Non-Fiction Book Recommendations
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- rssllue
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Re: Non-Fiction Book Recommendations
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for Thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. ~ Psalms 4:8
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One really good book is Sickened. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!
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Any reccomendations?
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I hope you like it!Valrose wrote:A Rose for Virtue sounds great!! I will look into it. Thanks!
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I am new to the org, however, I am seduced by reality and have a few recommendations that you must try.
If you want a book that draws you deeply and you enjoy the cultural value of the middle east. Here's a book of a conflict known to most of the world, read A Case for Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization that operates in the borders of the country of Israel. The son of religious and symbolic leader of freedom, Hamas reveals the objective of the organization as well as the fears that led to his clarity and confession.
A book loaded with fast moving research is The Evolution of Desire. Professor David Buss explains and provides intriguing evidence complied cross culurally to expose modern behaviors and their true origins. Social conduct is decrypted, and theories are taken apart as he explains how our evolutionary composition yields conflicting yet necessary behaviors.
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Under the Dome by Stephen King. I don't usually like books like this but I loved this book.
The All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness.
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Some of my favorite biographies/memoirs:
Bossypants, by Tina Fey. You should listen to the audio, because she narrates it herself.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed
Julie & Julia, by Julie Powell. Pretty different from the movie, and while I did like the movie, the book (as usual) was better.
How to Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran. Hilarious and topical.
Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home, by Nina Stibbe. Was on the Library Reads list a year or two ago.
-- 12 Jan 2015, 12:16 --
Other excellent nonfiction:
The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. The first section is much like Fast Food Nation, but I liked this one better.
Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich. A journalist in the 90s decides to live on minimum wage jobs for a month each in three different states.
Eats, Shoots and Leaves, by Lynne Truss. A book on grammar, and somehow one of the funniest books you'll ever read, particularly if you like British humor.
Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Basically nothing like the Steve Martin movie.
Waiter Rant, by Steve Duplanica. The memoirs of a professional server, alternately fascinating and funny and horrifying.
The Rights of the People, by David K. Shipler. A book about the tension between safety and freedom, and how easily we give away our freedoms for the hope of safety.
The Astronaut Wives Club, by Lily Koppel. More than you ever knew about the moon landing, the first astronauts, and the beginning of the space program.