https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-forgotten-cases-of-sherlock-holmes/anon/9780993145384

Growing up just outside the industrial northeastern city of Pittsburgh, I quickly became fascinated with the natural beauty of the American Southwest (and its spectacular sunrises) since my first visit in the early 80s. I am still in awe of the exotic beauty of the simple palm tree.

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Favorite #1 at $19: Sheet tangle preventor for wash and dry cycles https://wadfree.com/ . It makes the whole load orderly and thoroughly cleaned, not bunched, twisted, or wet wrapping other items. Possibly could do it yourself with a zip tie bringing corners together, or?

UNfavorite #1 at $78: Proprietary "mixpresso" machine. Compact and elegant but very limited compatible coffee pods. Amazon own brand was affordable but accurately described in comments as wet ashtray flavor, and their thin foil bursts with air shipment pressure changes.

UNfavorite #2 & #3: 15 and 16 inch laptops from Dell and Apple. The Dell touchpad intermittently fails even after being replaced twice, so added a refurbished Macbook which also carried an open box discount. Forgot that Apple refurbs tend to be years old (mine 2019) and the open box came from shock that this generation alone lacked all but a few ports. It has taken ages to personalize the two machines to at least half work, together making one functional unit.

Favorite #2 & #3: Same high res laptops now offer good redundancy and surprisingly the Apple pro can now read Win format portable hard drives. The Dell has a pen that has makes quick work of pdf paperwork I have to annotate and sign. I got adapters cheap to work with Mac ports and maybe I will request another free touchpad when Dell warrantee about to expire.

1. Epic screwball comedy movie with massive classic cast from 60 years ago is avail free in youtube's sample movie channel.
2. A series on engineering integrity, especially in concrete, and more recently the top forensic communicator about pancaked buildings such as in Miami. I post an example of his rundown of unethical steps that led to that huge loss of life, although earlier vids on specific construction faults are gripping too. I think this story is why my similarly built apartment is rising a brutal 4X in insurance fees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk2hmytlDg8

3. Amazing and generally unknown feats of aviation recalled by retired pilots, generally in secret cold war operations. They are about hour long lectures that seem almost too short. The series has been on a pandemic pause, but has a rich backlog. https://www.youtube.com/user/PeninsulaSrsVideos/videos

4. Ancient Roman and Greek misc channel, whose best value to me is willingness of author to answer questions in the comments. https://www.youtube.com/c/toldinstone/videos

5. Air accident review channel (among other things), with admirable restraint, gravitas, and cautionary lessons. In the example I post he explains a particular illusion problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk7fi7P0i3s but I wish he talked about another one attributed to crashes for which I will post a provocative short paper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330415156_The_somatogravic_illusion_during_centrifugation_sex_differences. Researchers find women pilots generally aren't subject to this illusion, which you can only find near the end of paper because they only dared put weasel words where it belonged in the top abstract. They are torn by pol-incorrectness of declaring genders different even if the "correct" one looks better. I found evidence it's due to the illusion not being in pilots mind, but the inner ear is tilted slightly different between the sexes - something you may see me bring up in comments there.

    

6. One of the highest quality sail cruising vlog channels https://www.youtube.com/c/RANSailing/videos

7. Youtube audiobook channel for which I will post an example in two parts because they are almost 2 books. Rolling stone Keith Richards gives a memoir of an earnest struggling band key to the youth culture wave of the 1960s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l03GQCDCBPg followed by bouts of epic self indulgence of a half-billionaire in the drug culture of 1970s+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q4bIn_wFtY. It keeps finding unexpected ways to amaze me on the bohemian lifestyle, like frequent use of gunfire to shoo folks away which so far in the book led to no visits from police or hotel security. He does seem to have a responsible heart, but may be not be telling the full story behind various times he escaped burndowns of hotel rooms or rented homes due to "electrical problems".

The Sphere, the latest entertainment venue in Las Vegas, looks breathtaking. It seats around 16,000 and will be a sports and music facility. It will open this fall.

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(From Wikipedia): The Sphere's interior will be equipped with a 16 K Resolution wraparound LED screen, measuring 160,000 sq ft (15,000 m²). It will be the largest and highest-resolution LED screen in the world. The exterior of the venue will feature 580,000 sq ft (54,000 m²) of programmable lighting, which can feature holiday themes, with the Sphere depicting a Halloween jack-o'-lantern or a Christmas snow globe, for instance. The sphere will feature 164,000 speakers, and the sound system will deliver sound through the floorboards. 4D features, including scent and wind, will also be used.

Some things are so stupid you just can’t make them up.

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A 23-year-old Maryland man was rescued over the weekend after falling into the crater of Mount Vesuvius in Italy while taking a selfie.

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Disaster struck after Carroll attempted to take a selfie atop the ancient volcano, whereupon he dropped his phone into the crater. The Baltimore native then attempted to retrieve it, but slipped and fell a few meters into the mountain’s mouth before getting stuck.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna37773

https://nypost.com/2022/07/12/selfie-taking-us-tourist-falls-into-mount-vesuvius-volcano/amp/

This is reminiscent of a recent protest at the Uffizi Museum in Florence a few months ago.
 

Maybe you have seen recent videos on how most folks naively tie shoelaces into a slipknot rather than proper one. The slipknot tends to make the bows sit crooked as below, but you can tell best by grabbing the non-loose lace side of the knot and seeing if it slips. Instead of tying the bows an additional time, (ugly and hard to untie) you can just retie it with the initial overhand knot reversed.

For more security, I hereby mandate the easy variation "Parisian knot"; maybe the Romans called it the Gaul knot. After making the first bow, wrap it along with your finger twice instead of once before pulling the second bow thru. You may have to adjust it slightly so the double clenching of the bows sits tidy in the middle (check for slip too). Of a dozen bow knots I think it is the cleanest extra grip one, especially worth the effort when you leave it always tied:

Introduction to Psychology by William Wundt

Principles of Psychology (2 books) (1890) by William James

The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) by Sigmund Freud. // Early work but this is what a lot of people go for.  Something like, "If you dream of tigers, it means you want to have sex."

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (1905)) by Sigmund Freud (penis envy here)

Animal Intelligence by Edward L Thorndike (1911)  This is the book most recommended.

Freud's On Narcissim (1914) by Joseph Sandler (lousy personality types)

Educational Psychology by ELT

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) by  Sigmund Freud  // listen to the "Pleasure Principle" by Janet Jackson.  There's also a principle of reality.

Ego and the Id (1923) by Sigmund Freud // talks about Ego, Id, and SuperEgo.  see movie Forbidden Planet

I don't think that Freud was wrong but I don't think that he was clear half of the time.

Conditioned Reflexes            Ivan Pavlov (1926)

The Anatomy of Evil by Michael H Stone (1933)

Rebel Without a Cause: The Story of a Criminal Psychopath (1944)  // see James Dean's Rebel without a Cause.  I think this is the first movie that features a drag race off a cliff.

Science and Human Behavior BF Skinner (1953)

How to Live with a Neurotic at Home and at Work by Albert Ellis (1975)

The Underclass (1982) by Ken Auletta

Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire by H. J Eysenck (1985) read Edward Gibbons "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."

Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition: A Theory of Judgment by Howard Margolist (1987) 

You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen (forgot about this one) (1990)

Men are from Mars Women are from Venus (1992) // watch "Amazon women on the Moon."

Inventing the Feeble Mind by James W Trent (1995)

Humiliation (1995) by William Ian Miller

Justice Interuptus: Critical Perceptions on the "postsocialist condition" (1996) by Nancy Fraser

Emotional Blackmail (1997) by Susan Forward and Donna Frazier

Breaking Intimidation (1997) by John Bevere

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel Amen.  Almost neurology rather than psychology.  (1998) After this, notice the books become rather cognitive. 

Do It! Let's Get Off Our Butts by Peter McWilliams (1998)

Talking Straight by Lee Iacocca (1998)

A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture by Marguerite Feitlowitz (1999)

The Seven Worst Things Good Parents Do (1999)

Civility by Stephen L Carter (1999)

Respect by Sara-Lawrence (2000)

Six Pillars of Self Esteem by Nathaniel Branden(2000) 

Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice (2001)

Conflict Resolution by Daniel Dana (2001)

Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and The Science of Affection by Deborah Blum (2002), Deborah Blum won the Pulitzer apparently for something else.  This research on a monkey has been analyzed by more than one person  // similar to "Bedtime for Bonzo."

Misery Loves Company by William F Buckley (2002) Listen to "My Friend of Misery."

Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf (2003) 

Healing Through Humor by Charles Hunter (2003)

Breaking and Entering: Burglars on Burglary (2003) by Paul F Cromwell

Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small by Barry J Nalebuff and Ian Ayres (2003)

Saying Yes by Jacob Sullum (2004)

Chatter by Patrick Radden Keefe (2005) // fits under criminology

Breaking Intimidation by Bevere (2005)

First Impressions by Ann Demarais (2005)

Intercouse (2006) by Andrea Dworkin  // see A Beautiful Mind and listen to Van Halen F.U.C.K.

Integrity by Dr Henry Cloud (2006)

Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn (2006)

Manliness by Harvey C Mansfeld (2007)

Uncouth Nation by Andrei S Markovits (2007)

Men are Better than Women by Dick Masterson (2008)

Dissembling by Icon Group (2008)

How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk (2008)

Essential Chomsky Noam Chomsky (2008)  This guy wrote for the New Republic. 

The Six Pillars of Character by Bruce Glassman (2008) // 6 books

Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments (2009) by Dominick Dunne

Justice by Michael J Sandel (2009) // listen to "Justice" by Atomic Opera

The Art of Manliness by Brett McKay (2009) // 5 books

Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me by Howie Mandel (2009)

Misogny: The Male Malady (2010) by David D Gilmore

What Not to Say: Tools for Talking to Young Children (2010)

Martial Virtues: Lessons in Wisdom, Courage, and Compassion by Charles H Hackney (2011)

Annoying by Joe Palca (2011)

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) by Daniel Kahneman

Behaviorism                   by John B Watson (2011) author died 1958

Franklin is Bossy (2011) by Paulette Bourgeois

Franklin Fibs (2011) by Paulette Bourgeois

Oh, How Sylvester can Pester by Robert Kinerk (2011)

What Women Hate About Men by Martin Ellis M Ellis (2011)

Coming Home to Passion by Ruth Cohn: (2011) // Listen to "Scarred" by Dream Theater 

Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca (2011)

What Not to Say: Avoiding the Common Mistakes that Can Sink Your Sermon by John C Holbert and Alyce M McKenzie (2011)

How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber (2012)

Blame: It's Nature and it's Norms by D Justin Coates (2012)

Essential Manners for Men by Peter Post (2012)

Hierarchy of Needs: A Theory of Human Motivation Abraham H Maslow (2012) This version has a clear publication date and I don't have an original publication date, but this author died in 1970

Ignorance by Stuart Firestein (2012)

Urban Dictionary by Aaron Peckham (2012)

Shut the Hell Up!  Silence the Roard by Terry Tripp (2012)

Perversion by Robert J Stoller (2012) // 40 books,  see "Dr. Strangelove"

Over Here by Edgar Albert Guest (2012)  // see The Predator

Shit Happens so Get Over It by Summersdale (2012) // listen to "Get Over It" by the Eagles

What Not to Say by Sara McLaughlin (2012)

The Tacit Demand by O Lagerspetz (2013) // 36 books

How to Stop Lying by Caesar Lincoln (2013)

Tourette Syndrome by David Martino (2013)

Cheating Lessons by James M Lang (2013)

8 keys to Eliminating Passive-Agressiveness (2013)  // 18 books by Andrea Brandt

// I have an imperfect memory but this needs to be said.  "Shock therapy" was originally designed to be a method to eliminate passive aggressive behavior.  It is not supposed to be painful or high current or a "shock."  It is supposed to be medium current and constant.  The idea is to run a current across someone's head to eliminate evil from their brain.  It is supposed to be done for 2 hours for children who demonstrate behavior abnormality and a high IQ.  Without the high IQ you are supposed to be euthanized.  Without predicated health insurance like Australia, though, our system isn't trustworthy enough to be used.  I think I had it done for a half hour in preschool.  I was willing because my father had started to induce terrible behavior in me.  I chose my own settings because of course I understood the technology better than the teacher.  And nobody ever set it up correctly.  Forget the shock behavior!  The hitch is - it makes people a little more lustful rather than less lustful because it eliminates homosexual tendencies.  If a child goes through with it, they need a girl when they are finished.

It is nicknamed "Figure out the meaning of fuck on your own therapy."  That means electro shock therapy will boost your intelligence until you figure out the meaning of fuck on your own.

I remember a weird tip - it is exactly 3 hours and 14 minutes to eliminate sodomy from our brain. 

I also remember, setting the current for medium low rather than medium makes it too wimpy.

Also, a full 3 hours removes you from the curse of homosexuality.  Or more precisely nobody will ass fuck you for getting laid using the therapy if you get the full 3 hours.

The Irritable Brain Syndrome by Kit Campbell (2013) // my father used to say not to trust people who are irritable

Abuse of Discretion by Clark D Forsythe (2013) // about arguments before the supreme court against Roe v Wade

Homecoming by John Bradshaw (2013)

The Top Insults by Full Sea Books (2013) 

Sorry I Barfed on Your Bed by Jeremy Greenberg (2013)

Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy (2013)

Give and Take by Adam M Grant (2013)

The Character of Leadership Six Pillars of a Leaders Character by Gregg T Johnson (2014)

Stuff Every College Student Should Know by Blair Thornburgh (2014) // 31 books

Out of Control: Why Disciplining your child doesn't work by Shefali Tesbary (2014)

Couples Therapy Workbook by Kathleen Yates Youngman: (2014) 

How to Stop Nagging by Kelsey Huntington (2014)

Ingenuity by Paul Kirkham (2014) 

No-Drama Discipline by Tina Payne Bryson (2014)

Winning Through Intimidation by Robert Ringer (2014)

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey (2014)

Dude that's Rude by Pamela Espeland (2014) // 9 books

Child Abuse by Evin Daily (2014)

Winning Through Intimidation by Robert Ringer (2014)

Do Talk to Strangers by Kerrie Phipps (2014) // 3 books // Listen to "Don't Talk to Strangers"

Momma, Don't Hit Me! A True Story of Child Abuse by Shannon Bowen (2014)

Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion by Gary Chapman (2015)

Beauty by John ODonahue (2015)

From One Prick to Another (2015) by Hilary Butler

Out Came the Sun by Mariel Hemingway (2015) // I remember this being commented on long before a 2015 release

Getting to Yes: Negotiating with Yourself by William Ury (2015)

Should I stay or should I Go?  by Ramani Durvasula (2015)  listen to The Clash.

