Now reading....

[GAMETHEORY]

Tell us what you are reading and br. Please don't post just books names, give us a brief whats the book about. Ohh it should be NOT MORE THAN 4 Books.

I'll start:

Just finished:

Currently reading Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz.

It's clearly a book that deserves sustained attention, and I am getting a bit frustrated at the lack of development in the snatches I am managing to grab. Maybe tomorrow I'll really be able to sit down with it and do it justice. My general impression so far is of a finely painted pictzure of a place, a time and a family; an interesting narrative voice that seems to flit half-in half-out of the characters' heads, and - the only thing that has annoyed me slightly - a tendency to pile on the adjectives.

after that will read:

 

[Charlemagne]

Its a book about how and why you niggas justify all the nonsensical beliefs you hold and bullshit you be pullin in your lives...​

 

[charlie dark]

The Music Instinct by Philip Ball

Science can't explain why we value music so highly, says Guy Dammann. But it's part of what makes us human


How do we hear music? As the science writer Philip Ball's book shows thrillingly, listening to Lady Gaga is a hugely complex mental activity. It is already strange that we hear a single note played on the violin or piano as a single note, rather than a chord of harmonic overtones. Add harmony, polyphony and rhythm, and the brain has to recruit considerable processing resources, as recent research in cognitive science shows, to understand even the simplest ditty. Apart from the very small proportion of the population who are authentically tone-deaf, it is inpermissible to say "I am not musical." "There are cultures in the world where to say 'I'm not musical' would be meaningless," Ball writes, "akin to saying 'I'm not alive'."


Search the Guardian bookshop

So far, so refreshing, for chapters about the harmonic series, tuning, scales, why bells sound weird and so on. But Ball is concerned not only to explain how we hear music, but then to judge music itself according to how it fits with brain scans and psychological experiment. A tang of scientism intrudes: now science reveals the truth about music, and musicians of the past can be retrospectively praised for conforming to our models, or scolded for not fitting in. Thus, 19th-century composers are given gold stars for making note-choices that statistical analysis now quantifies as more or less "original", while clever Bartók and Grieg somehow intuited that toying with listeners' expectations through cadences and modulations would one day be found interesting in the lab.

On the other hand, serialism is said to have made "excessive demands" on the listener's cognitive capacities, and large-scale formal structures "don't have much to do with the way we perceive music, unless we have studied the composition in advance". Ball offers no argument here, however, as to why studying the composition in advance should result in a somehow less authentic perceptual experience; and the claim that such large-scale structures have no effect on the unprepared listener is itself not proven.

Mind you, to study the composition in advance would require familiarity with musical notation, on the subject of which Ball offers a rather ludicrously negative interlude. "Notated compositions can't evolve: their alteration comes to be seen as sacrilegious, and they stand at risk of ossifying." The idea that anything and everything should "evolve" is fatuous. Would you enjoy your favourite novel more if the text changed every time you read it? Ball continues: "In pop and jazz music, notation has always been superfluous," which is simply historically false. Duke Ellington could not have composed and performed what he did without notation; and before the radio and phonograph, notation was how popular music was distributed, as well as being the only technology for communicating and preserving the great classical masterpieces. (Ball's own book is, as it should be, littered with notated examples.)

This odd little anti-notation rant is symptomatic of a sort of fashionable cultural anti-authoritarianism throughout, according to which the figure of the composer is to be devalorised, the better to emphasise the importance of other contributors. "It is performance that breathes fire into the formulas," Ball says, condescendingly reducing the score of Mozart's 40th symphony or Berg's Lyric Suite to a collection of more-or-less-clever arithmetical transformations.

Perhaps such superstitions about the supremacy of performance and improvisation explain why Ball offers no analysis of one of the most irreducibly dictatorial genres: modern electronic dance music. Examples from old-school Belgian techno or contemporary progressive trance would have been highly germane to his discussions of how music exploits and defeats rhythmic and melodic expectations, and might have fruitfully extended his brief musings on how timbre (the sonic "character" of a sound) could be important to musical cognition: modern dance producers are nothing if not scientists of frequency distribution and timbral shift.

