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Anyone got any good recommendation for books regarding mortuary sciences, the death industry, and societal mythologies involving death and the afterlife?
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The DPRK posted:Currently reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time. Really enjoying the huge, detailed world, the magic, the epic nature of the quest and the overwhelming odds. If you don't need a serious tone then Terry Pratchett's Discworld
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Sep 6, 2019 18:41
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MohawkSatan posted:I've got bad taste and enjoy bad things, like Dungeons and Dragons novels. I just finished the Brimstone Angels series, anyone got suggestions for something similar? If you liked DnD novels and don't mind a comedic tone go for Discworld by Terry Pratchett (unless you've already read them)
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Sep 10, 2019 15:28
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Its Coke posted:I'm looking for fiction with any of these qualities Tea Obreht's The Tigers Wife
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Oct 21, 2019 03:26
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Looking for casual books about the philosophical failures of enlightenment, critiques of pure reason, how poo poo capitalism is, the ideas of Leo Straus and the ideas of Hannah Ardent. Anything out there that covers most of those bases?
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Nov 14, 2019 08:38
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Rhulman's Ratio is a very good general purpose cook book
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Jul 26, 2020 08:01
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The Dawn of Everything, a New History of Humanity?quote:A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of "the state"? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
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Dec 12, 2021 08:59
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regulargonzalez posted:Just got back from a trip to England and realized how ignorant I am of their history. For example, I vaguely know about the wives of Henry the Sixth (but it might be Henry the Eighth?) but I had no idea there was an entire civil war in the 17th century. The English and their History by Robert Tombs Goodreads check some of the reviews, see if it's your speed
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Oct 26, 2023 06:51
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Who has recommendations for books on mythical and hero stories from an anthropological perspective of over arching development? If that request makes sense
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Feb 21, 2024 03:03
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