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Monday, September 14, 2020

HUM 112 The Scientific Revolution

Sunday, September 13, 2020

HUM 111 Music in Ancient Greece

Music and creativity in Ancient Greece - Tim Hansen

Let’s Begin…

You think you love music? You have nothing on the Ancient Greek obsession.

Every aspect of Greek life was punctuated by song: history, poetry, theater, sports and even astronomy.

In fact, music was so important to Greek philosopher Plato that he claimed the music we listen to directly affects our ethics.

Tim Hansen wonders what Plato might have to say about the music we listen to today.

Music and creativity in Ancient Greece - Tim Hansen, 4:45

https://youtu.be/-1aAunaw1GA

Saturday, September 12, 2020

HUM 111 Ancient Greek Inventions

Ancient Greek Inventions

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https://www.ancient.eu/article/1165/ancient-greek-inventions/

Friday, September 11, 2020

HUM 111: Jerusalem and Athens

Jerusalem and Athens

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https://online.hillsdale.edu/courses/western-heritage-2017/lecture-01/lecture-1

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Design Thinking

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Understand

“What have you done to build a deep understanding of our customer? Do you understand their fundamental goals, behaviors, and motivations? How?”
“How will you keep these goals in mind during the product development process?”

Envision

“How did you generate ideas to respond to our customer’s goals?”
“In this process, did you include a diverse group of stakeholders — including technical, marketing, sales, customer service or other departments who may bring unique and valuable perspectives to the discussion?”

Prototype

“How might we try out your team’s best ideas to determine if we’re on the right track, before investing a lot in development or deployment?”

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Design

Senior lecturer in MIT's School of Engineering Blade Kotelly discusses how design can improve users' lives by finding solutions for gaps (0:53). He then discusses the ten-step design process he uses while teaching at MIT (3:49). You can find more information about his ten-step design process here.

Blade explains that generally "the less obtrusive a solution is, the more natural it feels...the more powerful the solution can be" (3:39). Can you recall a product or experience (virtual or physical) that solved a problem for you in a unobtrusive and effective way? Consider why that solution was powerful.

Blade Kotelly: Finding Design Opportunities

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Stanford d.school:https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/

Ideo.Org:https://www.ideo.org/approach

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Design Intro

Flow

Meet Design Thinking

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Presentation

Future

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Illustration of Design

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BACKGROUND

With increasing competition in Ohio and nationally for a dwindling number of high school students, the University of Dayton (UD) works hard to meet and exceed its enrollment targets without compromising academic quality. While some private schools have struggled in recent years to fill first-year classes, UD, a toptier Catholic research institution, received in 2012 approximately 200 more enrollment confirmations over its goal, despite offering admission to 1,000 fewer applicants. As a result, the university improved its selectivity rate – an indicator of academic excellence and a key factor in national rankings – from 76 percent to 55 percent. To better understand and leverage the drivers of their growing enrollment success, UD engaged Fidelum Partners to apply its warmth and competence insights framework to the enrollment process.

SOLUTION

To uncover the most critical drivers of student enrollment, Fidelum Partners gathered and analyzed the warmth and competence perceptions of more than 1,500 recently admitted students, along with relevant admissions, academic and financial aid data. As part of its unique relationship-focused analysis, Fidelum Partners then identified four unique relational segments of admitted students, each with differing enrollment priorities, perceptions and behavior:

High-Scoring Skeptics (18%) – These high-scoring students average a 3.95 high school GPA and are highly sought after by multiple institutions. However, less than 30 percent of these chose to enroll at UD due to their skepticism about the University’s academic reputation and the scholarship opportunities available to them.
Less Prepared Fans (15%) – Though less well-prepared academically and financially, these students are enthusiastic fans of everything about UD. Nearly 60 percent of them chose to enroll, but they arrive having maintained a relatively lower average high school GPA (3.3).
Solid Academic Balancers (32%) – These students are as equally concerned with the quality of campus living and learning environment as they are academic reputation. While they appreciate UD’s academic strength — and bring an average high school GPA of 3.9 — nearly half of them chose to enroll and most cite the incredible sense of community and close-knit campus as the primary reason they did so.
Average Academic Believers (34%) – These prospective enrollees have a high school GPA matching the 3.7 average of all admitted students. They are enthusiastic believers in UD’s size, location, campus environment and academic reputation, which helps explain why 56 percent of them chose to enroll.

