Let's do a thing

[Anonymous No.13534282]

If you read 3 books about a certain topic you'll know more than 95% of the population on that topic.

With that in mind, share 3 books about a topic that'll help you know more about it than the 95%. Try to optimalize it as much as possible.

My suggestion is to at least having one book that is an introduction; being a cornerstone in the subject, or a book that covers lots and is easily accesible (i.e. a For Dummies book). Then the two other books can be in-depth.

I think this can be a great way to make more subjects accesible.

[Anonymous No.13534306]

>>13534282
>topic
redpill
>books
Culture of Critique, White Identity, Bronze Age Mindset

[Anonymous No.13534314]

I've never read 3 books on a single topic

[Anonymous No.13534318]

>>13534282
>topic
Harry Potter

>books
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[Anonymous No.13534323]

>>13534306
cool, heard about Culture of Critique, but not the two others. Cheers.

[Anonymous No.13534348]

>topic
Tibet
>Books
Seven years in Tibet
The Dalai Lamas lil Joke book
Transcript of the latest meeting of Chinese parliament.

[Anonymous No.13534362]

>>13534282
>topic
Political Power
>books
Political Theology by Carl Schmitt
Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
On Power by Bertrand de Jouvenel

[Anonymous No.13534387]

>>13534282
>topic
faggot

>books
OP's diary
OP's photobook
OP's birth certificate

[Anonymous No.13534390]

>>13534306
redpilled

[Anonymous No.13534396]

>>13534387
based, and very true

[Anonymous No.13534407]

>>13534282
>topic
middle ages france, focus on theology and state
>books
Capetian France 987-1328
Millennium
Peter Abelard: A Medieval Life

[Anonymous No.13534428]

>>13534387
kek

[Anonymous No.13534475]

>>13534282
> If you read 3 books about a certain topic you'll know more than 95% of the population on that topic
Strongly disagree. You need only read one book about a topic to know more than 95% of people. Considering that practically nobody reads or has real interests anymore, the 5% would have read only 2+ books on the topic.

[Anonymous No.13534483]

>>13534475
i wouldn't say that's a strong disagreement

[Anonymous No.13534520]

>>13534282
Anyone have suggestions for ancient as in pre greek history or conspiracy theories?

[Anonymous No.13534537]

>>13534282
topic:
Women
books:
Nana
Madame bovary
El tunel

[Anonymous No.13534640]

>>13534520
Can't give you history, can give you mythology.

topic: Ancient Sumerian Mythology

>Epic of Gilgamesh
The thing most everyone knows about from Sumer. Probably the first epic, it introduces you to Ishtar, covers the flood myth with Utnapishtim later on, and is incredibly accessible-when I first bought it (Stephen Mitchell trans) I read it twice a few hours. It's rather short, but very poignant.

>Myths from Mesopotamia
Gilgamesh and the flood are included in this text, as is the creation myth, known as the Enuma Elish (roughly translating to When on High because that's the first line of it, has no real title). I think Mitchell translates Gilgamesh better, but for the Enuma Elish and Ishtar's descent into the underworld (alongside a ton of other stories) the translation is pretty good. Read this from front to back and you'll have forgotten more about Sumer than most will ever know, especially with Assyriology being a dying field these days.

>The Sumerian Temple Hymns
Written by Enheduanna, the possible first known author/writer/poet in history, these helped the merging between Ishtar and Inanna as the same Goddess, as well being a nice primary source on hymnal lyric poetry of the time.

[Anonymous No.13534641]

>>13534520
have this awesome site, as well.
http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/

[Anonymous No.13534642]

would anybody make one for sociology?

[Anonymous No.13534661]

>>13534640
>especially with Assyriology being a dying field these day
This is surprisingly sad to hear. Do you think we'll lost the knowledge necessary to read sumerian and the ancient semitic languages of the fertile crescent?

Anyway nice post.

>>13534282
>philosophy of mathematics
Introduction to philosophy of mathematics, by Marco Panza and Andrea Sereni
Science and hypothesis, Henri Poincaré
Psychology of Mathmatical Invention, Jacques Salomon Hadamard
Essay on the notions of Structure and Existence in mathematics, Albet Lautman

Took me an embarassing long time to find three not extremely common nonfiction books on a topic not already mentioned itt. Guess I'm more brainlet than I imagined.

[Anonymous No.13534670]

>>13534475
what pecentage of people go to university, more than 5%. if you do well at school even you'll know more than a book's worth

[Anonymous No.13534674]

>poetry
on english poetry by robert graves
the crowning privilege by robert graves
oxford addresses on poetry by r graves

[Anonymous No.13534675]

>>13534282
>Topic
Fitness
>Books
The barbell prescription -Those two guys. (Literally my bible)
Back mechanic -Mcgill. (Indespensible)
Starting Strength -Rippetoe. (Take his technical analysis from it and leave his post-novice programming advice. Volume is important)

>Topic
Human nature
The fall -Camus (Say what you want about Sisyphus. The fall is beautifully done.)
Explaining consciousness -Dennett (Recommended not as any kind of solution to the hard problem but an excellent and thorough exploration of what all is involved in the search for such a solution. Calm down everyone.)
The language instinct -Pinker (The blank slate would be good as well)

[Anonymous No.13534689]

>>13534282
>topic
art criticism and aesthetics
>books
>art criticism
Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life
Diderot's Essay on Painting
Goethe's Writing on Art (includes a funny detailed response to Diderot)
Kant's Critique of Judgement
Michaux's Art in the Gas State

That's five books but arguably two closely related topics, with Goethe as a pivoting point between both.

[Anonymous No.13534753]

>>13534282
Classical music

Bernstein: Young people's concerts
Godwin: Schimer scores
Del Mar: Anatomy of the orchestra

[Anonymous No.13534758]

>>13534642
bumping this

[Anonymous No.13534785]

>>13534642
Some people suck more than others, and they make things shitty.

[Anonymous No.13534791]

>>13534282
That's the Yale library btw

[Anonymous No.13534808]

Topic: computers
Books:
Concrete Mathematics
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
The Art of Computer Programming

[Anonymous No.13534842]

>>13534282
I like your thread, OP, good job.

>Law

1. "Les Fondements de l’ordre juridique" by Simone Goyard-Fabre
2. "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?" by Sandel
3. "Politics" by Aristotle

There you go. 3 levels of difficulty, by authors non of my law school friends have read. You'll know more about law than most people, I am sure.

>inb4 muh no hans kelsen
fuck you bitch, kelsen is absolutely specific and not the greatest work on legal positivism so shut up

[Anonymous No.13534846]

>>13534791
looks dangerous

[Anonymous No.13534858]

>>13534282
Yes OP excellent thread

[Anonymous No.13534896]

>>13534858
>>13534842
> I like your thread, OP, good job.

Cheers! I was thinking about making charts of peoples replies, so it would be easier to perhaps archive.

Would making this a more or less daily thread be a good idea? Perhaps with 2-3 days in between? /3books/?

[Anonymous No.13534905]

>>13534674
That's a pretty strong endorsement. I've never read anything he's written. Not that I've been purposely avoiding him, just been reading others.

