This is /sci/'s list of approved literature. What is /his/'s

No one here talks about the same shit. You'll find religious threads, historical threads, economics, and philosophy. Good luck finding a consensus of opinion on these books.

Go to the /lit/ sticky and look up right wing, left wing, greek and legal guides.
That's the best we can do. We haven't made one, yet.
Most serious ones would have primary sources.
I for one can recommend History of the Byzantine state.
It's the only time i was bored, couldn't sleep got up and read a good 100 pages before going to sleep.

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>>2089672
That book The Man who Mis-took His Wife for a Hat made me fear my brain turning to a demented blob. Those close to me would argue that's a lateral move, but fuck them.

>>2089672
The Bible (Vulgate).

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>>2089672
>Guns, Germs, And Steel

>>2090255

Came here to post this.

>>2089672
so /sci/'s list is either pseudo-intellectual bullshit, posssibly pseudo-intellectual tools, depending on who's reading it, and a couple of interesting books.

>>2089672
Jesus Christ, there is so much wrong with that. This is like the list of a pretentious 16 year old edgelord.

Off the top of my head, here's some good shit:

Sapiens by Harari
Silk Roads by Frangipani
SPQR by Mary Beard
Decline and Fall by Gibbon
What is History? by EH Carr
In Defence of History by Evans
Hitler by Kershaw
Rise and Fall of Third Reich by Shirer
To Hell and Back by Kershaw
Guns of August by Tuchmann
The Romanovs by Montefiore
Stalingrad by Beevor
Bury my Heart by Brown
Making of English Working Class by Thompson

I know a lot of these are memes but they're all great books

>>2090453
Silk Roads by Frankopan
Autocorrect

>>2090324
the only pseud there is sam harris

>>2089672
I see /sci/ is trying to bait us again

>>2089672
People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

>>2090470
wew

>>2090470
If youre gonna recommend Zinn, you might as well balance it out with A Patriot's History as well

>>2089672
>those books

leddit as fuck, I thought /sci/ was supposed to be good?

Lol no, we recommend textbooks. Though again it's mostly memes or bait images.

>>2090481
Sometimes an errant graduate student or two would stumble in and make a good thread, or turn a shit thread into solid gold with their presence.

This seemed to be happening with declining frequency, and eventually I stopped visiting and posting.

I can't speak to how the board is now. But if the image in OP is a joke it isn't that far off. Board seems to consist mostly of CS-mouth breathers who jerk off to popsci and can't conceive of any framing of the world that isn't rooted in naive scientism.

Pretty meme tier, wish it wasn't.

>>2089672
Do you want an actual one, or something deliciously trolltastic?

>>2089672
>GGS
ISHGYDDT

>>2089672

of course the closest thing to humanities a science board can come up with in Guns Germs and Steel. STEMlords are retarded.

>there has never been an irrational actor in all history, it's biologically proven

>>2090391
It's a troll, I'm pretty sure.

If you like crusader history then I recommend God's War by Christopher Tyerman.

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>>2090453
>forgetting 1491

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I have a degree in Poli-Sci, so I'm by no means a historian or anything, but I did get a minor in history (I didn't even plan it, I just happened to do the course-load and they added it on for me), but I found pic related to be the best historical book I read.