Reading List: September 2012

In September, 2012, I continued to read some books that I had started some time earlier, as well as some newly begun works.

Joseph Schmuller, Ph.D., Statistical Analysis with Excel for Dummies, second edition (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2009.) xx + 480 pages. Index. ISBN 978-0-470-45406-0. $29.99. I started this work-related book on August 23.

Michael Alexander and John Walkenbach, Excel Dashboards and Reports (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010.) xviii + 434 pages. Index. ISBN 978-0-470-62012-0. $35.99. Read 9 August - 3 October 2012.

Emile Zola, Germinal (Paris: Bookking International, 1993 [1885].) 473 pages. ISBN 2-89393-415-X. Read 1 July 2004 - 28 September 2012.

Antonella Ansani, Complete Italian: The Basics. Edited by Suzanne McQuade. (New York: Living Language, 2008.) xxviii + 308 pages. Italian in action. Supplemental vocabulary. Internet resources. Summary of Italian grammar. Verb charts. ISBN 978-1-4000-2415-5. $10.95. Read 12 July - 21 October 2012.

Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012.) 641 pages. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN 978-1-4391-2770-4. $32.50. Read 28 July - 3 September 2012.

Marcel Proust, A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (Paris: Gallimard, 1988 [1919].) xxviii + 568 pages. Bibliographie. Notes. Resume.

Lee Child, Tripwire (New York: Berkeley Books, 1999.) 401 pages. ISBN 978-0-425-20622-5. Read 6 - 9 September 2012.

Bruce Feiler, Walking the Bible (New York: Harper Perennial, 2001). 451 pages. Index. ISBN 978-0-06-083863-8. $14.99. I started reading this book on September 7. As of October 21, I was at page 148.

Keith Heyer Meldahl, Hard Road West (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007.) xxi + 329 pages. Epilogue. Acknowledgments. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Figure Credits. Index. ISBN 978-0-226-51960-9. $25.00. I began reading Hard Road West on September 15. As of October 16, I was on page 51.

Christopher Duggan, The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy since 1796 (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.) xxiii + 653 pages. References. Index. ISBN 978-0-618-35367-5. $30.00. I started reading the book on September 15. On October 16, I was at page 60.

George W. Bush, Decision Points (New York: Crown, 2010.) xii + 497 pages. Epilogue. Acknowledgments. Index. ISBN 978-0-307-59061-9. $35.00. Read 15 September to 19 October 2012.

David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.) xxxi + 783 pages. Further Reading. Notes. Index. ISBN 978-0-19-532334-4. $34.95. I began reading this history on September 30.