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To accompany me watching The Queen's Gambit, I'm looking for books that give accounts of the lives of chess masters.
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This sounds silly, but agadmator on youtube is great for chess history. I also have Bobby Fischer's 60 Games and Mikhail Tal's Life and Games, and they are great, but you need a board in front of you to follow along.
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Nov 20, 2020 05:53
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For anyone in this thread who wants to join, the 2020 TBB Secret Santa is now open. Educate some strangers!
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Nov 20, 2020 23:23
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[edit] lol alongside my books, I had an envelope in the pic, i didn't notice, with my zip code on it so i had to edit this post Anyway, it's Aimov's Chronology of the World, and Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery [edit] Here are two desktop references I own, that I was very excited for. 600+ pages each of knowledge written by Asimov, who's style I enjoy. Cheese Thief fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Nov 23, 2020 |
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Nov 23, 2020 00:21
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I am currently reading T. Harry Williams Huey Long at the moment, and enjoying it greatly. My favorite part thus far was mentioning a young Huey watching a populist orator whos favorite tactic was to start every speech by attacking the richest man in whatever town he happened to be in at the time. I am interested in Caligula. Can anyone recommend any good books about him, and/or about broader Roman history but that cover him in some depth?
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Nov 25, 2020 21:42
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I'd recommend first reading the OG source in Suetonius: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Suetonius4.php Bonus is it's free. Then Caligula by Aloys Winterling, which I will preface with I haven't read it, but from what I've read about it it does a good job of talking about him in context instead of just "lol madman!" poo poo.
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Nov 25, 2020 22:00
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Any fairly comprehensive but also approachable Chinese history? I don't really want to dive deeply into a specific event or period, just looking for something a bit more general and, well, centuries-spanning.
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Nov 28, 2020 15:01
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Drone posted:Any fairly comprehensive but also approachable Chinese history? I don't really want to dive deeply into a specific event or period, just looking for something a bit more general and, well, centuries-spanning. John Keay's book would satisfy your requirements.
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Nov 28, 2020 16:19
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Any good books on the history of Japan? Specifically, I don't know anything about the Sengoku period
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Nov 28, 2020 18:03
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Best books on the Seven Years’ War as a global conflict?
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Nov 29, 2020 21:32
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Looking up Procopius and wikipedia has this: Procopius, The Secret History, translated by G. A. Williamson. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1966. A readable and accessible English translation of the Anecdota. Recently re-issued by Penguin (2007) with an updated and livelier translation by Peter Sarris, who has also provided a new commentary and notes. Prokopios, The Secret History, translated by Anthony Kaldellis. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2010. This edition includes related texts, an introductory essay, notes, maps, a timeline, a guide to the main sources from the period and a guide to scholarship in English. The translator uses blunt and precise English prose in order to adhere to the style of the original text. Which one is the better?
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Dec 7, 2020 16:43
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Drone posted:Any fairly comprehensive but also approachable Chinese history? I don't really want to dive deeply into a specific event or period, just looking for something a bit more general and, well, centuries-spanning. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691155876/mountain-of-fame
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Dec 7, 2020 17:15
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StrixNebulosa posted:Looking up Procopius and wikipedia has this: I haven't read either, but I have read Kaldellis' other books and enjoyed them, so going in blind I'd pick that one.
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Dec 7, 2020 19:09
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Drone posted:Any fairly comprehensive but also approachable Chinese history? I don't really want to dive deeply into a specific event or period, just looking for something a bit more general and, well, centuries-spanning. Johnathan Spence's The Search for Modern China
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Dec 7, 2020 19:19
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Kangxi posted:Johnathan Spence's The Search for Modern China cosign, although make sure you're getting the newest edition. the audible version I listened to earlier this year stopped around tiananmen.
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Dec 8, 2020 01:02
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Drone posted:Any fairly comprehensive but also approachable Chinese history? I don't really want to dive deeply into a specific event or period, just looking for something a bit more general and, well, centuries-spanning. For ancient China i like Major & Cook - Ancient China. It spans plenty of centuries, starting in the Neolithic up to the end of the Three Kingdoms (roughly 300 AD), so plenty of centuries at least.
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Dec 10, 2020 12:30
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The narrator for Rick Perlstein’s Before the Storm is super good. Does a killer Reagan and Nixon in particular.
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Dec 10, 2020 21:59
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Any recommendations about Northern Irish history and the Troubles? Also interested in the Easter Uprising.
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Dec 12, 2020 00:06
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PsychedelicWarlord posted:Any recommendations about Northern Irish history and the Troubles? Also interested in the Easter Uprising. seconding this request. I've been trying to work through Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA By: Richard English and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland By: Patrick Radden Keefe but I would like further recommendations.
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Dec 12, 2020 18:53
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HannibalBarca posted:cosign, although make sure you're getting the newest edition. the audible version I listened to earlier this year stopped around tiananmen. Yeah do search out the newer edition. The first one is great but it ends with Tiananmen and the author positing that this could be the start of a democratic awakening in China as seen in the revolutions occurring in Eastern Europe at the time and well, whoops on that one.
