I’m gonna make a list and hit the library
- AfricanExpansionist ( @AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml ) 11•9 months ago
Against the Grain
Internal Combustion
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
These all caused me to examine aspects of modern society that we usually just accept blindly
- 001Guy001 ( @001Guy001@lemm.ee ) 8•9 months ago
Not sure if they all fit entirely but:
- The Story Of Stuff (Annie Leonard)
- How The World Works (Noam Chomsky)
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Dan Ariely)
- The Hidden Brain (Shankar Vedantam) / Idiot Brain (Dean Burnett)
- The Myth Of Choice (Kent Greenfield) / The Paradox Of Choice (Barry Schwartz)
- The Free Will Delusion: How We Settled For The Illusion Of Morality (James B. Miles)
- Getting Free: Creating An Association Of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods (James Herod)
- The Best That Money Can’t Buy (Jacque Fresco)
- No Contest: The Case Against Competition (Alfie Kohn)
I’ve been meaning to start reading some Chomsky & Alfie Kohn! Both very revolutionary writers from the reviews I’ve been checking out
- MaungaHikoi ( @MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nz ) 2•9 months ago
Predictably Irrational is really good.
I feel like I read Chomsky’s books at a key point in my life where I didn’t really get all of it but it primed me for later learning. Good list overall 👍🏼
- LogarithmicCamel ( @LogarithmicCamel@feddit.uk ) 7•9 months ago
Carl Sagan - A Demon-Haunted World. Explains the key difference between a scientific vs religious mindset.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English6•9 months ago
On Writing - If you want to write and and are able to ignore advice that doesn’t fit your style, I’ve always found this a nice inspiring comfort read (the audiobook is great!)
- PeepinGoodArgs ( @PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ) English5•9 months ago
I’ve read Taking the War Out of Our Words and found it really enlightening. It wasn’t a paradigm shift, but it really shows how the way we speak is naturally adversarial and how we can overcome that. It’s especially useful when talking with people you disagree with.
- Zeram ( @Zeram@lemmy.ml ) English6•9 months ago
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- Ocelot ( @Ocelot@lemmies.world ) English3•9 months ago
Reading this (or trying to) is like being on drugs. You go from “What in god’s name is the author smoking?” to some kind of nirvana.
- s20 ( @s20@lemmy.ml ) 6•9 months ago
The Tao of Pooh, the Te of Piglet, and the Tao Te Ching.
- PeepinGoodArgs ( @PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ) English5•9 months ago
Thank You For Arguing.
Learning about rhetoric and how the truth isn’t necessarily persuasive has been really valuable in the post-truth era.
- senoro ( @senoro@lemmy.ml ) 5•9 months ago
I’m gonna say my top non fiction books are:
The Narnia series, who knew that lions could be found in seemingly ordinary closets! Wow!
Harry Potter series, if I had known about hogwarts before i went to college I would definitely have applied there.
And then probably Wikipedia, man there is a lot of info on that book
- jabib (he/him) ( @jabib@beehaw.org ) English4•9 months ago
You really can’t trust Wikipedia as a true non fiction source. People make stuff up in there all the time.
- lugal ( @lugal@lemmy.ml ) 1•9 months ago
Same with Harry Potter. I don’t say it’s all made up but we have only one source and a biased one at best. She’s a literal terf. Don’t believe anything she says.
- Axiomatose ( @Axiomatose@lemm.ee ) 5•9 months ago
Gotta be “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”
- 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 ( @maniel@lemmy.ml ) 5•9 months ago
Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
- FarraigePlaisteach ( @FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social ) 4•9 months ago
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Every time there was an experiential experiment in the book, I put it down and tried it for myself. I possibly changed more over the course of reading that book than at any other period in my life.
- Jed_Hed ( @Jed_Hed@lemmy.ml ) 4•9 months ago
The Art of War- expressed better than any other piece I’ve read the rationale of war. War is conflict and understanding both the enemy and yourself is the only way to effective success.
Atomic Habits- the best way to improve your life is to improve the minutia of it by just 1%. Applies rationale to how we operate while on auto pilot and gives effective solutions to combat the negative habits we fall into.
The Way of Monkey Book- an amazing, modern lens to stoicism and individually written in the style of eastern texts. While the author is deplorable to say the least, the message and morals of the work brilliantly reflect the ebb and flow of nature and the distortion of such through the actions of the average man.
- Semi-Hemi-Demigod ( @Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ) 4•9 months ago
Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence helped me get better at every relationship in my life.
- Bipta ( @Bipta@kbin.social ) 2•9 months ago
Can you elaborate a bit? Amazon reviews make it sound more academic and less actionable.
- Semi-Hemi-Demigod ( @Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ) 4•9 months ago
Yes, it’s definitely more academic than practical, but that’s really what I needed. I had read plenty of books that told me what I should do, but not why I’m doing it. By learning the theory I could be more improvisational in my interactions with confidence.
- dotslashme ( @dotslashme@infosec.pub ) English4•9 months ago
The divide: a brief guide to global inequality and its solutions by Jason Hickel
- bunkyprewster ( @bunkyprewster@startrek.website ) 3•9 months ago
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind