Topic: Dave's top 100 non-fiction list
Anonymous A started this discussion 4 years ago #102,706
Just kidding, this thread is more of a take-a-book-leave-a-book kind of thread. Like those stands you see in the rich parts of town where no one steals and everyone has enough money to be kind (just kidding about the last part).Here are my offerings:
Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence -- this is a police officer's account on violent confrontations, how they typically go down, and the psychology of how people cope with them and the psychology of how they often arise. The author states the lies we tell ourselves about who we are or what we would do in a given situation can often be exposed to us in very traumatic ways when our life is at stake. It's an interesting read and might hold some practical significance for everyone. Violent confrontation, muggings, etc can happen to anyone.
Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts -- a book covering differential geometry from the ancients to modern times. It's engaging because it gives the context and difficulty behind some of the discoveries in geometry. It can be otherwise hard to appreciate how some problems and concepts took thousands of years to be solved. Most of the proofs in the book are highly visual and after a little thought, become quite obvious "how could it be any other way?". I wouldn't say this is easy reading like reading a book on history would be, but you can follow all the main arguments without ever picking up a pencil and taking notes or working through problems.
Your turn.
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Harry Potter
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Haha @OP your thread sucks
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The Art of Electronics.
Anton Calculus. How many editions has it been so far? 11. Calculus hasn't changed in hundreds of years, they're still rolling out new editions.
Anton Calculus. How many editions has it been so far? 11. Calculus hasn't changed in hundreds of years, they're still rolling out new editions.
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Can’t let this topic go without a post for 7 hours
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Bump
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