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Dec 13, 2020 02:09
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waiting for krampus and the old dark christmas to arrive https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29363337-the-krampus-and-the-old-dark-christmas
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Dec 15, 2020 01:46
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Has anybody read Say Nothing or any other recent-ish history of The Troubles they can recommend? The more comprehensive the better tbh
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Dec 17, 2020 19:09
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Has anybody read Say Nothing or any other recent-ish history of The Troubles they can recommend? The more comprehensive the better tbh Has enough time passed that there is non biased literature? A recent Reddit question on the same topic lead me to believe you can pick which side of the story you want to read, but not both.
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Dec 17, 2020 23:41
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Has anybody read Say Nothing or any other recent-ish history of The Troubles they can recommend? The more comprehensive the better tbh Say Nothing was excellent. I'm currently reading Armed Struggle by Richard English, which is also really highly regarded
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Dec 17, 2020 23:59
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Ropes4u posted:Has enough time passed that there is non biased literature? A recent Reddit question on the same topic lead me to believe you can pick which side of the story you want to read, but not both. I'm having a lot of trouble finding a history of the UVF
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Dec 18, 2020 00:00
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Thanks, I'll start with those
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Dec 18, 2020 00:49
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PsychedelicWarlord posted:I'm having a lot of trouble finding a history of the UVF UVF – Behind the Mask by Aaron Edwards might suit your needs
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Dec 18, 2020 05:55
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Ropes4u posted:Has enough time passed that there is non biased literature? A recent Reddit question on the same topic lead me to believe you can pick which side of the story you want to read, but not both. Say nothing is sorta unbiased where it paints everyone as kinda horrible and how Gerry Addams is kinda of a hosed up Machiavellian monster who probably did the right thing and the remaining old guard on either side are broken shells of men and women who did terrible poo poo and have trouble justifying their actions because Good friday accords ended the fighting.
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Dec 19, 2020 06:46
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Dapper_Swindler posted:Say nothing is sorta unbiased where it paints everyone as kinda horrible and how Gerry Addams is kinda of a hosed up Machiavellian monster who probably did the right thing and the remaining old guard on either side are broken shells of men and women who did terrible poo poo and have trouble justifying their actions because Good friday accords ended the fighting. This was my take on Say Nothing as well; it didn't have a particular bias beyond a general sense of "what a loving waste", which some might see as inherently anti-IRA but...
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Dec 20, 2020 21:03
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What's the best account of the 1936 campaign?
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Dec 22, 2020 18:05
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Any pointers for good books about the mongol invasions of Europe and the Middle East?
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Dec 22, 2020 23:48
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BigglesSWE posted:Any pointers for good books about the mongol invasions of Europe and the Middle East? I want you to know I read that as Middle Earth, and now I really want a book about the Mongol invasion of Middle Earth
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Dec 23, 2020 02:00
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Anfauglir posted:I want you to know I read that as Middle Earth, and now I really want a book about the Mongol invasion of Middle Earth You’ll have to wait forever then, because the Blue Wizards stopped the East from interfering with the War of the Ring.
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Dec 23, 2020 02:37
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Are there any good biographies of Mansa Musa?
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Dec 30, 2020 01:18
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Strange Cares posted:Are there any good biographies of Mansa Musa? I haven't come across any monograph on Mansa Musa and I suspect there may not be any just because not enough specifically about him may not exist (for example, a cursory Google seems to show books with him in the title as also including histories of Timbuktu), but I can suggest a few works on general Muslim West Africa of his life if that would fit the bill. I know there are a few articles that have been written on the economic effect of his fabled pilgrimage and whether he actually did cause a depression in the Mediterranean or not.
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Dec 30, 2020 02:04
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Sorry to double-post, but does anyone have any suggestions for a book on Guatemalan history that would appeal to a general audience?
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Dec 31, 2020 00:54
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smr posted:This was my take on Say Nothing as well; it didn't have a particular bias beyond a general sense of "what a loving waste", which some might see as inherently anti-IRA but... yeah and i think the book does paint alot of the individuals who were part of the IRA as justified as to why the joined the fight, it just also points out that those types of conflicts always get super hosed up and messy and depressing and no one comes out a whole person again especially when you have that amount of death and poo poo. it hosed them even harder because none of them got their "happy ending" that they pictured where it would all be worth it.
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Jan 2, 2021 18:02
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whats a good book on the history of LGBTQ+ rights/marriage in the US? its a subject id like to learn more about.
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Jan 3, 2021 23:22
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Dapper_Swindler posted:whats a good book on the history of LGBTQ+ rights/marriage in the US? its a subject id like to learn more about. I appreciated The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman. The big caveat is that it was published right around the time of Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 and so is slightly out of date. Still useful.
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Would anyone be able to recommend some solid reads on Russian history? I'm trying to expand my bookshelf. I'm good with academic reads or lay. There've been some good suggestions in this thread before.
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