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Father of Benjamin, husband of Nathalie, BK Marcus works from Charlottesville, Virginia, as managing editor of Mises.org.

He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is a homeschooling father, which is much cooler.

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– Murray Rothbard

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Asimov’s guides

September 15th, 2009 by

bkmarcus

Asimov's guides

I’m very unhappy to learn that all three of these books are out of print.

I’ve posted many times about Asimov’s Guide to the Bible.

I’m now very much enjoying Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare.

I’ve just ordered a used copy of Asimov’s Guide to Science.

It’s starting to seem to me as if I could build much of a classical homeschooling curriculum out of these three books.

I regularly want to give them as gifts.

How can they be out of print?

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Gustave Dore

September 15th, 2009 by

bkmarcus

I discovered Gustave Doré through image searches for Mises.org — looking for images to use with Mises Dailies.

Once I recognized that my favorite Bible illustrations were all by the same artist, I started buying $10 paperbacks of his work.

Then I started reading the books he illustrated.

As of yesterday, I have the big three in hardcover:

Dante’s Divine Comedy
Milton’s Paradise Lost
The King James Version of the Bible

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