Now, I'm sitting here on the flip side of the planet, wondering why somebody as sharp as yourself should want a book for "stupid idiots who are dumb and stupid"?
I've tried a few of those Dummies books. I was very impressed with Woody Leonhard's approach.
Windows 95 for Dummies. I got my start (on computers) years ago from the book.
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The way things are presently going in America, I think I'd check out material on the rise and fall of the three Reichs.
The First Reich was the medieval Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806. The Second Reich included the German Empire from 1871-1918. Third Reich: Meaning "third regime or empire," the Nazi designation of Germany and its regime from 1933-45.
A great ideal but it didn't have the legs to carry it through. Almost! , As for the US, about six months ago I made a prediction on another web site that if Trump, by some quirk of a mirthful god, should win the presidency, he'd declare himself Emperor and send America's forces out to conquer the world. Fits in with your reichtheory.
Something about language or linguistics. I recently checked out a book about a woman who started studying Latin late in life. I also read a lot of history, and general fiction (recently I've read Saul Bellow, Jose Saramago, and Nabokov).
One of the smartest guys I ever knew had a penchant in that direction. It's a fascinating study. But Latin? I did a little at school but don't remember much, to my regret.
Not really, as long as it is History. . . I don't read fiction. . Although we can argue how much the of his story we count on today is actually fiction. . . Anyway, i don't ever know what im going to get, I know when I see it.
I went to school in Australia in the 1940s. Our history was most definitely loaded to show Britain as the world benefactor. (We'd had colony status until 1901 when we became a nation and were still part of the British Empire so the influence was very great.) There was a great deal of fiction mixed up in it.
Hi Dragnfly I gotta confess that almost all my reading these days is fiction. Just whiling away the time. We bought a pair of Kobo eReaders a while ago. Very convenient.
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