What nonfiction book are you currently reading?

[empty cup]

In The Beginning - The opening in the game of Go
By Ikuro Ishigure

and
Graded Go Problems for Beginners volume one

By Kano Yoshinori


Man is this ever a hard game to learn !

 

[SFC JeffJ]

"The First Men In" by Ed Ruggero.

 

[MBuzzy]

Freakonomics, by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner

 

[shesulsa]

Re-reading for project:

"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey

 

[Carol]

Digital Telephony Over Cable (Evans)

:idunno: It feeds my MA habit.

 

[Martial Tucker]

Your Immortal Reality,

by Gary Renard

 

[michaeledward]

Hubris - by Michael Isikoff and David Corn.

I have always been against this administrations aggressions, but this book spells out how painfully they abused the government to do so.

Please read this book.

 

[Martial Tucker]

God Is Red, A Native American View of Religion

by Vine Deloria, Jr.



They had it right...and we screwed it up....

 

[michaeledward]

I have finished Hubris. I can't recommend it more highly. Read it, and you will feel especially sad for all the actions the country has taken in the past six years. Although, the last pages did deal, perhaps a bit too heavily, upon the Valerie Plame scandal .... and the incredibly inappropriate actions of the White House staff, and the staff of the Vice President.

I am not reading State of Denial. This book just absolutely will piss off anyone who reads it. That our government was so incompetent. There is not a harsh enough punishment in our society for what Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld has done; and what Ms. Rice, Mr. Cheney, and Mr. Bush have allowed him to do. The arrogance and incompetence is infuriating.

I also, recently received and have started reading George W. Bush versus the US Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Spying.

http://www.academychicago.com/GeorgeWBush.html

Just not enough time in the day, sometimes, is there?

 

[mrhnau]

http://www.academychicago.com/GeorgeWBush.html
Just not enough time in the day, sometimes, is there?

Amen.

I'm working on The Oath by Frank Peretti. I read some of his stuff a good 10 years ago and recently picked up some of his stuff. I read Monster by Peretti last month. Good stuff.

 

[K Williams]

High Steel by Jim Rasenberger

http://www.amazon.com/High-Steel-Gr...=pd_bbs_2/102-7431458-1912956?ie=UTF8&s=books

Story of the Structural Ironworkers in NYC.

 

[searcher]

Amen.

I'm working on The Oath by Frank Peretti. I read some of his stuff a good 10 years ago and recently picked up some of his stuff. I read Monster by Peretti last month. Good stuff.

Peretti is a genius and one heck of a Christian.


I am currently reading The Fitness Professional's Guide to Musculoskeletal Anatomy.

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

Secrets of the Samurai: Martial Arts in Feudal Japan
by Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook

and

Karate-Do, My Way of Life
by Gichin Funakoshi

 

[Don Roley]

I am almost finished with the book, Unholy alliance; Radical Islam and the American Left by David Horowitz. It is an interesting book that explains why we just recently saw the leader of a radical Islamic country (Iran) and the socialist leader of a country (Venezuela) get together for a love fest.

In short, after decades of looking at America as the source of opposition to communism, a lot of the old leftists have gotten the instinct that anything that opposes the US is a good thing.

So Horowitz (who is like George Orwell in his political history) shows how a lot of individuals and groups who used to fight against captialism and America started protests against any military action within a few days of the attacks of 9-11 and continue to this day. And he shows how they are not unwilling to clothe themselves in such way to attract people who would be put off by their true message. Instead of waving communist flags and banners reading "bring the war home" the decision was made to wave American flags and banners reading "bring the troops home."

Horowitz is really cheesed off at the way people who claim to care about human rights for women, homosexuals, etc would run interference for folks like the Taliban. Most of the cases he lists are not actual help to Islam (though he does give some cases) but are more in trying to stop America from doing anything to deal with them and thus serving as a line of defense for the Islamic facists. He gives exact quotes, dates, names, etc to back up his version of events in a really shocking manner. The following is an example given by Lynne Stewert- the lawyer who defended Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

"We have in Washington a poisonous government that spreads its venom to the body politic in all corners of the globe. We now resume... our quests...like David going forth to meet Goliath, like Beowulf the dragon slayer,... like Sir Galahad seeking the holy grail. And modern heroes, dare I mention? Ho and Mao and Lenin, Fidel and Nelsonmandala and John Brown, Che Guevera who reminds us, 'At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.'"

I think this book is really a good insight into some of the people that have just been plugging along ever since 9-11 to try to find any way they could to interfere with the war on terror. The loathing they have for anything American is what drives them, but they won't say it outright. But Horowitz points out that not all people who oppose the war on terror are driven by these feelings- but he does show how the core seems to be built around these folks.

 

[grydth]

Servants of Evil by Bob Carruthers...... recollections of German service members from World War II..... subjective feeling on my part, but so far it seems that either the author found some blameless guys or their memory has dimmed on some of those minor details like the Holocaust, murdering Russian POWs by the millions, etc.

 

[Martial Tucker]

The Earth Shall Weep, by James Wilson


A History of Native America

 

[michaeledward]

While on vacation this past week, I took along Matthew Polly's new book; American Shaolin. The subtitle is interesting 'Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of the Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China'.

It took the first half of the book for me to get used to Mr. Polly's prose style. I don't think he is a very good writer. But, his stories are pretty interesting.

Mr. Polly spent two years ('92 - '94) in the Shaolin Temple as a kung fu student. There is a certain amount of wonderful fantasy in being able to take two years to study on your Senior Thesis in remote China.

His story culminates in a sanda match with the World Champion, in which he gets his butt handed to him, but does manage to take the World Champion off the leitai.

Just reading about the training undertaken by 'Monk Dong', the practioner of the afore mentioned 'Iron Crotch' kung fu was painful; it's a guy thing, don't you know.

 

[Don Roley]

Just reading about the training undertaken by 'Monk Dong', the practioner of the afore mentioned 'Iron Crotch' kung fu was painful; it's a guy thing, don't you know.

Please tell me you are joking. That is just so strange. I mean, monks don't even really have to worry about certain areas due to their vows. So why bother?:btg:

As for me, I just finished Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman. I reccomend it to everyone. I first got wind of the book from Marc MacYoung who seems to have used part of it for his stuff about the Amygdala. The expanded version was an eye opener. I got something out of this book as a martial artist, a parent and school teacher. I already have a few books I would consider required reading if I ever started teaching self defense. I am considering adding this to the list.

 

[michaeledward]

Please tell me you are joking. That is just so strange. I mean, monks don't even really have to worry about certain areas due to their vows. So why bother?:btg:

The author recounts the time he was used to kick "Monk Dong" in a demonstration. He reports that he kicked the man in the crotch so hard, that it lifted him six inches off the ground.

And, although he was refered to as 'Monk', this man did not live at the temple, and apparently had four or five concubines and a wife.

According to the author, his demonstrations of 'Iron Crotch Kung Fu' were quite the aphrodesiac.

 

[mrhnau]

I already have a few books I would consider required reading if I ever started teaching self defense. I am considering adding this to the list.

What other books are on your list?