{"id":1640,"date":"2008-01-22T10:50:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T18:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/22\/recent-reads\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T19:07:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T03:07:34","slug":"recent-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/recent-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All manner of solar books including (and all from the San Francisco Public Library)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Got Sun? Go Solar!<\/strong> by Rex A Ewing and Doug Pratt. Excellent book. Practical. Covers the generalities very well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Easy Guide to Solar Electric<\/strong> by Adi Pieper. It&#8217;s <em>quite<\/em> entertaining. More entertaining than educational but that can be a good thing; it makes it an easy read.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Passive Solar House<\/strong> by James Kachadorian. I&#8217;ve only just gotten started on this.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry<\/strong> by Travis Bradford &#8211;  I dunno. My first impression is that it&#8217;s a little too&#8230; hand-wavy<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling<\/strong> by Daniel Chiras, PhD &#8211; good stuff. Now if I can only finish it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Passive Solar House: Using Solar Design to Heat &amp; Cool Your Home<\/strong> by James Kachadorian. I&#8217;ve barely cracked the cover yet. Looks good though.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Idiot&#8217;s Guide to Solar Power for Your Home<\/strong> by Dan Ramsey. Very good. Now if I can only finish it. (on page 132)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Easy Guide to Solar Electric<\/strong> by Adi Pieper &#8211; Very good. Now if I can only finish it. (on p 95)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Easy Guide to Solar Electric: Part II &#8211; Installation Manual<\/strong> by Adi Pieper. Very good. Now if I can only finish it. (on p 35)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Freakonomics <\/strong>&#8211; Very Good. Audiobook. It&#8217;s just as &#8220;useful&#8221; as Blink and The Tipping Point but I don&#8217;t like hearing this author read quite as much as I like Malcolm reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma<\/strong> &#8211; Excellent. Audiobook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blink <\/strong>by Malcolm Gladwell &#8211; Excellent. Audiobook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tipping Point<\/strong> by Malcolm Gladwell &#8211; Excellent. Audiobook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology<\/strong> by Valentino Braitenberg- A really good &#8220;autonomous robot&#8221; book. I haven&#8217;t had time to get into it too much lately. But I will eventually!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Soon I Will Be Invincible<\/strong> by Austin Grossman &#8211; (Audiobook) A very fun to read\/listen to story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All manner of solar books including (and all from the San Francisco Public Library) Got Sun? Go Solar! by Rex A Ewing and Doug Pratt. Excellent book. Practical. Covers the generalities very well. The Easy Guide to Solar Electric by Adi Pieper. It&#8217;s quite entertaining. More entertaining than educational but that can be a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playing-reading-watching-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}