/lit/ - Literature

>>2043946
Well Facts on File is a subsidiary of Infobase, which now owns Cambridge educational, Chelsea House, Ferguson, etc.

They are basically one of the first companies to bring text books to digital print for higher education learning in a mass market way.

There are plenty other histories of medicine if you look on the website I posted. They probably get more legit the narrower the subject matter.

Medicine Becomes a Science: 1840-1999

http://library.nu/docs/HCB0EIAQX4/Medicine%20Becomes%20a%20Science%3A%201840-1999%20%28The%20History
%20of%20Medicine%29

The Scientific Revolution and Medicine 1450-1700 (The History of Medicine)

http://library.nu/docs/0BNS51CL78/The%20Scientific%20Revolution%20and%20Medicine%201450-1700%20%28Th
e%20History%20of%20Medicine%29

I haven't read these but they seem legit.

People's histories are always short sided and should always been complimented with other types of histories. Historians since the 70's have been obsessed with this sort of history and we've had much come of it, but this has lead to a regression in other areas.

David Blight is probably my favorite contemporary people's historian, but this is only because unlike Zinn he includes other histories to corroborate what people were saying at that time. Much more academic in that regard.

You don't know what pain is OP.

Age: 21
Sex: M
Location: American
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Favorite Book: Reassembling the Social Bruno Latour
Favorite Author: Michel Foucault
Favorite Album: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will Mogwai
Favorite Movie: picture related
Religious Views: N/A

Thanks guys.

Anything else?

/lit/ I just made it through Douglas Adams Hitchhikers trilogy.

What Comedy /lit/erature would you recommend in the vain of his writing style?

The current run of Godzilla is really good, ironically.

I just finished The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott and am starting The Comedy of Philosophy by Lisa Trahair.

What are the funniest books you have ever read?

American History to Civil War-A
Classical Mythology-B
International Relation-A
Russian I-N/A(to many people dropped the class ;_;)

>*sitting in class re-reading Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's What is Property?*
>Cute girl walks in. "ohh hey anon, what are you reading?"
>I respond, "Pierre Proudhon."
>her, "Pierre, that must be French is it poetry?"
>I give here a blank stare for a good twenty seconds, I finally smile and respond, "Yes...yes it is."
>everythingwentbetterthanexpect.jpg

>>1717187
awe well, I just noticed I was thinking of Roots of Strategy series, not Strategy of War.

http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Strategy-Bk-Thomas-Phillips/dp/0811721949/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=130
3452640&sr=8-1

Which Volume of Strategies of War is that?

I've read 2 and 4 but that's because those are the only two copies I can pirate on the internet.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

>>1713801
ass*

I've read 20 books so far, about a book a week. Actually it's more like 4 books in one week then I take a long as break.

I am off to a slower pace than I was last year.

>>1713707
I love reading Foucault and Discipline & Punishment is one of my most re-read books, but while he has done history I've never thought of him as a historian. I don't know if it's his format or what but it's unlike most histories of things.
>>1713738
OP here, I would really recommend this to anyone looking.

David Hume

Can you think of one book with a silent protagonist?

>>1713184
well if it is reductionist I am sure you can easily disprove it.