That said, Ball is to be applauded for the range and aptness of the musical examples he does choose – from Albinoni to Led Zeppelin, Bach to The Sound of Music – as well as for his attention to musics outside western traditions. (I was happy to learn of the Sirionó Indians of Bolivia, among whom "each member of a tribe has a 'signature' tune that forms the basis of all he sings".) There are deft analyses of the limitations of attributing "emotion" to music, or considering it as a "language" (Lévi-Strauss: if music is a language, it is an "untranslatable" one); and the book is impressively *engaging for one so dense with detail and argument. He describes the pop-music fadeout, rather beautifully, as leaving the listener with a feeling of "contented yearning", and characterises Chopin's music wittily as "riddled with dissonance".

In the modern pop-cognitive-*psychology genre, the reader is usually well advised to imbibe gratefully the reported data while taking the overarching "lessons" with a very large pinch of salt, and that is the way to read Ball's flawed but fascinating work. It will be the rare music-lover who does not come away without having learned many interesting things; but aesthetics cannot be replaced wholesale by bean-counting analysis. Despite the sometimes strenuous pleading, music remains largely unexplained.

 

[Nochturnal]

I'm on a philosophy kick right now...

the einstein theory of relativity by h.a. lorentz

beyond good and evil - nietzsche

 

[CT's Finest]

Does this include audio books?

EDIT:

Here are some I'm checking out. They came from the E-Books/Audio Books section of BGOL.


I'm listening to some of this one right now...


Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotion

Fear, joy, grief, love, hate, pride, shame. We all have emotions, and we recognize emotions in others. But do we really understand what emotions are and what they signify? It is remarkable how often we are wrong about our own emotions and misread the emotions of others. We also deceive ourselves about their meaning. The more we puzzle over the nature of emotions, the deeper the mystery becomes. It is a mystery that is by no means solved, but one that repays careful, philosophical analysis.

Far from being routine, emotions are "the key to the meaning of life," says distinguished philosopher and author Robert C. Solomon, who in these 24 lectures takes you on a tour of his more than three-decade-long intellectual struggle to reach an understanding of these complex phenomena. Some of his conclusions are surprising and very much against the current of common sense.

Professor Solomon's lectures unfold as a rich dialogue with other philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Descartes, Adam Smith, Nietzsche, William James, Freud, Heidegger, and Sartre. He also relates these views to contemporary work in the cognitive sciences on emotions, notably research by Antonio Damasio, Joseph LeDoux, and Paul Ekman. And he discusses the portrayal of emotions in writers and artists including Homer, Shakespeare, Melville, Dostoevsky, and Picasso.



Lectures are 30 min each.
(~170mb)
Course Lecture Titles:
01.Emotions as Engagements with the World
02.The Wrath of Achilles
03.It's Good to Be Afraid
04.Lessons of Love Plato's Symposium
05.We Are Not Alone Compassion and Empathy
06.Noble? or Deadly Sin? Pride and Shame
07.Nasty Iago's Envy, Othello's Jealousy
08.Nastier Resentment and Vengeance
09.A Death in the Family The Logic of Grief
10.James and the Bear Emotions and Feelings
11.Freud's Catharsis the Hydraulic Model
12.Are Emotions in the Mind?
13.How Emotions Are Intelligent
14.Emotions as Judgments
15.Beyond Boohoo and Hooray
16.Emotions Are Rational
17.Emotions and Responsibility
18.Emotions in Ethics
19.Emotions and the Self
20.What Is Emotional Experience?
21.Emotions across Cultures Universals
22.Emotions across Cultures Differences
23.Laughter and Music
24.Happiness and Spirituality



http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YNS8YJRH


I've also recently listened to these among others...

Mindset

Mindset is one of those rare audio books that can help you make positive changes in your life and at the same time see the world in a new way. A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. It explains how we become optimistic or pessimistic. It shapes our goals, our attitude toward work and relationships, and how we raise our kids, ultimately predicting whether or not we will fulfill our potential. Dweck has found that everyone has one of two basic mindsets. If you have the fixed mindset, you believe that your talents and abilities are set in stone–either you have them or you don’t. You must prove yourself over and over, trying to look smart and talented at all costs. This is the path of stagnation. If you have a growth mindset, however, you know that talents can be developed and that great abilities are built over time. This is the path of opportunity–and success.


