Best social science books for children according to redditors

You might want to take a look at The Book of Gods or The Belief Book, both by David G. McAfee. I've read (well, skimmed...) the first and it's definitely aimed at that age range and seems like it's just what you're looking for.

I'll give some historical context.

After WWII all our factories were still at full capacity and switched back to making personal cars, and all these returning vets on the GI bill want to college or back to good factory jobs and started buying homes and settling down.


Now the popular notion at the time was that city life was dying. Why get at best a row house or apartment in New york or philadelphia when you can build or buy a crafstmen house for the same price out in the suburbs. Also as civil rights was coming about it was convenient to cede the inner city to African Americans and poor and use things like loan restrictions to zone and price them out of the nice crime free suburbs.


So given the popular notion that the city and urban life was dying. Most city planning resources when into road construction so everyone could live out in the surburbs and take the new highways to their jobs. Entire cities were built up around this concept. In order to pay for this essentially halted Urban public works like subways and light rail. Why would you want to go on a stuffy subway with negroes when you can commute in your cadillac with radio and select-a-matic transmission?


So the results are profound and easy to verify. Any city that become major and modern after world war II has terrible public transportation: Examples include LA, Houston, Denver, Portland. Any city that was major before WWII tends to have still strong public transportation like Chicago, New york, Boston, D.C.


We basically decided as a nation that surburban life was awesome and gave up on public transportation. We even went steps further in places like LA where they actively bought out trolley lines just to close them down and pave over the tracks. Also the very way we designed our suburbs actively discourage pedestrainism and many live in places that "have no where to walk to". I'm ashamed to say that even my hometown Ann Arbor fell into that spiral and built many planned developments that have no feasible options of walking or biking to get to any retail area.


TLDR: city planners after WWII decided everyone (who was white) should live in suburbs and stopped funding public transportation.

Edit: for those who don't believe me this was covered by sociologists in the way things never were http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Things-Never-Were/dp/0595348084

and lies my teacher told me http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/0743296281/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457056096&sr=1-1&keywords=lies+my+teacher+told+me both fascinating reads

I believe Vegeta speaks in a 'standard' Japanese dialect.

Ryo Horikawa was careful with Vegeta's speech. He says in the foreword to my "It's Over 9,000!" book: "I was careful not to use vulgar words that would make the character sound like some average villain. I intentionally used words that would sound more sophisticated yet intimidating, as a consummate villain should."

Ok, I have a long list of ideas, but I'll lgo from most to least likely:

http://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Perle-EPSTEIN/dp/0385048742/ref=sr_1_164?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410048281&sr=1-164

http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Magic-Monsters-Sylvia-Tester/dp/089565055X/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410047513&sr=1-16

http://www.amazon.com/Book-Monsters-2-Ruth-Manning-Sanders/dp/0525269517/ref=sr_1_117?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410048149&sr=1-117

http://www.amazon.com/World-Monsters-Carey-Miller/dp/0860201465/ref=sr_1_53?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410047725&sr=1-53

http://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Middle-Ages-William-Wise/dp/0399604723/ref=sr_1_179?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410048304&sr=1-179

The Way Things Never Were: The Truth About the "Good Old Days" https://www.amazon.com/dp/0595348084/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_emfPAbX7ZSNV9

Or something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Gods-David-G-McAfee/dp/1533066760. He is an atheist author that has studied religion and has done quite a few good books that might be helpful

I got one of these indestructible books for my shower and it's awesome. Feels like real paper but it's tear proof and chew proof.

Also the book Counting on Community
has a great message and some beautiful pictures of all races of children.

They're not board books but my preschool students love the Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems and Pete the Cat series. I ended up receiving a ton of board books and it would've been nice to get some hardcovers as well.

Here are some books you may find useful:

https://www.amazon.com/Belief-Book-David-G-McAfee/dp/1908675314

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Gods-David-G-McAfee/dp/1533066760

https://www.amazon.com/Relax-Its-Just-God-Religious/dp/1941932002

https://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Beyond-Belief-Raising-Religion/dp/0814437419

https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Freethinkers-Practical-Parenting-Beyond/dp/0814410960

• The Belief Book
  
• The Book of Gods
  
• The Book of Religions
  
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How is something like this okay, then? This guy puts "Dragon Ball" in the title even though he's not connected to it officially. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0092HRZCI/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0092HRZCI&linkCode=as2&tag=thdaofdrba-20

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Can I get some more insight here? I'm honestly just confused

2 days late, but I actually have a couple book that do exactly this with fictional settlements in different parts of the world. Lebek, Barmi, Umm El Madayan, and San Rafael. They have incredible illustrations and thorough details about what developments have happened since the last snapshot and why. They're wonderful books. Great for inspiration when developing your own cities.

Something you should check out
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I collect Disney things.

Here ya go

> And yes, taken to a logical conclusion, science should be able to describe everything

The irony of this is that logic is explicitly not science, as science is based on evidence and logic is not. They are wholly separate and incompatible "ways of knowing".

Please do some research into epistemology and the theory of knowledge. This would be a good place to start.

Actually, I remember reading that there once was an army of 700 left-handed fighters that basically destroyed anybody that opposed them.

Here's the book. I cannot be sure how accurate the information is, but I certainly don't think right-handed fighters are automatically better.