Antisocial by Daniel J Fox (2015)

Meathead by Allison Brager (2015)

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis (2015) // 5 book series.  This is what a husband is supposed to be like

Psychology: Essential Thinkers (2016) This free book on Kindle and is a good summary of significant figures in psychology.

Psychology: A Complete Introduction (2016) by Sandi Mann

Ignominy by Tomas Coimin (2016)  // see the Scarlet Letter

No Ordinary Stalking by June Ti (2016)  listen to "No Ordinary Love" by Sade

Aberation in the Heartland of the Real by Wendy S Painting (2016)

Brain Lock by Jeffrey M Schwartz (2016)

White Trash by Nancy Isenberg (2016)

Introducing Literary Criticism by Owen Holland (2016)

Pitchin a Fit by Isreal Wayne (2016)

We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone by Donald A Hayden (2016) 

The Sack Lunch by Deborah Bowden (2016)

Simply Said by Jay Sullivan (2016)

The WorryWoos by Andi Green (2016) // 8 books

It Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn (2016)

Parental Responsibility in the Context of Neuroscience and Genetics by Kristien Hens (2017) // 78 books

Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G Johson (2017)

Conflict Resolution Phrase Book Barbara Mitchell (2017)

Mistreated by Robert Pearl (2017)

Evoking Greatness by Megan Tschannen Moran (2017)

Fierce Conversations by Susan Craig Scott (2017)  // see Fierce Creatures

Principles by Ray Dalio (2017)

The Road Less Stupid by Keith J Cunningham (2017)

The Art of Cruelty by Maggie-Nelson (2017)

77 Secrets and Habits of Highly Successful People (2017)

Sarcasm Handbook by Lawrence Dorfman (2017)

College Student Leadership Development by Valerie I Sessa (2017) // 31 books

Conscientious Thinking by David Bosworth (2017)

Recipes Every College Student Should Know by Christine Nelson (2017) // 31 books

Free Association Where My Mind Goes During Science Class by Barbara Esham (2018) //  6 books

Confronting Torture by Scott A Anderson (2018)

Atomic Habits by James Clear (2018)

The Basics Melanie Klein (2018)

We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone (2018) // a collection of real life horror stories!

Consent: the new Rules of Sex Education (2018)

How to Stop Losing Your Shit with Your Kids (2018) not great, but there are few books on raising children

How to Teach Your Dragon to Make Friends by Donna Shea (2018)  // watch "How to Train Your Dragon?"

Home Security by Andy Murphy (2018)

Rude by Katie Hopkins (2018)  .// A lot likeCandide

Making Conflict Work (2018)

Oedipus Complex by Rhona M Fear (2018) 

How to Swear by Stephen Wildish (2018)

The Student Leadership by James M Kouzes (2018) // 6 books

Start Saying Yes by Matthew Rouse (2018)

The Covert Passive Agressive Narcissist by Debbie Mirza (2018) // 2 books

Hostility to Hospitality by Michael J Balboni (2018)

How I learned to Shut the Fuck Up by Armand Cook (2018)

Doing It by Hannah Witton (2018)

Do It Today by Darius Foroux (2018)

Tourette's Syndrome: How to Eliminate Nervous Ticks and Anxiety by Quinn Spencer(2018)

School Safety and Violence Prevention by Matthew J Mayer (2018) 

Anatomy of a False Confession by Cicctrini (2018)

What to Say: and What Not to Say When by Bill Crawford (2019)

Bully Busting by Donna Shea (2019)

Stalking Crimes and Victim Prevention by Joseph A Davis (2019)

Stop Talking Start Influencing by Jared Cooney Horvath (2019) 

Friends Ask First (2019) by Alexandra Cassel

Best Friends (2019) by Shannon Hale (3 book series)

I Never Called it Rape (2019)

The Mindful Guide to Conflict Resolution (2019) by Rosalie Puiman six tenets of mindfulness: nonjudgment, acceptance, beginner's mind, trust, patience, gratitude and generosity

Listen by Joseph Kerman (2019)

National Populism by Matthew Goodwin (2019)

The Dynamics of Human Peer Bonding (2019) D Anderson

Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations with Your Parents about their Finances by Cameron Huddleston (2019) // a trial balloon - can parents talk to their children at all?

Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class by Susan J Ferguson (2019)

Shut Up and Listen by Tilman Fertitta (2019)

The American Dream by Jim Cullen (2019)

Leave Me Alone by Dylan Smith-Mitchell (2019) 

Addressing Parental Accomodation by Eli R Lebowitz (2019) // 8 books

You're Doing It Wrong! (2019) by Bethany L Johnson 

Say What You Mean (2019) by Oren Jay Sofer  // The song "One Thing Leads to Another"

Managing Leadership Anxiety (2019) by Steve Cuss

Entertaining Guests (2019) by Peggy Healy     

Think Before You Act by Sarah Machajewski (2019)

Character is Destiny by Russell W Gough (2020) 

Principled:10 Leadership Practices for Building Trust by Paul Browning (2020)

Beyond Persuasian and Anger Management by Rebecca Dolton (2020) // 2 books see movie "Anger Management"

Find Your Calm by Gabi Garcia (2020) // 5 books

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Sean Covey (2020)

Calling Bullshit by Carl T Bergstrom (2020)

The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs the United States by Eric Cervini (2020)

Conflict Resolution Playbook (2020) by Jeremy Pollack includes the six core pyschological needs: they include identity, safety, and autonomy.  Also care, growth, stimulation.

Conniving Homo Sapiens by John Donnelly (2020)

Consent for Kids (2020) by Rachel Brian

Counterstory (2020) by Aja Y Martinez

Courtship by Rickey Macklin (2020)

Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersons (2020) see movies Desperate Measures and the Silence of the Lambs

How Learning Happens by Paul Kirschner (2020)

How to Talk to Girls by Simon Ray (2020)

Making Sense by Sam Harris (2020)

Phallacy by Emily Willingham (2020)

The Power of Discipline by Daniel Walter (2020)

Win with Decency by Douglass and Lisa Marie Hatcher (2020)

Judgement, Decision Making, and Embodied Choices by Markus Raab (2020)

Irony and Sarcasm by Roger Kreuz (2020) // 94 books

Read People Like a Book by Patrick King (2020) // 26 books  //song "Conversation Skill"

How Highly Effective People Speak (2020) // 15 books // Pink Floyd "Speak to Me"

Kindness is my Superpower by Alicia Ortega (2020) // 8 books on children's behavior

Horrifying True Crime Stories by Danielle Tyning (2020)

Louie and Lucie: Have Guests Over (2020)

Bad Arguments by Killian Hobbs (2020)

College Success 101 by Bill Leamon (2020)

What Not to Say to People Who are Grieving by Andrew Allen Smith and Pamela Sue Pearson (2021)