Dweck demonstrates that mindset unfolds in childhood and adulthood and drives every aspect of our lives, from work to sports, from relationships to parenting. She reveals how creative geniuses in all fields–music, literature, science, sports, business–apply the growth mindset to achieve results. Perhaps even more important, she shows us how we can change our mindset at any stage of life to achieve true success and fulfillment. She looks across a broad range of applications and helps parents, teachers, coaches, and executives see how they can promote the growth mindset. Highly engaging and very practical, Mindset breaks new ground as it leads you to change how you feel about yourself and your future.

http://www.filesonic.com/file/23524901/Carol_S._Dweck_-_Mindset.rar



A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Unabridged Audiobook)

Described by reviewers as "an audacious and powerful work," "a profound read," "right on the money," and "a miracle," the book reveals the six abilities individuals must master in an outsourced and automated world. Several publications named A Whole New Mind one of the best business books of 2005. It is now being translated into 12 languages -- and will appear across Europe and Asia in 2006.

For this updated and expanded edition, Pink has added dozens of new tools, tips, and exercises to help individuals and organizations sharpen their right-brain capacities. Find out why Thomas L. Friedman, author of the mega-bestseller The World is Flat, calls A Whole New Mind his "favorite business book."

http://rapidshare.com/files/277501360/9781423377009.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/277508955/9781423377009.part2.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/277513142/9781423377009.part3.rar

 

[Les W]

Reading "SPIN Selling" by Neil Rackham
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0070511136/?tag=vp314-20

after this a few more business and music books ... been easy just read like 20 pages a day

I'm on a philosophy kick right now...

the einstein theory of relativity by h.a. lorentz

beyond good and evil - nietzsche

The Music Instinct by Philip Ball

Science can't explain why we value music so highly, says Guy Dammann. But it's part of what makes us human


How do we hear music? As the science writer Philip Ball's book shows thrillingly, listening to Lady Gaga is a hugely complex mental activity. It is already strange that we hear a single note played on the violin or piano as a single note, rather than a chord of harmonic overtones. Add harmony, polyphony and rhythm, and the brain has to recruit considerable processing resources, as recent research in cognitive science shows, to understand even the simplest ditty. Apart from the very small proportion of the population who are authentically tone-deaf, it is inpermissible to say "I am not musical." "There are cultures in the world where to say 'I'm not musical' would be meaningless," Ball writes, "akin to saying 'I'm not alive'."


Search the Guardian bookshop

So far, so refreshing, for chapters about the harmonic series, tuning, scales, why bells sound weird and so on. But Ball is concerned not only to explain how we hear music, but then to judge music itself according to how it fits with brain scans and psychological experiment. A tang of scientism intrudes: now science reveals the truth about music, and musicians of the past can be retrospectively praised for conforming to our models, or scolded for not fitting in. Thus, 19th-century composers are given gold stars for making note-choices that statistical analysis now quantifies as more or less "original", while clever Bartók and Grieg somehow intuited that toying with listeners' expectations through cadences and modulations would one day be found interesting in the lab.

On the other hand, serialism is said to have made "excessive demands" on the listener's cognitive capacities, and large-scale formal structures "don't have much to do with the way we perceive music, unless we have studied the composition in advance". Ball offers no argument here, however, as to why studying the composition in advance should result in a somehow less authentic perceptual experience; and the claim that such large-scale structures have no effect on the unprepared listener is itself not proven.

Mind you, to study the composition in advance would require familiarity with musical notation, on the subject of which Ball offers a rather ludicrously negative interlude. "Notated compositions can't evolve: their alteration comes to be seen as sacrilegious, and they stand at risk of ossifying." The idea that anything and everything should "evolve" is fatuous. Would you enjoy your favourite novel more if the text changed every time you read it? Ball continues: "In pop and jazz music, notation has always been superfluous," which is simply historically false. Duke Ellington could not have composed and performed what he did without notation; and before the radio and phonograph, notation was how popular music was distributed, as well as being the only technology for communicating and preserving the great classical masterpieces. (Ball's own book is, as it should be, littered with notated examples.)

This odd little anti-notation rant is symptomatic of a sort of fashionable cultural anti-authoritarianism throughout, according to which the figure of the composer is to be devalorised, the better to emphasise the importance of other contributors. "It is performance that breathes fire into the formulas," Ball says, condescendingly reducing the score of Mozart's 40th symphony or Berg's Lyric Suite to a collection of more-or-less-clever arithmetical transformations.

Perhaps such superstitions about the supremacy of performance and improvisation explain why Ball offers no analysis of one of the most irreducibly dictatorial genres: modern electronic dance music. Examples from old-school Belgian techno or contemporary progressive trance would have been highly germane to his discussions of how music exploits and defeats rhythmic and melodic expectations, and might have fruitfully extended his brief musings on how timbre (the sonic "character" of a sound) could be important to musical cognition: modern dance producers are nothing if not scientists of frequency distribution and timbral shift.