How Warm & Competent Admissions Relationships Drive Student Enrollment

The analysis also revealed that students’ priorities and perceptions of UD, based on Fidelum Partners’ warmth and competence dimensions, had been a major driver of enrollment decisions, explaining fully 33 percent of all matriculation behavior alone. This breakthrough method for identifying and assessing the drivers of student behavior was developed in collaboration with renowned psychologists at Princeton University and was recently published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology. ¹

Over the past several decades, social psychologists have deduced that as early humans struggled for survival they had to develop an ability to make two kinds of judgments quickly and accurately: “What are the intentions of others toward me?” and “How capable are they of carrying out those intentions?” Researchers call these two critical categories of human perception “warmth” and “competence.” These spontaneous judgments still dominate human perception and behavior, subconsciously guiding most of our decisions, particularly as they relate to our interactions and relationships with others. Fidelum Partners has extended this insights model to higher education institutions, finding that at the deepest level, students make application and enrollment decisions precisely the same way — instinctively judging schools on warmth and competence.

Not surprisingly, Fidelum Partners’ analysis also found that these warmth and competence dimensions are directly related to the relationships formed by prospective students during the admissions process – especially with admissions personnel, current students, and faculty and staff. In fact, fully 26 percent of enrollment behavior could be attributed to the strength of these relationships with UD stakeholders. Together, warmth, competence and UD stakeholder relationships explained a whopping 44 percent of all student matriculation decisions. While financial aid is certainly significant, the analysis revealed that it drives only 25 percent of student enrollment decisions at UD.
Moreover, for every one point increase in perceived warmth and competence (on a 7 point scale), prospective students’ overall relationship with UD improves by 20 to 34 percent. Similarly, for every one point increase in their overall relationship with UD, students’ likelihood to enroll at the University of Dayton improves by a remarkable 42 percent.

What these findings suggest is that higher education institutions must better understand the widely varying warmth, competence, and relational priorities and perceptions of prospective students, as well as better align their admissions efforts and experience with the unique needs of each relational segment.

NEW STRATEGIC DIRECTION

Already recognized as an innovator and thought-leader in enrollment management, UD is building on their recent success with a greater emphasis on establishing warmth and competence-based relationships with all applicants to the University. To enable this shift, UD is making strategic changes to key elements of their admission and campus visit programs to better facilitate and enable stronger relationships with applicants. In addition, Fidelum Partners has been retained to develop and deliver an insight-based relationship development training program to the entire UD enrollment management team, including student tour guides

“As a top-tier Catholic research university we pay close attention to how the values of our transformational community are demonstrated to prospective families. When I read about the warmth and competence framework, I became convinced that those insights would be valuable to our efforts. These Fidelum Partners concepts are new to higher education, but their application is proving successful here, and I believe we have even more to gain from it.”

Jason Reinoehl
Executive Director, Enrollment Strategies & Operations
University of Dayton

¹ Brands as Intentional Agents Framework: How Perceived Intentions and Ability Can Map Brand Perception, Nicolas Kervyn, Susan T. Fiske, and Chris Malone, Journal of Consumer Psychology 22 (April 2012) pp. 166-176.

A Primer on Design Thinking – Educational Innovation Through Empathy

Session Overview:

Design Thinking may seem confusing but it should not. You have likely heard about Design Thinking in the press, blogs, and podcasts but may unsure how it applies to your world.

