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About my libraryI mostly read nonfiction, but lately I've been reading science fiction as well.

My library, AKA the perpetual pile of ignorance, includes:

Religion: Mainly the natural history of religion a'la Hume. So that would include the psychology of belief, how religion spreads through social networks etc. I'm also interested in millenarianist and apocalyptic movements. Also interested in the influence of religion on world politics. Also interested in heretical and gnostic sects that split off from mainstream Christianity.

Warfare: Interested in small wars and the various groups involved like terrorists, black market dealers, policing, etc. I particularly like the works of Edward Luttwak, Colin Gray, and John Boyd.

Philosophy: Even though I'm majoring along the analytical philosophy side of things I still enjoy reading a lot of ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of art. I don't really enjoy the continental philosophers much, but I do like Deleuze and De Landa. I especially like Deleuze's idea about every reading should bring about a new idea to you personally, rather than just a process of factual regurgitation. I also like reading critical reasoning (informal logic and fallacy theory) over formal logic.

Macrohistory: I really like the works of Braudel, and other related longue duree historians like McNeil.

Other areas I like to read: deception, martial arts, economics, mathematics, evolution.

I also like reading Grug for education purposes.

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Member sinceAug 16, 2006

Currently readingA thousand years of nonlinear history by Manuel De Landa
Real Science: What it Is and What it Means by John Ziman

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Birth of the Chess Queen: A History by Marilyn Yalom

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Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate by Diego Gambetta

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Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring) by Christopher Hitchens

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3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus by Elliott Mendelson

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The Structural Evolution of Morality by J. McKenzie Alexander

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The Psychology of Good and Evil: Why Children, Adults, and Groups Help and Harm Others by Ervin Staub

Yes, I came across Fränger's hypothesis when doing art history at UQ. The lecturer, while he tough the hypothesis intriguing, did not agree. Still, have to read the book to see. I do love Bosch and the Netherlandish artists of his time. I have Dutch ancestory, so their land and townscpares resonate with me.

posted by Iacobus at 9:24 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2009

Thanks for adding me as an interesting library. I see your combination of majors: I have a good friend who majored in philosophy and mathematics at UQ (he is now a pure logician at Melbourne Uni).

Also noted your interest in millenarianism - I recently finished reading The Pursuit of the Millenium by Norman Cohn - fascinating stuff.

posted by Iacobus at 8:24 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2009

Thank you duvee, your thoughtful analysis helped much, I've decided to get the book. ER

posted by EncompassedRunner at 8:58 am (EST) on May 12, 2007

Before I shell out $50 for "The Perestroika Deception," I'm looking for thoughts on the author Anatoliy Golitsyn (you've got his "New Lies for Old"), is he "way out there" or not? His books are recommended on
http://once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.blog...

posted by EncompassedRunner at 1:06 pm (EST) on May 11, 2007

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