That said, Ball is to be applauded for the range and aptness of the musical examples he does choose – from Albinoni to Led Zeppelin, Bach to The Sound of Music – as well as for his attention to musics outside western traditions. (I was happy to learn of the Sirionó Indians of Bolivia, among whom "each member of a tribe has a 'signature' tune that forms the basis of all he sings".) There are deft analyses of the limitations of attributing "emotion" to music, or considering it as a "language" (Lévi-Strauss: if music is a language, it is an "untranslatable" one); and the book is impressively *engaging for one so dense with detail and argument. He describes the pop-music fadeout, rather beautifully, as leaving the listener with a feeling of "contented yearning", and characterises Chopin's music wittily as "riddled with dissonance".

In the modern pop-cognitive-*psychology genre, the reader is usually well advised to imbibe gratefully the reported data while taking the overarching "lessons" with a very large pinch of salt, and that is the way to read Ball's flawed but fascinating work. It will be the rare music-lover who does not come away without having learned many interesting things; but aesthetics cannot be replaced wholesale by bean-counting analysis. Despite the sometimes strenuous pleading, music remains largely unexplained.

these look promising

 

[Clubber_lang]

Just finished this: It was ok. Some of it was funny. NOt hilarious as the review stated.

Monkey Business is the hilarious confession of two young investment bankers, John Rolfe and Peter Troob, of what it's like at ground zero on The Street. Forget what you've read, forget what you've heard, forget what you've been taught. Monkey Business pulls off Wall Street's suspenders and gives the reader the inside skinny on what working at an investment bank is all about." "Fresh out of Wharton and Harvard business schools, the authors ran willingly into the open arms of investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenerette. Once there, they discovered themselves foot soldiers in an investment banking army of overworked and frustrated lemmings furiously trying to spin straw into gold. Escaping with their sanity only partially intact, John and Peter have perfectly captured the chaotic essence of the Wall Street carnival and the outlandish personalities that make it all him.



If you like British humor I highly recommend it. and I usually don't read non fiction.

Since he was 10 years old Harry has one ambition - to find the perfect girl for him. Twenty years later he is no nearer his goal. Harry and his best mate Gerrard both meet Alice and decide she is the one and Harry will stop at nothing to win her.

 

[pyramidbuilder]

Comparative Mythology, Cultural and Social Studies and The Cultural Category- Factor Correlation Method: A New Approach to Comparative Cultural, Religious and Mythological Studies

 

[GAMETHEORY]

bump

 

[ZuluSam]

damn...i love to read...great thread

 

[overtonian]

This book is a Great read...

 

[456.North.side]

 

[michant2]

 

[Super Fly]

African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controversy personified. He was swept to international celebrity on a wave of scandal and flamboyance, and when he died of AIDS in 1997, more than a million people attended his funeral. But what was he really like, this man who could as easily arouse violent hostility as he could unswerving loyalty? Carlos Moore's unique biography, based on hours of conversation and told in Fela's first-person vernacular, reveals the icon's complex personality and tumultuous existence. Moore includes interviews with fifteen of his queens (wives); photos; and an updated discography.

 

[Les W]

If you like British humor I highly recommend it. and I usually don't read non fiction.

Since he was 10 years old Harry has one ambition - to find the perfect girl for him. Twenty years later he is no nearer his goal. Harry and his best mate Gerrard both meet Alice and decide she is the one and Harry will stop at nothing to win her.

sounds like a good one ... have you read 'Money' by Martin Amis? Good read as well

 

[JimJones]

World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability:

"A professor at Yale Law School, Chua eloquently fuses expert analysis with personal recollections to assert that globalization has created a volatile concoction of free markets and democracy that has incited economic devastation, ethnic hatred and genocidal violence throughout the developing world. Chua illustrates the disastrous consequences arising when an accumulation of wealth by "market dominant minorities" combines with an increase of political power by a disenfranchised majority. Chua refutes the "powerful assumption that markets and democracy go hand in hand" by citing specific examples of the turbulent conditions within countries such as Indonesia, Russia, Sierra Leone, Bolivia and in the Middle East. In Indonesia, Chua contends, market liberalization policies favoring wealthy Chinese elites instigated a vicious wave of anti-Chinese violence from the suppressed indigenous majority. Chua describes how "terrified Chinese shop owners huddled behind locked doors while screaming Muslim mobs smashed windows, looted shops and gang-raped over 150 women, almost all of them ethnic Chinese." Chua blames the West for promoting a version of capitalism and democracy that Westerners have never adopted themselves. Western capitalism wisely implemented redistributive mechanisms to offset potential ethnic hostilities, a practice that has not accompanied the political and economic transitions in the developing world. As a result, Chua explains, we will continue to witness violence and bloodshed within the developing nations struggling to adopt the free markets and democratic policies exported by the West."