Design Thinking is a framework and set of processes that has evolved out of the “designers toolkit” of delivery. Placing a focus on empathy and problem-led delivery, it marries human centered design with meaningful customer experiences to deliver more relevant, lasting educational value. Design Thinking flies in the face of traditional solution-led delivery by answering the question of Why people need products and services, not How or Where. Rather than traditional product and solution methods that start with an end state in mind, Design Thinking revolves around empathy and focuses on the true understanding of an audience.

Solutions are crafted in a creative, unencumbered approach that fulfills the audiences needs through iterative product delivery.

During this session, G. Mick Smith, PhD, Principal of Smith Consulting, will call on his years of experience applying innovative educational thinking in product management, enterprise strategy, and digital transformation roles. Mick will introduce attendees to the Design Thinking process, showcase brand leaders who are applying this process to transform their businesses, share how this framework can support both educational and product innovation, and facilitate some hands-on, application based learning for all participants. Attendees will walk away with the foundational knowledge to apply Design Thinking to their educational imperatives while focusing on driving transformation and innovation.

Who Should Attend? Those Educational Leaders Who Want To:

· Launch new, innovative solutions into content delivery;
· Prioritize a student, customer-first culture and delivery mindset;
· Increase engagement and retention with your students;
· Foster alignment between education and tech teams.

If you’re looking to refresh your strategies for supporting L&D, design thinking may provide just the infusion of energy that you need. Design thinking is what we DO as designers and strategists; and there are practices honed in the design thinking movement that can reenergize your creativity and enable you to craft novel solutions.

In this fast-paced, interactive workshop, you’ll get a chance to play with the tools and techniques of design thinking and experience how they can invigorate your work. You’ll see how design thinking is more than a toolkit, though – it’s a mindset that can transform how you design and facilitate, and it’s an approach that improves the quality of your outputs. The workshop will help you to rediscover the joy of design.

Through this workshop, you’ll be able to:

Transform your approach to assessment with empathizing
Generate and play with ideas to produce unique recommendations
Use rapid prototyping and iterating to hone your solutions
More deeply integrate design thinking into your standard processes

https://designthinkingforeducators.com/

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Wednesday, September 9, 2020

HIS 105 HUM 112: The Revolution Will Not Be Instagrammed

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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

If You’re Happy

Happy

Monday, September 7, 2020

Carry Me, Olivia Millershin

Carry Me

Sunday, September 6, 2020

HUM 111 Rome’s Vegas

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Saturday, September 5, 2020

REL 212 Winston Churchill on Islam

About Islam he wrote:

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD PCc DL FRS RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As a Member of Parliament (MP), he represented five constituencies over the course of his career, in both England and Scotland. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory during the Second World War. He was Conservative Party leader from 1940 to 1955. Translated from Swedish, his citation upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 reads, "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".

Friday, September 4, 2020

REL 212: Jerusalem

Seal

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Thursday, September 3, 2020

REL 212: LDS Mormon Temple

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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Trophy for Students

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Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Decentralized AI

Monday, August 31, 2020

ATD: Mindfulness

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Organizations report 65 percent lower share price over time and 18 percent lower productivity because of disengaged employees. You have the power to positively influence employee engagement and organizational productivity by being a mindful leader. In this webcast, you’ll learn the steps to become a mindful leader.

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Sunday, August 30, 2020

REL 212 Christmas Anti-Muslim

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Saturday, August 29, 2020

REL 212 HUM 112 Atatürk

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Friday, August 28, 2020

Progressive Delusion Horowitz

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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Democratic Governors Discriminate Against Christians and Violate the First Amendment

Christianity was advanced by bold leaders willing to give everything, even their freedom and their lives, like the Apostle Paul. Some of Paul's letters were written when he was in prison for preaching the Gospel. Here in America -- a nation birthed in religious freedom — such courage in the face of persecution is needed once again.

Liberty Counsel now has five federal lawsuits representing churches and pastors in Maine, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois and California against the illegal, unconstitutional orders of lawless governors.

The facts of our case in Illinois, where city officials threatened to seize and destroy the churches we represent in Chicago, are shocking. However, the recent actions of CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Pasadena City Prosecutor have brought a new level of tyranny against faithful Christians in America.

