Good Non-Fiction Books
 

It seems like I'm running out of good non-fiction books to read so I'm going to reload.
In the past year or so I have read
Blink
The Tipping Point
Freakonomics
Baseball Between the Numbers
Moneyball

I'm about to start Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs.
Help me expand my library.

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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Basically explains why some societies excelled and developed technology, while some stayed in a primative state. Extermely interesting, and will make you look at history in a different way.

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Pudge,

Super book thread

One of the included links is specifically nonfiction, but all of the threads include a lot of nonfiction recs.

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I have also heard great things about guns germs and steel.

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the world is flat...

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Pudge,

Super book thread

One of the included links is specifically nonfiction, but all of the threads include a lot of nonfiction recs.

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El D,

Thanks. Just out of curiousity why don't you become a mod. You seem to be doing all the work, without the bonuses of banning people/ mod forum.

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/3...ndsteeljq9.jpg

Basically explains why some societies excelled and developed technology, while some stayed in a primative state. Extermely interesting, and will make you look at history in a different way.

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He attempts to. He notes some interesting facts. But he overstates his case and ignores far more fundamental and important factors than things like geography and diseases.

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BM: I found GG&S to be pretty boring.

P: I've taken the mod exam 7 times so far, but always seem to crack under the pressure.

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BM: I found GG&S to be pretty boring.


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Confession: I made it to page 107 a few months ago. The writing is insipid and after all the build up on this book it lacks the punch I expected and I became distracted with other books that I had ordered. I moved on. I'll backtrack someday, perhaps.

-Zeno

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Have you read Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder? It's the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, out to save the world in Haiti. It's inspiring, maddening, thought-provoking and completely riveting.