Wyote2

I used to be wyote but I lost that password, so now I've creatively renamed myself. I support myself privately teaching English, literature and history; my intellectual pleasures include biology, physics, mathematics, economics and strategy games, but my actual expertise (academic training) is in religious studies.

My Useless Opinions, etc

If you've found your way here, who knows why, perhaps you'll forgive me for recommending some fascinating books?

(I'll link or delete these later, but I don't have time now. This is really just an excuse for me to practice various aspects of wiki code.)

History

Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel

Reuben Fine's The Ancient Greecks

Science

Anything by Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Matt Ridley, David Quammen...

Literature, Art and Culture

Jacques Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence

Literature

Terence's Comedies

Shakespeare (but then, like, duh)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Hobbies and Fun Stuff

Yasser Seirawan's books on Chess for beginners

Janice Kim's books on Go for beginners

Summary

Well, then, it's all good so far.