What nonfiction book are you currently reading?

[arnisador]

Chinese Language for Beginners, by Lee Cooper

A delightful, short, child-oriented book that taught me a few symbols, a few words, and a bit of grammar. Well worth the read for someone like me who knew nothing! I definitely recommend it if you study the CMA but no nothing of the language.

 

[tradrockrat]

The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev.

A much more believable account of the ill fated Everest expedition than the more famous Into Thin Air by Krakauer

 

[Makalakumu]

Collapse by Jared Diamond. Very well written book with a powerful message and lots of insight.

 

[Carol]

Where The Right Went Wrong by Pat Buchanan is in my car at the moment.

I enjoy listening to what Mr. Buchanan has to say about politics...as long as he is not talking about religion or Israel.

 

[Kacey]

Sadly, all I have time for is my textbooks...

Child Development, 5th ed., Bukatko and Daehler

and

At-Risk Youth: A Comprehensive Response for Counselors, Teachers, Psychologists, and Human Service Professionals, 3rd ed., McWhirter, McWhirter, McWhirter, and McWhirter (the text does not have anything about the authors, but it is dedicated to "the youngest generation of the McWhirter clan", so I'm guessing they're related)

I probably ought to log off and go finish chapter 5 in the first one...

 

[Jonathan Randall]

Where The Right Went Wrong by Pat Buchanan is in my car at the moment.

I enjoy listening to what Mr. Buchanan has to say about politics...as long as he is not talking about religion or Israel.

Ditto. I read the book when it came out.

Although I disagree with him on many things, he often has great insights into matters. He is the freakiest writer/commentator around though, IMO, because he combines pearls of wisdom with the some of the most inane comments and positions. You could listen to an interview of him and nod your head at each point for a quarter of an hour, then for the last five minutes he'll have you shaking your head in disbelief and puzzlement that people in this day and age still believe the things he does on some issues.

 

[Jonathan Randall]

"On Killing" - Grossman .... assigned

Assigned by your MA instructor, or are you going to school? I'd really like to hear your take on the book and the author's positions when you've finished reading it.

 

[Zepp]

Collapse by Jared Diamond. Very well written book with a powerful message and lots of insight.

I just started Guns, Germs and Steel. I'm amazed that a history book can be so interesting. But perhaps that's because Jared Diamond is actually a biologist.

 

[aplonis]

"The Bible Unearthed"
By Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman
ISBN 0-684-86912-8

This book is about how archeology directly contradicts much of what the Old Testament asserts.

1. The city of Jerico was not a walled city, never had been. It utterly lacks any trace of a former wall's foundation.

2. Most of the great cities attributed to Solomon in the early years of archeology now are known to date from...ahem...Ahab.

3. That Aramaic was the language of Aramea...an invader nation so dominate it overwrote much of the original culture right down to supplanting its language in everyday life.

4. There can be found no slightest trace of Moses having led an Exodus out of Egypt.

Lots of interesting little twists like that. Things we aren't supposed to know. These tidbits are the general consensus of modern archeology and somehow fail to find their way into textbooks...or pulpits.

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

Rain Storm

By Barry Eisley

The writing is good but not sure if I truly liked the overall
story.

Brian R. VanCise
www.instinctiveresponsetraining.com

 

[Blindside]

Psst. Brian, this is a non-fiction thread. Fiction is over at:
http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9377

But I did like the book.

Lamont

 

[Martial Tucker]

"What If?.......Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been"

A thick book full of short essays by historians such as Steven Ambrose and James Bradley. Each author takes an important event in history and writes a 10-20 page essay on how things could have gone differently, and the ramifications for the world if the event had indeed gone differently.

 

[someguy]

I just started Guns, Germs and Steel. I'm amazed that a history book can be so interesting. But perhaps that's because Jared Diamond is actually a biologist.

Hey now are you saying something about historians. Ahem well I have a long and boring lecture to give you about that. You see the reason history books often are boring goes back all the way to Roman times when....
Ahem oh yeah and I a reading Kant's Critique of Judgement. Arguably thoguh it may go under fiction because it is Kant... I don't think he really lived in the world that surrounded him.

 

[Wes Tasker]

oh yeah and I a reading Kant's Critique of Judgement

...are you reading this by choice???

-wes tasker

 

[someguy]

Class actually although I don't really need the class for anything so pretty much by choice.
What can I say I like philosophy. Love it and hate it.

 

[Wes Tasker]

I really like philosophy too, but reading Kant's three critiques nearly brought me to tears.....

-wes tasker

 

[someguy]

Oh the insanity contiunes for me and philosophy.
I'm planning to read during my spring break...
Beyond Good and Evil-Neitzche
Birth of Tragedy-same
Case of Wagner- umm same
Poetry, Language, Though-Heidegger
And probably more.
And this is all going to be the basis of a paper. I think I must have snapped. I'm turning 21 and I'm planning to spend a lot of time reading philosophy. Oh I'm insane.

 

[Cryozombie]

I just got THIS:

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[michaeledward]

I had to get Bruce Bartlett's new book ... although, I choked on him actually getting a royalty from my purchase.

"Impostor - How George W. Bush bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy"

I think just about everything Mr. Bartlett believes is wrong and bad for the country, but it is interesting to see what he has to say about our current president.

 

[bushidomartialarts]

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