscapes Made Easy, Rebecca Yue (unbelev sky)
• Paint & Draw (drawing, watercolor, oil and acrylic, pastel), by Hazel Harrison (really cool Moroccan-style road and houses)

Biology

• Brendan J. Frey, Beyond Genomics: Detecting Codes and Signals in the Cellular Transcriptome: http://media.itsoc.org/isit2006/frey/
• Cells, Aging, and Human Disease (Hardcover), by Michael B. Fossel (2004)
• Nature's Robots: A History of Proteins, by C. Tanford, J. Reynolds (2003)
• Charles Darwin. The Origin of Species. (Mentor imprint)
• Lewis Thomas (two in one box-set), "Lives of a Cell" and "The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher"
• Course notes for OSU Mansfield's Biochem 511: http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/~sabedon/biochem511.htm

Leisure science and engineering

• The clock of the long now : time and responsibility / Stewart Brand
• The wind and beyond : Theodore von Kármán, pioneer in aviation and pathfinder in space, by Theodore von Kármán with Lee Edson
• Richard Buckminster Fuller
  • Ideas and integrities. 1963.
  • Cosmography.
  • Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
  • Tetrascroll : Goldilocks and the three bears, a cosmic fairy tale by R. Buckminster Fuller
• Introducing Mathematics, by Ziauddin Sardar, et al. 1999.
• 650 Home Plans: From Cottages to Mansions, by Inc. Home Planners.
• Good Housekeeping, 100 Best One-Dish Meals.
• JunkBots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels: Building Simple Robots With BEAM Technology, by David Hrynkiw and Mark Tilden
• Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, by Mitchell M. Waldrop
• Valentino Braitenberg, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
  • Wikipedia this stuff, this is one sweet book.
• The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinity, by Wyn Wachhorst
  • This is a beautiful book. I should buy a copy for Dr Hemami.
• Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions, by Frederick Mosteller.
• How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff (40th printing)
• Robert Zubrin, The Case for Mars.
  • I love this guy!
• Paul Graham, ANSI Common Lisp.
  • Ditto!!! His essays are awesome.
• Kodak Guide to Shooting Great Travel Pictures.
• LV Tarasov, Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics. (Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1980.)
• Microcosmos : four billion years of evolution from our microbial ancestors / Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
  • Great.
• Maxwell Rosenlicht, Introduction to analysis. 1968.
• R. Malone, J.C. Suares, Rocketship. 1977.
• The meme machine / Susan Blackmore
  • Chapter 10: 'An orgasm saved my life'
• George Dyson, Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship. 2002.
• Athermal fusion?! http://fusor.net/newbie/files/Ligon-QED-IE.pdf
• The serendipity of the American space program: "Sputnik at 50: An improvised triumph" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070930/ap_on_sc/sputnik_s_secrets (local)
• Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, by Mongan, et al. Recommended by Ross.

Universal/historiography

• Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, by Jürgen Habermas
• The hero with a thousand faces, by Joseph Campbell
• The making of the modern mind : a survey of the intellectual background of the present age / John Herman Randall, Jr., 1976 (50 year edition)
• The Golden Bough, by James George Frazer
  • owned
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes
  • owned
• A Study of History / Arnold J Toynbee (vols 1, 6, 1947-1957)
• Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford history of the American people. 1965.
• Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. 1987.
• Machiavelli's The Prince
  • trans. Robert Adams (Norton Critical imprint)
  • trans. Marriott (Britannica Great Books, vol 23 w/ Hobbes)
• Machiavelli's Discourses
  • trans. Crick
• Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (trans. Reeve/Bowen/Bradley)
• Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (x2)
• Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. (Britannica Great Books, vol 23 w/ Machiavelli)
• Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier. (Trans. Opdyke)
• Europe: A History, by Norman Davies.
• James Burke, Connections. (Yes, the book to accompany the awesome first BBC series.)
• Introducing Trotsky and Marxism, by Tariq Ali and Phil Evans. 2000.
• HDF Kitto, The Greeks.
  • Wonderful little book.
• The Realities Behind Diplomacy: Background Influences on British External Policy 1865-1980, by Paul M. Kennedy
• Everyday Life in Babylonia and Assyria / H. W. F Saggs. 1965.
• A history of Greece to 322 BC / NGL Hammond. Third edition.
• Ralph Roeder, The Man of the Renaissance, Four Lawgivers: Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Aretino.
• Africa in History, by Basil Davidson (2001)
• Ancient American Civilizations (History of Civilization), by Friedrich Katz (1989)
• Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life, by Oswald Spengler
  • From a review by Pillsky on Amazon: "The Faustian Culture, of which America is a younger shoot, based in Western Europe, began to form around 1000 AD and it is marked by spiritual uncertainty, but an innate ability in Spengler's theme of "Technics." Technics involves the use of the reasoning faculties of the Mind in accordance with the physical use and manipulations of objects by the Hand to make whatever that is outside of man's being in Nature subject to man's will. This provides obvious advantages and also extremely serious disadvantages as well. The more a group of human beings became more machine, material and industry orientated, the more they tried to control Nature--the more Nature will eventually bring about the destruction of the human Culture that builds itself up over time and becomes overgrown, the same as individual plants, animals and plants die--as living organisms."

The greatest literature ever

• Homer's Iliad
  • trans. Stanley Lombardo
  • trans. Robert Fitzgerald
  • trans. Smith/Miller (line for line translation in dactylic hexameters)
  • Christopher Logue's translation, whenever complete
• Homer's Odyssey
  • trans. Fitzgerald
  • trans. Fagles
• Dante's Inferno (trans. Ciardi)
• Herodotus, The Histories, (1- trans. de Selincourt, 2- trans. David Grene)
• Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, (ed. Cawley, Everyman's Library)
• Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (trans. Staniforth)
• Plato
  • Republic (trans. Jowett)
  • Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (trans. Grube)
  • Five Dialogues: Ion, Symposium, Meno, Phaedo, Phaedrus. (trans.: various, Everyman's Library, 1952)
• Plutarch's Lives (trans. Dryden/Clough, one volume Modern Library)
• Ovid's Metamorphoses (Garth)
• Virgil's Aeneid (trans. Fitzgerald)
• Xenophon, Anabasis (trans. Dakyns. Wierd IndyPublish.com imprint?)
• Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching
  • trans. JCH Wu, B&N imprint (beautiful, with original Chinese)
  • trans. Lau, Penguin Classics
• The Complete Plays of Aristophanes, Bantam Classics, various translators.
• Tacitus. The Histories. (trans. Wellesley, Penguin Classics imprint)
• Cicero, Selected Orations. The original Latin text with an interlinear English Translation by Frederick Holland Drewey and Others. The Translation Publishing Co., 1961.
• Aristophanes, Three Comedies: The Birds, The Clouds (trans. Arrowsmith), The Wasps (trans. Parker). Ann Arbor Paperbacks.
• The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito of Plato (trans. Jowett), The Golden Sayings of Epictetus (trans. Crossley), The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (trans. Long). The Harvard Classics imprint.
• Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (Modern Library imprint, trans. Frances Winwar)

Epistemology, psychology, and sociology

• If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients, by Sheldon Kopp
• The logic of scientific discovery / Karl Popper
• Memories, dreams, reflections. (Carl Jung's autobiography)
• Montaigne, Essays (circa 1580)
  • trans. Screech
  • trans. Cotton/Hazlitt
• Eric Hoffer
  • The Ordeal of Change (1963)
  • Reflections on the Human Condition
  • The True Believer
  • The Passionate State of Mind
• Carl Sagan. The Demon-Haunted World.
• Essentials of Indian Philosophy, by M. Hiriyanna.
• Don Palmer, Looking at Philosophy, Second Ed.
• George Soros, the Age of Falliability: Consequences of the War on Terror. 2006.
  • He has a chapter about Popper's concept of an open society.
• Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. 1999.
• Crimes Against Logic, Jamie Whyte (2004)
• Toxic sludge is good for you : lies, damn lies, and the public relations industry / by John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton (1995)
• Propaganda and the public mind : conversations with Noam Chomsky / David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky (2001)
• Propaganda, Edward Bernays (1928)
• Essential Manners for Men: What to Do, When to Do It, and Why, by Peter Post. (2003)

Economics and finance and urban planning

• The origins of value : the financial innovations that created modern capital markets / edited by William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst. 2005.
• Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. 2005.
• The undercover economist : exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor, and why you can never buy a decent used car / Tim Harford. 2005.
• The death of industrial civilization : the limits to economic growth and the repoliticization of advanced industrial society / Joel Jay Kassiola. 1990.
  • Modern rise of economics and the demise of politics
• Industrial development in Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea / Kwong Kai-Sun, et al. 2001.
• Twilight in the desert : the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy / Matthew R. Simmons. 2005.
• Jane Jacobs
  • Cities and the Wealth of Nations. 1984.
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities. 1961.
  • The Economy of Cities. 1969.
• Hedgehogging, by Barton Biggs. 2005.
• My life as a quant : reflections on physics and finance / Emanuel Derman. 2004.
• J DeRooy, Economic Literacy, What Everyone Needs to Know about Money and Markets. 1995.
  • Bland but effective---I learnt about inflation, interest, and liquidity. And the triad of individuals, banks, and the Fed. How interest rates, quantity of money, debt, growth, inflation, exchange rates are related to each other.
• PJ O'Rourke, Eat the Rich, A Treatise on Economics. 1999.
  • Entertaining more than educational; a tour of some of the world's economies (Wall Street, Albania, Sweden, etc.). But I did learn about equity, debt, and derivatives.
• John Kenneth Galbraith, Economics in Perspective, A Critical History. 1987.
  • Keynesian
• Man, Economy, and State, by Murray Newton Rothbard. 1962.
• Security Analysis, by Benjamin Graham, David Dodd. 1941.
• Benjamin Graham, The intelligent investor; a book of practical counsel.
• Economics for real people : an introduction to the Austrian school / Gene Callahan. 2002.
• Free to Choose, by Milton and Rose Friedman. 1980.
• Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck. 2001.
• The alchemy of finance : reading the mind of the market / George Soros. 1987.
• A history of interest rates / Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla. (Orig 1963, revised last 2005.)
• Dying of money: lessons of the great German and American inflations / Jens O. Parsson. 1974.
• Debt and Delusion, by Peter Warburton. 2000.
• A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy : Eighty-One Basic Economic Concepts That Will Change the Way You See the World / Randy Charles Epping. 3rd ed., 2001.
• The Only Three Questions That Matter: Investing by knowing what others don't / Ken Fisher. 2006.
• The single best investment : achieve lasting wealth with low risk, steady growth stocks / Miller, Lowell. 1999.
  • From FSO. With a thesis that steadily rising dividends are a litmus test of raw earning power, and makes the case that it is this rise in dividends over time that double-compounds the equity's worth. I want to learn from this book more about both the accounting ratios used to determine other aspects of profitability as well as to understand when to sell such stock. I'm thinking of GE as good, and Korea Electric Power ADR (KEP) as not so good (rising dividends since '02, nothing in '06 and after).
• Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse / Peter Schiff. 2007.
  • Also from FSO. If the dollar collapses, foreigners will flock in and purchase all the beachfront property. Have your money in foreign denominations so you'll be a buyer and not a seller!
• Morningstar.com recommends some good classical investing texts:
  • A random walk down Wall Street : the time-tested strategy for successful investing / Burton G. Malkiel. Several decades updating.
  • The only investment guide you'll ever need / Andrew Tobias
  • The Intelligent Investor / Benjamin Graham
• Financial reckoning day : surviving the soft depression of the 21st century / William Bonner with Addison Wiggin
  • Read this all the way through. Very interesting section on demographics of stock markets.
• Suggested by Jim Puplava on the Great Depression:
  • America's great depression, by Murray N. Rothbard (great summary of Austrian economics, online at http://www.mises.org/rothbard/agd/contents.asp)
  • The forgotten man : a new history of the Great Depression / Amity Shlaes
• The case against the Fed / Murray N. Rothbard
• The road to serfdom / F.A. Hayek
  • Classic libertarian philosophy written during the socialist-trending nations in the post-WWII West.
• Whatever happened to penny candy? Fast, Clear, and Fun Explanation of the Economics You Need For Success in Your Career, Business, and Investments (An Uncle Eric Book), by Richard J. Maybury
• A demon of our own design : markets, hedge funds, and the perils of financial innovation / Richard Bookstaber
  • Great FSO interview, this guy "didn't cause the 1987 crash or LTCM, but let's just say he was at the controls."
• Gold: The Once and Future Money, by Nathan Lewis
  • FSO interview. Hopefully will answer the questions about cornering of the market should we return to a gold standard. I want platinum-backed currency. It's stable!
• Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity, by Raghuram G. Rajan, Luigi Zingales
  • http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3652
  • "The recent increase in militarism across the globe may hopefully be only a minor footnote in history. If it is not, however, we should be on guard — for such times bring faith, perhaps excessive faith, in the powers of government."

Some books on accounting and Austrian economics cited in FSO editorials such as this. The Cleveland Fed also publishes some potentially very valuable material.

