List Three of Your Favorite Non-Fiction Books

[BadJuju]

1. Life in a Medieval City

Life in a Medieval City

2. The Law

Too many items returned.

3. Economics in One Lesson

Economics in One Lesson

[don]

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1. House Flipping For Dummies

2. Everything You Need To Know About Personal Bankruptcy

3. The Hidden Costs Of Living With Relatives

(my apologizes if this wasn't meant to be humorous, I couldn't tell from the initial picks)

[rogermexico]

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1. House Flipping For Dummies

2. Everything You Need To Know About Personal Bankruptcy

3. The Donner Party Encyclopedia

(my apologizes if this wasn't meant to be humorous, I couldn't tell from the initial picks)

What is humorous about his list? Your post is quite condescending.

Are accessible books that attack statism funny to you?

[grapejelly]

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22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!

80/20 Principal

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Ready, Fire, Aim

Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat (Agora Series)

[Sapiens]

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a. Legislative Drafter's Deskbook: A Practical Guide by Tobias A. Dorsey

Legislative Drafter's Deskbook: A Practical Guide (Legislative Series)

b. A History of the Common Law of Contract: The Rise of the Action of Assumpsit by A. W. B. Simpson

A History of the Common Law of Contract: The Rise of the Action of Assumpsit

c. Debt and Delusion: Central Bank Follies that Threaten Economic Disaster by Peter Warburton

debtanddelusion

[don]

Re: List Three of Your Favorite Non-Fiction Books

What is humorous about his list? Your post is quite condescending.

Are accessible books that attack statism funny to you?

Condescending? I honestly couldn't tell without running the titles through Amazon if they were meant humorously or not, ergo:

1. Life in a Medieval City (a near-future primer on urban life)

2. The Law (wouldn't it be great to have some, especially for FIRE interests)

3. Economics in One Lesson (take the gold and run)

Personally, after being increasingly pissed off for months on end, I'm finding humor to be more important everyday. Your "statism" comment escapes me.

[rogermexico]

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Condescending? I honestly couldn't tell without running the titles through Amazon if they were meant humorously or not, ergo:

1. Life in a Medieval City (a near-future primer on urban life)

2. The Law (wouldn't it be great to have some, especially for FIRE interests)

3. Economics in One Lesson (take the gold and run)

Personally, after being increasingly pissed off for months on end, I'm finding humor to be more important everyday. Your "statism" comment escapes me.

My apologies, Don. badjuju seems to be sort of a newbie and I mistakenly thought you were ridiculing his book choices. The Law is a classic 19th century essay by Frederic Bastiat. Economics in One Lesson is a classic and very accessible book my Henry Hazlitt (sp?) These are books advocating limited goverment and classical liberalism that I would also highly recommend. I have given these books to friends and relatives when they don't understand how goverment creates the problems it purports to solve.

Here are my own recommendations:

1) What has government done to our money by Murray Rothbard

What Has Government Done to Our Money? Case for the 100 Percent Gold Dollar

2) The Ethics of Money Production by Jorg Guido Huisman

The Ethics of Money Production

3) Valuing Wall Street by Smithers (saved/earned me more money than any other book)

Valuing Wall Street : Protecting Wealth in Turbulent Markets

In the realm of Medicine:

1) Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - This book will do more for your health than any drug or doctor

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage)

Regards,

RM

[don]

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My apologies, Don. badjuju seems to be sort of a newbie and I mistakenly thought you were ridiculing his book choices. The Law is a classic 19th century essay by Frederic Bastiat. Economics in One Lesson is a classic and very accessible book my Henry Hazlitt (sp?) These are books advocating limited goverment and classical liberalism that I would also highly recommend. I have given these books to friends and relatives when they don't understand how goverment creates the problems it purports to solve.

Here are my own recommendations:

1) What has government done to our money by Murray Rothbard

2) The Ethics of Money Production by Jorg Guido Huisman

3) Valuing Wall Street by Smithers (saved/earned me more money than any other book)

In the realm of Medicine:

1) Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - This book will do more for your health than any drug or doctor

Regards,

RM

I have never ridiculed a member on iTulip. This is a great forum, not least in the level of discourse, as your generous comments confirm. Thanks pal. D-

[BadJuju]

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:3

It is my hope that this thread will provide people with an opportunity to expand their horizons. I am always in search of new sources of knowledge, but occasionally, finding a point to begin from can be difficult. There are so many topics to cover and so many books for each one that a person can easily become mired in just looking for materials to study. This thread will hopefully be a springboard from which people will be able to delve into new waters without the messy problem of having to actively search out those gems among the rough, so to speak.

[grapejelly]

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Forgot to add this one:

Your Life As Art

Your Life As Art

Amazing, masterpiece...by Robert Fritz.

[swgprop]

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free by Ellen Hodgson Brown

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin

World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 by G. Edward Griffin

The Great Cholesterol Con by Anthony Colpo

Choices 2 and 3 are rather interchangeable, same topic, both good.

Choice 4 (same author as choice 3) is fascinating for its insight into the influence of Big Pharma, and the sad reality of the medical bureaucracy (despite the tin foil hat undertones) even if you don't buy the Laetrile solution.

Choice 5 similar to 4 in exposing Big Med and the fact that orthodox medicine has many severe flaws. Information that might save your life.



Sorry I exceeded my limit..

[Sharky]

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Forgot to add this one:

Your Life As Art

Amazing, masterpiece...by Robert Fritz.

Looks great. Just ordered a copy; thanks for the pointer.

[kartius919]

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Das Kapital

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

Guns, Germs, and Steel

[ax]

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anyone care to offer up their 3 favorite books, fiction or non?

[grapejelly]

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Looks great. Just ordered a copy; thanks for the pointer.

this is a life changer, truly.