The College Bound Planner by Anna Costaras and Gail Liss (2021)

I Love it Here by Clint Pulver: How Great Leaders Create Organizations there People Neve Want to Leave (2021)

Let a Boy be a Man by Eddie Rosado (2021)

Perversion of Justice by Julie K Brown (2021)

How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies by Will Witt (2021)

Advanced English Expressions by Advanced English (2021)

Humor, Seriously by Jennifer Aaker (2021)

The Summary and Analysis of Rape Culture: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture  (2021)

Conflicted: How Productive Disagreement Leads to Better Outcomes by Ian Leslie (2021)

How to Divorce a Narcissist and Win by Marie Sarantakis (2021)

Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side by Simon McCarthy Jones (2021) 

The Soul of Desire by Curt Thompson (2021)

Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymplye (2021)

Misconceptions by Tim Rayburn (2021)

Hostility of Change by Joe Robert Thornton (2021)

The Male Chauvinist Pig by Julie Willet (2021) 

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M Cipollo (2021)

Dignity by Donna Hicks (2021) 

Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Hicks (2021)

She Thinks Like a Boss by Jemma Roedel (2021)

The Power of Patience by M J Ryan (2021).

Stop Overthinking by Nick Trenton (2021) 12 books // for the jedi there is no emotion, there is peace, See Empire Strikes Back

Excitable Speech by Judith Butler (2021)

The Bossy Dragon by Steve Herman (2021)

Mastering Self Control by Joshua John Clarkson (2021) 

I Choose to Say No by Elizabeth Estrada (2021)

Being Neurotic by Terry Bordan (2022)

I'm Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (2022)

7 Forms of Respect by Julie Pham (2022)

Not My Charming Mother by Patricia Schmaltz (2022)

Jerks at Work by Tessa West (2022)

Seek and Hide by Amy Gajda (2022)

Homelessness in America by Stephen Eide (2022)

Forgive Why Should I and How Can I? by Timothy Keller (2022)

Love at First Spite by Anna E Collins (2022)

Bernice Runs Away by Tayla Tate Boerner (2022)

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Environment by Gator Mate and Daniel Mate (2022)

Collective Illusions by Todd Rose (2022)

Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E Frankl (2022)

The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm by James Napoli (2022) // 2 books

Independence Day: What I learned about Retirement by Steve Lopez (2022)

Introspection by Ray Abi Aad (2022)

None of Your Damn Business by Lawrence Capello (2022)

Empathy by Roman Krznaric (2022)

Embrace Your Empathy by Kristy Robinett (2022)

Narcissistic Mothers by Melanie Parker (2022)

The Affable, Amiable Apostate by Chris Highland (2022)

The Blame Game by Cecelia V Robertson (2022) // I thought this title was old.  Like a movie title

Unreasonable Hospitality (2022) by Will Guidara

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Ward (2022)

The Snark Bible by Lawrence Dorfman (2022)

Viral Underclass by Steven W Thrasher (2022)

The Truly Disadvantaged by William Julius Wilson (2022)

The Art of Saying Yes by Sreekumar vT (2022)

Emily Post's Etiquette by Lizzie Post (2022)

Pitchin a Fit by Israel Wayne (2022)

Sh*t for Brains by Hairbrained Inc (2022)

Legal Guide for Police by Jeffery T Walker (2022)

Active Inference by Thomas Parr (2022)

Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling by Richard Reeves (2022)

Don't Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen (2022) // 2 books, a really important way to look at human thought, that is reject your own conjectures.  It forces you to remember exactly what people said when making an argument

Recovery from Abuse by Linda Hill (2022) // 13 books, this describes what is a bad relationship

The Neurotic Character by Terry Bordan (2022)

The Complete Book of Cat Names by Bob Eckham (2022)

Do Not Invite Your Enemies to the Table by Louie Giglio(2023)

The Art of Saying No by Ravi Lalit Tewari (2023)

The Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music (2023)

From a Kid to a King: Learning How to Transition from Immaturity to Maturity by Edward L Butler (2023)

Introvert by Design by Holley Gerth (2023)

Eye Contact by Matthew Marshall (2023)

Shortchanged by Annie Abrams (2023)

Stfu by Dan Lyons (2023)

Quitting by Julia Keller (2023)

Leadership Mindset by R Michael Anderson (2023)

Memory (2023) by Fergus Craik

Do It! The Life Changing Power of Taking Action by David Nurse (2023)

Access Rome by Richard Saul Wurman (2023)  // Etiquette for visiting Rome

The Joy of Saying No: A Simple Plan to Stop People Pleasing by Natalie Lue (2023) 

Nurturing Professional Judgement by Ben Knight (2023)

Idiocracy by Zoran Terzic (2023)

Managing Mister Bossy (2023) // This take the tack that obsessive compulsive disorder is the problem rather than short attention span.  Leans towards prozac like medication and not ritalin.

Agression, Toxicity, Violence, Abuse by Yuriy Omes (2023)

Workplace Violence by Christina M Holbrook (2023)

The Opposite is True by Efren A Delgado (2023) // True enough.  

Modern Etiquette for Dummies by Sue Fox (2023).

How to Argue with Anyone by Thinknetic (Critical Thinking and Logic Mastery) (2023) // 6 books the epitome of psychology

Essential OIls and Aromatherapy for Dummies by Kathi Keville (2023)

Critical Thinking: Statistical Reasoning and Intuitive Judgment by Varda Liberman (Author), Amos Tversky (Author) (2024)

Dare to Say No by Max Felkor Kantor (2024)

Also, tongue in cheek intended, Flirting for Dummies, Sex for dummies, Relationships for dummies, wedding planning for dummies, making marriage work for dummies, pregnancy all in one for dummies emotionally focused couple therapy for dummies, your baby's first year for dummies, and parenting dummies. 

The Dummies series consists of psychology for dummies (2020), child psychology and development for Dummies (2011), forensic psychology for dummies (2012) , psychology statistics for dummies (2012), social psychology for dummies (2014), and cognitive psychology for dummies (2016).

And, Criminology for Dummies.

I do remember, Criminology and not Forensic Psychology is supposed to be a category of psychology instead of forensic psychology.

America does seam to dominate psychology publications.  Perhaps reluctant to take our own advice.

Stargazing for dummies.  Stellarium-web.org is beautiful, and it reminds me of how awful the failing of the Hubble telescope is.  You have no idea how much better the sciences would be if the Hubble had been done well.  If the Hubble had been done well, maybe they would have funded the Super-collider.

Paradise Lost by John Milton Norton critical edition is my choice // essential theology.  Michael is Michael I Ledeen.  Angels and Demons (1967) features him prominently.  The movie is no longer available.  His likeness is in the character creation of Eye of the Beholder - the knight with long black hair.  He is the man appearing in the old testament as the "lord, thy God" not Jehovah.  This explain his appearance in Monty Python an the Quest for the Holy Grail.  I wish there were an unredacted version of this.  In the audiobook version, Michael and Satan exchange several strikes and parries in their sword fight, and near the end the angel Uria is watching everything.  I believe the angel Uria can be related to the movie the Color Purple, the song "Amaranth" by Nightwish, which means the color purple, and "The Name of the Rose" by Iron Maiden.  Also, the show Explorers.  At the end, that's supposed to be her.