[Anonymous No.13534947]

>>13534896
I like it. I am SURE some bitches would complain. 4chan is no democracy though, fucking do it my man

>I was thinking about making charts of peoples replies
Hm... maybe checking some of the replies before? Just a quick google to see if anon wasn't trolling and being gay

[Anonymous No.13535016]

>>13534282
>If you read 3 books about a certain topic you'll know more than 95% of the population on that topic.
More like 99.95%. You overestimate people. The average normalshit can't even tell you what Byzantium was, let alone anything about it, for example. People are so godforsakenly stupid I'm overcome with awe at least weekly that the city is still standing.

[Anonymous No.13535029]

>>13534896
>Cheers!
This makes you sound like a fucking gay little redditor onions boy faggot.

[Anonymous No.13535037]

>>13534282
Bible, NRSV or KJV
Quran by Haleem
Talmud, Cohen
you now know about religion

[Anonymous No.13535046]

>>13535016
>People are so godforsakenly stupid I'm overcome with awe at least weekly that the city is still standing.
Write a paragraph with that full-of-yourself style ffs I need that

[Anonymous No.13535052]

>>13534640
unironically i've been looking into assyriology programs for the past few weeks once i found out more cuneiform tablets aren't deciphered than i imagined

[Anonymous No.13535121]

>>13534642
1. Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, David Nachmias, Research Methods in the Social Sciences
2. David Silverman, Doing Qualitative Research
3. Jonathan H. Turner, The Structure of Social Theory
If i can add a few more:
4. Kathy Charmaz, Constructing Grounded Theory
5. Anthony Elliott, Contemporary Social Theory
6. Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization
7. Elizabeth C. Dunn, Privatizing Poland

[Anonymous No.13535130]

>>13534362
>On Power by Bertrand de Jouvenel
redpilled
De Jouvenel is gaining more traction I feel.

[Anonymous No.13535249]

>>13534758
Marx, weber, durkheim :)

[Anonymous No.13535297]

>>13535249
Yeah sure, but any introduction? Jumping straight into any of those guys seems a little too hard. Would be great with a slight overview before jumping in

[Anonymous No.13535309]

>>13534282
This is what a midwit does and pretends this useless knowledge makes him "smart".

[Anonymous No.13535318]

>>13535309
This is what a pseud does and pretends this useless laziness makes him "sophisticated".

[Anonymous No.13535572]

>>13535309
>reading is for midwits
sasuga /lit/
>if it isn't joyce, dfw, or pynchon you're a pseud

[Anonymous No.13535584]

Instead of feeling uppity about how much smarter you're than the average person you should do what you can to educate those who are less fortunate in terms of knowledge.

[Anonymous No.13535589]

>>13535584
*you are, I'm an ESL, sorry

[Anonymous No.13535596]

>>13535309
Source. I need a source.

[Anonymous No.13535620]

Ethics
1. Kagan, Normative Ethics
2. Singer, Practical Ethics
3. Van Roojen, Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction

Metaphysics
1. Lewis, Plurality of Worlds
2. Sider, Four-dimensionalism
3. Paul and Hall, Causation, a User's Guide

Epistemology
1. DeRose, Case for Contextualism
2. Williamson, Knowledge and Its Limits
3. Zagzebski, Virtues of the Mind

Phil. Mind
1. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind
2. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
3. Kim, Philosophy of Mind

Phil. Language
1. Martinich, Philosophy of Language
2. Russell and Fara, Routledge Handbook Philosophy of Language
(these are big collections, more than enough)

Early Analytic
1. Frege (ed. Beaney), The Frege Reader
2. Russell, Philosophy of Logical Atomism
3. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic

Early Modern
1. Descartes, Meditations (with selected Objections and Replies)
2. Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
3. Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Ancient
1. Plato, Five Dialogues (Euthyprho, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo)
2. Plato, Republic
3. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

[Anonymous No.13535819]

>>13535584
they don't wan't to be educated, im pretty sure most of us have tried doing this.

[Anonymous No.13536177]

>>13534362
hadn't heard of Latter-Day Pamphlets.

thanks

[Anonymous No.13536184]

>>13534642
Economy and Society, Max Weber
Europe and the People Without History, Eric Wolf
Das Kapital, Marx and Engels

[Anonymous No.13536199]

>>13534282
an interesting idea anon

for me it's the relation between religion and philosophy and here are my 3

Lev Shestov- Athens and Jerusalem
David Hume- An Enquiry concerning human understanding
Soren Kierkegaard- Fear and Trembling

[Anonymous No.13536209]

>>13534387
The absolute state of OP

[Anonymous No.13536220]

>>13534282
Israel/Palestine

Book of Genesis
Jerusalem Countdown, John Hagee
The New Temple and the Second Coming, Grant R. Jeffrey

[eLIT !!+yp8kR80iN5 No.13536261]

>>13534282

English Language Teaching

1. N. Spada - How Languages are Learned
2. J. Scrivener - Learning Teaching
3. L. Freeman & Anderson - Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching

[Anonymous No.13536271]

>>13534348
>Not including Tintin in Tibet
Barnacles.

[Anonymous No.13536278]

Military Psychology/Theory
1. The De Re Militari of Vegetius: The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages - Christopher Allman
2. On war - Carl von Clausewitz
3. On Killing - Dave Grossman
4. On Combat - Dave Grossman
5. Combat motivation - Anthony Kellet
6. Peloponnesian War - Thucydides

[Anonymous No.13536298]

could someone make one for making money?

[Anonymous No.13536303]

>>13535620
Riddles of Existence is a good metaphysics book too :p

[Anonymous No.13536306]

>>13536298

All you need for that is kneepads

[Anonymous No.13536443]

>>13534407
I believe that reading the dust cover to one of these books will immediately make you more knowledgeable than 95% of people on the topic.

[Anonymous No.13536459]

>>13534520
The Birth of Classical Europe -Price & Thoneman
Egypt, Greece and Rome - Freeman
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed - Price

I dont anything general that sticks to pre greek civilisation. But those three would give you a fun overview, with the last giving a nice little specific episode of interest

[Anonymous No.13536470]

>>13534282
>topic
French campaign of 1940
>books
Julian Jackson's "The Fall of France"
R.(obert?) Doughty "Seeds of Disaster"
Jacques Benoist-Mechin "Sixty days that shook the West"

I may post something about bronze age Greece in similar thread one day(after I'm done reading current stack).

[Anonymous No.13536984]

>>13536306
kek

[Anonymous No.13536990]

>>13535121
>>13536184

Thanks!

[Anonymous No.13537047]

>>13535016
>The average normalshit can't even tell you what Byzantium was, let alone anything about it, for example
I mean, why should they be able to do that? It's not something that you need to know in your day to day life and of course you wouldn't know anything about it unless you sought out the information
Don't get me wrong, I actually agree with your general point, I just think Byzantinum is a bad example

[Anonymous No.13537056]

Can anyone make one for economics? I suppose Wealth of Nations would be one of them but what else? No Marxism bullshit btw

[Anonymous No.13537059]

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

Wealth of Nations

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
I also just started selling one design on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VNP4TVZ

[Anonymous No.13537078]

>>13537056
cantillon, an essay on economic theory
hazlitt, economics in one lesson
callahan, economics for real people

[Anonymous No.13537092]

>>13535584
don't you think it's uppity and arrogant to go around thinking poor tom townsend, doesn't even know what byzantium was.
you're lucky if you can through your childhood without formal education. and they might not end up another mediocrity

>>13535819
i hope not

[Anonymous No.13537096]

>>13537047
>>13535016
the thing with the sort of person who thinks everyone is stupid, is that they're always basically stupid. there are no cases on record of people like you being all right. it's an established rule.