Languages

• The Everything Learning Latin Book, by Richard E. Prior
• Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, adaptation in simple French by R. de Roussy de Sales.
  • Sweet!!!
• George Sand, Lettres d'un Voyageur
• Albert Camus, L'étranger
• Jean Cocteau, Les enfants terribles
• Jean Anouilh, Le Voyageur sans Bagage suivi de Le Bal des Voleurs.
• Saint-Exupéry, Pilote de guerre.
• Pliny, Fifty Letters.
• A Pocket Chinese-Russian-English Dictionary, arranged by the Rosenberg Graphical System / John S. Barlow. University of Hawai'i Press. 2000.
• English Grammar for Students of {Latin/French/German}.
• Teach Yourself Latin / Gavin Betts. (This is the real deal, Roman Latin, not Church Latin.)
• Cours Pratique de Francais pour Commencants / E.B. de Sauze. 1927.
• Victor E Francois. First Latin with Collateral Reading, Book One. Allyn and Bacon's Junior Latin Series. 1926.
• Hans H Orberg. Lingua Latina I: Familia Romana
  • Learner entirely in the Latin.
• Practical Chinese Reader I, Commercial Press, Beijing, PRC.
• E.J. Neather, Mastering French. Hippocrene Master Series.
• A.H. Groton and J.M. May, Thirty-eight Latin Stories, Designed to Accompany Wheelock's Latin.

Fiction

• Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett
• Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
• Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Book of Imaginary Beings, by Jorge Luis Borges.
• Don Quixote, by Cervantes
• Herman Hesse
  • Steppenwolf
  • Siddhartha
• Conned again, Watson! : cautionary tales of logic, math, and probability / Colin Bruce. 2001.
• Walden / Henry D. Thoreau.
• Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn, 2000.
  • "There are days when I get up in the morning and stagger into the bathroom and begin running water and then I look up and I don't even recognize my own ___."
    • (Answer: "toothbrush in the mirror." Fabulous.)
• Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (props to Wikipedia's Borges entry)
  • Borges: "Those works suffer under the imperfection that they themselves are books, and not a whit less tautological than the others. A more reasonable, more inept, and more lazy man, I have chosen to write notes on imaginary books."
• Not a book but... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnyQrkXJc5k Team 459 FIRST 2002 3d Animation!
• David Brin's Uplift universe, beautifully long blurb and amazing timeline! http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553377965&view=excerpt

No idea...

• Dhalgren / Samuel R. Delany
• Programming the Human Biocomputer, by John Cunningham Lilly
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan. By Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson

Things to do before 30

Section started June 23, 2006.

• backpack in europe and stay in prague and vienna. (contact zak and dennis and victoria first)
• paraglide. if possible, by the ocean, and through mountain ranges (alps?)
  • Early-September 2006. Santa Barbara, http://www.flyaboveall.com
• ski.
  • March 4, 2007, http://www.skimadriver.com/
• snowboard. (crazy skateboard with caster, snowboard for roads)
• learn jazz piano/improv well.
• run 10 miles.
• live in san francisco, seattle, portland, cambridge, or someplace old american urbanist for at least 6 months.
• visit hong kong or shanghai or tokyo etc for a few days. (shinjuku, tribeca)
• make money buying and selling an option.
• regain fluency in french, and some erudition in golden age latin. (maybe periclean or homeric greek :/ might have to give this 20 years)
• learn harmonica

Things to get

Originally, a Christmas wishlist on facebook. Imported here for posterity.

1. Marshall McLuhan ahtonology.
2. A Norbert Weiner anthology. At least his Norbert Weiner's "Cybernetics" (1948).
3. More undershirts and Fruit of the Loom knit underpants (with solid colors and gray waistband) and black and white socks. (Actually, hold the phone on this one, a huge underwear injection happened for the Florida trip.)
4. Cloud's giantassed sword from Final Fantasy 7. Sharp so nobody will mess with me in downtown Aachen.
5. Swimming speedo.
6. An Eric Hoffer compilation.
7. cloak
8. pattern analysis knowledge

House log

Ahmed has filled out paperwork to move all IRA savings to Vanguard. Today is the day I start self-managing my portfolio! AhmedFasih 19:24, 4 June 2007 (EDT)

AhmedFasih 23:52, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Ahmed tries to do a handstand off the couch but leaves a butt-shaped imprint on the wall. :( AhmedFasih 13:20, 11 March 2007 (EDT)

Rick walks into Apt 710, sees Ahmed splayed shirtless on the coffee table getting a massage. Tim hears the commotion and comes out of his room, looks around, and informs Rick, "I'm not wearing any pants." I'd like to know what was going through Rick's head at that point.

