2025 SRP

Summer reading program: 2025

• Reference, math:  
• Super Simple Math, The Ultimate Bite-Size Study Guide, Smithsonian, DK Penguin Random House, glossy; a nice book for parents to review when helping their children through public school, elementary to high school.
• The Daring Invention of Logarithm Tables: How Jost Bürgi, John Napier, and Henry Briggs Simplified Arithmetic And Started The Computing Revolution, Klaus Truemper, the color edition, c. 2020.
  
• AI reading program:
  
• The Innovators: How A Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson, c. 2015.  
• The Story of Semiconductors, John Orton, c. 2004. Incredible resource.  
• The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created The Modern World, Simo Winchester, c. 2018. 
• The Chip War, 
  
• Biographies:
• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, T. J. Stiles, c. 2009.
• The Lunar Men, Jenny Uglow; read it years ago; reading it again.
  
• Suddenly Something Clicked: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design, Walter Murch, c. March, 2025.
  
• The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, H. W. Brands, c. 2000. I've had this book for quite some time; I've "read" it once, but now, after reading The Lunar Men, I'm interested in reading this again.  
• The Rough Riders: An Autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt, c. 2004. Really, really good. Series: The Library of America. 
• The Seven Storey Mountain: An Autobiography of Faith, Thomas Merton, c. 1998.
• The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion, Ford Madox Ford, c. 1915.
• Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin and a Century in Two Lives, Karin Wieland, translated by Shelley Frisch, c. 2011. Grapevine, TX, library, August 1, 2025.
  
• Annotated classics:
• Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, Laura Ingalls Wilder, editor, Pamela Smith Hill, c. 2014; South Dakota Historical Society Press. 
• The Annotated Great Gatsby: 100th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, editor, James L. W. West III, c. April 10, 2025
• Art, pottery, clay:
  
• The Traditional Potters of Seagrove, North Carolina: And Surrounding Areas from the 1800s to the Present, Robert C. Lock, c. 1994. 
  
• Red Brick Black Mountain White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival, Christopher Benfly, c. 2012; Penguin soft cover, 2013.
  
• Art, movies:
• Suddenly Something Clicked: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design, Walter Murch, c. March, 2025.
• Art, fine:
• Modern Painters, John Ruskin, edited and abridged by David Barrie. The Pilkington Press Art and Culture Series, London, c. 1987, 2000.
• Coffee-table book:
• Cistercian Abbeys: History and Architecture, Text by Jean-François Leroux-Dhuys, Köemann, c. 1998.
  
• Pre-history, the Mideast:
  
• Life in Ancient Egypt, Adolf Erman, c. 1971; Translated by H. M. Tirard with an introduction by Jon Manchip White; notes here.
• Assyria: The and Fall of the World's First Empire, Eckart Frahm, c. 2023.
• Stories From Ancient Canaan, Second Edition, Michael D. Coogan, c. March 15, 2012. Notes here.
• The Invention Of Hebrew, Seth L. Sanders, c. 2009. Notes here. 
• Who Really Wrote The Bible? The Story Of The Scribes, William M. Schniedewind, c. 2024, Princeton University Press. Notes here.
• Thutmose III and Hatshepsut Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives, Aidan Dodson,
  
•  Pre-history, miscellaneous:
• 1177 BC The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H. Cline, c. 2021. Updated. Tracked here. c. 2025, The American University in Cairo Press (wow)
• WWII:
• Operation Paperclip: The Secret intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America, Annie Jacobson, c. 2014. Grapevine, TX, library, August 1, 2025.
  
• Food and drink:
  
• The Cocktail, Parragon Publishing, 2010.
  
• USAF:
  
• Lockheed -130, FlightCraft 32, British publication, $24.95, through Amazon, Ben Skipper, c. 2024.