Dam ... I just finished reading that Confessions of An Economic Hitman by John Perkins book, and its the best dam book I've read in the past 2 years ... and I've read a lot of books in that span. Highly recommended!

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Originally posted by Magnetonium Dam ... I just finished reading that Confessions of An Economic Hitman by John Perkins book, and its the best dam book I've read in the past 2 years ... and I've read a lot of books in that span. Highly recommended!

What's it about.

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I just finished Vijay Prashad's "The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World" and it is fantastic. An insane amount of detail for a political historiography on a topic few people know anything about. From the conferences in Berlin and Bandung to the present, it details the history of the post-colonial non-aligned movement, and discusses the ability of the so-called third world to develop on its own trajectory.

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The books I've read recently include:

Confessions of an Economic Hit man - as mentioned above anyone who's interested in international relations should read this. I finished it over a weekend.

Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes - A daunting 500 pages. It's worth reading his second chapter about civil society but the other three (of man, of civil christian society, of dark society) are long, dull, and over the top religious at times.

The Nature of Economics, Jane Jacobs - She's a great author. I really liked her book "Dark Age Ahead" but this one didn't measure up. Part of the problem was that she esentially took a collection of essays and tried to frame them as an extended conversation between friends. Some good ideas and it was easy to read.

On Liberty, John Stewart Mills - This has been really good so far, I'm only about half done.

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Originally posted by Krypton What's it about.

www.amazon.com

Not sure if how many people are already familiar with the site "Library Thing" but I'll mention it here anyway. It's basically just a site that lets you catalogue all the books you own / have read and you can search for recommendations based on the books in your catalogue etc.

Tried starting a group, but doesn't seem to want to work. Maybe you guys will have better luck with it than I am:

http://www.librarything.com/groups/tranceaddictbookclub

And here's my profile if anyone cares:

http://www.librarything.com/profile/Renegade

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i don´t have time to list all my books, i dont have time to read all my books, i have a bad habit of going into bookstores and buying books that i wont read until two years down the track hah

just finished Lost over Laos which is the incredibly moving true story of the four greatest war photojournalists in the vietnam war, their lives, their work, and their deaths when a chopper carrying the four of them was shot down over Laos. 5/5

Now reading The Long Emergency - Surviving the Converging Catastrophies of the 21st Century only half way through and my god its eye opening...

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Originally posted by atbell The books I've read recently include: Confessions of an Economic Hit man - as mentioned above anyone who's interested in international relations should read this. I finished it over a weekend.

ive heard really good things about that book, and also read an interesting interview on the author, having lived in Ecuador i know that many things that he´s talked about are true.

The Secret History of the World and How to Get Out Alive

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From Amazon: If you heard the Truth, would you believe it? Ancient civilizations. Hyperdimensional realities. DNA changes. Bible conspiracies. What are the realities? What is disinformation? The Secret History of The World and How To Get Out Alive is the definitive book of the real answers where Truth is more fantastic than fiction. Laura Knight-Jadczyk, wife of internationally known theoretical physicist, Arkadiusz Jadczyk, an expert in hyperdimensional physics, draws on science and mysticism to pierce the veil of reality. Due to the many threats on her life from agents and agencies known and unknown, Laura left the United States to live in France, where she is working closely with Patrick Rivière, student of Eugene Canseliet, the only disciple of the legendary alchemist Fulcanelli. To this day, Laura continues to undergo ad-hominem attacks on her web pages, her blog and even as faux book 'reviews' on book seller websites, by those threatened by the information she reveals in this definitive work. Yet, with sparkling humour and wisdom, she picks up where Fulcanelli left off, sharing over thirty years of research to reveal, for the first time, The Great Work and the esoteric Science of the Ancients in terms accessible to scholar and layperson alike.

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Histor...05601369&sr=8-1

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Originally posted by Trancer-X You're posting in the wrong thread, Q

i'm a goober. thanx.

The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/frazer/index.htm

Traces of a Hidden Tradition in Masonry and Medieval Mysticism by Isabel Cooper-Oakley

http://www.sacred-texts.com/sro/mmm/index.htm


The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal by Arthur Edward Waite

http://www.sacred-texts.com/sro/hchg/index.htm

and

The Nag Hammadi Library's

The Gospel of Truth

As translated by Robert M. Grant

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/got.html