Nonfiction Essentials

>Speed Mathematics Simplified
>Oliver Byrne: First Six Books of Euclid's Elements (Taschen)
>Feynman's Lost Lecture
>Music and the Making of Modern Science
>Socratic Logic
>The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation
>The Rhetoric and Poetics of Aristotle (Modern Library)
>Silent Spring
>Technopoly
>Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: New Testament
>The Jewish Study Bible (Oxford UP)

>>9180447
The Dictator's Handbook
The Better Angels of our nature
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Shallows
Man's Search For Meaning
Eichmann in Jerusalem
In The Heart of the Sea
Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

>>9180447
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Letters From a Stoic by Seneca
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

if you're looking for stats, try freakonomics and super freakanomics
the god delusion and the end of faith are also must-reads

>>9180764
cringe

>>9180447

The Shock Doctrine

Take the blue pill.

>>9180764
Sorry but no they are not.

Freakonomics was a meme-y piece of shit. I read both when they were popular but have found I learnt nothing of value in them. Instead I'd recommend Understanding Complexity or Weapons of Math Destruction.

How does anyone come to read the god delusion? I torrented the audiobook and found it to be arrogant and rant-y. I'm atheist and still find him to be a mean, unsympathetic cunt.

>>9180447
I wouldn't include works of pure philosophy in this thread otherwise it'll never end

I need a good entry level physics book mates.

>>9180816
you must not have read them then. there was plenty to learn in each chapter. as for dawkins, you have to remember his audience: fundies.

i forgot to mention atlas shrugged as well. ppl just give it a bad rap because it's long, and i put it up there with road to serfdom or the works of dr ron paul (which you should read as well op)

>>9180828
I posted a recommendation here >>9180570
>Feynman's Lost Lecture

You should also pick up Six Easy Pieces and Six Not So Easy Pieces, depending how much interest you have. Feynman is a great teacher of physics, and winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics, if you're unaware. They're all based on his lectures.

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Books that changed your life or had a significant impact on how you view your life?

Fiction or nonfiction.

>>9180828
Einstein wrote a good intro to his own theory, but I forget what it's called. DEFINITELY check out Feynman too.

>>9180447
The Sequences

>>9180840
No, you just have teenager taste.

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>>9180447
Borges: Selected Non-Fictions

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>>9180447
I am a Strange Loop
Godel, Escher, and Bach
Chasing the Scream: First and Last Days of the Drug War
The Demon Haunted World
A Short History of Everything
The Medium in the Massage
Fanged Noumena

>>9182878
WHAT AN AMAZING REBUTTAL

TEACH ME YOUR WAYS

>>9180447
Is that book good? I've been told it's some SJW crap for some reason.

Any entry level maths book that covers both history and theory? I'd like something to help put my mind in a mathematical space before I begin the textbooks.

>>9184647
Same here, any anon providing a reply will have my gratitude.

While we're at it, anyone else playing euclidea.xyz ?

>>9180447
Yuval Noah Harari is TED talk soft totalitarian SV shill who wants to ground you up into soylent. Harari thinks human beings are just algorithms, to be replaced with better algorithms. Him, Tom Friedman and the rest of the TED pundit class people are like Nick Land but boring. Maybe if Nick had gone easier with those redpills, he could be working for google right now

48 laws of power
33 strategies of war
Crowds and Power
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
On the Shortness of Life
Thinking, Fast and Slow

>>9184559
you can easily spot redditors because they think their shit opinions they use 1 sentence to explain are entitled to a "rebuttal"

>>9180447
if youre not reading essential primary texts nonfic is a waste of time

>>9180570
This is all good shit. I've only read two of these but most of these have been on my to-read list for some time.

I would also add de Toqueville's Democracy in America for anyone who lives in a democratic country.

Gotta question your inclusion of the Jewish Bible. Why?

>>9180828
The Fabric of the Cosmos

>>9185973
>48 Laws of Power
>Crowds and Power
https://youtu.be/RFR_eBXK3p0

>>9186014
Jesus practiced Judaism, and it's important to understand that context, which Jewish scholars are great for. The Catholic pope approved of the Jewish Bible. Western society is Judeo-Christian, so we can't forget the Judeo part.