This a great read, as the author does a wonderful job in explaining why disenfranchised majorities lash out at market dominant minorities in their countries and while she does not (or I have not read as of yet because I am not done with the book,) relate this phenomenon to the Black community it is easy to do so. When you look at Black riots over the years and how when shit pop off we tend to destroy the stores servicing our neighborhood, it has always been said we are destroying our community by looting and burning stores. However, the other way this can be viewed is you have a disenfranchised majority Black community lashing out at the market dominant minorities in our communities whom are essentially sucking the blood out of it.

I know some of the fam on here have hated on Mugabe, but she breaks down succinctly, how and why a polarizing figure like Mugabe rises to power in nations like Zimbabwe where third generation whites had control of over 70 percent of the country's best land thus making them the Market Dominant Minority where a growing democracy is increasing the power of the impoverished Majority. She also point out that poverty alone does not make people kill, "To poverty must be added indignity, hopelessness and grievance.

I highly recommend this book as it speaks to how globalization is causing many problems around the world and as we sit back today and watch the Chinese infiltrate Africa, in a hundred years it will be the Africans killing the Chinese because they will have established themselves as a Market Dominant Minority in an impoverished Majority African nation.

 

[True Real Info]

no pics but....

Conflict of Minds by Jordan Ngubane
-Its a book that discusses the fundamental differences b/n how christians approach life in comparison to indegenous african cultures and how this is fueling the global takeover christianity is doing.

The 50th law by 50 cent and robert greene

All of Alice Millers Articles

All interviews by Iceberg slim

Most Books by vusamazulu credo mutwa

Psycho-cybernetics by maxwell maltz

 

[Super Fly]

bump

 

[Cock Head Jones]

just started... wasnt expecting much but its an interesting & light read so far.

next up...
SURVIVAL
by Lt. Gen. Russell Honore

Highly regarded as a hero during the Hurricane Katrina disaster, Gen. Russel Honoré was the right leader at the right time. Combined with his extensive and impressive military background, his rugged upbringing in rural Louisiana gave him the experience and know-how in a hurricane-prone environment to lead the Katrina recovery effort. Survival is part personal memoir and part account of the events of Hurricane Katrina, but all in service to providing a useful guide filled with practical suggestions on how each of us can effectively respond to catastrophic events.

 

[GAMETHEORY]

damn...i love to read...great thread

Ive read both

my fav author

did you know they are making a film based on TINKER TAYLOR SOLDIER SPY?

 

[GAMETHEORY]

no pics but....

Conflict of minds by jordan ngubane
-its a book that discusses the fundamental differences b/n how christians approach life in comparison to indegenous african cultures and how this is fueling the global takeover christianity is doing.

The 50th law by 50 cent and robert greene

all of alice millers articles

all interviews by iceberg slim

most books by vusamazulu credo mutwa

psycho-cybernetics by maxwell maltz

no more tha 4 books bro

 

[True Real Info]

no more tha 4 books bro

well Ive read most of his books, so when I think of something that reminds me of something he wrote I re-reference it.

his books are written in a type of code that is only meant to be understood by certain people (his words) and alot of reading between the lines is necessary...

the main book is indaba my children

 

[AtomAnt]

I am currently reading Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles - it is a series of 7 books about the sumerian texts - ancient texts of about 6000 years old that describe how extraterrestrials came to this planet and created human beings - the origins of mankind basically - it was all documented 6000 years ago and this is a fascinating read - whats also interesting about the sumerian texts is that you can tell that a lot if not all of the bible genesis stories were simply copied from the sumerian original - incredibly interesting

http://www.amazon.com/Zecharia-Sitchin/e/B000APVA3G/?tag=vp314-20

 

[redcee]

This new edition of the original text reveals how Nathaniel Branden's landmark book broke the rules of conventional behavioral theory and promulgated his revolutionary ideas on the critical role that self-esteem plays in living a healthy, fulfilling life. The book offers an in-depth exploration of the need for self-esteem, the nature of that need, the conditions of fulfillment, and how self-esteem (or lack of it) affects our values, responses, and goals. Branden also debunks the misguided notion that self-esteem is a "feel-good phenomenon" and shows instead how self-esteem, rationality, perseverance, self-responsibility, and personal integrity are all intimately related.

