I need books about,
The moon- How it was created, how it effects the Earth and such.
Cricket the sport- A good book that covers the rules and history of.
Jewish messiahs- Who has claimed to be one and the reasons behind it.
memory- I forget why.
On memory: there’s a book I’ve been meaning to pick up about what the author, Maggie Jackson, believes is the “coming dark age,” our inability to focus on tasks, work through complex problems, and generally maximize our brain’s potential, due to the sensory overloading environment we’ve created for ourselves. It’s on my short list, though I’ve got a few hundred pages of Ishmael’s digressions on whale taxonomy and Ahab’s pathos left before I make my way back to the library.
In this richly detailed and passionately argued book, Jackson (What’s Happening to Home?) warns that modern society’s inability to focus heralds an impending Dark Age—an era historically characterized by the decline of a civilization amid abundance and technological advancement. Jackson posits that our near-religious allegiance to a constant state of motion and addiction to multitasking are eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention—the building block of intimacy, wisdom and cultural progress and stunting society’s ability to comprehend what’s relevant and permanent. The author provides a lively historical survey of attention, drawing upon philosophy, the impact of scientific innovations and her own experiences to investigate the possible genetic and psychological roots of distraction. While Jackson cites modern virtual life (the social network Facebook and online interactive game Second Life), her research is largely mired in the previous century, and she draws weak parallels between romance via telegraph and online dating, and supernatural spiritualism and a newfound desire to reconnect. Despite the detours (a cultural history of the fork?), Jackson has produced a well-rounded and well-researched account of the travails facing an ADD society and how to reinvigorate a renaissance of attention. (June)
http://www.amazon.com/Distracted-Erosion-Attention-Coming-Dark/dp/1591026237
The Jesus Papers
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Cool. Will look it up.
Persuasion Mastery, 500 Practical Lessons on the Psychology of Sales. Stephan Thieme, Inner Patch Publishing. 2009
Oberblown, How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats and Why We Believe Them. John Mueller, Free Press. 2006.
The Bible. God. 3000 BC-500 AD. The most widely read and studied book in the history of mankind.
TONS of good ones on here…
try fiction.
Not all of life is a competition.
Favoite book of the year so far was Bill Bryson’s “Thunderbolt Kid”. If you grew up in the 50’s, 60’s etc, you will laugh yor ass off.