Fumi
|
Fumi |
Library |
Among many books, books written in English were listed here.
| Serial No. | Title | Author | Publishing Co. | Comments | Rating | Category | Purchase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 042 | The Ascent of Man | J. Bronowski | British Broadcasting Corporation | BBC TV program in 1973 | Excellent | anthropology | 1973/01/01 |
| 051 | A Brief History of Time | Stephen W. Hawking | Bantham Books | Subtitle: From The Big Bang to Black Holes Best seller translated into Japanese in 1989 |
Good | physics | 1988/01/01 |
| 065 | Dove | Robin Lee Graham | Bantam Books | 16- year-old Robin Lee Graham sts sail on a 5-year round the
world voyage single handed in24-foot sloop. He tells story of his conquest and the love of a beautiful girls. |
Excellent | logbook | 1980/01/01 |
| 066 | Sailing to Freedom | V. Veedam, C.B. Wall | The Companion Book Club London | read this book in Das Island. A cruise from Stockholm to Canada in 37 foot Erma. |
Good | logbook | 1975/01/01 |
| 067 | Schoonerman | Captain Richard England | Penguin Books | Story about final Schooner in English and Irish sea. | Good | logbook | 1983/01/01 |
| 103 | In Search of Excellence | T. H. Peters, R. H.. Waterman | Harper & Row | Best seller book written by Tom Peters. | Good | business | 1983/07/19 |
| 158 | Watership Down | Richard Adams | Macmillan Publishing Co. New York | contemporary novel | Good | fiction | 1973/01/01 |
| 159 | Red Storm Rising | Tom Clancy | G. P. Putnam's Sons New York | It was not brilliant as a best seller book, "The Hunt for Red October". (Library Serial No.589) | Good | fiction | 1987/01/01 |
| 160 | Kain & Abel | Jeffrey Archer | Fawcett Crest, New York | Very enjoyable. | Good | fiction | 1980/01/01 |
| 161 | Ten Little Niggers (And Then There Were None) |
Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 7 Agatha's books which I have read during my stay in
England. |
Excellent | mystery | 1973/03/01 |
| 162 | Death on the Nile | Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 7 Agatha's books which I have read during my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1973/02/01 |
| 163 | Great Voyage in Small Boats: Solo Circumnavigations | John Guzzwell, Vitro Dumas, Joshua Slocum | John de Graff Inc, New York | This book contains following 3 stories. Trekka Round the World by John Guzzwell 1963 Alone Through the Roaring Forties by Vitro Dumas 1960 Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum 1900 |
Excellent | logbook | 1978/01/01 |
| 168 | The Bean Report | none | Warner Communications Co. | Strange book |
Good | unclassified | 1984/01/01 |
| 270 | The Thames Valley | Frank Martin | Spurbooks Ltd. | About history and life of The Thames Valley. | Good | anthropology | 1973/01/01 |
| 271 | Bob Roy | Martin Evans | Model & Allied Publications Ltd. | How to make a 3-1/2 inch gauge steam engine model. | Good | model making | 1973/01/01 |
| 272 | Model Boilers and Boilermaking | K. N. Harris | Model & Allied Publications Ltd. | How to make a miniature boiler for model steam engine. | Good | model making | 1973/01/01 |
| 321 | What Will Be | Michael Dertouzos | Harper Collins | First book purchased from amazon.com. | Good | computer | 1997/05/14 |
| 322 | net gain | J. Hagel III, A.G. Armstrong | Harvard Business School Press | Book about internet trading. | Good | computer | 1997/03/01 |
| 323 | Improving Performance | G. A. Rummler, A. P. Brache | Jossey-Bass | Subtitle: How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart. | Good | business | 1994/04/01 |
| 336 | Crazy Times Calls for Crazy Organizations | Tom Peters | Vintage | Seminar by The Tom Peters. | Good | business | 1997/01/17 |
| 337 | Wireless Networking Handbook | Jim Geier | New Riders Publishing | Hand book about Wireless Networking. | Good | computer | 1997/06/25 |
| 339 | The Pursuit of WOW | Tom Peters | Vintage | Subtitle: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times. Seminar by The Tom Peters. |
Good | business | 1997/01/17 |
| 357 | The Harley-Davidson Motor Company | David K. Wright | Mortorbooks International | Subtitle: An Official Ninety-Year History of H-D. | Good | motorcycle | 1996/01/01 |
| 361 | Breakthroughs | Gunter Pauli | Epsilon Press Ltd. | Subtitle: What business can offer society. | Good | computer | 1991/09/19 |
| 369 | Our Stolen Future | Theo Colborn et al | A Plume Book | Most Influencing book after Rachel Louise Carson's book, "Silent Spring" | Good | nature | 1997/12/01 |
| 379 | Master and Commander | Patrick O`Brian | W.W. Norton & Company | Story about British navy during admiral Nelson's time. | Good | fiction | 1998/03/18 |
| 387 | The mind of god | Paul Davis | Simon & Schuster | Most intellectual book. | Excellent | physics | 1993/01/01 |
