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Non-fiction Books Thread
Reading Graeber's Debt: the first 5000 years. One interesting take-away early in is that the standard story told about the origins of money is poorly supported by available evidence, and told the way it is for mostly ideological reasons.
If you know nothing about statistics but would like to engage in comprehensive self-tracking, this book looks good.
I read that; it's pretty good for beginners, although I'm not sure how useful the focus on Excel is.
I picked up Derrida's Specters of Marx today. I have high hopes for it.
A pile of For Dummies books. They really do seem to be the five-minute course on everything. I particularly liked Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, as recommended by Lukeprog.
What is the general quality of X For Dummies books? Is there a lot of variance?
Where I know anything about the field, they look good to me. The nonprofit one made me go "AAAAAAAA WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS 25 YEARS AGO (because I was too young and stupid to even think of asking)" which made me think well of it. There exists Reiki for Dummies, which is of course a how-to for a comprehensively bogus field; I haven't cracked it open. They started as software manuals and branched out into everything. Um, give them a spin, I'd say.