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Making Cheese and Butter (Country Kitchen Library) de Phyllis Hobson

Aircraft owner's handbook: Everything you need to know about buying, operating, and selling an aircraft de Timothy R. V Foster

The Art of Memory de Francis A. Yates

The divine Pymander, and other writings of Hermes Trismegistus

The Perry Mason TV Show Book: The Complete Story of America's Favorite Television Lawyer, by Two of the Greatest Fans de Brian Kelleher

From the inside to the outside : the art and ritual of Bahian Candomblé de Mikelle Smith Omari

The Golden Bough de James George Frazer

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Grupos"I See Dead People's Books", Alexander the Great, Anarchism, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Ancient China, Ancient Egypt, Ancient History, Arab, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Art Books, Art History — mostrar todos os grupos

Autores favoritosJorge Luis Borges, Richard Burton, Pliny the Elder, James George Frazer, John Gerard, Edward Gibbon, Henry James, James Joyce, Hugh Kenner, Athanasius Kircher, Ronald Knox, Plutarchus, Ezra Pound, Thomas Pynchon, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Gertrude Stein, Laurence Sterne, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf (Favoritos em comum)

Livrarias favoritasAvenue Victor Hugo, Boston Book Annex, Brattle Book Shop, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, New England Mobile Book Fair, Raven Used Books, Rodney's Bookstore, Schoenhof's Foreign Books

Bibliotecas favoritasBoston College - O'Neill Library, Boston Public Library (Central Library, Copley Square), Boston University - Mugar Memorial Library, MIT - Hayden Memorial Library (Building 14)

Sobre mimMathematician. Classicist. Entrepreneur. Art collector.

Sobre a minha bibliotecaAreas include language and literature. Many of our books relate to our other collecting interests, such as African and Gandharan art and Chinese furniture. Some books come close to forming collections in their own right, such as vegetarian cookbooks from around the world.

All the books we have at present should be entered and I am trying to keep up with new ones. Tags are still in progress, sometimes only recording where books came from when entered. In particular, tags that subsume others are often missing.

Our house is also full of magazines. So far, I am only cataloging special issues, complete runs, bound volumes, etc. I do not have a good strategy for the rest yet. The same goes for auction catalogs.

I have some bound material from the early days of the ARPANET and AI that I will try to catalog as I uncover it.

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Nome verdadeiroMike McMahon

LocalizaçãoChestnut Hill, MA, USA

E-mailmmcmcomcast.net

Tipo de contapública, vitalício

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Conhecimento CompartilhadoSéries (416), Prêmios (316), Personagens (3363), Lugares (871)

Membro desdeOct 2, 2005

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MMcM adicionou:
Collecting movie posters : an illustrated reference guide to movie art-- posters, press kits, and lobby cards de Edwin E. Poole

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Inside Thai society : interpretations of everyday life de Niels Mulder

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The periodic table de Primo Levi

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A guide to New England's landscape de Neil Jorgensen

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The dark voyage and the golden mean; a philosophy of comedy de Albert Spaulding Cook

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Coyote : seeking the hunter in our midst de Catherine Reid

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Thanks for your help on æøåÆØÅ conversion. I'm using MacOS (because the
Palm Desktop does the job for me. I've downloaded the xls file and
lt_import.sh --record-encoding ISO-8859-1 gives me the most useful version,
but æøå turns into (3/4) (? bottom up) (large OE ligature).
I've seen this kind of garbage before though, so this may or may not be
the PalmThing applications fault. The Palm Pilot character set is based
on Windows codepage 1252? If I'm correct, this means that
Unicode æøå are utf-8 encoded as Ã¦ Ã¸ Ã¥ and I'd hoped that they ended up
as codepoints 230 248 229. What appears on my Zire 71 looks like codepoints
190 191 140 to me.

I haven't looked so much on what happens without the record-encoding option since
that looked worse.

This is not a bit deal since I can easily recognize my books and PalmThing is
a great help. I'd just like to look a bit nicer.

escrito por bnielsen, às 10:06 am (EST) , Jun 24, 2009

Hi
I really like the PalmThing application. Some of the Danish characters æøåÆØÅ don't survive the trip though and turns into rather weird characters instead. Could you spare a minute or two to explain which character conversions are involved? I use linux and can easily convert the .xls file if only I knew what was going on :-)

escrito por bnielsen, às 6:37 am (EST) , Jun 15, 2009

scanned, posted cover of the Max Ernst MOMA 1961 exhibit catalog

escrito por chuck_ralston, às 10:38 am (EST) , Mar 8, 2009

Speaking of Roubaud, I was thinking to his book entitled Mathématiques : (he insisted on the colon at the end), which is partly autobiographic (his early days when he studied maths in Paris short after WWII). I don't know if there is an English translation.

Yours

escrito por Pepys, às 12:22 pm (EST) , Nov 4, 2008

Hello Mike,

Thanks for your ever appreciated contributions in the different groups both of us belong to.

I'm very impressed by the size and content of your library... Is the picture made of several snapshots you did at home?

Also, I wonder if you ever read anythink by Jacques Roubaud, qui était un mathématicien comme vous, mais aussi un membre de l'Oulipo fondée par Queneau.

Yours,
François

escrito por Pepys, às 10:47 am (EST) , Nov 3, 2008

Thanks - I didn't know about A Covey of Partridge. I'll look into that - might be an easier book to get my hands on.

My interest in Partridge is from a lexicography point of view but I am also interested in WW1. Additionally his autobiography apparently includes childhood/youth in New Zealand and Australia, which are collectively where I come from. So the book seemed a good fit all round!

escrito por zenomax, às 12:01 pm (EST) , Sep 2, 2008

Hi - you are showing as having listed Eric Partridge In His Own Words. Is this an autobiography?

And if so, what period of his life does it cover?

The only autobiography I was aware of was Frank Honywood: Private which I have been seeking for some time.

Thanks.

escrito por zenomax, às 12:19 pm (EST) , Aug 31, 2008

Yes, when you see me scrub the pages quickly, that's using an eraser to get rid of pencil lines that show. Thanks for watching.

escrito por belleyang, às 1:45 pm (EST) , Jul 4, 2008

http://www.redroom.com/video/forget-sorr...
Mike, I wanted to share this video I made with you.

escrito por belleyang, às 8:26 pm (EST) , Jul 3, 2008

I am curious about "Myths,Mountains and Mandalas" by Bill Kite. This may be my brother-we have lost connection.

Roy Kite
Roykite2004@yahoo.com

escrito por roykite111, às 7:02 pm (EST) , May 18, 2008

Hi, MMcM--Hi, I'm glad you saw the display. It looked a bit haphazard but I am glad they were able to have it up. I've been to Boston 4 previous times but with this trip I was able to spend an entire week and fell madly in like with the city. I hope I'll have another chance to visit. I loved the Driscoll School and the Commonweath school. The students were super. Thank you for asking.

escrito por belleyang, às 9:33 pm (EST) , Jan 14, 2008

I was just looking at your blog. Very interesting. You should post more!

Laura

escrito por perodicticus, às 4:53 pm (EST) , Sep 26, 2007

Your initials keep popping up on shared books. Surprisingly, though we both have many books tagged "plants" these are rarely amongst the coincidences. Your photo of book shelves is alarming, I'm still trying to find a home for mine and probably only have about half as many.

Gerald, Sintra, Portugal

escrito por botanica, às 10:35 am (EST) , Aug 27, 2007

I did not think that there were very many others in this world who had copies of the history of magic and experimental science by thorndike!....but it seems we share similar interests.... Someday I will have my entire collection catalogued...it used to number nearly 12,000 but I sold the bulk of it to a private collector a number of years ago. Now, it is about 3,500 titles and quite a few on my 'virtual' listings.

escrito por oldmanriver1951, às 7:47 pm (EST) , Jun 26, 2007

Thank you for the wonderful posts about the Sapho fragment in 'Poetry in Translation'. The references were very helpful. ( I liked the literal translation the best. ) You are lucky to have Greek.

escrito por almigwin, às 10:52 pm (EST) , Mar 30, 2007

Thanks! You are right, this bad info comes from a variety of sources. I am glad that most of my favorite authors don't have this ambiguity, but the few who do, drive me crazy!

escrito por oregonobsessionz, às 3:13 am (EST) , Feb 24, 2007

I thought you had taken a photo of my library for a minute.
Best wishes,
Menarue

escrito por Menarue, às 2:45 pm (EST) , Feb 20, 2007

Thanks (belatedly) for your advice on Bookchin!

escrito por jacr, às 3:30 pm (EST) , Feb 17, 2007

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