>>9180903
Just finished it, hard as fuck to read but every book gave me an "Oh shit" feeling

>>9184647
I thought History of Pi was entertaining. He's a romaphobe tho lmao.

>>9180447
I'm sorry but sapiens reeks of jewry and I'm not even a /pol/tard

>>9180447
The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
The Bible
Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell
The Sex God Method, Daniel Rose

Don't read the God delusion, it's awful. There's better books arguing for atheism. If you're going down that route, I'd encourage you to read some apologetics. Try Aquinas by Edward Feser. Atheism is for teenagers.

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>>9185983
>whines about 1-sentence shit opinions
>...as a 1-sentence shit opinion
>mfw

>>9180745
>the cuck pill reading list
gb2reddit

>>9188989
fix me anon

>>9180447
>The Moral Animal by Robert Wright

It's a bit long written in a bit complicated english, but it provides a great window into human relationships, behavior and conflict from an evolutionary viewpoint.

>Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

I totally recommend this book because it is aimed at a beginner, but at the end you'll have so much knowledge.
For example:
> Important number bases that are used in computer (binary, octal, decimal and hexadecimal)
> how to design logic circuits
> how a simple RAM is built
> how a simple CPU is built
> You will have a general overview of assembly language for the Intel 8080 microprocessor, which is an old microprocessor that is no longer in use, but it is very similar to x86 architecture which is still in use
> What a bus is
> How a simple graphics adapter works
> How an operating system works
> How an integrated circuit is built
> A lot of history about computers and technology in general
> An overview of a high level programming language called "ALGOL"
> and SO MUCH more
This book changed my life, OP.
The cool thing is that it starts from zero; it doesn't assume that you have any prior knowledge; you could even understand it without ever having used a computer.

>>9180447
>>9180447
Cadillac Desert was great

War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, Expanded Edition Paperback by Edwin Black

The Joy of Cooking by whatsherface

Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth by Algis Uzdavinys

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by John Marco Allegro

>>9186151
>muh judeo
Lmao according to the Talmud, Jesus is boiling in feces in hell.

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Best thing you'll read all year

I thought this was going to be interesting but it was very disappointing

>>9180447
>this book

Couldn't finish it, the author inserts too much of his own ideology, which is quite frankly often very superficial and sometimes even ridiculous.

>"we didn't evolve to be farmers... we were lured into it by the evil wheat survival strategy"

Seriously WTF. That's not how symbiosis works. And he didn't even mention that a lot of it is hypothesis, agriculture being caused by overpopulation is still just as viable, yet he never mentions it.

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>>9191677
but I already watched Westworld anon

>>9190168
>This book changed my life, OP.
>This X changed my life, OP.

You need to go back.

>>9192065
OP here, So far I can tell when the author tries to shove his agenda up my ass and to be honest I find myself agreeing with him on one thing but disagreeing on a hundred. He's a kike, you know, hidden agendas are embedded into his DNA.

>>9192065
>>"we didn't evolve to be farmers... we were lured into it by the evil wheat survival strategy"

>Seriously WTF. That's not how symbiosis works.


Please, for the love of God don't tell me you took that at face value! It's a figure of speech; personification IIRC. The Wheat isn't a sentient villain who lured man, Harari used that linguistic device as a way of saying that the comfort zone that came with agriculture was a very-long-term trap to agrarian mankind.

Of course, I do recognize that Harari seems to romanticize the Hunter-Gatherer life and wants to make nostalgic at any cost, but we gotta give credit where it's due.

>>9192467
This post changed my life

>>9192520
Your reply changed my life.

>>9191677
Yeah, this is the same shit in that pseud HBO show, right?

>>9193327
The fact that you replied to my reply changed my life

>>9193468
You engagment changed my life

>>9193497
>>9193468
>>9193327
>>9192520
>>9192467
This exchange altered the trajectory of my fate

>>9192050
care to actual provide something?

>>9193544
really baffled my essence