The Code of Hammurabi by LW King. Older than the 10 commandments, I looked here to find out what adultery means.  Not exactly uplifting stuff.  It has to do with a separated, married couple

"If she had been a bad wife, the Code allowed him to send her away, while he kept the children and her dowry; or he could degrade her to the position of a slave in his own house, where she would have food and clothing. She might bring an action against him for cruelty and neglect and, if she proved her case, obtain a judicial separation, taking with her her dowry. No other punishment fell on the man. If she did not prove her case, but proved to be a bad wife, she was drowned. If she were left without maintenance during her husband's involuntary absence, she could cohabit with another man, but must return to her husband if he came back, the children of the second union remaining with their own father. If she had maintenance, a breach of the marriage tie was adultery. Wilful desertion by, or exile of, the husband dissolved the marriage, and if he came back he had no claim on her property; possibly not on his own."

Hammurabi. The Code of Hammurabi . Kindle Edition.

By way of comparison, The Crucible seams to imply adultery means marital infidelity.  The relationship between John Proctor and Abigail Williams.  Remember, the commandment against adultery is the one John Proctor can't remember when interrogated by his lawyer, Daniel Webster.  It is also about being a scapegoat.

Also, the movie implies that Abigail Williams may be the girlfriend of the unnamed boy who was not baptized and later sodomized.  Also, the age of consent in Massachusetts was 16, so the underage sex angle is not that scandalous.  

By the laws of the Roman Republic, what John Proctor has done is adultery, because he is shagging someone else's wife!  Abigail Williams.  That would let Abigail off.

Rig Veda by Devajyoti Sarkar  (1st millenium BC) //The first book of Indian philosophy in not particularly exciting but it has been misconstrued as horse love, particularly by the Five Dialogues.  It is the beginning of a warrior ethos, but they don't really go anywhere with it because they don't have a war to talk about yet, not until the Markendeya Purana which reads like an adventure.  This is like the Books of Enoch.

Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous // This is the equivalent to Paradise Lost.  It does describe Hinduism, their deity is named "Brahman."  There is no creation story - as far as translation has progressed.  This is not a completely translated work.

by Eknath Easwaran, I think that's the real author

The Book of Rites by Confucius  This beginning of Chinese philolosophy says that there are 4 occupations farmer, artisan, scholar, merchant

The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Chinese)

Sophocles, the Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles (2002) This is not a complete works of Sophocles, it does focus on the philosophical importance of not fucking your ma.

Protagoras by Plato, the origin of "man is the measure of all things" and agnosticism.  I was also looking for the origin of hedonism and couldn't find it.  Protagoras is supposed to be the first Greek philosopher, and Plato decided to write down his philosophy.

The Five Dialogues by Plato, Jowett edition (origin of "swan song"), the hypothetical swan song would be for Socrates.  This translation translates Stygian with an 'a' like Paradise Lost.  This version has a nice meaning to "swan song'" as the final performance before entering heaven.  There is a dispute in the translations over the meaning of "swan song."

Symposium by Plato (Butcher's wife seams to refer to this)
The Republic by Plato // essentially predicts a future democracy and does not think it will ever equal the Republic of Rome
Plato's Theory of Knowledge (makes a reference to The Republic's, "Knowledge and Opinion," which indicates The Repblic is not a complete work.  It seams to be saying that knowledge should be construed as infallible whereas options can be right or wrong.)

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle // Aristotle was a student of Plato, an investigation into the nature of good and evil

The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle // The first nice Greek philosopher

Selected Speeches by Demosthenes // This would be a brief Athenian silver age after the defeat of Sparta by the Boeotian league and before the Macedonian conquest, this is very much about the nuts and bolts of government and the press

Ancient Skepticism by Harald Thorsrud (2014) // this preceded Cyrenaic philosophy.  This is still the silver age of Greece.

The Cyrenaics by Ugo Zilioli (2014) // Philosophy from Cyrene in North Africa.  This philosophy dates from the Spartan occupation.

The Cyrenaic Handbook by Cicero et al.(2016) // double check on what these philosophers thought.  I thought the word cyrenaic meant don't fuck your "ma."

On Ancient Medicine by Hiprocates (2015) // Contains the hippocratic oath in its original form.  This essentially was the oath of a doctor never to take a human life.  Euthanasia got in the way.

The Birth of Hedonism by Kurt Lampe (2017) // It was born out of "Cyrenaic" philosophers.  The philosophy is reborn as utilitarianism in 19th century England.  The only practice of the ancient world rumored to have anything to do with Hedonism is the orgy, something featured in stories of the emperor Caligula, who would have prince of Rome at the time of Christ.  See Caligula, definitely played by Malcolm Mcdowell, considered a hardcore *or* movie, or see Jesus Christ Superstar, where Benny Hill plays the role, comically. 

The Art of Happiness by Epicurus (2012) // mentioned in Les Miserable unabridged.  This is Hellenistic, meaning the Macedonian Empire.  I thought this was the beginning of Hedonism, not Materialism!  Senator Hugo is partial to Epicurus.  But it is bishop Monsieur Myriel who is supposed to be the devil.  Hugo is the senator in the story!  Myriel is the bishop of Digne and Hugo is the senator of Digne.  It is a southern French city.  Senator Hugo is indeed supposed to be the author.  It says he is a senator of the empire - well according to Britannica.com the French empire ended in 1870 with the defeat of Napoleon III; when the 3rd French republic started.  So I don't think there is a need to jump to bold conclusions that he is a senator of the Roman empire.  Napoleon was coronated French emperor and Italian king separately.

Epicureanism by Tim O Keefe (2017) // This is ancient materialism.  It started after the Macedonian conquest and is considered Hellenistic.

Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu.  Confucianism is older, this is the quintessential taoism book because it mentions the "three treasures."

Tetrabiblos by Claudius Ptolemy - the classical book on astrology and geocentrism.  Written under the Macedonian empire.  Claudius Ptolemy was a mathematician, general of Alexander the Great, and pharaoh of Egypt.

Delphi Complete Works of Plautus by Plautus (2016) // Far more plays here than the Oxford History of the Roman World would have indicated possible.  Delphi is a Greek city, but the setting for these plays is Rome.

Stoicism by John Sellars (2014) // This is Greek origin for Marcus Aurelius's book

The Art of Love by Ovid (2002) // This is a Latin and not a Greek poem.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Gregory Hayes (1558|2006) // a stoic philosopher and Roman emperor, this means the defining philosophy of the Roman empire was stoicism, while Greece was agnostic.

// Amazon sales rank 92 in books,

#1 in philosophy,

#1 in Greek and Roman philosophy,

and #2 in Classic literature and fiction

see movie The Fall of the Roman Empire, and Gladiator, which is a remake.

Confessions 2nd edition by Saint Augustine

The Rule of Saint Benedict by Saint Benedict

// I thought Joseph Fiore was a medieval philosopher, what was printed was modern

Hugh of Saint Victor by Paul Rorem (15 books) // I don't remember this well, but this is medieval philosophy just before the crusades, and it would be terribly interesting to see how European thinkers justified the conflict.  After the fall of Damascus in 635 the notion of going back to the middle east and kicking butt should have been a nonstarter.  Not for a 1000 more years of recovery.

The Complaint of Nature by Alain of Lille (famous quote "All roads lead to Rome.")

Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Summa of the Summa by Peter Kreeft // confirms the meaning of "marriage debt"

Death Judgement Heaven Hell by Saint Alphonsus Liguori  // authentic images from the Sistine Chapel of the Final Judgement

Raphael, Painter by Stephanie Storey  // see the movie Faust, Raphael is supposed to be God.  Theologically, he's supposed to be the Holy Ghost and Michael I Ledeen is God the father.

Magna Carta by King John of England  // The original human right against wrongful imprisonment is here

The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus(1543|2024)  // heliocentrism

The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne (1580|2016) // invented the essay.  French Renaissance.

Utopia by Thomas More (late 15th early 16th, the copyright information is quizzical)

Galileo's Mistake by Wade Rowland // they mean heliocentrism.  Which makes me wish that Hubble had worked.  Then Christianity might embrace the Copernican revolution.  Maybe we should have waited for Christianity to embrace the Copernican Revolution before we tried?  A papal bull on the side of liberalism might have helped.  It should have been designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech.  The best ground observatory is at The University of Chicago.  See Star Trek TNG episode "First Contact"

The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Mushashi (martial arts philosophy from Japan.  This is 16th century.  You would need to go back to the 11th century for the first book that is potentially translatable, but it is considered an undercooked philosophy)

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes  // leviathan is the welfare state.  Socialism before Karl Marx.

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli  // a parody of the Austrian monarchy

The Institutes of the Laws of England (1628) by Edward Cook // This is OOP but I once had a copy at Stingley.  This is a true landmark.  It is also an academic publication suitable for a college term paper.  This is related to Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone.

A Model of Christian Charity (1630) by John Winthrop // this is the sermon that is the theological basis of American exceptionalism, the original American philosopher, and a Democrat

Principles of Philosophy (1644) by Rene Descartes // I think therefore I am, the defining book of rationalism

A Pigsah sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof by Thomas Fuller (2017) // Origin of the phrase "it is always darkest before dawn."  Conservatives parody Christianity with the phrase "time before dawn."  Originally pubbed about 1650.  I think this is an English commentary on America.  I thought this might be confused with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion but I don't see a history of it.

Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court by J Webster (2005)  // A British monarch.  Not a French one.  And I thought the word was French in origin.  I think libertinism is generally considered the modern term for hedonism.

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton (1687|2019)  // Physics was originally called "natural philosophy"

Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke (1689|2016)   pre revolutionary American philosophy

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1689 |1996) pre revolutionary American philosophy

The Analogy of Religion by Joseph Butler (1736|2021) // tries to argue against hedonism

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume (1748|2007) // He came after John Locke!

The Polanders by Pigault-Lebrun (2023) // European skepticism begins to turn into parody.  I've read some when I was young and think it is very important.

The Spirit of the Laws by Baron de Montesquieu (1748|2011) // This is the forgotten pre-Revolutionary (American) thought, the separation of powers!  This is supposed to be the most important philosopher

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) by Sir William Blackstone // This is the commentary after years of reflection on the laws of England done a century after Edward Cook

Common Sense: The Origin and Design of Government by Thomas Paine  // American revolutionary justification does not cover civil rights, rather it covers the nature of government!

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)// I am not overly impressed but I hear people react better before you take economics if you read it.  This is supposed to be the beginning of conservativism but it doesn't say anything meaningful.

The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men by John Witherspoon (1776)  // A Princeton University professor inducted into the American Philosophical Society.  This is sometimes considered a speech and sometimes a sermon.  Compares well to the Declaration of Independence when you consider happiness is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.

This sermon is supposed to be the origin of the conservative movement.  There was no real conservative movement!  The conservative movement basically means the conspiracy to keep you poor and stupid! Or the illiteracy movement!

The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson (1776|2014) // the pursuit of happiness.  Huh huh huh.

Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) by Mary Woolstencroft Shelley // author of "Frankenstein."

Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795) by the Maquis de Sade // French libertinism, some say French call it, "libertinage."

Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Allen Jayne (1998|2000) // Discusses men's need for "social intercourse."  Ahem.  The need to talk to girls?  How about the need for the "pursuit of happiness?"  This is not good enough commentary for a modern society.

The grader Christine Maxwell made a point to bomb out any essay on the Declaration of Independence that didn't admit that it was about "f-u-c-k-i-n-g." (I think that was in AP American history.)

The damn video is on Youtube, see 2:20

The American Crisis by Thomas Paine (1776) "These are the times that try men's souls..."  I thought that was a reference to winter quarters at Valley Forge, December 1777.  I'm skeptical of the date.

Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant, (1781) a trilogy // calls itself "telelogy"  defines "theurgy" which is a term used in Civilization II Gold the fantasy world.  Also has the term "crude matter" used in Star Wars.  Dubbed "metaphysics."  Considered necessary to open your mind to abstract reasoning.

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, Arthur Morey, and James Madison (1787|2010) // Look here to justify the federal power to tax, a federal currency, and centralized banking.  For the original human right against wrongful  // the most legit name is James Madison, a future president

   imprisonment, see the Magna Carta.

Elements of the Philosophy of the Right (1821) by Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel // This might be important but it is rarely cited.

Democracy in America by Alexis de Toqueville (1840) // French commentary on America

Discourse in the Sciences and the Arts by Jean Jacques Rousseau

Discourse on Inequality by Jean Jacques Rousseau

An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas R Malthus

Self Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841|2020) // see General Emerson in Robotech.  I think he's supposed to be Leonard's XO if they did the series right, there was a redo of the series where that was the case with a lost redo of the series.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854|2023) // post revolutionary philosophy called Transcendentalism, often confused with Naturalism

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859|2009) // this I think is the beginning of "humanism"

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (2010) // 19th century hedonism ... is defined here, and it is a criticism I'm sure, but I'm trouble finding anything hedonistic although this author is supposed to be related to the topic

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Beyond Good and Evil (2023) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill (2017) // This is the evolution of hedonism

The Strenuous Life (1899) by Theodore Roosevelt (American president)

On the Shortness of Life (1900) by Lucius Seneca

Bushido The Soul of Japan (1905) by Inazo Nitobe (modern martial arts philosophy - Japanese) // didn't realize how recent this was

A Square Deal by Theodore Roosevelt (1906|2021) // The conversion of the United States to a mixed economy starts here

The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1911) by David Ricardo // Written by an Englishman.  The world's most important book on economics.  Published after Mises, but thought through beforehand.  Mises is so prolific he doesn't have a definitive work like this one.  This is the book that John Maynard Keynes is arguing against, so this counts as the definition of libertarianism.  As far as I know the Republican party just doesn't embrace his ideas which is why I don't think conservativism exists except as a movement of illliteracy.

Democracy and Education by John Dewey (1916|2021)  // described as intrumentalism and pragmatism, gave rise to naturalism 

The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet (1936) // This is a call for help for a better justice system, whether the story is real or fiction

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (1936|2016) // John Maynard Keynes is considered the father of modern economics.  The Democratic party needed more help from the UK to govern America even with the Republicans voted out.  Very curious history.  You'd like to see a demographic of Democrats and Republicans wouldn't you?  He's arguing that David Riccardo is too far to the right.  He is showing a lot of respect for libertarianism by doing that.  He's not arguing against conservativism, he's not arguing against liberalism, he's arguing against libertarianism.  It's not clear what he means.  Counterfeiting, properly understood, proves that the business community is insane and needs government oversight, arguing for a grey market in platinum coins until the government makes it official policy to do so, is one interpretation of where he is going.  Well, they have finally done so.  Part of the argument is the intrinsic value of gold is so high, gold can't be handled by most people.  The intrinsic value of silver and copper are too low.  You need platinum coins for the economy to work right.

Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Joseph Stalin (1938)

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (1939|2021) // parodied as Mein Bungle by Tom Toles

The Rights of Man and Natural Law by Jacques Maritain (1943|2012) // This is WWII era philosophy, not Revolutionary War era as I thought.  The clearest definition of the rights of man during the Rovolutionary War is the Declaration of Independence.  The problem is that this guy is supposed to be the dauphin; the French king in exile.  Modern human rights coming from the French king?  I don't think the Republican party likes the idea.  I'm not overfond of it.  Human rights derive from the laws of the Roman republic and the king of Norway.

Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean Paul Satre (1943|2007)

The Road to Serfdom (1944) by Friedrich A Hayek  // Considered part of the "Austrian" school

Nihilism (1962) by Eugene Rose // This is the book that defines modern philosophy, it is called "nihilism" not "science."  The origin of hedonism, which is comparable, is a good question.  Some think hedonism is modern and made up.

The Four Cardinal Virtues (1966) by Josef Piper  // This modern book and What Christians Believe by CS Lewis are what I was raised to believe.  The book by Joseph Fiore is supposed to be the best, but I am not familiar with it. // Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance

The Open Society and it's Enemies by Karl Raimund Popper (1945|1994) 

On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1959|1976) // see Quantum Leap episode "Rebel without a Clue"

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics by Michael Wheeler (1976) // an attempt to derail supply side economics before Reagan had credibility

Naturalism and Ontology by Wilfred Sellars(1979|2017) // naturalism as it follows from John Dewey's instrumentalism

Quality is Free (1980) by Philip B Crosby  //anti supply side economics

A Nation at Risk (1983) // A historical landmark is seeking education reform.  The biggest problem the United States has - developing AP classes led to deeper academic fraud than ever because the teachers didn't have degress in their specialty; especially economics.

In Defense of Secular Humanism by Paul Kurtz (1983)

The Right to Private Property by Jeremy Waldron (1991)

Evil by Roy F Baumeister (1997)

Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Koran (1998)  // I remember this one sounds potentially interesting

Informed Consent by Jessica W Berg (2001)  // availability of medical service

Trusted Advisor by David H Maister (2001)

Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames (2002)  // Buddhism

Lies, and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (2003) by Al Franken

What Christians Believe by CS Lewis (2005) // author died 1963 so this has been laying around for a long time, I swear people have been quoting this my whole life, this is

Garretts and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America by Albert Parry (2005)

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by Deidre Nansen McClosky (2006)

Book of Concord by Martin Luther 2nd edition 2006, first edition 2005 original Latin edition published 1580, Geman edition 1584.  This identifies the Holy Spirit as the one we call God and explains Faust and Nosferatu?  Looks like the same actor.  Ahem.

The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit by Louis Beckwith (2006) 

Ethics for dummies
Philosophy for dummies
Existentialism for Dummies
Taoism for dummies
Confucianism for dummies

Christianity for dummies
Catholicism for dummies

Balance of Payments by Robert Stern (2007) a modern re-analysis of supply side economics

Competitive Debate by Richards Edwards (2008)

Anatomy of the State (2009) by Murray Rothbard.  I remember this being an older work, back when Rothbard was young, spry, and taken seriously.  Same author as Alban Butler and The Lives of the Saints.  Must be considered a modern work because one of the saints in 19th century.

Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis (2008) // yes, the explanation for the GFC is here

Holier than Thou by Ergun M Caner (2009)  // listen to "Holier than Thou" by Metallica

Start with Why by Simon Seek (2009)

The Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan (2010)

Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy by Stephen E Ambrose (1938|2010)  // anti-isolationism.  The nice philosophy for the modern person.

What is Humanism by Stephen Law (2011) // secular humanism becomes humanism?  

Asymtotics for Associated Random Variables (2012) // important book on how to use your graphing calculator correctly

Write a Great Synopsis by Nicola Morgan (2012)  // there is confusion between literary analysis and writing a synopsis

Rape is Rape by Jody Raphael (2013)

Argumentation and Debate by Austin J Freeley (2013)

Bismarck the Man and the Statesman by Otto von Bismarck 2 volumes (2013) // This is the original story of socialism. 

Disagreement by Bryan Franklin (2014)

Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert by Ian Cutler (2014)

Literary Criticism and Theory by Pelagia Goulimari (2014)  // more literary analysis

McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War by Hamilton Gregory (2015) 

Indigent by Frederick Eugene Feeley (2015)

Libertinism and Marriage by Louis Jullien (2015) // why not?

Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba (2015) // This is the modern philosophy I keep forgetting, D'oh!

Jesus' Copernican Revolution by James P Danaher (2016) // this is a reference to heliocentrism and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion

Literary Analysis: Celena Kusch (2016)

Theory of Constraints by Introbooks (2016) 

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert McNamara (2017) // parodied by Tom Toles in the New Republic

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate (2017) // when you read this you wonder how the American welfare state ever got overblown.  It was never meant to be a no strings attached construction.  It also reminded me of the math club and how it is supposed to give scholarships - but only if your local highschool follows the rules.  There is an assumption of national policy and the American idea is that you don't have to do what we say, but if you don't we don't give you the money.

Star Finder! by Doctor Maggie Adarin Pocock (2017) // a Smithsonian publication, this is the best book I've found on constellations, which are an important branch of knowledge for serenity

there needs to be a better book.  The Zodiac is the most important 12 constellations.  Perhaps Stargazing for Dummies?  It's better than the competition.  But IIRC - the only really good book is available through the cub scouts for like $4000.  I'd get it.  You need it to get an A on that 6th grade astronomy exam.  It's hard.

Materialism by Terry Eagleton (2017)  // Listen to "Material girl" by Madonna.  Wasn't this supposed to be the philosophy of the 80s?  Or the "Greed is good" speech by Michael Douglas in Wall Street.  That speech, however, is subtly defeatist.  After the British investor told him off, he switched from ambition to greed, the difference is whether there is any idealism inherent in what he's saying.  Linked with the Coca Cola kid, and I haven't had a chance to rewatch both movies in years, especially without being interrupted, I'm not sure what they are saying.

Bourgeois by Equality by Deirdre N McCloskey (2017) // I really wonder what they say.  How much equality do the bourgeois think we can muster?  There are a few technological innovations that I think are important, advances in coal power (by combining with nuclear engineering) and geothermal.  

