(Part 2) Top products from r/promos

Thanks for the update - we're really glad you're happy with the meat!

Ever so sorry about the delivery issue. We'll be sure to speak to our courier before his next delivery. We hope you manage to whip up some tasty meals with the meat you have and next time, don't forget the bacon!

> Your cultural theory may make sense from a European perspective, but then why is heterosexuality the norm in other cultures as well?

To quote Rammstein, "We're all living in Amerika." Sexual mores have become homogenized and heterosexualized in the last half century. A great book that shows the non-Western diversity of all same-sex sexualities (not just the masculine-masculine grero that I describe in my book) prior to the 20th century is
Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray: http://www.amazon.com/Homosexualities-Worlds-Desire-Chicago-Sexuality/dp/0226551954/

How cool! Perhaps i'll have to use reddit as a "free stuff!" place in the future. Especially since I have two copies of the same book, though it was over-zealous Half-Price book-ing. Bought one while in Austin, read another book first, while visiting family in Ft Worth, bought it again because it was a bargain book and I thought I'd never bought it. Oops.

(It's this book )

If you liked the best seller 'The Dirt' by Neil Strauss then you'll probably like this one.

That said, the direct link is
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061931357

I'd love to hijack this ad and recommend people check out The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

This one is just as good - Maybe Your Leg Will Grow Back!: Looking on the Bright Side with Baby Animals

http://www.amazon.com/Maybe-Your-Will-Grow-Back/dp/0062065076/ref=pd_sim_b_3/179-5220345-8614728#_

dude, A) you're taking this way too seriously, lighten up, and B) the fact that the book doesn't go into all that detail is a SELLING POINT. the MIT Lisp book is 657 pages. you buy that book, you're maybe creating a language two to three years from now. maybe, assuming you get through it all. you buy this, you have a language up and running lickety-split.

And all that stuff about "you can do this for $5" and "you can get this for free", look, I'm not saying there aren't options out there for people who are broke, desperate, or cheap. If that's where you're at, there are plenty of options for you. Likewise, there's nothing to say you can't get this book AND some other, bigger book that takes more time. In fact here's an affiliate link for SICP:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262011530?ie=UTF8&tag=gilebowk-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0262011530

Yay! Now I make money either way.

Anyway, dude, nothing personal, but you've written way too many comments on this thing. I get the theme: you're not going to buy the book. OK, that's cool, that's your choice, I don't care. But all this anger about somebody else selling a book that isn't the book you would write, if you got off your ass and wrote a book, dude, get over it, or write a book. If you write a book, I will be thrilled to check it out. But I don't have time to argue with you all day about whether or not this is the exact book that should have been written. If you're that passionate about what an intro text to languages should be, then write it already. Bitching on Reddit doesn't do anybody any good.

David and Goliath...Allegedly.

Link to Source
>How did David defeat Goliath? According to the Bible, it was because God was on his side. But according to Malcolm Gladwell, it was largely because Goliath had a disorder known as acromegaly, a tumor on the pituitary gland.
This disorder, identified in the late 19th century, manifests as gigantism, and it may affect vision. Gladwell lays out his case in his new book, "David and Goliath." Acromegaly could account for Goliath's unusual size, he writes, and the vision problems it can cause could explain a range of details in the Bible: Goliath's slow movements; his request that David come to him rather than the other way around; his need for an attendant to walk with him onto the battlefield; even the fact that Goliath taunts David by saying, "You come against me with sticks?" in the plural, when, in fact, David is carrying but a single stick. This analysis isn't original to Gladwell. Dictionaries of ancient Judaism, biblical commentaries and medical handbooks alike use Goliath as an interesting and well-known example of this potent condition.


Overall, the book is not his best work, but certainly very interesting.

I'd read this. Great title. Stunning. "I want." http://www.amazon.com/Brief-Interviews-Hideous-Foster-Wallace/dp/0316925195

This sounds cool, and if it sounds cool to you I can't recommend strongly enough the Conrad Stargard books from Leo Frankowski http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad-Stargard/dp/0345327624/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317995127&sr=1-7
An accidental time traveller suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself in thirteenth-century Poland, and knowing that the Mongols are about to invade he sets to bringing about the industrial revolution.

Computer science. And this is probably the most important book I had to buy.

"I'm still waiting for an ending."

I have this!

Long before HP, this was the magical universe I used to read:
http://www.amazon.com/Source-Magic-Xanth-Piers-Anthony/dp/0345350588/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1314188054&sr=8-6

[Mass Effect 3 Collector's Edition: Prima Official Game Guide] (http://www.amazon.com/Mass-Effect-Collectors-Edition-Official/dp/030789150X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331220652&sr=1-1&tag=bookforyouru-20)

Anyone else having an issue with reddit redirects? It links here in case you guys are having the same issue I am:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307464342/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=reddit2-20

No, there was this: http://www.amazon.com/So-You-Want-Be-Wizard/dp/0152049401/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300517950&sr=1-1

Yes, but before you must read this:
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Wish-Andrzej-Sapkowski/dp/0316029181

Too bad the english edition of the second book of the saga will be published only in the fall of this year.