Recommend a Non-Fiction Book

[And Step]

Hey stranger!

(In my best Jay Z voice) - Hey, what up B!

 

[And Step]

What would you know about anything when you say one thing and then refuse to answer for this
If Islam has no effect on women’s status, why is the position of women in the Middle East worse than in any other part of the world?

I guess it depends on what you mean by worse. If you think being turned into a glorified play thing for men, and treated like a whore, being raped, battered, and disrespected, likely to be divorced and left alone, with the freedom to spit out murdered fetuses on a metal table because she let some herpes infested pit bull nose having muhfuka run up in her, with 4 kids by 5 different fathers because one child is the result of two sperms from a train that was posted on stankbox.com is better than a woman who will have a stable home with her family intact who may have a little less license and formal education and has to cover herself, then hey I guess............

There is pros and cons to both. By the way, Muslims have had female heads of State. How about you?

 

[Huruma]

The Selfish Gene-Richard Dawkins

Evolution - Carl Zimmer

Better Never To Have Been-David Benatar (only read some of it online)

Wonders of the African World-Henry Louis Gates Jr.

etc.

 

[Hyde Parke]

The Selfish Gene-Richard Dawkins

I have this book. highly recommened.

 

[Huruma]

I have this book. highly recommened.

It was a good book but I remember there was one boring chapter devoted to calculating evolutionarily stable 'strategies'. I skipped ahead, I don't think I ever finished that one.

I can't believe I forgot to add Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama.

I still prefer fiction, especially science fiction.

 

[hefty-vulturestatus]

Black Mass by John Gray.

Here's a summary from Amazon:

Some readers will see pessimism where others see sober appraisal in Gray's antiutopian argument that we must reconcile ourselves to a world of multiple truths and incompatible freedoms, where there is no overarching meaning and human values and desires can never be fully harmonized. The views that history progresses toward perfection and the millenarian faith in human salvation—both rooted in abiding Christian myths—are as tenacious as they have proven destructive, the renowned British political theorist and critic argues. Building succinctly on arguments developed in his previous work (including Two Faces of Liberalism and Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern), Gray traces the course of apocalyptic-utopian politics from early Christianity through its secular variant in the Enlightenment and into modern political thought from Marx to Francis Fukuyama, the French Revolution to radical Islamism. Centrally, he assails the contemporary American right (and staunch neoconservative fellow traveler Tony Blair), which after 9/11 advanced into the mainstream the utopianism previously confined to the extreme right and left. His eloquent and illuminating attack also challenges a notion common to the liberal establishment: that history moves inexorably toward the universal application of U.S.-style liberal democracy. He calls it a delusional article of faith that, like the utopian variants before it, easily justifies violence in the name of a greater destiny.

If that sounds complicated it's because it's a very, very content heavy book. Bascially it' about the danger of utopian thinking.

 

[I Self Lord & Master]

The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews - Volume 2 - This book chronicles the post slavery and Reconstruction experience of Black America. It shows step by step how the Southern Jewish community led the charge to dismantle and stifle black progress during the reconstruction era and return them to the shackles of neo-slavery(share cropping and plantations stores), after Blacks had built over 60 independent towns after Slavery and had even elected their own candidates to government. It shows how the Compromise of 1877, which was backed by Southern Jews and Gentiles basically dismantled all black progress and gave whites in the Deep South carte blanche to terrorize blacks, by destroying their towns, lynchings, and other atrocities.

This is not a cheap, racist, rant type of book. It is a very scholarly work that has over 1800 sources that are cited from Jewish Rabbis, Historians, Scholars, as well as actual newspaper and journal quotes and writings from that time period.

You got to know what was to know what is........................

you are one of a handful of posters that i follow through w/ ur suggestions. Im checking this one out

and, why vol 2 and not 1. Or both? lol jus curious

 

[earth two superman]

im currently reading Edmund Morris' The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Teddy was a fuckin bad ass.

