Mandatory reading for students, January and February 2010:

Essentials of Research Methods
by Janet M. Ruane

Pub. Date: 2005
ISBN:    0-631-23049-1

Art of the month

TITLE: Sand Animation

ARTIST:  Kseniya Simonova (24), Ucraine

WORK DATE:  2009

MATERIALS: Fine volcanic sand from Italy

SIZE:   
 
LOCATION:
 

Word of the Month

tick·y-tack·y (t¹k“¶-t²k”¶) n. 1. Shoddy material, as for the construction of standardized housing. --tick·y-tack·y adj. 1. Made of shoddy material; cheaply built. 2.a. Marked by a mediocre uniformity of appearance or style: ticky-tacky rows of look-alike houses.

Science news of the month

Retina Implant Project

Mandatory reading for students, December 2009:

Addiction is a Choice
by Jeffrey A. Schaler, Ph.D.

Pub. Date: 2000
ISBN:  0-8126-9404-X

Art of the month

TITLE:  The Annunciation

ARTIST: Jan van Eyck, c. 1390 - 1441

WORK DATE:  Painted c.1434/1436

MATERIALS: Oil transferred from panel to canvas

SIZE:   37 in × 15 in
 
LOCATION: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
 

Word of the Month

di·gres·sion (dº-grµsh“…n, d¹-) n. 1. The act of digressing. 2. An instance of digressing, especially a written or spoken passage that has no bearing on the main subject. --di·gres“sion·al adj.

1. (n.) The act or an instance of digressing:

    • apostrophe

    • aside

    • departure

    • detour

    • deviation

    • divagation

    • divergence

    • episode

    • excursus

    • irrelevancy

    • parenthesis

    • tangent

2. (n.) Variance from prescribed actions or expected behavior:

    • deviation

    • noncompliance

    • aberration

    • anomaly

    • divergence

    • departure

    • irregularity

    • abnormality

    • nonconformity

    • conformity (antonym)

Science news of the month

Environmentally-acquired bacteria influence microbial diversity and natural innate immune responses at gut surfaces

Mandatory reading for students, November 2009:

Collective Intelligence and E-Learning 2.0 : Implications of Web-Based Communities and Networking
by Harrison Hao Yang

Pub. Date: August 2009
ISBN: 1605667293 

Art of the month

TITLE:   Le pêcheur et le batelier

ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1796-1875

WORK DATE:  Painted c.1865

MATERIALS: oil on canvas

SIZE:   12 x 20 1/2 inches
 
LOCATION: Private collection, 2006
 

gob·ble·dy·gook also gob·ble·de·gook (g¼b“…l-d¶-g‹k”) n. Unclear, wordy jargon. [Imitative of the gobbling of a turkey.]

Mandatory reading for students, October 2009:

Why I Am Not a Muslim
by IBN Warraq
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Pub. Date: March 2003
ISBN-13: 9781591020110

Art of the month

TITLE: Koska Kar

ARTIST: Victor Vasarely

WORK DATE: 1971-1972

MATERIALS: acrylic on canvas

SIZE: h: 55 x w: 55 in / h: 139.7 x w: 139.7 cm
 
LOCATION: Gallery  Marc Hachem, 988 Madison Ave
New York, New York 10075 USA
 

Word of the Month

mac·a·da·mi·a nut (m²k”…-d³“m¶-…) n. The round, hard-shelled nut or the edible seed of the Australian tree Macadamia ternifolia, now cultivated in Hawaii. [New Latin Macadamia, genus name, after John Macadam (1827-1865), Scottish-born Australian chemist.]

Mandatory reading for students, September 2009:

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: An Easy-to-Use Guide with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples, and Reproducible Quizzes
by Jane Straus, USA  2007, ISBN-13: 9780470222683

Art of the month

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife by Jan van Eyck
1434, Oil on panel, Dimensions 82 × 59,5 cm
Current location National Gallery, London, UK

Word of the Month

per·i·o·don·tal (pµr”¶-…-d¼n“tl) adj. 1. Surrounding or encasing a tooth: a periodontal ligament. 2. Relating to or affecting tissue and structures surrounding and supporting the teeth. --per”i·o·don“tal·ly adv.