[Anonymous No.13537104]

>>13537096
Imagine being this much of a pseud. I want women to exhale themselves. I want to respect your gender and your sex. I want your emancipation in the realm of public opinion, but retard individuals like yourself make it so difficult. Stick to reading and stop writing.

[Anonymous No.13537106]

>read dozens of antagonistic books from different layers of the same topic to become more competent than 99.99%
>actually contribute something worthwhile to lit instead of average content

[Anonymous No.13537113]

>>13537104
oh, lord

>exhale themselves
eh?

[Anonymous No.13537124]

>>13534905
care to share what others you've been reading?

[Anonymous No.13537132]

>>13535121
Dope list.
The only Sociology book i've read in detail is Beck, The Risk Society.

For me it explained a lot, have you read it, what did you think?

>t.Kraut

[Anonymous No.13537165]

>>13536298
Only because there is such utter trip posted on /biz/ shall I give you the three you need to understand Business:

1)How to Get Rich - Felix Dennis
2)The Knack - Norm Brodsky
3)History of Economics - John Kenneth Galbraith
>also, if you want to read more:
4)Made in America - Sam Walton
5)Grinding it Out - Ray Kroc
6)Be My Guest - Conrad HIlton
7) When Money Dies - Adam Ferguson
>t. Raised myself out of poverty, business school did not help.
Remember, fren, money is a means to an end.

[Anonymous No.13537408]

>>13536199
yo these are actually useful for me! I am writing a thesis on the relation between religion and philosophy of law, so thanks desu

[Anonymous No.13537452]

>>13537165
How could you forget

[Anonymous No.13537465]

>>13535309
Why does this guy always post his dumb drawing of a balding man? Did he draw it? Is it himself?

[Anonymous No.13537471]

>>13537452
Daddy's boy made a few good deals dealing with height restrictions in New York, otherwise is a piece of shit businessman, and should not be listened to in any context with regards to business.

[Anonymous No.13537478]

>>13537165
business school isn't there to teach personal finance you fucking idiot

[Anonymous No.13537479]

>>13537471

yes listen to anon instead he is sure to have good credentials

[Anonymous No.13537518]

>>13537478
Was making exactly that point, you fat burger.
Those books will actually teach you business, Business School will teach you at best managerial economics and operations.

Whether you want to take said advice or not, is up to you.

[Anonymous No.13537539]

>>13537479
Give one example of Trump's good business dealing?
There is some lesson to be taken from Trump:

1) Deal only with suppliers which you can absolutley dominate. Trump consisently used this technique to "bust out" small to medium suppliers.

He would make hugh orders, becomming the vast majority of the producers business, and then simply not pay putting the small firms in bankruptcy. They wouldn't have the capability to take him to court, as the vast majority of firms he did this to were small family businesses.

The second lesson, would be how to deal with Creditors. Either he, or his advisors were genius' here. He should have been entirely wiped out in the 90s, but his "deal making" allowed him to retain ownership stakes in his main propertys because of...

3) Branding. Effectively, people can't see past the name. The properties in New York had his name all over it, and it did add value to them. Take him out of the Building, and the creditors would have lost value on them.

[Anonymous No.13537752]

>topic
Communism

>books
The Soviet Expertiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States
The Marx-Engels Reader
Essential Works of Lenin

[Anonymous No.13537781]

>topic
Ancient Rome

>books
Annals and Histories (Tacitus)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon)
The Landmark Julius Caesar (Caesar)

[Anonymous No.13537787]

would anybody make one for psychology?

[Anonymous No.13537951]

>>13537787
"The story of psychology"
-Morton hunt

"The blank slate"
-Steven Pinker

"Explaining consciousness"
-Daniel dennett

[Anonymous No.13537963]

>>13537787

[Anonymous No.13537978]

>>13537787
>>13537951
The first will give you some historical context for the terms. The second will teach you that the terms used are just ambiguous and interchangeable framing devices meant to prop up philosophical assumptions. The third will show you that there is much more at play than you have heard any one psychologist ever admit to, while making the point that the only part of psychology that isn't unverifiable drivel, is the biology. That's all you need to know.

[Anonymous No.13537992]

>>13534282
>topic
Radical/Conservative Islam (the ideology behind it and its development)
>books
The Roots of Radical Islam (Kepel)
Islamic Exceptionalism (Hamid)
The Mission and the Kingdom (Commins)

[Anonymous No.13538018]

>>13535052
Do it anon. Become the next badass assyriologist.

[Anonymous No.13538030]

books on femininity/masculinity and what led to the traditional gender-roles we know today?

[Anonymous No.13538070]

>>13536443
I just cannot understand that, I am obsessed with the french: their monks and theologians and kings.

[Anonymous No.13538080]

>>13537781
Not Livy?

[Anonymous No.13538090]

>>13537951
>dennett
Read Chalmers instead

[Anonymous No.13538121]

>>13537132
Thank You Neighbour anon! (t. Polak so sorry for my shitty English)
I heard about this book but to be honest I haven't read it yet. As I know it's about problems of globalisation and I was always moar interested in books about local communities, social integration, regional history etc. but also in methodological and theoretical problems. Now I don't have as much time for reading as I had when I was younger, but there is still a lot of books I would like to read (for example I have to finally finish Weber's Economy and Society
- as I see it was also recommended by the other anons here >>13536184 >>13535249 - the last one is probably the best recommendation for classical sociological theory) so if You are recommending this I'll add this Beck's book to my list of books that I have to read.

[Anonymous No.13538184]

>>13534641
Not the one you are replying to, but thank you

[Anonymous No.13538252]

>>13536261
Thank you very much anon-kun, I've been interest in language teaching

[Anonymous No.13538262]

>>13536298
This please

[Anonymous No.13538355]

>>13534282
>3 books to become more knowledgable

What a faulty premise. There is a naive implication that reading is simply information upload, that by reading a book you passively assimilate its contents transparently and without inhibition. As a matter of fact, reading a book interacts with the theory-laden assumptions and the biased contour's of the reader's mind. The uptake of facts is contingent on how ready that mind is to receive them, and whether or not that information integrates with existing beliefs and contours. It's possible to read a book and learn nothing.

[Anonymous No.13538413]

>>13538355

> It's possible to read a book and learn nothing.

Sure. However, that doesn't mean it is impossible to read a book and learn something. Nobody said that what you'll learn from reading is much in quantity - it's just way more than the average person knows.

I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make.

[Anonymous No.13538427]

>>13538090
Care to explain?

[Anonymous No.13538495]

>>13537781
why the fuck would you put DBG on a list of only three works to understand all of ancient rome

[Anonymous No.13538569]

>Latin
1) Orberg - Lingua Latina: Familia Romana
2) Nutting - Ad Alpes
3) Orberg - Lingua Latina: Roma Aeterna
Hard mode
4) Baldi - Foundations of Latin
5) Weiss - Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin
6) The Oxford Latin Syntax

>Ancient Greece (secondary sources)
1) Hamilton - The Greek Way (Not a huge fan of this one personally, but a good intro to different topics)
2) The Oxford History of Ancient Greece
3) Adkins & Adkins - Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece

>Latin Philosophy (minimalist intro)
1) Seneca Minor - De Providentia
2) Cicero - Tusculanae Disputationes
3) Lucretius - De Rerum Natura

[Anonymous No.13538571]

Psychoanalysis:

1. Introduction to psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
2. Man and his symbols by Carl Jung.
3. Civilization and its discontents by Sigmund Freud.

[Anonymous No.13538655]

>>13536261
Not a Krashen fan?

Also thanks for the recs, I want to teach foreign languages when I get out of uni.

[Anonymous No.13538718]

Chess?

[Anonymous No.13538772]

>>13538655
Are you the German who shills for krashen in /lang/?

[Anonymous No.13538818]

>>13538772
Not German and have never used /lang/, I just have heard good things about him.

[Anonymous No.13538894]

Minimalism?

[Anonymous No.13538897]

>>13538818
because he's right
anyone who's learned a foreign language to native level proficiency knows this, but unfortunately selling grammar textbooks and language classes is more profitable

[Anonymous No.13538902]

>>13538718
Silmans books are good for beginners

[Anonymous No.13538967]

>>13538897
>>13538772
>>13538655
Krashen is the redpill of language learning...also look up antimoon and Matt vs Japan.

[Anonymous No.13538983]

>>13534674
Wouldn't it be better to read poetry instead of about it?

[Anonymous No.13538986]

>>13534282
Recs for French Revolution/Church of Reason? Either English or French

[Anonymous No.13538996]

>>13538986
>Church of Reason
Based. You would be better off asking /his/ tho.

[Anonymous No.13539008]

>>13538355
That's why we're recommending books that are more likely to be effectively read and understood by a competent reader. What a redundant qualification to the thread topic.

[Anonymous No.13539046]

>>13538983
no doubt. but a lot of people seem to have the wrong idea about poetry

[Anonymous No.13539064]

So if I read 3 books about love, I'll know more about it than 95% people about love? NICE

[Anonymous No.13539099]

>>13539064
as a topic

[Anonymous No.13539173]

>>13539099
that means I will be able to hold a conversation about love with the opposite sex? N I C E

[Anonymous No.13539201]

Alchemy?

[Anonymous No.13539209]

Ascetism?

[Anonymous No.13539246]

the only books I read are either literature or philosophy lmao
have never read a book on literally anything else

[Anonymous No.13539310]

>>13539173
well maybe if you read the right books

[Anonymous No.13539774]

>>13534282
Its a good thread OP , may l advice turning it into a day thread ?

[Anonymous No.13539879]

>>13539201
Hauck, Alchemy Reference Guide
Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Some collection of writings by Hermes Trismegistus, including the Asclepius and the Corpus Hermeticum

[Anonymous No.13539916]

>>13539774
I've considered it! Perhaps make an archive of suggestions so far etc.

Think I'll call it /3books/

[Anonymous No.13539924]

>>13539879
Am I stupid for assuming that alchemy is all just a big joke? Am I missing out?

[Anonymous No.13539936]

Would be cool if people could do this with fiction from there country. 3 essiential novels from Germany, Russia, Mexico, China w/e.

[Anonymous No.13539967]

>>13539310
What would be the right books on love? I'm interested.

[Anonymous No.13539986]

>>13539936
> norwegian literature

The King Sagas by Snorre
Sult by Knut Hamsun
My Struggle by Knausgård

Should give a good overview over Norwegian literature.

[Anonymous No.13540000]

>>13539924
Not stupid but misinformed. Nowadays it seems like a meme but it's an ancient tradition that was inextricably linked with science until quite recently (I heard Newton is sometimes considered the last great scientist who was also an occultist).
So it's interesting to study if nothing else for the part it plays in the genealogy of modern science.

[Anonymous No.13540007]

>>13539936
england
leaving out shakespeare & le morte d'arthur as they're not novels

tom jones
decline and fall
take a girl like you

[Anonymous No.13540012]

>>13539967
i don't know

[Anonymous No.13540026]

>>13540000
Since you got quads I have no other option that to follow up. Is any part of alchemy actually scientific? Was there ever a potion or such that actually worked, later turning out to have worked for scientific reasons?

Yeah I heard Newton was trying to make an elixir for immortality or something.

[Anonymous No.13540104]

>>13539967
Schopenhauer metaphysics of love

[Anonymous No.13540116]

>>13538986
Is the Church of Reason another name for Robespierre's Cult of the Supreme Being?

[Anonymous No.13540150]

Could anybody make one for yoga and meditiation? (One list for each)

[Anonymous No.13540176]

>>13540026
> Is any part of alchemy actually scientific?
Probably not in the strict sense since our notion of what is "scientific" changed drastically after alchemy fell out of favor. Still they were people we consider scientists who practiced or studied it. See for instance this madlad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus

Your question is indeed central. What does it mean for something to be scientific? Our modern science tends to define itself in opposition to earlier forms of inquiry even tough it descends from them. Studying alchemy could be a good way to understand why societies create "sciences" and what they expect from them. After all people in the antiquity and the Middle Ages practiced both alchemy and something close to what we call science (Al Razi used control groups in studying the treatment of diseases for instance). To them there was no contradiction. Does that mean alchemy is "mislead" or "misleading" science ? Or something different that separated itself from science over time, like philosophy did? Once you get into the evolution of knowledge practices you realize science is about what scientists do, and what scientists do and how they measure success at what they do changes all the time.

>Was there ever a potion or such that actually worked, later turning out to have worked for scientific reasons?
Difficult to say, I'm not sure people would have drawn the distinction in the past. Think of how astrology and astronomy used to be the same discipline.

[Anonymous No.13540190]

>>13540176
Interesting! Not quite sure if I'll read a book about it, but cool to have a better idea about it all. Never thought about alchemy's role as you explained here.

[Anonymous No.13540228]

>>13540190
I'm happy I got you interested. The key is to look at this historically, we have this narrative of scientific progress and science getting more redpilled as time goes on. The truth is what people intend, what they expect from science, what they consider good and bad science changes over time. Alchemy is a good way to highlight that, it used to be legit, now it is not, without any dishonesty or even lack of intelligence on the part of its practitioners.

[Anonymous No.13540279]

>>13539967
>love

>Kahlil Gibran - The prophet
>Solomon- Song of Songs
>Joseph Peladan- The ritual of love

[Anonymous No.13540316]

>>13537096
Schopenhauer is the only that comes to mind. He was insufferable, byt very intelligent

[Anonymous No.13540342]

>>13540279
>Learns about love from books

[Anonymous No.13540358]

Mathematics:
Basic Mathematics by Lang
Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Stewart
You don't need a third book for an overview like this.

[Anonymous No.13540399]

>>13540342
you're right heh

[Anonymous No.13540412]

>>13537539
Literally all of that is an example of good business dealing. Are you retarded? There's a reason the dude is rich and famous. And BTW, he had to be rich and famous before he had brand power.

