(Part 2) Best american fiction anthologies according to redditors

You're very welcome! I learned most of what I know about New York City history by reading as much as I could about it. It started off as an interest, became a passion, and over the past few years I've been able to turn my love of city history into a career.

There are definitely some fabulous blogs and websites about NYC that are a good place to start if you're interested in learning more, such as Forgotten New York, Daytonian in Manhattan, Untapped Cities, Ephemeral New York, and The Bowery Boys, to name a few. The New-York Historical Society, The Museum of the City of New York, The Brooklyn Historical Society, and The New York Public Library are all great places to visit, and their respective blogs (here, here, here and here) have a ton of valuable information. Other organizations and groups have websites and social media feeds that are worth checking out. Here is a list with some amazing websites and resources to check out.

In terms of books, I recommend starting with Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. It is comprehensive, informative, and incredibly well written. I have read it numerous times over the years, and I reference it constantly. Empire City: New York Through the Centuries by Kenneth T. Jackson and David S. Dunbar is also a good introductory book to get yourself up to speed. I have compiled a list of books for /r/nychistory, which you can view here, and it has plenty of other good choices to pick and includes different categories.

In the event that you enjoy what I do and want to learn more, feel free to check out my Twitter page (you don't need an account to view it), where I have shared over 7,000 unique historical images and photos from the city's history. I also have an Instagram account, where I am able to provide more in-depth stories about the events, buildings, views, and people that have helped make New York City the place that it is today.

> His fiance fell for it, and she's a pretty great girl.

I wrote this canned profile. Dude tell your friend I said congrats.

Also he ought to buy a copy of my book; it's the least he can do.

Before the end of slavery i don't think they even thought in those terms. White people wouldn't think of competing fairly with black people, and they were totally okay with Black people performing well in competitions, because their white "owner" would get the credit anyway. All the jockeys were black during slavery because it was dangerous, and why not? As long as the athlete is an "animal" who performed for their entertainment, it didn't threaten them.

Make sure to include something about the dominance of black jockeys in the early Kentucky Derbys and how Jim Crow destroyed all that. And how Jim Crow arose specifically so they would never have to compete against us and risk losing. I don't really think there was ever a doubt that Black people could be good at sports. The image of the hulking, mindless, brute was a popular one. White America just consoled themselves by telling themselves that yeah, Black people may be stronger or faster, but they weren't smarter. A trope that still exists today when they tell people to shut up and play ball. They still insist that athleticism must come at a mental cost because their psyche can't handle otherwise.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/22/sport/black-jockeys-horse-racing-sports-stars/index.html

As for music, it's the same thing. They knew black people were great at music, but they didn't want their children looking up to black artists, and especially didn't want their white girls admiring black men. If they didn't think Black people could play and sing, they wouldn't have went around stealing as much black music as they could so they could give the credit and money to an acceptable white artist. There's documented cases going back to the 1920s.

https://www.salon.com/2014/05/17/elvis_wasnt_the_first/

https://www.vix.com/en/music/527353/these-black-artists-didnt-get-credit-some-your-favorite-songs

If you want to find some sources on something white people didn't think black people could do well, you're going to need to find specific examples of things white people claimed black people were too stupid to do, and then discriminated with to make sure it was true.

Like classical music: https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Music-Racism-Perceptions-African-American/dp/1592327613

Or the QB position: https://theundefeated.com/features/the-rise-and-fall-and-resurgence-of-marlin-briscoe/ and https://www.jstor.org/stable/40034343?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_issues_faced_by_black_quarterbacks

Or track and field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_sport#Racism_in_international_sports

> This racism was not limited to Germans, as Americans observed racism as well. American Track and Field coach Dean Cromwell stated "It was not long ago that his [the black athlete's] ability to sprint and jump was a life-and-death matter to him in the jungle. His muscles are pliable, and his easy-going disposition is a valuable aid to the mental and physical relaxation that a runner and jumper must have."

Or golf: https://aaregistry.org/story/african-americans-and-golf-a-brief-history/

A couple other links on music:
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199356157.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199356157-e-14

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/eric-clapton-whitesplains-his-racism-he-even-had-a-bla-1822054554

https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/feature.html

Alright, I'm done. Good luck with whatever your project is.

The parallel is quite good: an unresponsive government was engaged in oppressive economic actions against a part of itself. As a result, that part sought autonomy and there was a war as a result.

