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I'm pretty sure there was a thread around here with a list of all of the nonfiction that OSC has recommended in his columns. Either it's gone, or my searching skills are inadequate to the task.
The ones I remember off the top of my head are:
Guns, Germs, and Steel Co-Opetition The Paradox of Choice Freakonomics Being Human
What are some others?
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I read 1491 at his recommendation. Already read Guns, and Freakonomics; also read Wisdom of Crowds. Will try This Country Life.
Recommended reading in the same vein:
Software of the Mind Why the Jews? (easy-to-read discussion of antisemitism) Lies My Teacher Told Me (US history) Collapse (on social collapse)
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He has said good things about Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.
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I made a post of a list that included novels as well. But my headcold is making me less interested in digging it up at the moment.
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