 

[melanated khemist]

White Racism: A Psychohistory
by Joel Kovel

African Philosophy During the Period of the Pharaohs 2780-330 bce
by Theophile Obenga

Texts from the Pyramid Age (Writings from the Ancient World)
by Ronald J. Leprohon (Editor) Nigel C. Strudwick

Anatomy of Hatha Yoga: A Manual for Students, Teachers, and Practitioners
by H. David Coulter

The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet
by Susan E. Schenck

Egyptian Mysteries: New Light on Ancient Knowledge (Art and Imagination)
by Lucie Lamy

Chronicles of the Pig & Other Delusions
by Edward Bruce Bynum ....... these are short poems

In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny
by Steve Jones

Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt
by Robert Bauval

Mdw Dtr: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present
by Jacob H. Carruthers

these are all good books, i own and read them. but always use your discerning mind

 

[truth spitter]

Right now I'm reading Prometheus Rising by Robert A. Wilson. It's about the human brain and how we think, why we think, and how we can change our thought process which would ultimately change our actions for the better. It's very stimulating. I plan to finish it today.

Here is how Wikipedia describes Prometheus Rising:

Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson is a guide book of "how to get from here to there", an amalgam of Timothy Leary's 8-circuit model of consciousness, Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, Sociobiology, Yoga, Christian Science, relativity, and quantum mechanics amongst other approaches to understanding the world around us. It claims to be a short book (nearly 300 pages) about how the human mind works and how to get the most use from one. Wilson describes it as an "owner's manual for the human brain".

 

[stupot0607]

Im Currently Reading: The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer

Truely Amazing Book.

 

[truth spitter]

I'm reading this now...gotta stay ahead of the game...time to use that right side of the brain fellas

 

[melanated khemist]

good drop...youre right, time to use the right side of the brain and consciously secrete the right hormones into the blood stream.

Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality
by Paul L. Nunez

The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of the Subjective Experience
by Mark Solms

the authors of the latter book are fans of Freud, but still have valuable info...

 

[cobbland]

The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews - Volume 2 - This book chronicles the post slavery and Reconstruction experience of Black America. It shows step by step how the Southern Jewish community led the charge to dismantle and stifle black progress during the reconstruction era and return them to the shackles of neo-slavery(share cropping and plantations stores), after Blacks had built over 60 independent towns after Slavery and had even elected their own candidates to government. It shows how the Compromise of 1877, which was backed by Southern Jews and Gentiles basically dismantled all black progress and gave whites in the Deep South carte blanche to terrorize blacks, by destroying their towns, lynchings, and other atrocities.

This is not a cheap, racist, rant type of book. It is a very scholarly work that has over 1800 sources that are cited from Jewish Rabbis, Historians, Scholars, as well as actual newspaper and journal quotes and writings from that time period.

You got to know what was to know what is........................

I got Volume One back in 2004.

I'll check this one out too.

 

[Millions Knives]

Raw Law: An Urban Guide to Criminal Justice

This new book from Cash Money Content was actually pretty good.

 

[waterproof]

Just got finish reading Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by ERIC SCHLOSSER a damn got book about the history of fast food and American AGRI-BUSINESS, they way they treat the animals, workers in the meat industry and Fast Food workers, how they killing of Ranchers and all the regulations they dont follow AND HOW they are in the pocket of republicans.. man it make you take a hard look on what you eat. I'm trying to ween myself off of meat, i quitted Pork. but if i ever eat at a fast food place it will only be IN AND OUT.

Amazon.com Review
On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

I just STARTED reading AUTOBIOGRAPHY of a YOGI (PARAMAHANSA YOGANADA)

 

[uaintknow]

Just got finish reading Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by ERIC SCHLOSSER a damn got book about the history of fast food and American AGRI-BUSINESS, they way they treat the animals, workers in the meat industry and Fast Food workers, how they killing of Ranchers and all the regulations they dont follow AND HOW they are in the pocket of republicans.. man it make you take a hard look on what you eat. I'm trying to ween myself off of meat, i quitted Pork. but if i ever eat at a fast food place it will only be IN AND OUT.

Amazon.com Review
On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

I just STARTED reading AUTOBIOGRAPHY of a YOGI (PARAMAHANSA YOGANADA)

Thanks for the description. Now I HAVE to read it

 

[noirwar]

The day the Universe Changed By James Burke

Is like the Encyclopedia to the modern world of western dominance

P.S. Has Lovely Pictures in the text too for all you picture book readers. It will open your eyes to man, religion, science, art, philosophy and war from the biblical times to Post modern day

 

[sniperk]

The Bible... everyone loves to quote it but almost no one has read it from cover to cover

interesting read even if you are not Christian or religious

 

[noirwar]

Non-Fiction ONLY so no ICEBERG Slim and or Koran/Bible etc. please