(Part 2) Best historical study reference books according to redditors
We found 249 Reddit comments discussing the best historical study reference books. We ranked the 108 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
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Not in game, but I really like history and use this book for reference sometimes.
Maybe I am a little biased, but I will recommend this book because I took his class (Ochsenwald) and he was such a huge Middle East buff and so knowledgeable.
Hope this sub takes off! I post frequently to /r/titanicfacts which you might also find interesting.
Regarding survivors: the latest research suggests that the number of survivors was 712. This figure comes from this book as well as discussions on http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
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So the Brummy who wrote the book?...just a bit of British humour?
Edit: Reason I'm asking purely FYI. It's a good story!....
https://www.amazon.com/Jungle-Warfare-Experiences-Encounters-Cross-ebook/dp/B00DN5V9T0
https://www.forces.net/services/gurkhas/gurkha-legend-jp-cross-british-army-officer-who-turned-nepali
I would start by reading Freemasons for Dummies. It will give you some great background on the Fraternity. You can also check out The Complete Idiot's Guide to Freemasonry. Both have just been updated and in their second editions.
I have never personally experienced any derision for being a Mason but I know other Masons who have. At some point, it's impossible to debate those who have developed a Anti-Masonic stance.
I try to look for the silver linings of the Trump win.
One is, that it's a big loss for PC culture and methodology. It made the jump from campuses to the lower levels of the Democrats, and from there up to the media, and even trickled up to the top e.g. the 'basket of deplorables' gaffe. Running a campaign where you're calling your opponents to be nearly all homophobes, sexists, racists, and Nazis is an ugly path to go down, and as this election showed, has some serious downsides to your own side. Hopefully a cautionary lesson has been delivered. Talking about how you 'feel' as if that's a valid basis for debate has been dealt a blow.
The media/elite opinion has been reminded that dismissing the concerns of much of the country as being due to 'ignorance', and the groupthink that gets evidenced by not having enough intellectual diversity has been justly punished I think. For an example of what I'm talking about, look at this http://www.thewrap.com/andrew-sullivan-calls-hillary-clinton-talent-free-hack-on-real-time-with-bill-maher-video/. This is clearly what Tuchman was talking about in her book The March Of Folly: a clear, workable alternative being proposed, and an arrogant hubristic dismissal of it because of groupthink or 'wooden-headedness'.
> historically, white people have done pretty shitty stuff
Here's where I make my plug for The Great Big Book of Horrible Things by Matthew White. Helluva fun read, for varying definitions of fun.
You might be surprised to know that, while ordinal ranking #1 is a multicultural affair prominently featuring white people....specifically A white person who was a failed portrait artist from Bavaria....a goodly number of the top 10 were, in fact, atrocities committed by yellow people. Whitey's got nothing on the Mongol horde or any of an interminable number of what are euphemistically rolled together as "Chinese dynastic collapse."
If you want the straight dope on people doing shitty things to people, this is your book.
I have this book at home... but I also found this poster, or this one,..... I'll keep looking
It is called The Wallchart of World History and here it is as a jpg (from this reddit-thread) and here on amazon
My apologies for taking some time to get back to you. I do have a few book recommendations about the history of the Bronx (growing up in Yonkers I spent a ton of time there, and it is actually my favorite outer borough, shh)! I highly recommend Lloyd Ultan’s The Northern Borough: A History of the Bronx, which provides an excellent look at the settlement and growth of the borough. I also enjoyed used Twomey’s The Bronx in Bits and Pieces. If you’re interested in the origin of street and place names (which I most certainly am), then consider checking out John McNamara’s History in Asphalt: The Origin of Bronx Street & Place Names Encyclopedia.
Amazon, What don't they sell.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Timechart-History-World-Unfolded/dp/078582782X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1376407921&sr=8-3&keywords=histomap
I am enormously fond of the book [Battle] (https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Visual-Journey-Through-Combat/dp/0756655781), which has descriptions for thousands of battles in history, as well as pertinent illustrations, such as battle maps, weapons, etc.
Possible reason for this- there's a popular basic training guidebook that, at least in the edition I had ten years ago, proactively advises you to buy coughdrops because you will get sore throats and they're the closest thing you can get to candy.
It was accurate advice in my Army basic (although I don't recommend the book overall) but I guess the rules are different for different services.
I just bought this book to learn more about AMORC, but I have not started to read it yet. It is supposed to be a history of AMORC.
Here's step one.
Frederick the Great's treatises on the art of war is probably of of my favorite on the subject.
This book was one of my favorites to read on the historical aspects of warfare, but besides Frederick and Napoleon, all fall outside your timeframe.
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this book will blow the top of your head right off.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Falsification-History-Our-Distorted-Reality-ebook/dp/B007OXJBYC
the truth will set you free, but first you gonna be pissed. :D
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The rest of Anatolia was to be divide up amongst the Italians, Greeks French and English. The first time I found a reference to making Constantinople and international city was in Fisher & Ochsenwald's THe Middle East: A History http://www.amazon.com/The-Middle-East-A-History/dp/007338562X
I think the Brill Encyclopedia of the Qur'an - as opposed to the more technical, traditional Brill Encyclopedia of Islam - is a very accessible work written by the leading scholars of the field. It can probably be found in many university libraries and it's also (clandestinely) available online (as PDF) with the help of Google.
I can't give you a specific name for the field of Qur'anic studies. In general (Islamic studies) I particularly respect Wael B. Hallaq, Harald Motzki and the late Norman Calder among others.
"Professional military writing" there are whole books on it. Basically short, to the point, and easy to read. The exact opposite of what they teach in college English classes.
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/writing/Writing_Style_Guide.pdf
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/army/p600_67.pdf
http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/r25_50.pdf
http://www.armywriter.com/army-writing-references.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Effective-Military-Writing-3rd/dp/0811727793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452548082&sr=8-1&keywords=military+writing
A couple good recommendations I have (aside from Tom Clancy stuff which I read for recreation) are going to be
Guide to effective military writing
and
AF Officer's guide (Incredibly useful even as enlisted)
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I'm currently reading Ghost in the Wires, it's pretty neat. It's about this guy who hacked the FBI and then hacked their hack on him... pretty fun stuff. Talks a lot about the social engineering side of security.
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There's a 1997 version on Amazon, but just searching around makes me think that this is a better choice as far as time lines go.
My God. No. The holocaust has been co-opted by Jews to mean “6 million”. Just like they co-opted “Semitic” to mean Jewish. Until maybe 10 years ago, everyone understood the holocaust to mean the systematic execution of 11-12 million people.
President Jimmy Carter, issuing the executive order that would establish the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, referred to the “11 million victims of the Holocaust.”
And: https://www.amazon.com/Holocaust-Forgotten-Million-Non-Jewish-Victims-ebook/dp/B007VU444A/ref=nodl_
From NBC News: Of those who have heard of the Holocaust, many are fuzzy about the facts of a systematic campaign of murder that killed 12 million people, 6 million of them Jews.