It's not a unique idea: Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

Don't let the incredibly stupid cover illustration fool you (at least this was the copy I found at a used book store), The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling is a great collection of his short stories that link him to the genre. He was definitely one of the pioneers. If you like Wells' and Verne's works, you will like these.

Haha no. It's from a classic, Imaginative qualities of actual things.

https://www.amazon.com/Imaginative-Qualities-Actual-Gilbert-Sorrentino/dp/1564784703

The reference to the "Other California" is likely a reference to the book of that name by Gerald Haslam, which is a great book. http://www.amazon.com/The-Other-California-Central-Literature/dp/087417225X

Interesting!

You might also find interesting the book "Thank God for The Atom Bomb" by Paul Fussell. It's a collection of essays but the primary essay is about veterans' attitudes toward the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A lot of the better-researched/possible in the next 5 years stuff will have "speculative fiction" tacked on as a label instead of sci-fi. Just an observation.

In terms of very readable science nonfiction, you might try The Poisoner's Handbook, which is told in anecdotes about murder cases and the development of modern forensics in New York or Mary Roach's humorous essay collections in Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, and others. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan was also quite readable and well-researched (about agrobusiness), but his other books get overly preachy, I think.

The Best Science and Nature anthologies are a good starting point when you're looking for new authors you click with too.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading: 2011

I buy this anthology every year, and it's always worth it. I haven't gotten far, since I like to savor it and it won't be another year until we get another one. This one has a forward by Guillermo Del Toro, which is pretty snazzy.

You could start with a book like this: E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy or Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book or How to Think About the Great Ideas.

Or you can, like you've said, gather some info. about certain historical periods or cultural eras and decide to learn more about them. It's not easy, but you're living in a time where you can easily and freely access a lot of information.

This book was required for my DC History class at GW and it was a great read. It was paired with Literary Capital, a book that is full of excerpts from what visitors thought of DC from Charles Dickens to more modern authors.

I'm an extreme water nerd.

I agree with all of geocurious' recommendations. For textbooks, those are the main ones for groundwater, especially. Fetter is another mainstay. I'm sure you can find the textbooks easily enough.

As for less academic, Cadillac Desert is good and goes into the policy behind U.S. dam building (which is long but interesting). Water: The epic struggle... is a history of the world with some interesting connections to water (though doesn't get enough into the water, from my perspective).

As for beautiful writing about water, I can't recommend Loren Eiseley enough. The Immense Journey has some really great chapters about water (and then goes on and on about human evolution, but still ok). A really neat excerpt book about geologic themes is Bedrock and that is how I found my pal, Loren.

I have also been amassing a public Spotify playlist of songs that have a hydro-theme. Message me if you want it. Sitting at a couple hundred songs right now, but definitely biased towards my musical interests.

Other books:

• Unquenchable: I thought this was a rather haphazard, sensationalized, and doomsday perspective on water [I have a phd in hydro].
  
  A good list by someone else: Aguanomics
  
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Coming of Age In New Jersey, yo.

Dave Eggers does The Best non-required reading every year, and it's usually pretty good.

Certainly. I have a copy of To build a fire and other favourite stories by Jack London. I really enjoy the writing but I really struggle to pick it up because it looks so tacky.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Favorite-Stories-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486466566

The first questions is far too broad to provide you an answer too. Mental disabilities do not always have a genetic marker. That marker could exist on an allele of the X chromosome only, and thus have only a small chance of being passed to him. There is such a huge variation without something to narrow this down there's no real way to predict his chances of being a carrier for the disease.

I would say that he has no reason to at least not consider it, many disorders can be tested for and identified via amniocentesis very early in the pregancy.

You're correct eggs do degrade with age.Some explanations of what that means, and how it occurs can be found there. I'm not certain that sperm do not degrade with age, but I've never read that they do either. This study seems to note that their are some degredations in seminal quality as men age. That said, I can find little to report on the viability of these sperm, or the defects offspring of them may exhibit.


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I'm descended from the author of this book.

He's pretty cool, right guys? ... right?

The Belfry Witches by Kate Saunders?

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https://www.amazon.com/Textbook-Syrian-Semitic-Inscriptions-Phoenician/dp/0198131992/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1480922228&sr=8-3&keywords=syrian+inscriptions

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https://www.reddit.com/r/lebanon/comments/5argu4/canaanite_phoenician_in_arabic/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lebanon/comments/5b5rpd/canaanite_names_arabic_lexical_ordering/