[Anonymous No.13540416]

fantastic thread idea, OP.

someone should really turn these into a chart or something.

[Anonymous No.13540437]

>>13540416
Thanks! I thought about making the replies into charts myself, and making an archive or something. However, I don't have Photoshop available at the moment, and won't for a while. Too much of a pain in the ass to do in Paint, could download GIMP or something though.

[Anonymous No.13540447]

Need help. I want to make one for transcendentalism but so far I can only come up with...

>transcendentalism
Essays and poems, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
???

[Anonymous No.13540589]

>>13535029
On the one hand this is a really stupid and pointless attack on Anon's character. On the other hand, BASED.

[Anonymous No.13540615]

>Topic
Naval warfare and doctrine in the late 19th and early 20th century
>Books
Dreadnought
Castles of Steel
The Influence of Sea Power upon History

[Anonymous No.13540677]

>>13540412
You are a fucking idiot. It's a lesson of who to avoid in business. No wonder America is fucked with idiots like you.

If you honestly believe you should take business notions from Trump you are fucking retard. 10 million dollar loan, no strings attached. I'd say we'd all do ok with that sort of net to catch us.

[Anonymous No.13540708]

>topic
My dick
>books
the very long
the very thick
the very beautiful

[Anonymous No.13540728]

>>13540708
let's see

[Anonymous No.13540744]

The Russian empire and the Russian Revolution please

[Anonymous No.13540753]

>>13540744
>snif-
wait is that a dude?

[Anonymous No.13540773]

>>13540753
Didnt you know anon? Boys have cuter feet than girls these days.

[Anonymous No.13540789]

>>13540744
Orlndo Figes is a pretty good author in that field. A People's Tragedy and Natasha's dance should cover quite a bit of it.

[Anonymous No.13540825]

>>13540677
this in an undeniable fact

[Anonymous No.13540849]

>>13540437
use this

https://pixlr.com/editor/

its just as good as photoshop imo

[Anonymous No.13540873]

>>13540753
no it's a girl with hairy legs, ugly feet and football club wallpaper

[Anonymous No.13540909]

>>13540873
cope harder straightcel

[Anonymous No.13540923]

3 books on symbolism/symbology? The ones I have read are Man and his Symbols by Jung and Cirlot's dictionary.

[Anonymous No.13540959]

Hit me on 3 books about the German Empire

[Anonymous No.13540975]

>>13540959
3x epstein's genesis of german conservatism

[Anonymous No.13541448]

>>13540116
No, they were actually rival groups, with the Cult of the Supreme Being eventually edging out the Cult of Reason. The former was deistic, while the latter was atheistic.

[Anonymous No.13541473]

Football Association

[Anonymous No.13541496]

>>13534407
>Millennium
Millennium what? Millennium Falcon? I hate when I ask for books on something and some loser gives a list of names that are way too vague, like Thomas or Benjamin

[Anonymous No.13541684]

Engineering Student going into a semester of physics, specifically classical mechanics.

Any recommended books?

[Anonymous No.13541758]

>>13534537
El Túnel de Guillermo H. Gasso?

[Anonymous No.13541785]

>topic
The French experimental literary movement OuLiPo

>3 books
OuLiPo Compendium - Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie
A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems - Raymond Queneau
Life: A User's Manual - Georges Perec

Honorable mentions to Invisible Cities and if on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino and A Void by Georges Perec

[Anonymous No.13541818]

>>13535297
It isn't. Start with Durkheim's Suicide, then read Weber's Protestant Ethic, and finally go to Marx's Das Kapital.

[Anonymous No.13541879]

>>13534675
>/fit/
Here goes for movers:
>Jeff Galloway's Book on Running
>John Vonhof's Fixing Your Feet
>Don Mann's Complete Guide to Adventure Racing
The three of these should help you avoid a lot of serious retard maneuvers when you are learning to scoot.

[Anonymous No.13541946]

anyone have some recommendations for electricity and circuits?

[Anonymous No.13541963]

3 books for journalism perhaps?

[Anonymous No.13541972]

>>13541946
electrical engineering basics(?)

[Anonymous No.13541975]

Anyone wanna do one for the Napoleonic Wars or the Eastern Roman Empire?

[Anonymous No.13541982]

>>13541879
Thanks man, I just got in a running rut with my knee, so maybe these will help me recover and not fuck myself over again.

[Anonymous No.13542009]

>>13541946
Just one, famalam:
>https://www.directtextbook.com/isbn/9780486209739

[Anonymous No.13542033]

>>13534318
I am about to finish Azkaban after 3 years of having read Chamber of Secrets, and I can barely remember what happened in the first one other then Harry getting bullied, train, hat picking house, mirror that reflects what you desire most (not sure if it was this one or the other), girl restroom ghost, and chess; who was the bad guy? Now that I think of it the only thing I remember from Chamber of Secrets is that the teacher was a bad guy and had had an acronym name to Voldetmore.

[Anonymous No.13542146]

>>13534282
Greek Mythology
>the Iliad
>the odyssey
>a book on greek myths and legends
Norse Mythology
>the prose edda
>the poetic edda
>codex regius
Nazi Germany
>Mein Kampf
>the wages of destruction
>the rise and fall of the 3rd reich
Esotericism
>revolt against the modern world
>ride the tiger
>men among the ruins
Egoism
>thus spoke zarathustra
>beyond good and evil
>the ego and its own

[Anonymous No.13542150]

>>13542146

Its as if someone had diluted all the cringe from /lit/ and decided to display it.

[Anonymous No.13542163]

>>13542150
particularly the second half

[Anonymous No.13542172]

>>13542150
OK. So, cringe critique:
>the rise and fall of the 3rd reich
for me.

[Anonymous No.13542174]

>>13542150
if you 'cringe' you are literally a chick, you can mock things without being a faggot

[Anonymous No.13542183]

>>13542174

... go off king.

[Anonymous No.13542273]

Few Topics: US Presidents, US Geography, US Military, Medicine

[Anonymous No.13542335]

>>13540849
Nice, I'll start making some when I find the time

[Anonymous No.13542336]

>>13541818
Alright, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.13542517]

>>13540342
Valid point but I would still like to see what people have said about it.
>>13540104
>>13540279
Many thanks

[Anonymous No.13542537]

>>13534520
If you're interested in really prehistoric maybe try Graham Hancock. I'm reading 'Before America' right now and it's the kind of thing you have to read with an open mind, he makes some pretty wild conjectures which may or may not be true but he's done his research and there's some good stuff in there.

[Anonymous No.13542593]

>>13534306
Could anybody provide me a link for the pdf of bronze age mindset? Much appreciated

[Anonymous No.13542633]

>>13534475
> Nobody reads or has real interests anymore...

Name one fucking time in history where people had "real interests"

[Anonymous No.13542652]

Would anybody make one for ontology?

[Anonymous No.13542655]

>>13535037
Only Abrahamic religion though
For eastern thought read:
Bhagavad Gita
Tao Te Ching
Tibetan Book of Death

[Anonymous No.13542709]

Early modern economic history

>Fernand Braudel: Civilisations and Capitalism I-III (Three 550-page volumes that are absolutely based)
>Andre Gunder Frank: ReOrient (Be careful, it is both good and shit)
>Jan de Vries: The Industrious Revolution (Heavily critizised but still relevant)

When it comes to history, and all science I assume, you have to read books that have both good and bad elements to them in order to 1. train your critical eye and 2. challenge your own ideas about history.

[Anonymous No.13542718]

>>13542033
>Now that I think of it the only thing I remember from Chamber of Secrets is that the teacher was a bad guy and had had an acronym name to Voldetmore
Two different guys. The teacher was a fraud, he's not that relevant. Tom Marvolo Riddle is Voldemort's real name and his younger self (-> I am Lord Voldemort)

Just watch the movies if you want to catch up quickly

[Anonymous No.13542720]

>>13534642
1. Dialectic of Elighment by Adorno/Horkheimer
2. The Society of Society by Luhmann
3. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge ny Berger/Luckmann

t. Sociologist

[Anonymous No.13542929]

Going to create som charts now. First making those which I find interesting. Request charts of certain replies and I will give it a go.

[Anonymous No.13542939]

>>13542593
I was going to upload the epub but looks like I won't be able to. Purchased the physical book from Amazon but it's not one of those that lets you get the Kindle file free.

[Anonymous No.13542965]

>>13534689
Hi anon, just want to say I found these real insightful about topics I usually don't think about.
Thanks for the suggestions

[Anonymous No.13543020]

>>13534306
>>13542929


First one is done. This was an absolute pain in the ass do to in Pixlr. I'll find a better way soon.

[Anonymous No.13543025]

>>13543020
Forgot to add the image

[Anonymous No.13543068]

>>13543020
>>13534362

Downloaded Paint.NET, lot easier

[Anonymous No.13543091]

>>13543020
>>13537951

[Anonymous No.13543104]

>>13538030
Biology for Dummies

[Anonymous No.13543195]

>>13543020
Holding out till the motherchart total

[Anonymous No.13543232]

Has anybody criticized the premise of OP's thread yet?

Firstly, I'm sure 1 book suffices "to know more about some topic than 95% of people"
Especially if you want to optimize, as you write. Read 1 book on inorganic chemistry for steam engines or on the flower arrangement tradition east of Russia and you certainly know more about those subjects than 99% of people.
Secondly, why would knowing more about most people about a subject be a good goal.

Yes, I'd say read a few books about machine learning an this will have relevance to your the opinions you'll have to form in the next 50 years of your life. Indeed, if you want to optimize your life - if you want to understand more instead of enjoying the experience of childlike wonder, then download Java and learn what an algorithm is. The mechanics and their structures will be omnipresent the rest of your life.

[Anonymous No.13543352]

>>13543232
OP here. The point of mentioning the 95% thing was not to make that the goal, but to make a point that you really don't have to read much to know ((relatively)) much about a topic. The goal is by no means to become a human library, but how you can learn more about things you're interested in.

[Anonymous No.13543401]

>>13543352
What are the things you're interested in?

Sorry for my somewhat mean spirited rant. I work in STEM with some colleagues deep in machine learning. And I also have a philosophy student who keeps on sending me pleb news articles on the topic and I came to accuse her of not wanting to understand the things she talks and write about ("as a philosopher") and instead just wants to stay in a state where she can keep on wondering and being excited about things. Learning would take out the magic, like "never meet your idols". People could invest a weekend to actually be more knowledgeable the things that concern them, but seemingly work against that happening - I don't know if it's because they are lazy, underestimate themselves or indeed just want to keep the capability to experience childlike wondering about things.

[Anonymous No.13543503]

>>13543401
>What are the things you're interested in?

Psychology, sociology, philosophy, politics.

> just wants to stay in a state where she can keep on wondering and being excited about things.

Totally get what you mean right here. However, that is what I am also trying to stop, and get others through with this stuff. I am assuming one is way more likely to stay in that state when introduced to charts with 60 books about one single topic. When being introduces to only 3, it's way more accesiable, like you can actually read those over the next month.

> I don't know if it's because they are lazy, underestimate themselves or indeed just want to keep the capability to experience childlike wondering about things.

I think it's all three. I personally know that I am really excited about a topic before I am heading into it, and the most boring part being the actual study. However, when one really has comprehended a topic and is able to develop own ideas and opinions, that is when it is most exciting.

> Sorry for my somewhat mean spirited rant

No worries, I get where you're coming from

[Anonymous No.13543515]

>>13542593
its on libgen.is my dude

[Anonymous No.13543517]

>>13534282
Actually good and novel idea for a thread. Get the fuck off my board.

[Anonymous No.13543566]

>>13540447
Leaves of Grass you NIGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>WHERE THE HOOD WHERE THE HOOD WHERE THE HOOD AT
AAAAAAAAAAAÄAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>HAVE THAT NIGGA IN THE CUT, WHERE THE WOOD AT?
AAAAAAAAAAÀAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>OH, THEM NIGGAS ACTING UP?!? WHERE THE WOLVES AT?
AAAAAAAÃAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>YOU BETTER BUST THAT IF YOU GONNA PULL THAT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÂAAAAAAAAa.

[Anonymous No.13543612]

>>13537165
>inb4 Timothy Ferris

[Anonymous No.13543629]

>If you want to take up serious reading dont treat your reading list like buffet of literary history to be sampled, pick one topic to master
>Time is precious, reading Mishima, then Carlyle, then Art of War, there's no momentum there, choices must build geometrically
>A reading list of 10 classics is worse than one of 10 books about same classic. Doing latter will produce lasting gains, former wont
>Your reading knowledge and critical capacity must be trained and disciplined in a structured manner to build up that grey matter
>Books arent checkboxes to be ticked on your erudition application, they are not so easy to exhaust, require many viewpoints to discern truly
>I wouldn't expect to get a good handle on a book until studying the author, the era, the genre, and the criticism
>These perspectives interlock to create understanding, just read 1 thing in passing and it wont grow roots in your mind, you need to compost

[Anonymous No.13543657]

Impossible to whittle it down to 3, had to settle for 4
British Lyric Poetry
>Spenser's Amoretti
>Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
>Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads
>Yeats' The Tower

British Epic
>The Faerie Queene
>Paradise Lost
>Don Juan
>In Parentheses


British Novel
>Emma
>Pickwick Papers
>Middlemarch
>Ulysses


British Drama
>Hamlet
>Importance of Being Earnest
>Waiting for Godot
>Look Back in Anger

British Essay Collected editions
>Dr Johnson
>Hazlitt
>Carlyle
>Orwell

[Anonymous No.13543675]

>>13543657
boring picks

[Anonymous No.13543699]

>>13543675
Pick better ones faggot

[Anonymous No.13543704]

>>13534306
>Culture of Critique
>White Identity
>BAPbook
4chan is the Reddit of wignats

[Anonymous No.13543743]

>>13534407
>Not mentioning pic related
You're missing out big time.

[Anonymous No.13543815]

Any /k/ommandos out there? I'd like one on the Iran-Iraq War or the Congolese civil wars.

As far as topic #2 goes, I've already read Dancing in the Glory of Monsters.

[Anonymous No.13543932]

>>13542273
Anyone??? :(

[Anonymous No.13544287]

>>13542718
I ended up just reading a summary on sparknotes, but thanks for the suggestion

[Anonymous No.13544379]

>>13534282
>topic
mathematics
>books
EGA SGA FGA

[Anonymous No.13544391]

>>13544379
>that as introductory books
Nice ruse.