Mandatory reading for students, June/July/August 2009  - it is watching this movie:

The Great Global Warming Swindle

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020027/

Download torent at http://www.mininova.org/com/1584963

Art of the month

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
The Violinist
Date: 1912-14
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Location: Kunstsammlung, Duesseldorf, NRW, Germany  
Original Size: 

Word of the Month

gul·li·ble (g¾l“…-b…l) adj. Easily deceived or duped. [From gull2.] --gul”li·bil“i·ty n. --gul“li·bly adv.

1. (adj.) Not suspicious; trusting:

    • unsuspicious

    • confident

    • trustful

    • unsuspecting

    • innocent

    • naive

    • ingenuous

    • suspicious (antonym)

Mandatory reading for students, April 2009

Steven Stralser, Ph.D.
MBA In A Day
What You Would Learn at Top-Tier Business Schools (If You Only Had the Time!)
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, 2004
ISBN 0-471-68054-0

Art of the month

Adolph Gottlieb
1903 - 1974

Cool blast
Oil on canvas
Size 90 x 70 in. / 228.6 x 177.8 cm.
Year 1960 -

Word of the month

leviathan (l…-vº“…-th…n) n. 1. Something unusually large of its kind, especially a ship. 2. A very large animal, especially a whale. 3. Bible. A monstrous sea creature mentioned in the Old Testament. [Middle English, huge biblical sea creature, from Late Latin, from Hebrew liwy³t³n Canaanite ltn, Lotan, the Hydra.]

Mandatory reading for students March 2009 (unless you play already chess):

Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Chess, by Jon Edwards
2007, Wiley Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-04983-9

Art of the month

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
Title Au Moulin Rouge
Year 1892, 1895
Oil on canvas
Dimensions  123 × 140,5 cm
Current location  Art Institute of Chicago

Word of the month

forlorn, adj. 1.a. Appearing sad or lonely because deserted or abandoned. b. Forsaken or deprived: forlorn of all hope. 2. Wretched or pitiful in appearance or condition: forlorn roadside shacks. 3. Nearly hopeless; desperate. See Synonyms at despondent.

Mandatory reading for all students Feb 2009:

Boost Your Interview IQ
by Carole Martin , paperback , 165 pages, publisher: McGraw-Hil, pub. date: January 2004
ISBN-13: 9780071425476

Art of the month

Alexander Calder. (American, 1898-1976). Constellation with Red Object. Roxbury, Connecticut, 1943. Painted wood and steel wire, 24 1/2 x 15 1/4 x 9 1/2" (62.2 x 38.7 x 24.1 cm). James Thrall Soby Fund. © 2008 Estate of Alexander Calder / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Mandatory reading for all students November & December 2008:

OHara, Shelley. Improving your study skills, 2005. ISBN13:9780764578038 (pbk.)
 

Art of the month

Word of the month

teetotal
adj. 1. Of, relating to, or practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages. 2. Total; absolute. --teetotally adv.
1. (adj.) Marked by restraint from indulgence, as in food or alcohol:
• abstinent
• ascetic
• continent
• dry (US)
• moderate
• on the wagon (colloquial)
• puritanical
• self-denying
• sober
• temperate
• abstemious
• gluttonous (antonym)
• overindulgent (antonym)
• imtemperate (antonym)
• unrestrained (antonym)

Mandatory reading for all students September & October 2008:

James Hartley: Academic Writing and Publishing - A practical handbook

Publication date  - 2008
 

Art of the month

Jean Fragonard (1732-1806) : The Reader (approx. 1770–1772).  Oil on canvas. Dimensions 82 × 65 cm.
Current location National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.

Word of the month

Dendrology - The botanical study of trees and other woody plants.

Mandatory reading for all students July & August 2008:

Bjorn Lomborg: Cool it - The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide To Global Warming

Publication date 2007-09-04
Pages 272
ISBN 9780307266927

Art of the month

George Bellows. (American, 1882-1925).

Dempsey and Firpo. 1923-24.

