Essential Higher Learning Book Club

[Tribaligenesis]

 

[gho3st]

 

[Idaeo]

Found this gem at that used bookstore on Dupont Circle.

 

[Anyanwu]

I posted this in another thread:

I'm big on history, politics, law, etc. but I'll try to keep my recommendations general. Also do you have any other recommendations OP?

• For success/business, psychology, etc. you should check out the Great Courses if you have an audible account, if not go to their website. They pretty much have everything.

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is really good (if you've already seen the Netflix documentary the 13th, then you have a good primer).

• Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington was really informative (as mentioned by another poster)

• The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Goodwin Woodson is a must, especially for young adults.

• Gun Fight by Adam Winkler is probably one of the best primers out for for those interested in gun rights/control in America (I actually suggested it to one of my former professors as an auxiliary to his one of his courses. He liked it so much made it required reading).

• If you're into A.I then Our Final Invention by James Barrat and Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom are really good (Bostrom's book is better, but much denser)

Others (that I haven't read):

• Mastery by Robert Greene ~ I hear this is his best book, but obviously I haven't read it

• White Rage by Carol Anderson ~ heard it was insightful about to the "whitelash" that follows anytime the black community makes progress.

• The Beautiful Struggle and Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ~ Coates is a fantastic writer, even people who disagree with some of his points can appreciate him.

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson ~ not out yet (pre-ordered), it's the next book that my girl and myself plan on reading together.

Since this is HL I'll include some political books:

• The Party Is Over by Mike Lofgren (covers polarization in politics focusing on how the GOP has dragged the country to the right, while the Democrats let them control the narrative)

• Dark Money by Jane Mayer (covers how dark money has grown in politics focusing on the right, since the Koch Bros have pretty much reshaped the GOP)

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (hell get anything Baldwin)

• America's Bitter Pill by Steven Brill (covers Healthcare and how we got the ACA; still important despite recent GOP fukkery)

• The Conservative Nanny State by Dean Baker (covers many of the ways the GOP creates a "wealthfare" state)

• Republic Lost by Lawrence Lessig (you can get this for free online; covers money and politics and how to try and get it out.)

I'll post more later.

 

[Vonte3000]

"From Babylon to Tumbuktu"

Black folk, READ THIS BOOK

 

[SNG]

"From Babylon to Tumbuktu"

Black folk, READ THIS BOOK

Started reading this book last friday great book. Really put in perspective that the bible is really just black history. This is a very under-rated thread too bad there wasn't a book section on this site like there is for everything thing else.

 

[EndDomination]

Started reading this book last friday great book. Really put in perspective that the bible is really just black history. This is a very under-rated thread too bad there wasn't a book section on this site like there is for everything thing else.

I think there are actually three of four book threads on this site.
There was one in the Locker Room, one in the Root and one in Higher Learning, with a few other smaller ones that have been made.

 

[David_TheMan]

I posted this book in the syrian bomb thread, but I'll post it here.
Just finished reading this and its a great eye opener

The CIA as Organized Crime by Douglas Valentine
The CIA as Organized Crime by Douglas Valentine.epub

 

[Uncle Hotep]

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

http://amzn.to/2oQsPnc

 

[David_TheMan]

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

http://amzn.to/2oQsPnc

Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell.pdf

 

[Willy Waffle]

 

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Black Rednecks and White Liberals

http://amzn.to/2oQsPnc

Hated this book. He made some good points about rhe middle men culture and the connection between poor whites and poor black but this guy dismissed slavery and other institutional racism like it was nothing. He skipped the whole jim crow era. Anyone want the audio book quote me and I'll link it.

 

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Listening to this audio book now, half way through it amazing read so far.

Just quote me for a link.

 

[I AM WE ARE]

ok i've read secret of ages,as a man thinketh,awakening the third eye,currently reading the kebra nagast,ancient order of free asiatics, and even the biggest secret lately

anyone got more for me rep pending

 

[Asicz]

Investing from Scratch : A Handbook for the Young Investor.

Read hotemp/race conspiracy books and not books on Financial literacy brehs...