[Anonymous No.13544689]

>>13540744
Russian Rev:

Figes - People's Tragedy (You only need this desu, a bible for russian rev)
10 Days that Shook the World - Reed
Pipes - Russian Revolution

[Anonymous No.13544693]

Someone help with British/English History please?

Im reading The English and their History by Tombs, and Abolition of Britain by Hitchens but ould use a few more

[Anonymous No.13544697]

>>13543815
>Iran-Iraq
The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux
The Iran-Iraq War: A Military and Strategic History by Kevin M. Woods and Williamson Murray

[Anonymous No.13544754]

>>13543629
Go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.13544762]

>>13543815
Try “In the Shadow of Freedom” for the Congolese Civil Wars

[Anonymous No.13544770]

>>13544693
Empire by Niall Ferguson and Pax Britannica by Jan Norris

[Anonymous No.13544805]

>>13544693
Plantagenets by Dan Jones

[Anonymous No.13544832]

Can someone recommend me some books on Consciousness or on Philosophy of Mind?

[Anonymous No.13545093]

>>13544754
What's wrong

[Anonymous No.13545114]

>>13544832

Everything from Franz Brentano, followed by anything by Edmund Husserl.

And since its also the start of Phenomenology, you'll also end up learning more than 90% of people on every subject imaginable...

[Anonymous No.13545128]

>>13540773
Kill yourself you stupid cocksucker

[Anonymous No.13545134]

>>13537951

> thinking Epstein-adjacent Pinker is worth reading

I too made that mistake, anon.

[Anonymous No.13545138]

>>13537781
terrible and retarded

[Anonymous No.13545156]

>>13542273
Medicine
>Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice

>Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine

And if you really hate yourself and your time

>Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Twentieth Edition (Vol.1 & Vol.2)

[Anonymous No.13545165]

>Contemporary China
When China Rules The World
Everything Under The Heavens
Out of China

[Anonymous No.13545213]

>>13535318
based

[Anonymous No.13545538]

>Non-Shakespearean-Marlovian English Renaissance Drama:
John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
Ben Jonson - Volpone
Thomas Middleton & William Rowley - The Changeling

[Anonymous No.13545570]

>>13545165
>no xi jinping or deng

[Anonymous No.13545636]

>>13543232
Why Java though

[Anonymous No.13545718]

Media/control of information/propaganda?

[Anonymous No.13545825]

>>13534282
>topic
democracy
>books
A Critique of Democracy - Michael Anissimov
Democracy: the god that failed - Hans Herman Hoppe
Hitler's Revolution - Richard Tedor

[Anonymous No.13546015]

Any recommendations for anthropology?

If you could give different ones for different specialties, for example cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, religious anthropology, etc, that'd be great.

[Anonymous No.13546056]

>>13540923
anyone?

[Anonymous No.13546148]

>>13546056
you might enjoy joseph campbell

[Anonymous No.13546170]

>>13546148
I've read hero with a thousand faces, fren

Let me go full plebeian here: I'm looking for Robert Langdon level of symbology if you know what I mean

[Anonymous No.13546839]

>>13536298
The Intelligent Investor
The Greatest Salesman in the World
Zero to One

If you're more worried about stocks than business, switch Zero to One with A Random Walk Down Wall Street

[Anonymous No.13546843]

>>13544832
Chalmers works

[Anonymous No.13546854]

>>13545718

Manufacturing Consent

[Anonymous No.13546921]

Any good books about the antebellum south?

[Anonymous No.13547011]

Is the great bear rainforest a topic?
If so, what are some good books about it?

[Anonymous No.13547209]

>>13536209
That fat kike deserves to be publicly executed

[Anonymous No.13547266]

>>13541946
For electronics
For first book loop up books on circuit analysis. There are a ton to choose from. I learned in school and used https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Circuits-10th-James-Nilsson/dp/0133760030..

Once you have some good knowledge of circuit analysis and theory this book is a must have. https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336

The third book that is another must have for electronics enthusiasts is
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957#customerReviews

[Anonymous No.13547700]

>>13542273
Interested in this too and Intelligence - both cognitive and security (i.e. CIA, KGB, etc)

[Anonymous No.13548074]

>>13534282
Give me the holy trio for normie interactions (conversations, socializing and so on).

[Anonymous No.13548113]

>>13548074
how to win friends and influence people, carnegie
social intelligence, goleman
the manual, anton

[Anonymous No.13548132]

>>13548074
>>13548113
I'd also include hitting the gym unironically, fren. That'll boost your confidence. NoFap also helps.

[Anonymous No.13548170]

>>13548074
You could read as many books on that topic as you want, but nothing happens before you actually put yourself out there

[Anonymous No.13548183]

>>13540412
He's not rich, currently and he didn't even write that book.

[Anonymous No.13548321]

>>13540923
I'm interested as well.

[Anonymous No.13548527]

>>13534362
Shockingly based.

[Anonymous No.13548801]

>>13534675
Starting strength is certainly a reference but the author has a pure strength (as opposed to health) vision.

[Anonymous No.13549217]

>>13542273
Interested in US Military too. Would also like to know some books about Airplanes and the Navy

[Anonymous No.13549411]

>>13534640
I also HIGHLY recommend this.

basically all of the bible comes from Sumer (mixed with greek philosophy). for example the epic of gilgamesh contains directly the story of noah.

>>13535052
>i found out more cuneiform tablets aren't deciphered than i imagined

yes, theres still a lot of work to do.

I strongly recommend this 2 lectures they are long but very enyoable, this is important universal knowledge

this is a lecture about the poem/epic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd7MrGy_tEg

and this is a lecture about the writing and translation of cuneiform:

go to 2:50 where he mentions the specific tablet that talks about noah's arc:

https://youtu.be/PfYYraMgiBA

[Anonymous No.13550190]

>>13534282
>topic
The Jewish Question
>books
Culture of Critique,
The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit,
Protocols of the Zelders of Zion

[Anonymous No.13550890]

>>13550190
Cringe

[Anonymous No.13551402]

>>13534282
ISLAM
Catastrophic Failure actually explains how Islam works in practice.
The Reliance of the Traveler is a major example of the jurisprudence texts described in CF.
Milestones is a massively influential book showing the disconnect between Islam and modernity.

PUBLIC EDUCATION
The Underground History of American Public Education by long time NYC teacher JT Gatto should be read by everyone who has suffered through public school.
Battle for Room 314 is an unintentionally hilarious establishmentarian illustration of what Gatto complains about.
And Barzun's book on teaching.

[Anonymous No.13551857]

>>13551402
cringe vol.2
>>>>>>>>>>>> /pol/

[Anonymous No.13552011]

>>13551402
mate, you don't just give a topic and give books that explain how bad it is, imagine me making one for christianity and just putting the god delusion in there, isnt that odd?

[Anonymous No.13552060]

>>13534282
Quakers
>Moby dick
>Voltaire’s letters on the English
>Quaker writings:an anthology

What can I do with this knowledge on an obscure Christian religion bros?