Lithograph, composition: 18 1/8 x 22 3/8" (46 x 56.9 cm); sheet: 22 3/4 x 26" (57.8 x 66 cm). Publisher: probably the artist, New York. Printer: Bolton Brown, New York. Edition: 103. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

Word of the month

oxymoron, n., pl. oxymora or oxymorons. A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist. -- oxymoronic adj. -- oxymoronically adv.

Mandatory reading for all students May & June 2008:

Art of the month (May & June 2008)

Mandatory reading for all students April 2008:

HOW TO INTERVIEW LIKE A TOP MBA  - Job-Winning Strategies from
Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors
by Shelly Leanne

Art of the month

Mandatory reading for all students March 2008:

Chapter 8: Introduction to probability and statistics -

in: Mathematics for Business, Science and Technology
by Steven T. Karris
Paperback, ISBN-13: 9780970951106, Pub. Date: May 2001

Art of the month

Mandatory reading for all students February 2008:

A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down
by Robert B. Laughlin

Pub. Date: February 2005
ISBN-13: 9780641808395

Art of the month

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Mandatory reading for all students January 2008:

Jean - Luc Lebrun
Scientific Writing : A Reader and Writer's Guide
ISBN-13: 9789812701442 Pub. Date: June 2007

Art of the month

Georges Seurat: "Gray weather, Grande Jatte", 1888. Size: 28 by 34 inches (71 by 86 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA.

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Mandatory reading for all students December 2007:

Thomas Sowell: Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005), ISBN 1-59403-086-3

Art of the month

Paolo Uccello
The Battle Of San Romano
London, Florence, Paris

Egg tempera with walnut oil and linseed oil on poplar
181.6 x 320 cm.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=Ng583

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Mandatory reading for all students November 2007:

John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt :  The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. 2006

Free access to book in our online library.

Art of the month

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

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Madeleine Bernard. 1888. Oil on canvas. Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble, France.

Mandatory reading for all students October 2007:

The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush
Administration

by Jack L. Goldsmith

Hardcover
ISBN: 0393065502
Pub. Date: September 2007

Art of the month

BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder

The Numbering at Bethlehem
1566
Oil on oak, 115,5 x 163,5 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Mandatory reading for all students September 2007:

Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell

• Hardcover - 3RD
• ISBN: 0465002609
• Pub. Date: April 2007

Art of the month

Johannes Vermeer

Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window, about 1658
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 83 × 64,5 cm
Current location Gemaeldegalerie Dresden, Germany

Mandatory reading for all students August 2007:

The AIDS Pandemic: The Collision of Epidemiology with Political Correctness
by James Chin

• Paperback
• ISBN: 1846191181
• Pub. Date: March 2007

Art of the month

Kahlo, Frida
Self-Portrait with the Portrait of Doctor Farill
1951
Oil on Masonite
16 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
Private collection, Mexico City

Mandatory reading for all students July 2007:

Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain (Hacks)

by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb

Paperback
ISBN: 0596007795
Pub. Date: November 2004

Art of the month

Wassily Kandinsky - The Blue Rider. 1903. Oil on canvas. 55 x 65 cm. Private collection.

Mandatory reading for all students June 2007:

Robert Higgs - Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society

Paperback
ISBN: 0945999968
Pub. Date: August 2004

Art of the month

Dr. Wayne Gahan: Tribute To Pollock . Cosmo-Art.2007. 1154 x 623

Wayne Gahan Digital Art Collection

May 2007

Ed Husain: The Islamist
Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left

Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 304 pages | ISBN 9780141030432 | 03 May 2007 | Penguin

Mandatory reading for all students April 2007:

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
by Bruce Bawer

ISBN: 0385514727

Art of the month

Winslow Homer
American, 1836 - 1910
Key West, Hauling Anchor, 1903
watercolor over graphite, 35.5 x 55.5 cm (14 x 21 7/8 in.)