"It has come to the attention of the Pasadena City Prosecutor's Office that your facility is not operating in compliance with the order of Governor Newsom.... We have information that your church was conducting live indoor church services at the location where anywhere from 50 to 100 people or more attended."

That's how the letter to Harvest Rock Chapel in Pasadena began. Issued Thursday, August 13, by the Criminal Division of the Pasadena City Prosecutor’s Office, the letter cited Gov. Newsom's unconstitutional total ban on worship:

"This letter is to remind you that violation of these orders are criminal in nature. Each day in violation is a separate violation and carries with it a potential punishment of up to one year in jail and a fine for each violation.... Your compliance with these orders is not discretionary, it is mandatory. Any violations in the future will subject your church, owners, administrators, operators, staff and parishioners to the above-mentioned criminal penalties as well as the potential closure of your church." [emphasis added]

Harvest Rock Church closed in mid-March. Churches are more (at least they should be) than an auditorium where people enjoy music and hear a message. Closing the ministries took a toll on the community. The elderly were isolated, the sick suffered, the children mourned for fellowship and every social ill increased.

Seeking God's direction, Pastor Ahn knew it was time to reopen. Pentecost Sunday, May 31, was the first in-person worship in months. The joy of fellowship was palpable and moving.

On July 6, Gov. Newsom banned singing and chanting. Then on July 13, he banned ALL WORSHIP, even in private homes. On July 17, Liberty Counsel filed a federal lawsuit.

Since the prosecutor's letter on August 13, this faithful immigrant pastor, along with the church's staff, and EVERY parishioner face daily criminal charges, each punishable for up to one year in prison and daily fines.

Liberty Counsel has formally responded to the Pasadena prosecutor reminding the prosecutor of some indisputable facts of constitutional law...

1. Americans have a RIGHT to religious freedom, unencumbered by the demands and edicts of government officials.

The City of Pasadena has no authority to prohibit people from attending church. In fact, the Supreme Court has expressly forbidden such action. The Court's decision in the 1947 case Everson v. Bd. Of Educ. Of Ewing Twp., 330 U.S. 1, 15 clearly states: "Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church . . . Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will." (emphasis added).

2. Government entities may not discriminate against one constitutionally protected right while promoting another.

The prosecutor's letter to Harvest Rock Church was particularly appalling because he asserts that the city has been enforcing the governor's orders against all gatherings in the city. Not true!

As reported with pictures and video by the local and national media, on at least three occasions - June 1, June 6 and June 10 – hundreds, if not thousands, of people gathered in the streets of Pasadena as part of the BLM protests shaking the country. No social distancing or masks were required, let alone enforced. Even when the protestors blocked the expressway on June 1, the city prosecutor issued NO threats of criminal sanctions or enforcement against the protestors.

3. The First Amendment is not just for the state's favored speech.

The fact of the matter is, NONE of the rights enumerated within our Constitution may be impaired. And just as no government may remove any right enumerated, neither can a government official — even Pasadena's city prosecutor – show favor to one protected right (the right to peaceably assemble), over another (the right to worship according to one's conscience).

4. The threat of criminal sanction against only religious adherents is reminiscent of tyrannical regimes, not America. We are a nation birthed with religious freedom.

We stand ready to vindicate the constitutional rights of Harvest Rock Church, Pastor Ché Ahn and all of Harvest Rock Church's members and congregants in Pasadena’s criminal courts.

We will not stop until religious freedom is FULLY RESTORED.

No pastor or parishioner in America should be forced to make a choice between worshipping in church and sitting in prison.

