User:DavidBlackwell
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David C. Blackwell Groveland, Mass. 01834 USA
Interested in Maps, History, and Technology.
Trying to put out of copyright local history books and atlases on line. Primarily Massachusetts, Maine, and Derbyshire.
I've digitized about 100 out of copyright local history books and need to find an online place to easily put them. Some of them are here: http://www.usigs.org/library/books/ma/index.html but they are running out of disk space and bandwidth.
During the DotCom bust I volunteered at the Essex County (Salem) Registry of Deeds and digitized dozens of atlases (some online now) and old record books including the old records of the old Norfolk County which at that time included towns north of the Merrimack River (which are not online).
Recommend Website - http://books.google.com lots of out of copyright books digitized. Wonderful.
Recommended TV - Time Team and Coast by the BBC.
Recommended Books
- Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond also
- Plagues and People by William McNeill
- Genome by Matt Ridley, published 1999.
- Periodic Table by Primo Levi.
- The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman.
This book gives many obvious and interesting facts about Globalization, and the end of the book asks many troubling questions. (also see http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/ )
- How Many People Can the Earth Support by Joel E. Cohen
- The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto ILD, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 PBS, 6, .
- World on Fire by Amy Chua on market elites and globalization.
- Free Culture - How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity - by Larry Lessig - it is free online and available at your bookstore. This is an important book on corporate copyright hijacking and the hijacking of our culture by corporations.
- Facing Up by Peter G. Peterson - President of the Concord Coalition, on "How to Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt and Restore the American Dream"
- Nikola Tesla's Autobiography - http://harmonhouse.net/fdl/tesla.htm
Other recommended authors: Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Lester Thurow, Howard Gardner, Rudy Rucker, Douglas Hofstadter].
978 373-2358 if you want to talk about maps, history, or technology.