National Gallery Of Art     http://www.nga.gov/feature/homer/homerchron01.htm

Mandatory reading for all students March 2007:

Art of the month

Paul Klee (1879 -1940) :

Cosmic Composition. 1919. Oil on pasteboard. 48 x 41 cm. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Mandatory reading for all students February 2007:

Art of the month

Pablo Picasso, The Tragedy

1903, oil on wood, 1.053 x .690 m (41 7/16 x 27 3/16 in.),

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection

January 2007

America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq

By: James Dobbins, John G. McGinn, Keith Crane, Seth G. Jones, Rollie Lal, Andrew Rathmell, Rachel M. Swanger, Anga Timilsina

Pages: 280, ISBN: 0-8330-3460-X

(The book is available for free here.)

Salvador Dalí - The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934). Oil on panel 24 x 18 cm.

http://salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html

Mandatory reading for all students December 2006:

The Holocaust Industry

by Norman G. Finkelstein

Art of the month

Berlin Street Scene (1913), by German expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

http://www.ludorff.com/bio/kirchnerbioe.html

http://members.cox.net/germanexpressionist/

Mandatory reading for all students November 2006:

Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion

(September 2006, ISBN 0618680004)

Art of the month

Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917

Portraits in an Office (1873)

Scientist of the month

FEYERABEND, Paul, (1924-1996)  was professor of
Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and professor of the
philosophy of science at the Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich. Trained in
physics, astronomy and mathematics, Feyerabend turned to questioning the
philosophical bases of the sciences. He wrote "Against Method", "Science in a Free
Society", "Philosophical Papers" and "Farewell to Reason" (1987), three dialogs on knowledge.

The Feyerabend Forum

Mandatory reading for all students October 2006:

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks , Pub. Date: July 2006

ISBN: 159420103X

Art of the month

Gustav Klimt (Austria)(1862 - 1918): The Kiss 1907-1908, oil on canvas, http://www.belvedere.at/overview/index.htm

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Scientist of the month

Hedy Lamarr

Mandatory reading for all students September 2006:

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. William Easterly. : Penguin Press, 2006, 417 pp.

Art of the month (September 2006)

Delacroix : Liberty Leading the People (1830, Louvre)

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La Liberté guidant le peuple", oil painting (width 325 cm × height 260 cm) of the Romanticism.

Date
oil painting created in 1833
Author
Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863)

Mandatory reading for all students August 2006:

James Bovard: Attention Deficit Democracy.

Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1403971080.

Art of the month (August 2006)

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849):

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
From "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji"; 1823-29; Color woodcut, 10 x 15 in; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

click to enlarge

http://www.andreas.com/hokusai.html

Mandatory reading for all students June 2006:

Milton Friedman

Capitalism and Freedom, ISBN 0226264017 (1962)

Art of the month (June 2006)

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (March 30, 1746 – April 16, 1828)

El 3 de mayo de 1808 en Madrid, 1814. Museo del Prado. The shootings of May third 1808.  1814, oil on canvas 268 x 347 cm.

http://artchive.com/artchive/G/goya/may_3rd.jpg.html

Mandatory reading for all students June 2006:

Bertrand Russell

The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

http://www.gurus.com/dougdeb/Courses/Happy/Conquest/outline.html

http://members.aol.com/timlebon/conquest.htm

Art of the month (June 2006)

Umberto Boccioni
1882, Reggio di Calabria - 1916, Verona
Dynamism of a Soccer Player [Dinamismo di un footballer]. (1913)

Oil on canvas, 6' 4 1/8" x 6' 7 1/8" (193.2 x 201 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection.

April, May 2006

Edouard Manet (1832 – 1883): Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe

Protocol: The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official and Social Usage (Paperback) by Mary Jane McCaffree, Pauline Innis

Mandatory reading for all students March 2006:

Samuel P. Huntington: The clash of civilizations

Art of the month (March 2006)

Creation of the Animals (1555)

Tintoretto (1518-1594) , located at the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy

Mandatory reading for all students January 2006:

David Hockney: Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters

Art of the month (Jan 2006)

Salvatore Dali (1904-1989)

Figure at a Window, 1925

Mandatory reading for all students February 2006:

Paul Feyerabend: Science in a Free Society

Art of the month (Feb 2006)

Vincent Van Gogh: View of the Sea at Scheveningen, 1882
Oil on Canvas, 34.5 X 51 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
(Vincent van Gogh Foundation)