Best iraq travel guides according to redditors
We found 8 Reddit comments discussing the best iraq travel guides. We ranked the 2 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 8 Reddit comments discussing the best iraq travel guides. We ranked the 2 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
"Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Conspiracist Underground" by Jonathan Kay is pretty great. It tries to understand conspiracy theorists' motivations and reasons for thinking the way they do in a non-mocking way, as many of them (9/11 truthers in particular) are actually pretty intelligent and patriotic, wishing for the rule of law to prevail over whoever they believe really did 9/11.
http://www.amazon.com/Among-Truthers-Cognitive-Underworld-American/dp/0062004816
Also: "The Great Derangement: War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire" by Matt Taibbi has a section about his time immersed in the 9/11 truther movement, followed by a pretty biting and hilarious analysis of the fundamental logical failures that underpin all 9/11 conspiracy thinking.
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Great-Derangement-Terrifying-Politics/dp/0385520344
TO ALL STILL MODERATELY RATIONAL PEOPLE IN THIS THREAD
Read The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi. He completely and logically deconstructs the truther movement, and explains (quite humorously I think) why it is all complete BS.
The author has a book due to be released on May 6, I'll probably buy it :-)
The Great Derangement, by Matt Taibbi
Pump the brakes there tinfoil...and clearly you like me, if you're going through and reading my comment history.
But yea, only a dipshit conspiracy theorist would think there is no thought involved in the game of baseball. Shouldn't you be watching "ow, my balls" right now anyway?
What to read...
There's so much!
"The Ancient Near East" by Amelié Khurt is a great overall history.
Someone already mentioned History begins at Sumer and Ancient Iraq, they're a bit dated but still quite good. For a simple synchronic overview with nice maps look at Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia by Michael Roaf. Also another good history book A History of the Ancient Near East by Marc Van de Mieroop.
Regarding texts, there's a great book that does the history of Mesoptamia through primary sources The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation ed. Mark Chavalas.
That should get you started. Those book are all quite current or still very usable, let me know if you need anything else. As for later periods (i.e. post-Achaemenid) that's not my field... I read A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani which was quite good and as far as I understand a well respected overview of later Mesopotamian history.
A good book in regards to this theme in the quote is Matt Taibbi's The Great Derangement.
As for the article the quote is from, it just looks like blog-spam. Meh.