| 432 | Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | W.W. Norton & Company New York London | Prof. Krugman recommended this book. Mr. Greenwood purchased at Amazon.com as no Japanese translation was not available at August 1999. Easy to read. Mr. Greenwood have read his previous book," The Third Chimpanzee" Serial No.8) Pulitzer Prize Mr. Greenwood have read this first half in original language and latter half in Japanese translation. It took a year and 4 months until he completed reading it. In this period, he also have read 32 additional books. Jared Diamond put an emphasis on geographical reasoning for technological and social evolution. This is the main reason of slow reading speed of Mr. Greenwood. But at the last minute in epilogue he was awakened by the finding that China's failure of superseding Europe was attributable to China's unity and Europe's disunity. It seemed very paradoxical. But he says that technology may have developed most rapidly in region with moderate connectedness, neither too high nor low. Technology's course over the last 1,000 years in China, Europe, and possibly the Indian subcontinent exemplifies those net effect of high, moderate, and low connectedness, respectively. Thus he comes back to his theory of the relevance of environmental factors. It is very consistent theory indeed. Japan adopted similar close door policy like China about 400 years ago. Last 100 years were spent for catching up. |
Excellent | anthropology | 1999/08/31 |
| 444 | Emotional Intelligence Why it can matter more than IQ |
Daniel Goleman | Bloomsbury | Daniel Goleman argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, and that our emotions play a far grater role in thought, decision making and individual success than is commonly acknowledged. | Excellent | Business | 2000/04/28 |
| 449 | An Artist of The Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro | Vintage Books | Mr. Ron Cooper has sent me? The book has arrived at 13th. I
soon started reading the book. Next day, Japanese translation has
arrived. Naturally, I switched to Japanese. I completed reading in
17th. I read it without big incongruity except the word used by
Setsuko. She often used the words" Forgive me". First I felt some
strange feeling with it but when I compared it with Japanese
translation "gomenasai", I felt it natural. It is a word often used by
women. As the subject of the book was very general which tells about one's glory and regret. I think any one experience similar emotion in his lifetime and whish to write similar book if he has a talent. Anyway, I enjoyed it very much. |
Good | Novel | 2000/09/13 |
| 478 | Development as Freedom | Amartya Sen | Andor Books | Amartya Sen, who received the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1998, presents a landmark work that places individual freedom at the center of a comprehensive analysis of today's global economy. The focus of this work is on freedom both as the basic end and as the most effective means of sustaining economic life and countering poverty and insecurity in the contemporary world. This is a paradigm-altering foundation for understanding the demands of economic development in the twenty-first century. | Economics | 2001/05/09 | |
| 485 | Princes of the Yen | Richard A. Werner | Sousisha | An interesting book written by Richard A. Werner called
"Princes of the Yen". Mr. Richard A. Werner is a German born economist
educated in Oxford. He was a researcher in BOJ and Ministry of Finance
over 10 years. His point is that Bubble economy of Japan was intentionally created and punctured by the same man called Mr. Mieno, ex-Chairman of BOJ. The tool he used was a maximum loan limit to each commercial bank set by BOJ. Economics tells us that prime rate is the tool normally used by Central Bank. But when maximum borrowing limit was reduced by BOJ when they couldn't reach maximum limit set by BOJ at the beginning of the year, they will do their best to lend money to doughtful borrowers such as speculative investors. By increasing maximum loan limit about 10% each year, bubble economy was created and punctured by throttling the valve. No economist, analyst, government officials, politician, media realized the fact. Then what was his intention. Late Mr. Maekawa who was a senior ex-Chairman of BOJ, wrote a famous Maekawa report, proposing that Japan should make a structural reorganization from the wartime economy established in World War II to an Anglo-American type free economy. The wartime economy was so successful and destroyed world economical structure. He wrote that the wartime economy is not sustainable. Then the question arose. Established economical structure is so strong, who can reorganize the system peacefully. Mr. Richard