Modern Slavery by Siddarth Kara (2017)

Present Concerns by CS Lewis (2017)

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (2017)

The Little Red Book by Mao Tse-Tung (2017)

Dare to Bare: Naturism by the Naked Naturalist (2017) // see Futurama episode "Naturama" 

Peddling Protectionism by Douglas A Irwin (2017) // they brought back Smoot Hawley

Birth Control and American Modernity (2018)

Understanding by Dr Hakim Saboowala (2018)

Then they Came for Me by Matthew D Hockenos (2018)  // about the Holocaust

Movies: "Never Forget" and "The Music Box"

How Marriage became One of the Sacraments by Philip L Reynolds (2018)

As a City on a Hill by Daniel T Rogers (2018)

City on a Hill by Alex Krieger (2018)

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee (2018)

Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen RC Hicks (2018) // here's modern philosophy, forget nihilism, its postmodernism!

Patriotism by Charles Jones (2018)

Land, Power, and the Sacred by Janet R Goodwin (2018)// A fair description of tokusei ikki.  Another word that is needed is the exact meaning of "retainer" and which peerage classes it includes.  Another word adequately described is "okusei" that is a swordsman who is not high enough to be a samurai.  I don't really hope to find the word "kotogai" but that would be helpful.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Evan Mandery (2019) //the original 1905 publication was in Russia, considered an incomplete work, this is supposed to be the full version

// This reads like an antecedent to "Heavy Metal" or "The Cable Guy"

Understanding Logic: The First Order of Reasoning by Love Eckenberg, et al. (2019) Yale ties philosophy into first order logic, and mathematics

Welfare Populism and Welfare Chauvinism by Bent Greeve (2019)

The Truth about College Admission by Brennan Bernard (2019)

The Business Ethics Field Guide by Aaron Miller (2019)

Sex Trafficking by Siddarth Kara (2020)  // A key ethical dilemma is when prostitution, which is legal in most of the world, degenerates into sex trafficking

City on a Hill by Abram C Van Engen (2020)

America's Revolutionary Mind by C Bradley Thompson (2020)

Everything is F*cked  by Mark Mason (2021) // cynicism

Anglicanism by Gerald Bray (2021)

The Ethics of Beauty by Timothy G Patitsas (2021)

The Decline of Natural Law by Stuart Banner (2021)

The Four Hour School Day by Durenda Wilson(2021)

Secular Humanism by Dale Adema (2021) // I remember that image being much older, so the date confuses me.  Yeah, right.  Termisheep.  This is an explicitly Satanic cover.

Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism by Joel Richard Paul (2022)  // American nationalism explained here

Introduction to Literary Analysis by Louis Hebert (2022)

Profits Over People by Sherry Roe (2022)

Leadership by Henry Kissinger (2022)

Why do we say that? by Scott Mathews (2022) 3 books on the origin of idioms

Disinformation by Donald A Barclay (2022)

Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism by Erwin Chermerensky (2022)  // Originalism is a reaction to the natural law that led to the prosecution of the Holocaust.  It is a bad idea.

Why not? Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and Chutzpah by Mark Schiff (2022)

Materialism: The Downfall of Society by Muhammed Mirza (2023)

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson (2024) // cynicism

Sociology for Dummies. 

An elephant that is missing is the ... "farm policy holdup" or something like that.  It helped cause the Great Depression, and make it politically impossible to extricate ourselves from.  The answer is British farm policies, not French ones.  The question is, what side did Japan take in WWII, because that would be instrumental in them changing sides.  Also, how did we correct ourselves.  The British know how to keep land arable, not the French.  The controversy does go back to Clovis I's rebellion.

Also, there is no definitive book of supply side economics.  Arthur Laffer's early writings concern the Balance of Payments.  I don't see a 60s or 70s pub on that issue.  I think Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics might be the definitive warning that these guys are yo yos.  

Due to the number of farmer's markets in Montgomery County where I used to live the farms in this country must be doing very well.  More than one has a tractor ride to a pumpkin patch for Halloween.  

American history, it almost seems like the UK did long term sabotage as vengeance for not taking their side in the French Revolution.  

Republicans seam to think that you can have capitalism without class warfare which is ridiculous.  The objective of socialism is to manage class warfare, not eliminate it!  It was the French who observed if you markdown everything nobody can make any money.  The idea is the workshop economy, not mass production!  

1) Greco Indian Mexi Pizza, made in 3 minutes! Start with flat naan bread which is surprisingly easy to find. Toast even the frozen version which will both puff and crispen, then spread a THIN layer of salsa on it ("picante" sauce is better which is thinner due to retaining healthy tomato liquid). Then sprinkle high quality tangy Feta cheese crumbles over it. Best to fold it over to eat, but it's not like a soggy calzone inside since you have toasted all sides of the crust for a crazy good wood-oven-like mouth feel. If it drips on you, your sauce wasn't spread thin enough and is drowning the crust. I am allergic to cheese, but feta is light enough to not cause much suffering.

2) Turbo Diet Cola. This is a satisfying snack substitute and anyway I always crave the bite of a cola. But it gets monotonous even when switching among major brands, so I use the flavor enhancer drops normally intended for water. Most brands aim at juvenile tastes, but Mio is fairly adult and complex. For Coke I find the purple berry flavors are best. For Pepsi it needs more kick and the flavors combining lemon with some other fruit excel. These are better quality than the mixtures that some fancy coke machines give, like artificial peach or raspberry cola. But it almost has to mix in a plastic bottle of cola and then slowly tumble and maybe sit a while. You can't really mix in an open can.

Ah yes, Africa. Can I just point out that before I discuss that part of the world, I'm not racist, despite some accusations from some websites.  Some of my friends and the people I deal with every day have african ethnicity. Skin colour is irrelevant.

But Africa? Well I bring this up because of my recent experience on Facebook. Somebody is suggesting all sorts of pro-african pages. In theory that wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Pointing out that a single negro in America was actually an inventor is suprising given American history, but quite illuminating. That is at least positive. But an American page claiming that Native Americans are actually black? Well, no, they're more closely related to Asians. Oh I see. Everybody comes from Africa.

That was bad enough but an important insight to African culture comes not from America, whose population seem hell bent on claiming they're from somewhere else, but from the Africans themselves and it involves religion. I'm not a Christian. I rejected Christianity many years ago because the whole exercise is nothing but manipulation of congregations and always had been. Christianity Inc was of course a child of the ruthlessly mercantile Roman Empire.

So I received a page from some African who wanted someone to be the first Christian billionaire and all you had to do was pray to Jesus. Excuse me? Since when did Jesus run a lottery? The same guy who overturned the tables of the moneylenders? Worldly wealth wasn't part of the deal. Christianity was always about putting up with the suffering in life because you reserve a place in paradise, not in Heaven, but eternal life on Earth after the Resurrection. The idea of ending up in Heaven is more of a medieval concept.

Then today I got an African Facebook page showing a wallet full of cash lying on the ground. Wow! Jesus sends a gift! It's the same problem. Worldly wealth and hoping Jesus will offer a reward for faithful observance. That wallet was of course placed there for the photo. But then if the photo had shown a real circumstance, the wallet wasn't there because of supernatural intervention, it was dropped by someone. The money belongs to someone else. Morally, taking the money knowing full well it was someone else's is theft. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that something mentioned in the Commandments?

It is now politically correct to blame imperialist European countries for the failures of modern Africa. No, that's nonsense. It's the Africans themselves, who have this corrupt tribal system underlying their democratic, socialist, or militaristic governments. Their take on Christianity is exploitative, not moral, spiritual, or philosophical.  It stinks. 

https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/shorts-murmurs-ed-steed-7-short-films