Progressive Era Napolitano

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Reading since summer 2006 (some of the classics are re-reads): including magazine subscriptions

Abbot, Edwin A., Flatland;
Accelerate: Technology Driving Business Performance;
ACM Queue: Architecting Tomorrow's Computing;
Adkins, Lesley and Roy A. Adkins, Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome;
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations;
Ali, Tariq, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity;
Allawi, Ali A., The Crisis of Islamic Civilization;
Alperovitz, Gar, The Decision To Use the Atomic Bomb;
American School & University: Shaping Facilities & Business Decisions;
Angelich, Jane, What's a Mother (in-Law) to Do?: 5 Essential Steps to Building a Loving Relationship with Your Son's New Wife;
Arad, Yitzchak, In the Shadow of the Red Banner: Soviet Jews in the War Against Nazi Germany;
Aristotle, Athenian Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. Virtues and Vices. (Loeb Classical Library No. 285);
Aristotle, Metaphysics: Books X-XIV, Oeconomica, Magna Moralia (The Loeb classical library);
Armstrong, Karen, A History of God;
Arrian: Anabasis of Alexander, Books I-IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 236);
Atkinson, Rick, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Liberation Trilogy);
Auletta, Ken, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It;
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice;
Bacevich, Andrew, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism;
Baker, James A. III, and Lee H. Hamilton, The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach;
Barber, Benjamin R., Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy;
Barnett, Thomas P.M., Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating;
Barnett, Thomas P.M., The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century;
Barron, Robert, Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith;
Baseline: Where Leadership Meets Technology;
Baur, Michael, Bauer, Stephen, eds., The Beatles and Philosophy;
Beard, Charles Austin, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (Sony Reader);
Benjamin, Daniel & Steven Simon, The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America;
Bergen, Peter, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader;
Berman, Paul, Terror and Liberalism;
Berman, Paul, The Flight of the Intellectuals: The Controversy Over Islamism and the Press;
Better Software: The Print Companion to StickyMinds.com;
Bleyer, Kevin, Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America;
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Bracken, Paul, The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics;
Bradley, James, with Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers;
Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre;
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights;
Brown, Ashley, War in Peace Volume 10 1974-1984: The Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of Postwar Conflict;
Brown, Ashley, War in Peace Volume 8 The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of Postwar Conflict;
Brown, Nathan J., When Victory Is Not an Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics;
Bryce, Robert, Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence";
Bush, George W., Decision Points;
Bzdek, Vincent, The Kennedy Legacy: Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled;
Cahill, Thomas, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter;
Campus Facility Maintenance: Promoting a Healthy & Productive Learning Environment;
Campus Technology: Empowering the World of Higher Education;
Certification: Tools and Techniques for the IT Professional;
Channel Advisor: Business Insights for Solution Providers;
Chariton, Callirhoe (Loeb Classical Library);
Chief Learning Officer: Solutions for Enterprise Productivity;
Christ, Karl, The Romans: An Introduction to Their History and Civilization;
Cicero, De Senectute;
Cicero, The Republic, The Laws;
Cicero, The Verrine Orations I: Against Caecilius. Against Verres, Part I; Part II, Book 1 (Loeb Classical Library);
Cicero, The Verrine Orations I: Against Caecilius. Against Verres, Part I; Part II, Book 2 (Loeb Classical Library);
CIO Decisions: Aligning I.T. and Business in the MidMarket Enterprise;
CIO Insight: Best Practices for IT Business Leaders;
CIO: Business Technology Leadership;
Clay, Lucius Du Bignon, Decision in Germany;
Cohen, William S., Dragon Fire;
Colacello, Bob, Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911 to 1980;
Coll, Steve, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century;
Collins, Francis S., The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief ;
Colorni, Angelo, Israel for Beginners: A Field Guide for Encountering the Israelis in Their Natural Habitat;
Compliance & Technology;
Computerworld: The Voice of IT Management;
Connolly, Peter & Hazel Dodge, The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens & Rome;
Conti, Greg, Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?;
