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Post your summer NON-fiction book recommendations here
Topic Started: Jul 4 2012, 04:49 PM (525 Views)
jon-nyc
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Horace
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The Bible, Jon.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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Copper
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Yes, The Bible is a good choice.

If that gets too deep for you maybe something lighter like this to take the edge off.

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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Horace
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Copper, the government is incompetent and has no business teaching anybody about something as complex as flying a plane.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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Copper
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That is the book, everything comes from that book.

It's a free download. http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraft/airplane_handbook/

If you want to go inside the clouds you can move on to this: http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviation/instrument_flying_handbook/

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Copper
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Some more useful non-fiction: http://www.closecombattraining.com/free-close-combat-training-manual/?gclid=CPDxoZm8gbECFYao4AodIRWbFQ

Again free of charge.

A word of warning, this book has thousands of liberals screaming to have it banned.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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sue
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On my list:

Watched a documentary about this woman; it's a fascinating story, and I plan to check out the book

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and since I enjoyed 'the long way down' so much, I thought this would make a great summer read

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Horace
Jul 4 2012, 05:49 PM
The Bible, Jon.
You just couldn't help it, could you?
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Horace
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Jul 5 2012, 10:06 AM
Horace
Jul 4 2012, 05:49 PM
The Bible, Jon.
You just couldn't help it, could you?
Maybe I couldn't help it, Ax.

But do you know who can help?

Jesus, that's who.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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If I had a nickel for every time someone volunteered me for something...
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in the middle of this right now
"I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen
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George K
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How is it, Bach? Better than "Garden of Beasts," I hope.
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very different. at least the subject matter is completly different and also the style

its a blend of two stories which converge at the end, one of a bizzare murder and the story of marconi wireless

the murder is just bizzare. but the story of marconi is intruiging.

he was a "make it in the garage" amateur, with no formal science training, who just pushed with his intuition and had an uncanny business sense. really a bill gates/steve jobs clone.

and the revolution of wireless, was at the time, so much more unbelievable and game changing than even our wifi technology. if we r amazed with wifi, imagine a turn of the century invention which allowed communication without cables or wires..to ships at sea, and across the atlantic. it seemed miraculous.

my wife grew up on via marconi, on the corner of via galvani in a milan suburb. those italians were really into electricity.



Edited by bachophile, Jul 6 2012, 12:16 AM.
"I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen
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RosemaryTwo
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The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg.
"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
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George K
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You've read "Devil in the White City," haven't you bach?

Same premise: murderer in Chicago during the Columbian exposition. Though the stories never converge, they are both covered in great detail - the World's Fair being, at least to this Chicago boy, the more interesting of the two stories.
A guide to GKSR: Click

"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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