http://hotfile.com/dl/88676848/bddfc1b/The_Psychology_Of_Self-Esteem.pdf.html

 

[phillycx]

I actually started reading parts of this book some time ago, but picked it up again after purchasing it in Harlem around the holidays. This book basically lays out the historical references for the current situation(s) faced by the Black males/females and the community as a whole. Beyond pointing out what's "wrong", the book offers solutions as well which many books fail to do. Definitely a must read for those who are interested in elevating themselves, gaining knowledge and bettering their communities.

 

[tical]

The field of molecular biology and molecular genetics is rapidly changing with new data acquired daily and new insights into well-studied processes presented on a scale of weeks or months rather than years. For decades Lewin's GENES has provided the teaching community with the most cutting edge presentation of molecular biology and molecular genetics, covering gene structure, sequencing, organization, and expression. The latest edition, with a knowledgeable new author team, has enlisted 21 scientists to provide revisions and content updates in their individual fields of expertise, ensuring that Lewin's GENES X is the most current and comprehensive text in the field. Informative new chapters, as well as a reorganization of material, provide a more logical flow of topics and many chapters have been renamed to better indicate their contents. Lewin's GENES X also contains new pedagogical features to help students learn as they read and an online student study guide allows students to test themselves on key material

THE ESSENCE OF ANTHROPOLOGY presents anthropology from an integrated, holistic perspective using three unifying themes as a framework: culture as a systemic adaptation to various internal and external factors, including the environment, biocultural connections between human culture and biology that shape the varied ways humans meet the challenges of survival, and the disparate impact of globalization on peoples and cultures around the world.

 

[DV8ed]

James Stark spent 11 years killing monsters in Lucifer's arena for the entertainment of fallen angels, but now he's back in seedy, magic-riddled L.A., trying to avenge his girlfriend's murder and hunt down Mason Faim, the black magician responsible for getting him sent downtown. He meets with some initial success, beheading second-rate magician Kasabian (whose head becomes Stark's smart-mouthed sidekick), but he can't find Faim. Instead he encounters Homeland Security agents, a near-psychotic angel and some odd nonhuman, nonangelic beings called the kissi. Darkly atmospheric settings, such as a posh gentlemen's club where angels are tortured in an attempt to bring about Armageddon, bring this violent fantasy into sharp, compelling focus. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties

 

[RichmondFire]

The ten tribes of Israel: or the true history of the North American Indians

http://books.google.com/books?id=hD_zAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=christopher+columbus+memoirs+those+are+the+ten+tribes&source=bl&ots=F6glNfsDOn&sig=hxTBvjt1Big5M-CdzCAzQ6BsyO4&hl=en&ei=nFE3TdbqGIfqgQfN1ajHAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[ZuluSam]

Ive read both

my fav author

did you know they are making a film based on TINKER TAYLOR SOLDIER SPY?

Mine too although I like the older stuff better.

Have never gotten into the movies too much but have read all the books.

After reading the older stuff i wasn't surprised to find he had indeed been a British spy

 

[wiZe]

Perfect Peace

A mom wants to have a daughter so bad that when she has a boy instead, she convinces everyone (including her family) that it's a girl and raises it as girl for years.

Someone suggested the book to me since I rarely read fiction. Seemed unbelievable so I decided to give it a shot. Also, the author is black and a professor at my Alma Mater.

 

[Durty]

The author, former U.S. Naval Intelligence Briefing Team Member, reveals information kept secret by our government since the 1940s. UFOs, the J.F.K.. assassination, the Secret Government, the war on drugs and more by the world's leading expert on UFOs.

Decoded
Just finished reading

Next up

 

[GAMETHEORY]

Mine too although I like the older stuff better.

Have never gotten into the movies too much but have read all the books.

After reading the older stuff i wasn't surprised to find he had indeed been a British spy

Anyone who is British and in love with Le Care books is one way or another works for Her Majesty's secret services or has links with the guys from Vauxhall

Have you read the Most Wanted Man? bought this in Riyadh, good company when i was there...

 

[GAMETHEORY]

House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties

I wanna get this...thanks for the recommendation

 

[Joe Money]

One page in 12 years!!!

 

[Dirtylakerie]

One page in 12 years!!!

Colin would be proud