This past week, Ahmed has leveled up smoothie skill, egg salad sandwich skill, eating after working out skill, and most recently started building OMO skill. AhmedFasih 22:11, 27 February 2007 (EST)

Quotes

• stay safe lil duckie

Hatem: I'm done with exams now, so I've got plenty of time :P
me: Congrats!!!
 Lol, I remember the post-exam period as being one of immense laziness
 And screwing around
 and gaming
Hatem: haha
 sounds like the pre-exam period :P

root2you: my engagement present; a recipe:
pomegranate liquor - 2 oz
triple sec - 1.5 oz
1tsp fresh squeezed lime juice
top off rocks glass with cranberry juice
most excellent drink

• Sevarius to Xanatos: "Don't you have some junk bonds to sell?" (Gargoyles)

• I'm a baby hacker, I can spell "CHEEEEEEEESE"!

Sandbox

This is from the Main_Page!

• http://www.mexicanpictures.com/headingeast/2007/08/night-trains-morning-trains.html
• http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnari
• http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/06/05/researchers_track_how_spores_break_out_of_dormant_state.html
• http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/06/05/modeling_the_restless_brain.html
• http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/06/03/math_that_powers_spam_filters_used_to_understand_how_brain_learns_to_move_our_muscles.html

607S (06) BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS - SHIPMAN

3 HOURS FIRST SEMESTER, CONTINUED FOR 3 HOURS SECOND SEMESTER

"This course--which is beneficial for any lawyer--begins by covering agency and partnerships in some depth, for agency and partnership principles pervade the law and our society. Most of the work of the world is done by agents (e.g., employees) working for principals (e.g., employers). Agents have the capacity to change their principal’s legal relations with third parties (e.g., respondent superior liability), an awesome power. Partnerships are simply mutual agencies. One who sues will usually carefully consider whether to sue the agent, the principal, or both; the answer usually depends on agency law. And corporations can, of course, act only through human agents--the corporation’s officers and employees. As a final example of the sweep of agency law, note that franchising law is, in considerable part, built upon agency law. Moreover, agency law superbly illustrates the “connectedness” of life and the law, as one analyzes the triangle of agent/principal/third party and adds to that other parties such as insurers. Limited liability companies and Registered Partnerships are covered in an introductory way, for these new forms of business associations will have great importance in the future. About two-thirds of the course is devoted to the business corporation--formation, operation, and fiduciary duties. The course is designed to give a student sound introduction to most office practice and planning issues, as well as most litigation considerations. A substantial part of the course is devoted to the extensive federal law in the area, but most of the course covers state law, which predominates in the business associations area. Most coverage of state law is devoted to Ohio law, though considerable Delaware law is also surveyed. Among the statutes that are a part of the course materials are prints of Chapters 1701 and 1707 of the Ohio Revised Code. The course assumes NO prior knowledge of economics, business, finance, or accounting. We build from the ground up; and we study finance, economics, etc., only as they interest a judge, legislator, regulator, administrator, or practicing lawyer.

"The December exam (25% of your grade) will cover work in the first semester. The final exam (75% of your grade) will cover the whole course. There are no papers or memoranda. We will use a standard casebook and book of statutes and offset materials. The course is quite operational, planning-oriented, tactical, pragmatic, and transactional, although we also cover traditional legal doctrine, analytical, and policy matters. This reflects the real world.

"This course involves a great deal of reading, and students will have to integrate various doctrines and practical considerations--a reflection of what a lawyer actually does. Moreover, statutes and regulations--as well as caselaw--are common in this course, as is true in life. On the other hand, the course is not nuclear physics. The course requires only considerable constancy of effort in preparation--and in integration and review." http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/registrar/2003-04/0304-coursedescrip.html

Foucault's Pendulum inspired studies

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http://spitecast.com/wiki/index.php/FC_8 contradicts http://www.huge-entity.com/2006/03/on-nature-of-shattering-god-in-stained.html and I am inclined to believe the former. See Image:Review_of_'Iranian_Manichaean_Turfan_Texts_in_Publications_since_1934,'_ed._Weber.pdf, a review of a compilation of the Turfan texts. I am attempting to track down translations of all recovered fragments.

Enlil

   The people became numerous...
   The god was depressed by their uproar
   Enil heard their noise,
   He exclaimed to the great gods
   The noise of mankind has become burdensome...

Getting this from the library!