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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures  by Merlin Sheldrake, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2021.  Symbiosis Algae + fungi = lichen.  Lichens dissolve rocks with acids and absorb their minerals.  While the symbiosis between algae and fungi called lichen is well known, the symbiosis between land plant roots and Mycorrhizal fungi is more important. MF help plants absorb nutrients from the soil. Mycorrhizal hyphae are much finer than the

Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women , by Christina Hoff Sommers Touchstone (1994).  Traditional Feminists The author talks about two kinds of feminists, which she calls “equity feminists” and “gender feminists”. Equity feminists are the traditional activists who achieved women’s suffrage, ownership and inheritance of property, equality before the law with respect to divorce and child custody, and abortion rights. Gender Feminists Gender feminists are what we wo

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century by Louise Perry, Polity Books, 2022.

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance, Harper, 2016.

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class by Rob Henderson, Gallery Books, 2024. In this memoir of growing up in...

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple, Ivan R. Dee, 2003.

Revenge of the Forbidden City: The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999-2005  by James W. Tong, Oxford University Press, 2009.  Falun Gong and Li Hongzhi In the 1990s, there had been a suppression of qigong masters Yan Xin and Zhang Hongbao. Falun Gong was an offshoot of qigong. Li Hongzhi the founder off FG in May 1992.Li Dongzhi was born in Changchun. In 1994 Li Hongzhi moved to NYC. Falun Gong believe in : Truthfulness Benevolence Forbearance Mass Rally at Zhongnan

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life  by David Quammen. Simon & Schuster, Reprint, Paperback, (2019)

The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition (Oxford Landmark Science) 4th Edition  by Richard Dawkins. Oxford University Press; 4th edition (2016)

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain  by Dario Fernandez-Morera, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2016.  Spain Under Muslim Rule This book describes the what life was like in Spain under Muslim rule. Christians and Jews were treated like second class citizens, and deported to Africa if they behaved too badly. The Muslims mistreated women, even their own women, much more badly than they mistreated Christian a

Big Intel: How the FBI and the CIA Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains by J. Michael Waller, Regency Publishing, 2024.  Comparison of Hoover and Donovan Much of the book contrasts J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation’s and Wild Bill Donovan’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Hoover was rabidly anti-Communist and few Communist spies infiltrated the FBI. In contrast, Wild Bill Donovan was less particular about the political sympathies of the people

How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation  by Harry Binswanger. Independently published (2021)

The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Stole America's Top Secrets by Svetlana Lokhova, Pegasus Books, 2019.

The Failure of the "New Economics": An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies  by Henry Hazlitt, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007 (originally published in 1959).  Great Depression This book of Henry Hazlitt, published in 1959, is a criticism of John Maynard Keynes’ earlier book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, published in 1936. In his book, Keynes tried to disprove the traditional economic belief that free-market capitalism will have only a small amount of

The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate  by Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelund, John Early. Rowman & Littlefield...

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson Crown Currency, 2012.

America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything  by Christopher F. Rufo, Broadside Books, 2023.  America Becomes Infected with the German Disease This book describes how German philosophers corrupted the culture of the United States. Herbert Marcuse studied the ideas of Kant, Hegel, Marx and Martin Heidegger. When Hitler came to power, Marcuse, being a Jew, had to flee. After he came to America, he became a professor at the University of California at

The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962―1976  by Frank Dikötter. Bloomsbury Press; (2017)

All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business  by Mel Brooks, Ballantine Books, 2021.

he Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism  by Tina Rosenberg, Vintage Books (Random House), 1996.  Poland The leader of Poland, during the time that Lech Wajensa and Solidarity were trying to free it, was Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski. Jaruzelski grew up as part of a Polish land-owning aristocracy. He was an ambiguous figure who made compromises with the Soviet Union to prevent it from invading Poland. Perhaps he was unnecessarily worried about invasion, because th