[Anonymous No.13552070]

>>13551402
Big cringe, I’m critical of Islam but at least I read measured overviews instead of shit that validated my confirmation bias.

[Anonymous No.13552214]

>>13541684
Not any books that get super deep. As far as Classical mechanics go, reading up on Newton and some of his contemporaries work will give you good insight into exactly what they're getting at.

I know people are gonna be really mad about me saying this, but honestly the best place to start is reading your textbook, talking to your professor about things you dont understand, and working problems.

As far as classical mechanics goes, having an intuitive understanding of why it works based on experience in problem solving helps to solidify the actual conceptual ideas.

You'll find the meat of the interesting material in reading through derivations and the experiments done by the founders of classical mechanics. You can also see an evolution in mathematics, as people struggled to open algebra up as more than an analytical tool and more of a proof based tool. If memory serves correct, most proofs were constructed geometrically for the longest time, and a significant amount of Newton's work was expressed in terms of ratios rather than equations.

[Anonymous No.13552232]

>>13538571
Lacanian Psychoanalysis
How to Read Lacan - Slavoj Žižek
The Lacanian Subject - Bruce Fink
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan - Jacques Lacan

[Anonymous No.13552233]

>>13552232
>The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
Specifically seminar XI

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>>13552060
Are Quakers obscure? I've grown up with them in my area my whole life so I might not have a good frame of reference. Nice folks, both in person and historically (according to what little I know).

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>>13552287
Historically speaking, part of the reason the Quaker's came to America was their violent past in Great Britain. They did lots of rioting and such.

They basically underwent a reformation once they came here, that boils down to, "maybe people wont hate us if we chill our shit out". And that was the birth of a more modern Quaker. They really are nice people though, like the mormons.

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>>13552305
>their violent past in Great Britain. They did lots of rioting and such.
holy shit, I had no idea. Are the modern Quakers as cult-like as Mormons?

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>>13552340
That's a very good question. I like reading a lot of reformation history in regards to Catholic/Christian derived religions, so my knowledge drops off sharply in more modern and contemporary areas (right around the 1900s).

From what I gather, the Quakers aren't nearly as bad as the Mormons, if they are bad at all. I've heard stories of how the Mormons use the whole local door to door deal as a way of brainwashing younger members into thinking that the only people they can trust are other mormons.

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>>13546015
... please

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>>13546015
>>13552612
All I can offer you is a broad spectrum, I don't know if this is what you're looking for.

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture -- Marvin Harris
He goes into different cultures throughout the world and tries to offer explanations as to why certain customs exist and the effects of them. Particularly brutal when he describes some of the Amazon tribes.

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language -- David Anthony
This is one of the better books I've read. Basically tries to discover the origins of Aryans and how they conquered the world. Will also give you a brief intro into PIE language.

For the last book pick your poison of Sapiens or Guns, Germs and Steel. Read either one with an open mind. GGS in particular is full of some inaccuracies and fantasies but the basic message is there. They're both very broad books, something will pique your interest and you can find something more dedicated.

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>>13535620
>Early Analytic
>No Witty
Huh

[Anonymous No.13553304]

>>13534842
Is this specially American Law?

[Anonymous No.13553326]

>>13553003
>The Horse, the Wheel, and Language -- David Anthony
this looks interesting as fuck, thank you

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>>13541684
Introduction:
Mechanics, by Landau (first book in his series)
When you reach absolute madman levels:
A treatise on analytical dynamics, by Whitakker
Treatise of rational mechanics, by Appell
Methods of mathematical physics, by Courant

[Anonymous No.13553482]

>>13539924
Alchemy is a joke in terms of chemistry (it is not the 'ancestor' of chemistry in any meaningful way except dealing with material changes).
That's not all it was about though. Alchemy had a strong psychological component and that's how it interested people for so long.

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>>13546015
Religious anthropology:
Golden Bough, by Frazer (very 'dated' in the decadent pessimist vibe, agricultural symbolism taking up everything, and hated by cucks for his evolutionist standpoint but still a great read)
The sacred and the profane, by Eliade
Violence and the sacred, by Girard

[Anonymous No.13553542]

>>13538569
For Ancient Greece, I would recommend "The Greeks" by Kitto instead. It was a pretty good introduction for me and helped me to jump straight into Plutarch, Herodotus and Thucydides

[Anonymous No.13553544]

Books about 1980's culture?

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>>13548113
>>13548132
>>13548170
Thanks frends

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>>13553304
Nope. Law in general. Sandel comes from a common law tradition. Goyard-Fabre comes from a civil law background because she's french. Aristotle stablished the basis for everything.

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>>13554426
Thanks. Going to look into those books. *Kisses your forehead*

[Anonymous No.13555013]

>>13535037
>Quran by Abdel Haleem
Holy BASED, 100% akhipilled

[Anonymous No.13555034]

>>13534808
nice meme books faggot

[Anonymous No.13555079]

>>13534282
>if you read just three books, you'll know more about a given subject than 95% of people!
And still not enough about it to claim any amount of expertise or authority, with absolutely no guarantee that you actually understood and synthesized, and can make use of, any of that information.

[Anonymous No.13555108]

>>13555079
>b-but i'm more knowledgeable than 95% of people!

[Anonymous No.13555146]

>>13538967
>Matt vs Japan
Language learning really does attract lots of halfwits and midwits, doesn't it?

[Anonymous No.13555199]

>>13534362
Based and moldbugpilled

[Anonymous No.13556202]

>>13543657
>"British"
>Joyce, Beckett

[Anonymous No.13556291]

Do people actually want me to make the charts of the replies? Saw someone mentioned a motherchart but I am not sure if it just goes to waste. Quite the work

[Anonymous No.13556326]

>>13534282
Millenarianism:
the pursuit of the millennium - norman cohn
the house of government - yuri slezkine
black mass - john gray

[Anonymous No.13556363]

>>13556202
They were born British you fenian faggot you.

[Anonymous No.13556644]

>>13556291
Do it anon! At least make a template!

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>>13534791
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[Anonymous No.13556763]

Any suggestions for psychology?

I'd say :
Thinking fast and slow
The righteous mind
Madness explained

For a well rounded general background.

[Anonymous No.13556782]

>>13556763
Somebody already posted one

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>>13556782
Dennet isn't a psychology book.
Pinker is dogmatic and represents a biased view.
The other I haven't read.

[Anonymous No.13556806]

>collecting random retards' picks as if it's some board consensus chart

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>>13556644

Alright, here is a template. I'll make some more, and put them into one big one and put it into a new thread tomorrow, as this one is reaching is limit.

[Anonymous No.13556840]

>>13556806

Yeah we really need to agree on three books before anyone gets Ms paint out

[Anonymous No.13556845]

>>13556840

Alright I actually agree, how should we do it?

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>>13556823
Please include only the ones where reasons are given.

[Anonymous No.13557060]

>>13556845
By how many people respond based & redpilled?
>>13556900
Where were there any reasons given out ITT

[Anonymous No.13557342]

>>13542633
The 18th and 19th centuries.
t. Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death

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>>13556722
What did you want to study? Let's say you wanted to study english or humanities in general, you're not losing anything by not going to any of these top schools, as all the knowledge you could acquire is easily available for you on the internet.

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>>13540923
Read the History of Art by Gombrich.