Recommend a Non-Fiction Book

[Skeratch]

Good drops,

Another one I thought of the other day: Untapped: the Scramble for Africa's Oil

 

[robdaze151]

Circle of fear-Hussein Sumaida

Growing up his dad was Saddam's best friend. This kid went against the grain and became a spy for the U.S

 

[The Jackal]

The bible. Great book as long as you don't tak it to serious

 

[melanated khemist]

Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles

by Jesus Huerta de Soto

The United-Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept: (A textbook/workbook for thought, speech, and/or action for victims of racism (white supremacy))

by Neely Fuller Jr.

The Nightmare and The Dream: Nas, Jay-Z and the History of Conflict in African-American Culture

by Dax-Devlon Ross

 

[GARRYGREEN]

Someone wrote a book about nas and jay-z beefin? Man you stupid if you think they aint cool. Thas just sellin records. But jay-z is def the king of new york!

Djlimegreen.com

(free dl's weekly)

google me bitch

 

[DougyDoris]

How about a great fiction book...but it could definitely one day be non-fiction. The name of the book is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It's great. It's all about large machining, effects of government on business, and what not. Great read. Supposed to be made into a book, soon!

 

[earth two superman]

Washington: A life

 

[Funky Dr]

The Bible, written by "ImGoingToHeavenRU?"

...lol

you see what I did there?

 

[lexico cold]

The Motion Paradox - Joseph Mazur - Interesting book kind of a mix between science and philosophy based on Xeno's popular paradox(s). I'm still having problems with 0.9999999 =1 because it almost seems like they negate the idea of infinity.

 

[lexico cold]

Plus it has a cool history of modern day clocks and the different inventions of tools to measure time.

 

[Jonas.dini]

The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

Sound and Fury by Eric Alterman

When Victims become Killers by Mahmood Mamdani (this is a good one on the rwanda genocide, I noticed some of u guys mentioned other books on this subject)

 

[Maximus Rex]

The Game - Niel Strauss

What dude said. I also recommend The Mystery Method and The Pick Up Artist, both by Mystery.

The Federalist.

Hirohito and The Making of Modern Japan by Herbert Pix.

My Life by Bill Clinton

Assuming of you haven't read it, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill

Classic Slave Narratives

The Art of Seduction by Robert Green

Misquoting Jesus by Bart Erhman

God Is Not Great: How Religion Posions Everything by Christopher Hitchens.

 

[Shuffington]

The Game - Niel Strauss

the quickest 400 pgs I've ever read

 

[redhandedbandit]

the book of five rings by miyamoto musashi...Asphalt gods

 

[Alkindus]

- The auto-biografie of 'Casimir graaf von Schlippenbach is the shit, he waged wars, fucked everything he could, gambled and traded arms. they actually rewarded the one that murdered him lol, still he wrote a very sick book(1682-1755)

- The Assassin Legends by Farhad Daftary (for those that are familair with the assassins creed games, u gotta have this!)

- Jancko Douwama's writings, in dutch the title translate as 'a man of honour' (don't know if this was ever translated in english though, it are the writings of a bro that defied the emperor and got thrown in prison for 10 years where he was tortured etc, the writings were smuggled out the prison)

- The hunt for spanish silver(I translated the dutch title 'op jacht naar spaans silver) It's the ships journal of Willem van Brederode, kapitein der mariniers in de nassause vloot(navy captain of the fleet of nassause) from 1623 untill 1626. It's epic.

 

[melanated khemist]

Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World Absolutely Small:
by Michael D. Fayer

Health and Nutrition Secrets
by Russell L Blaylock MD

Cell Talk: Transmitting Mind into DNA Cell Talk: Transmitting Mind into DNA
by John E. Upledger

The Global Economic Crisis The Great Depression of the XXI Century
by Michel Chossudovsky

Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Cosmos
by Iain Nicolson

Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite (Princeton Science Library)
by Rudy Rucker

The Roots of Transcendence
by Edward Bruce Bynum

Afrikan People And European Holidays: A Mental Genocide Book One
by Ishakamusa Barashango

 

[Hyde Parke]

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould. Brilliant book on scientific racisim, sexism, classism and every other 'ism'.
The Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen.
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Autobiography of Malcolm x
The Man Who Mistook His Wife or a Hat by Oliver Sacks. His book Awakenings way turned into a fim with DeNiro and Robin Williams

^^^those sound interesting, will have to check those out. With the exception of Malcolm X, ive read that one a few times, very powerful book.

 

[Rare_]

Think and Grow Rich-napolen hill...its as good as the bible..will change your entire way of thinking

 

[Hyde Parke]

Oh they most definitely are. If you like Howard Zimm then you will like James Loewen.

The Mismeasure of Man is great because it shows that prejudices have been even harder to refute just because faulty science has "co-signed" so many negative stereotypes and that people believe it, just because it is 'science'. He also refutes the Bell Curve theory, and argues that IQ testing is counterproductive.

As for Malcolm X, well that should be mandatory reading and should definitely be read more than once. You are right; very powerful book.

i listen to Howard Zinn audios often here on public radio.

on the bolded, there are many posters on this forum who hold that view, and also put much stock in IQ testing, which has been proven instances of racial/cultural biases, but there are many who cling to those things and hold them as ultimate truths.

thanks for posting these, ive already copied them into my notepad and added them to the long list of other books i have to check out. lol.

 

[Millions Knives]

The Physics of Basketball

John J. Fontanella

great for anybody who wants to improve in basketball in a scientific way....even explains how you can shatter the glass when you dunk....if u want.

Does anybody know any good Lucid Dreaming books......I'm trying to learn how to know when I'm dreaming and control that shit.