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Non-fiction recommendation Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:04:26 2019 No.14312518 [Reply] [Original]

Happy weekend /lit/izens. Suggest some great non-fiction books you've read. Better if they're on a diverse range of subjects.
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Here are my recommendations:

-The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson

-Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

-The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:11:13 2019 No.14312562 File: 41 KB, 330x499, 51TGqJ-rKOL._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14312518 pic related Also, The Power of Myth

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:20:06 2019 No.14312622 File: 30 KB, 285x475, 18242.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14312518

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:26:47 2019 No.14312658 File: 84 KB, 600x927, 43a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14312518 >Art of Manliness (don't @ me) >Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training

Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:38:31 2019 No.14312724

>>14312518
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
by Eric H. Cline

The English and Their History
by Robert Tombs

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
by Nicholas Ostler

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia
by Barry Cunliffe

The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker

The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin's Adventures in Science and Politics
by Lee Alan Dugatkin

The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy
by Carlo Rovelli

The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
by Thomas Asbridge

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:40:49 2019 No.14312735 Life is but a dream, there is no such thing as non-fiction

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 15:59:27 2019 No.14312838 >>14312724 >The Denial of Death fuckin based

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 16:07:05 2019 No.14312877 >>14312518 Ideas and Opinions By Einstein The Allegory of the Cave Einstein's worldviews are pretty underrated desu

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 16:23:24 2019 No.14312976 >>14312724 I've read Denial of Death. Pretty hard going desu. Maybe I'm just a pleb though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 16:28:15 2019 No.14313005 The Worm at the Core

Anonymous Sun Dec 8 16:29:00 2019 No.14313009

>>14312518
History of the Royal Society
by Thomas Sprat

Logick, Or, The Right Use of Reason
by Isaac Watts

The Myth of the Eternal Return
by Mircea Eliade

The Evolution of Civilizations
by Carroll Quigley

Weapons of Mass Migration
by Kelly M. Greenhill

Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler

The Conservative Revolution in Germany 1918-1932
by Armin Mohler

Church, Papacy and Schism
by Philip Sherrard

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 16:35:15 2019 No.14313058 >>14312724 based Londonfrog >>14313009 >Mein Kampf Is this put up as a meme or he actually has something valuable to say?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 16:36:41 2019 No.14313066 File: 47 KB, 353x542, italian-hours-11.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14312724 >Thomas Asbridge He supervised my dissertation. Nice guy

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 16:57:52 2019 No.14313190 >>14313058 It sets forth his ostensible worldview, which though flawed, can be instructive.

Anonymous Sun Dec 8 17:13:30 2019 No.14313277

The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Tradition
by JGA Pocock

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by Eric Schlosser

In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy
by Katrina Forrester

London Orbital
by Ian Sinclair

The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio - Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The Franco-Prussian War
by Michael Howard

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 17:32:25 2019 No.14313377 >>14313009 Interesting selections.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 17:47:59 2019 No.14313458 >>14312877 He was a socialist who repeatedly porked his own cousin. Pass.

Anonymous Sun Dec 8 18:29:04 2019 No.14313721

>>14312518
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present

Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

>>14312562
>>14312658
>>14312724
based

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 18:33:50 2019 No.14313759 File: 34 KB, 314x499, 51vuth1uq3L._SX312_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Easily one of the best pieces of history of the last 50 years. Not many authors can claim to have given birth to an entire methodology.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 19:24:16 2019 No.14313997 >>14313458 He's also arguably the greatest mind of 20th century

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Anonymous Sun Dec 8 20:20:40 2019 No.14314355

>>14313997
And because he was a physics genius you think that's reason enough to trust him as a sociologist, economist, and a moral person in general? Go read from people who are actually knowledgeable about these subjects instead of doting over Einstein's IQ.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 20:21:58 2019 No.14314361 File: 61 KB, 900x900, unnamed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] why is /lit/ so war centric when it comes to non fiction?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 22:13:42 2019 No.14314954 >>14314361 Because lit has most people from burgerland. They have a big boner for wars

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 23:34:28 2019 No.14315350 bump

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 8 23:56:22 2019 No.14315436 >>14314355 Social "sciences" are largely bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 01:11:01 2019 No.14315716 >>14312735 Shut it

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 01:50:17 2019 No.14315889 >flow Based

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 05:42:54 2019 No.14316437 The Bible

Anonymous Mon Dec 9 06:01:51 2019 No.14316469

>>14313005
Probably a decent companion to The Denial of Death as it supports the basic ideas of it through empirical evidence, but I thought it was rather tiresome how they just went, Well we did this experiment then this experiment then this experiment, and it all amounted to the same 2-3 basic points

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 06:04:42 2019 No.14316474 Doctoring the Mind and Madness Explained by Richard Bentall

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 07:56:14 2019 No.14316726 >>14316437 This is fiction

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 09:50:28 2019 No.14317054 >>14316726 For midwits

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 10:11:02 2019 No.14317135 >>14316469 All non fiction are like that

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 10:38:19 2019 No.14317242 >>14317135 Not really, even The Denial of Death serves as a counterexample. I guess it's true for most psychology books

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 13:17:27 2019 No.14318053 >>14316469 should I read both, or reading one is sufficient?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 14:50:54 2019 No.14318484 >>14318053 both has valuable insights

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 17:07:10 2019 No.14319258 >>14312877 interesting, never knew such a book existed of einstein

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 19:19:26 2019 No.14319957 >>14316437 Quran*

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 19:54:30 2019 No.14320144 >>14312518 The Sex God Method. Not memeing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 20:08:43 2019 No.14320214 File: 48 KB, 354x499, 61zocMsTedL._SX352_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] semi-fiction?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 20:36:36 2019 No.14320365 >>14316474 Just doctoring the mind*

Anonymous Mon Dec 9 20:52:07 2019 No.14320459
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>>14312518
Had a good time reading it. Very immersive of the time period. Doesn't do any of the modern politics bullshit and presents a nuanced perspective of what the people felt then.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 10 01:27:25 2019 No.14321613 >>14312518 The Millionaire Next Door

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