A. Werner speculates that Mr. Maekawa influenced Mr. Mieno to make a big impact to Japanese economy unsuspected by anyone. Recent stubborn like behavior of BOJ neglecting Prof. Krugman's suggestion could be explained by BOJ's another ambition. Prof. Krugman suggested that BOJ to announce that they will not throttle the valve even in case of inflation. The author says that BOJ tried to put pressure on ministry of finance to be divided and weakened and putting pressure on politician to make new law assuring independence of the central bank. Eventually, BOJ succeeded. The author is very concerned by world trend of giving independence to the central bank. He even suspect Mr. Greenspan's behavior saying that regardless his frequent manipulation of prime rate, net money supply to US market does not reflect the prime rate. Unfortunately, the book is not published in English. (Library Serial No.483) |
Excellent | Economics | 2001/05/28 |
| 548 | Murder in the Mews | Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 6 Agatha's books which I have read after my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1975/04/01 |
| 549 | By the Prickling of My Thumbs | Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 7 Agatha's books which I have read during my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1973/02/01 |
| 550 | Passenger to Frankfurt | Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 7 Agatha's books which I have read during my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1973/02/01 |
| 551 | Parker Oyne Investigates | Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 6 Agatha's books which I have read after my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1974/02/01 |
| 552 | The Myster of the Blue Train | Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 6 Agatha's books which I have read after my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1975/02/01 |
| 553 | A Pocket Full of Rye | Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 6 Agatha's books which I have read after my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1978/02/01 |
| 554 | Appointment with Death | Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 7 Agatha's books which I have read during my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1973/02/01 |
| 555 | The Man in the Brown Suite | Agatha Christie | Pan Books | One of 7 Agatha's books which I have read during my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1973/02/01 |
| 556 | Halloween Party | Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 7 Agatha's books which I have read during my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1973/02/01 |
| 557 | The ABC Murders | Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 6 Agatha's books which I have read after my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1974/02/01 |
| 558 | Five Little Pigs | Agatha Christie | Fontana Books | One of 6 Agatha's books which I have read after my stay in England. | Good | mystery | 1976/02/01 |
| 568 | Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | Penguine Books | One of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
Very few books change the course of history.
Jamed Loverock however value contribution of DDT for improving quality of life in tropical regions in "the revenge of Gaia" Sailent Springをも一度私の書棚を再度さがしましたら見つかりました。妻が輪読目的で購入したという記憶がよみがえりました。Prefaceは南極探検のShackletonが書いています。Shackletonの本の朗読EnduranceのCDもでてきた。 たまたまレイチェル・カーソンが英国で評判になってその当時貴族議員だったころ、序文をたんだということのように読み取れます。 ところでこの本は1語を除き、辞書は不要でした。その語はBorgiasでした。ボルジア家独特の猛毒を用いて政敵を次々に毒殺した歴史から引用したのだとおもいます。 米国の化学会社が開発した骨格から水素をハロゲンに置換した人工化合物を金持ちになった企業をボルジャ家に引き換えたのでした。 |
Good | Science | 2003/05/16 |
| 589 | The Hunt For Red October | Tom Clancy | Berclay Books, New York | Best seller book. Purchased in US during business trip and enjoyed very much. Movie was also made. | Excellent | fiction | 1987/01/01 |
| 630 | Feynman's Lost Lecture | David L. Goodstein & Judith R. Goodstein | W.W. Norton & Company | With CD | Excellent | Science | 2004/05/23 |
| 829 | The Revenge of Gaia | James Lovelock | Penguine Books | Horrible story about global heating | Excellent | Science | 2006/12/20 |
| 832 | Great Tales From English History The Battle of The Boyone to DNA |
Robert Lacey | Little Brown | Toby's Christmas Present | Excellent | History | 2006/12/25 |
| 833 | when the river run dry What happens when our water run out? |
Fred Pearce | Random House | Toby's Christmas Present | Excellent | Science | 2006/12/25 |
| 834 | Theo Van Rysselberghe | Belgian Art Research Institute | Bozar Books | I like his paintings | Excellent | Art | 2006/12/20 |
| 1384 |
The Sense of Wonder |
Rachel Carson |
HayprtCollinsPublishers |
Fumie's book |
Excellent |
Science |
2020/7/26 |