helena Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Stumbled on this thread on Metafilter by chance - sounds like a good subject for discussion; curious about what MF members suggest for their respective fields... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us http://www.amazon.com/Without-Conscience-D.../ref=pd_sim_b_2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rebecca Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 That was good, Daniel, that was good. Wow. What a question and website. Read all that and ya don't need to go to college. Am trying to find a good book for a layman. Our company was started by a Nobel Prize laureate in physics: http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/schrieffer.html Maybe I should just look for a book on office techniques for dingbats. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid1 Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 But I have so many fields. Just to be negative: Bertrand Russel's The Problem's of Philosophy is well regarded in that field. It was certainly well regarded in 1912. I'd recommend just about any introductory book from the last twenty years ahead of it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yvonne johnson Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 But I have so many fields. Just to be negative: Bertrand Russel's The Problem's of Philosophy is well regarded in that field. It was certainly well regarded in 1912. I'd recommend just about any introductory book from the last twenty years ahead of it. They can't even spell his name. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephanieL Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 The AMA Manual of Style--should discourage anyone from my field. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
splinky Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 i haven't written it, yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lippy Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Historic Preservation -- Curatorial Management of the Built World, by James Marston Fitch, because the author was the father of historic preservation in the last part of the 20th century and the founder of the historic preservation program at Columbia University, the first of its kind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Orik Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I'm not even sure what my field is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid1 Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 If pressed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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SRD Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Puckoon - Spike Milligan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GG Mora Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 What O'Rik said. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Liza Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Maybe... Boxed In: The Culture of TV, by Mark Crispin Miller Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ghostrider Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 These days, considering that I deliver lunches for a deli in Montclair NJ, it's simply the Hagstrom map of Essex County. In my previous 20-year career, the User Manual for CompuSet would have been the deal. Here's a quick summary. I shoulda taught myself something more useful, like HTML, instead before I got so old. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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