Converge: Strategy and Leadership for Technology in Education;
Cowan, Ross, Roman Legionary 58 BC - AD 69;
Cowell, F. R., Life in Ancient Rome;
Creel, Richard, Religion and Doubt: Toward a Faith of Your Own;
Cross, Robin, General Editor, The Encyclopedia of Warfare: The Changing Nature of Warfare from Prehistory to Modern-day Armed Conflicts;
CSO: The Resource for Security Executives:
Cummins, Joseph, History's Greatest Wars: The Epic Conflicts that Shaped the Modern World;
D'Amato, Raffaele, Imperial Roman Naval Forces 31 BC-AD 500;
Dallek, Robert, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963;
Daly, Dennis, Sophocles' Ajax;
Dando-Collins, Stephen, Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome;
Darwish, Nonie, Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror;
Davis Hanson, Victor, Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome;
Dawkins, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker;
Dawkins, Richard, The God Delusion;
Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene;
de Blij, Harm, Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America, Climate Change, The Rise of China, and Global Terrorism;
Defense Systems: Information Technology and Net-Centric Warfare;
Defense Systems: Strategic Intelligence for Info Centric Operations;
Defense Tech Briefs: Engineering Solutions for Military and Aerospace;
Dennett, Daniel C., Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon;
Dennett, Daniel C., Consciousness Explained;
Dennett, Daniel C., Darwin's Dangerous Idea;
Devries, Kelly, et. al., Battles of the Ancient World 1285 BC - AD 451 : From Kadesh to Catalaunian Field;
Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations;
Digital Communities: Building Twenty-First Century Communities;
Doctorow, E.L., Homer & Langley;
Dodds, E. R., The Greeks and the Irrational;
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The House of the Dead (Google Books, Sony e-Reader);
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The Idiot;
Douglass, Elisha P., Rebels and Democrats: The Struggle for Equal Political Rights and Majority Role During the American Revolution;
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear;
Dr. Dobb's Journal: The World of Software Development;
Drug Discovery News: Discovery/Development/Diagnostics/Delivery;
DT: Defense Technology International;
Dunbar, Richard, Alcatraz;
Education Channel Partner: News, Trends, and Analysis for K-20 Sales Professionals;
Edwards, Aton, Preparedness Now!;
EGM: Electronic Gaming Monthly, the No. 1 Videogame Magazine;
Ehrman, Bart D., Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scriptures and the Faiths We Never Knew;
Ehrman, Bart D., Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why;
Electronic Engineering Times: The Industry Newsweekly for the Creators of Technology;
Ellis, Joseph J., American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson;
Ellis, Joseph J., His Excellency: George Washington;
Emergency Management: Strategy & Leadership in Critical Times;
Emerson, Steven, American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us;
Erlewine, Robert, Monotheism and Tolerance: Recovering a Religion of Reason (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion);
ESD: Embedded Systems Design;
Everitt, Anthony, Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor;
Everitt, Anthony, Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician;
eWeek: The Enterprise Newsweekly;
Federal Computer Week: Powering the Business of Government;
Ferguson, Niall, Civilization: The West and the Rest;
Ferguson, Niall, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power;
Ferguson, Niall, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000;
Ferguson, Niall, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Decline of the West;
Feuerbach, Ludwig, The Essence of Christianity (Sony eReader);
Fields, Nic, The Roman Army of the Principate 27 BC-AD 117;
Fields, Nic, The Roman Army of the Punic Wars 264-146 BC;
Fields, Nic, The Roman Army: the Civil Wars 88-31 BC;
Finkel, Caroline, Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire;
Fisk, Robert, The Great War For Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East;
Forstchen, William R., One Second After;
Fox, Robin Lane, The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian;
Frazer, James George, The Golden Bough (Volume 3): A Study in Magic and Religion (Sony eReader);
Freeh, Louis J., My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror;
Freeman, Charles, The Greek Achievement: The Foundations of the Western World;
Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Further Updated and Expanded/Release 3.0;
Friedman, Thomas L., The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization;
Frontinus: Stratagems. Aqueducts of Rome. (Loeb Classical Library No. 174);
Fuller Focus: Fuller Theological Seminary;
Fuller, Graham E., A World Without Islam;
Gaubatz, P. David and Paul Sperry, Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America;
Ghattas, Kim, The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power;
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