non-fiction

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Oxford Beginner's Chinese Dictionary

Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >

Recommended – This book has value above and beyond being a book of definitions.

Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.

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Langenscheidt Pocket Dictionary Mandarin Chinese

Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >

Highly recommended – Portable, durable and to-the-point.

Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.

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Atheism - A Rough History of Disbelief (2004) image

Entertainment, Intelligence > Atheism >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429323/
(on pbs.org)

These are old notes from earlier short videos, which were removed and which I don’t have.

This will get updated if and when I re-watch the proper thing.



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Philosophy in the Flesh - (1999 book), by Lakoff, Johnson image

Entertainment > Reading >

https://www.alibris.com/Philosophy-in-the-Flesh-George-Lakoff/book/10659440

To read

This book is mind blowing. I think the best description I can give of what it’s topic and goals are is to present the first chapter, in full. From here I think anyone interested in the subject will understand fully where this book is going and the intentions of the authors.

  • Properly titled Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
  • By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.

  • ISBN-10 0-465-05674-1

  • TODO – The various Wikipedia topics would need references to cognitive philosophy as a contraindication to the various topics, and in those topics to specifically cite passages in the introduction in this book.
  • TODO – Finish the linking.



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complete cache and links coming later

Underground - (1997 book), by Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange cover

Entertainment > Reading >

(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080528034440/https://www.underground-book.com/ [ 1 ] Also https://web.archive.org/web/20190701140045/http://www.underground-book.net:80/

To re-read

Note that there is an updated print edition.



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Entertainment > Reading >

I wouldn’t recommend it, but it’s interesting.

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There are sequels: