PlantManBee
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Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
Ouspensky is someone I have not been introduced to yet.
Books about Tarot are always interesting to me. Thanks mu.
LOLI don't think I would have any trouble putting that one down.
Yeah, that's what I love about how Gary Zukav writes, he explains it well for the layman. I knew many who said they read and understood A brief History in Time (I call bullshit in retrospect), but it was way over my head. I'll definitely look Brian Greens stuff. The implications of Quantum Physics are awesome, by definitionThose were good and I like Brian Greene's books too, made it so I could understand it.
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One of my favorite books. Thanks.So far I have ordered four books from people's recommendations here and if I had more money I would have ordered more! Brilliant!!
Ok, last one for a while but a modern classic when many of us thought they were not writing them anymore.
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"An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the wild west."
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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million—all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo—too long forgotten—onto the conscience of the West.
Look for "what a plant knows" by Daniel chamovitzAre there any other books on breeding and genetics that anybody found useful, besides Marijuana Botany?
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Looks like a good one. Thanks Islandgrower.
I think I will enjoy this one
I looked him up after seeing this, then the next day I notice him commenting on Bitcoin in my Twitter newsfeed, he doesn't seem to be a fan. I may try to read him someday, interesting topicsFooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb