Three Essays on Religion
Nature, the Utility of Religion, Theism (Great Books in Philosophy)
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Behind the Bastards
There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of th...
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The Secret World Government Or The Hidden Hand
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Endgame
Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
It was used as a primary source for the podcast, detailing Bobby Fischer's life and career, including his rise to chess dominance and subsequent decline into erratic behavior.
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He even maintained his involvement with the game while bathing. The Fishers didn't have a working shower, just a bathtub, and Bobby, like many young children, needed to be urged to take at least a wee...
— Episode: Part One: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi
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It was used as a primary source for the podcast, detailing Bobby Fischer's life and career, including his rise to chess dominance and subsequent decline into erratic behavior.
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He even maintained his involvement with the game while bathing. The Fishers didn't have a working shower, just a bathtub, and Bobby, like many young children, needed to be urged to take at least a weekly bath.
Regina established a Sunday night ritual of running a bath for him, practically carrying him up to the tub, and once he was settled in the water, she'd lay a door from a discarded cabinet across the tub as a sort of tray and then bring in Bobby's chess set, a container of milk and whatever book he was studying at the time.
Bobby soaked sometimes for hours as he became engrossed in the games of the greats, only emerging from the water prune-like when Regina insisted.
Several hours later, coming home from bowling in the early hours of the morning before returning to the hotel, Bobby sneaked into the playing hall to check out the conditions.
So popular was the show that it crowded out the baseball and tennis coverage normally seen in sports bars in New York, and when the channel was covering the Democratic National Convention in Washington, the stations were flooded with thousands of calls to have them put the chess match back on.
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
The book documents the history of the wide use of arms in defending civil rights organizers from white supremacists.
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In the book This Nonviolent Stuff Will Get You Killed author Charles E. Cobb documents this history discussing the wide use of arms in defending civil rights organizers from white supremacists
— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 70
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The book documents the history of the wide use of arms in defending civil rights organizers from white supremacists.
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In the book This Nonviolent Stuff Will Get You Killed author Charles E. Cobb documents this history discussing the wide use of arms in defending civil rights organizers from white supremacists
The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
An earlier work by the author, it explores the nature of bureaucracy, its simplification and the impact it has on our lives.
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Whether it's a matter of forms, rules, statistics, or questionnaires, it is always a matter of simplification.
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An earlier work by the author, it explores the nature of bureaucracy, its simplification and the impact it has on our lives.
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Whether it's a matter of forms, rules, statistics, or questionnaires, it is always a matter of simplification.
The result often leaves those forced to deal with bureaucratic administration with the impression that they are dealing with people who have for some arbitrary reason decided to put on a set of glasses that only allows them to see 2% of what's in front of them.
Beyond a Boundary
50th Anniversary Edition (The C. L. R. James Archives)
An iconic read, it explores the author's political development and how he saw himself constituted as a colonial subject through his experiences playing cricket.
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I think he explains I think if people could read it even if they don't like cricket, I'm not a big cricket person. But it's certainly one of the best sports books I've read and maybe one of the best b...
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An iconic read, it explores the author's political development and how he saw himself constituted as a colonial subject through his experiences playing cricket.
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I think he explains I think if people could read it even if they don't like cricket, I'm not a big cricket person. But it's certainly one of the best sports books I've read and maybe one of the best books.
Yeah, I think he does a really good job of explaining it.
If you don't want to read about cricket, he also talks about this in The Krumah and the Ghana Revolution.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Deluxe Slipcase Edition (Arcturus Silkbound Classics)
It was mentioned as something that the speaker would read aloud to anyone who dared to call a mummy a 'mummified person'. The speaker also referenced the movie 'The Mummy' when talking about the Book of the Dead.
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And I know from the movie The Mummy how badly that can go. I would give somebody a DDT.
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It was mentioned as something that the speaker would read aloud to anyone who dared to call a mummy a 'mummified person'. The speaker also referenced the movie 'The Mummy' when talking about the Book of the Dead.
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And I know from the movie The Mummy how badly that can go. I would give somebody a DDT.
Rick Steves Great Britain
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Ceausescu
The Countdown (East European Monograph)
It was referenced while discussing Ceauescu's early life, and the perspective that his joining the communist movement was a way to find social belonging and integration in the intimidating city after being unable to find his place in his rural hometown.
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His initiation into the marginalized movement of the communists was his alternative solution for integrating into social life.
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It was referenced while discussing Ceauescu's early life, and the perspective that his joining the communist movement was a way to find social belonging and integration in the intimidating city after being unable to find his place in his rural hometown.
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His initiation into the marginalized movement of the communists was his alternative solution for integrating into social life.
Ruhnama
The Book of the Soul (Annotated Version)
It was a book written by Turkmenbashi, that he attempted to enforce as a required reading alongside the Quran, even going as far as making it a prerequisite for prisoner release and university applications.
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He required universities to test all applicants on their knowledge of his dumb book, the Runama.
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It was a book written by Turkmenbashi, that he attempted to enforce as a required reading alongside the Quran, even going as far as making it a prerequisite for prisoner release and university applications.
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He required universities to test all applicants on their knowledge of his dumb book, the Runama.
In 2004, he demanded that the Runama should be used in mosques alongside the Quran.
Governing the Commons
The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Canto Classics)
The book on the commons was mentioned and recommended as a good starting point for understanding the concept, which was discussed extensively in the podcast episode.
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Of course, you could read about it in Governing the Commons by Eleanor Ostrom.
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The book on the commons was mentioned and recommended as a good starting point for understanding the concept, which was discussed extensively in the podcast episode.
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Of course, you could read about it in Governing the Commons by Eleanor Ostrom.
Triple Exclam!!! The Life and Games of Emory Tate, Chess Warrior (Drum Majors)
A chess historian wrote this book about Emery Tate, Andrew Tate's father, which may have been a source of inspiration for Andrew's personal style and branding.
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The Life and Games of Emery Tate, Chess Warrior
— Episode: Part Two: The Andrew Tate Story
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A chess historian wrote this book about Emery Tate, Andrew Tate's father, which may have been a source of inspiration for Andrew's personal style and branding.
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The Life and Games of Emery Tate, Chess Warrior
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
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Mein Kampf
A Translation Controversy
Rockwell claimed that reading it was the most powerful moment of his spiritual life, significantly influencing his political trajectory during the early stages of his anti-communist and racist beliefs.
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In 1951, deep in this anti-communist obsession Rockwell decided to read the autobiography Of the greatest anti-communist of them all Adolf Hitler He would later claim that reading Mein Kampf
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Rockwell claimed that reading it was the most powerful moment of his spiritual life, significantly influencing his political trajectory during the early stages of his anti-communist and racist beliefs.
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In 1951, deep in this anti-communist obsession Rockwell decided to read the autobiography Of the greatest anti-communist of them all Adolf Hitler He would later claim that reading Mein Kampf Was the most powerful moment of his spiritual life Quote
From Hitler Whether they laugh or swear at us whether they present us as fools or as criminals the main thing is that they mention us that they occupy themselves with us again and again and that gradually, in the eyes of the workers we appear actually as that power with which alone one has to reckon at the time
When Workers Shot Back
Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Historical Materialism Book, 162)
Ovetz argued that the often violent general strikes of the late 1800s and early 1900s showcased the ability of working people to not only confront the state in capitalism, but also organize society on their own terms.
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A general strike doesn't just happen. We don't actually know exactly why general strikes happen, but we know that they don't just happen. They're not spontaneous.
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Ovetz argued that the often violent general strikes of the late 1800s and early 1900s showcased the ability of working people to not only confront the state in capitalism, but also organize society on their own terms.
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A general strike doesn't just happen. We don't actually know exactly why general strikes happen, but we know that they don't just happen. They're not spontaneous.
Plan for the Abolition of Slavery Consistently With the Interests of All Parties Concerned
Spooner wrote about burning the masters' buildings, killing their cattle and horses, concealing or destroying farming utensils, abandoning labor and seed time and harvest and letting the crops perish.
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Our plan then is to make our war, openly or secretly as circumstances may dictate, upon the property of the slaveholders, burn the masters' buildings, kill their cattle and horses, conceal or destroy...
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Spooner wrote about burning the masters' buildings, killing their cattle and horses, concealing or destroying farming utensils, abandoning labor and seed time and harvest and letting the crops perish.
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Our plan then is to make our war, openly or secretly as circumstances may dictate, upon the property of the slaveholders, burn the masters' buildings, kill their cattle and horses, conceal or destroy farming utensils, abandon labor and seed time and harvest and let the crops perish, make slavery unprofitable.
White rascals of the South, willing tools of the slaveholders, you who drive slaves to do their labor, hunt them with dogs, and flog them for pay, without asking any questions, you are the main pillars of the slave system.
The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)
The Invisible Committee argued that power no longer resides in institutions, these are deserted temples, decommissioned fortresses, nothing but stage sets, real traps for revolutionaries.
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Occupation of the Casbah in Tunis and of the Sigtagma Square in Athens. Siege of Westminster in London during the student movement of 2011. Encirclement of the Parliament in Madrid on September 25th,...
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The Invisible Committee argued that power no longer resides in institutions, these are deserted temples, decommissioned fortresses, nothing but stage sets, real traps for revolutionaries.
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Occupation of the Casbah in Tunis and of the Sigtagma Square in Athens. Siege of Westminster in London during the student movement of 2011. Encirclement of the Parliament in Madrid on September 25th, 2012 or in Barcelona on June 5th, 2011. Riots all around the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, December 14th, 2010. Attempt on October 15th, 2011 in Lisbon to invade the Assemblea de la Repubblica. Birding of the Bosnian presidential residence in February of 2014. The places of institutional power exert a magnetic attraction on revolutionaries. But when the insurgents managed to penetrate parliaments, presidential palaces and other headquarters of institutions as in Ukraine, in Libya or in Wisconsin, it's only to discover empty places that is empty of power and furnished without any taste. It's not to prevent the people from taking power that they are so fiercely kept from invading such places, but to prevent them from realizing that power no longer resides in the institutions. There are only deserted temples there, decommissioned fortresses, nothing but stage sets, real traps for revolutionaries. The popular impulse to rush onto the stage to find out what is happening in the wings is bound to be disappointed. If they got inside, even the most fervent conspiracy freaks would find nothing arcane there. The truth is that power is simply no longer that theatrical reality to which modernity accustomed us.
Trump U.
The Inside Story of Trump University
It was described as being written by an insider who may have embellished his role and downplayed his involvement in the negative aspects of the university.
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I found a book called Trump U Inside Trump University Written by a guy named Stephen Gilpin
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It was described as being written by an insider who may have embellished his role and downplayed his involvement in the negative aspects of the university.
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I found a book called Trump U Inside Trump University Written by a guy named Stephen Gilpin
Now Stephen builds himself as essentially the only honest man inside Trump University And I think he's fudging the truth to some degree
Entrepreneurship students would be asked to assume the role of a venture capitalist and analyze a business plan. They would then submit their work to classmates for a peer review. A course would consist of three such assignments.
People learn the hard way trying to replicate the classroom experience isn't particularly effective, said Michael Sexton. Education is worthless without feedback. This system enables however many students we have to get live feedback about their work.
This is not for somebody who wants to put a sheepskin on a wall and think that is going to meaningfully help their career.
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