OpenCulture pointed to an interesting article at the Telegraph “110 Best Books: The Perfect Library.” I’m sure you’ll agree and disagree, but it’s a solid list nonetheless and one could do worse than following their advice for a nice bit of self-education.
The Illiad and The Odyssey
Homer
Set during the Trojan War, The Iliad combines battle scenes [...]
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“110 best books: The Perfect Library”
The Importance of Self-Education: Part III - Learn by Blogging
Blogging provides a number of functions, and a big one for me is self-education. Not only is there the benefit of other’s experience (when I’m trying to fix a problem with hardware or software I almost always use Google’s blog search to find recent answers to my problem) and a specialized information source (academic productivity, [...]