Christmas List, 2004

I thought for my first journal entry that I might share my Christmas list. My wife and family insist every year that I provide them with one, and each year it's similar to the last. Only the titles and the names of the authors change (mostly).

1.“Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic” by Anita Burdman Feferman and Solomon Feferman
2.“Faces in the Water” by Janet Frame
3.“Janet Frame” by Janet Frame (autobiography)
4.“Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism” by Susan Jacoby
5.“Java Cookbook, 2nd Edition” by Ian F. Darwin (computer programming)
6.“The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins
7.“A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson
8.“Dark Age Ahead” Jane Jacobs
9.“The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell” by Bertrand Russell (note: do not confuse this with his second volume, one that I already possess, “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1914-1944”)
10. “Bertrand Russell: 1921-1970, The Ghost of Madness” by Ray Monk
11. “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee
12. “The Origins of Totalitarianism” by Hannah Arendt
13. “The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set, 3rd Edition” by Donald E. Knuth (list price is $164.99 but can be ordered from Amazon at a 24% savings for a total of $125.39, no including shipping, of course. You might also be able to find a used set at Amazon of via eBay. Also make sure that it is the 3rd edition and not 1st or 2nd edition.)
14. “Daniel Dennett (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus)” by Andrew Brook (Editor), Don Ross (Editor)
15. “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath” by Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil (Editor)
16. “Half a Life” by V. S. Naipaul
17. “Fearful Symmetry” by Northrop Frye
18. “Complete Essays of Montaigne” by Michel E. De Montaigne, Translated by Donald M. Frame. Published by Stanford University Press, June 1, 1985.
19. “Samuel Johnson” by Walter Jackson Bate. Published by Counterpoint Press, Jun 1, 1998
20. ”Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)” by Donald Greene. Published by Oxford University Press, July 1, 2000.
21. “Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I - The Poetry of Desire (1749 – 1790)” by Nicholas Boyle. Published by Oxford University Press, September 1, 1992.
22. “Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume II - Revolution and Renunciation” by Nicholas Boyle. Published by Oxford University Press, July 1, 2003.
23. “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Paperback Classics)” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brooks Atkinson (editor). Published by Modern Library, September 12, 2000.
24. “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II : Within A Budding Grove” by Marcel Proust. Published by Modern Library, November 3, 1998.
25. “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III : The Guermantes Way” by Marcel Proust. Published by Modern Library, November 3, 1998.
26. “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV : Sodom and Gomorrah” by Marcel Proust. Published by Modern Library, February 16, 1999.
27. “In Search of Lost Time, Volume V : The Captive & The Fugitive” by Marcel Proust. Published by Modern Library, February 16, 1999.
28. “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI : Time Regained” by Marcel Proust. Published by Modern Library, February 16, 1999.
29. “Civilization and Its Discontents” by Sigmund Freud. Published by W. W. Norton and Company. Reissue edition, July 1, 1989.