On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine, Rasmussen 2008 (particularly interesting for the inside information about how early American pharmacorps & drug development worked, but much weaker past the ’70s; at least, if you can get past Rasmussen’s huge bias against amphetamines and blind support for the disastrous War on Drugs)
pure philosophy inside, lots of Aristotle reasoning examined.
Also if you are at all interested in the surveillance state, and some of the legal reasoning that it may be breaking the separation of powers, the whole issue of the Monthly Review is excellent reading
Nonfiction Books Thread
A Life of Sir Francis Galton (review)
On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine, Rasmussen 2008 (particularly interesting for the inside information about how early American pharmacorps & drug development worked, but much weaker past the ’70s; at least, if you can get past Rasmussen’s huge bias against amphetamines and blind support for the disastrous War on Drugs)
The scourge of existential nihilism has a cure
A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe
http://www.amazon.com/Significant-Life-Meaning-Silent-Universe/dp/022623567X
pure philosophy inside, lots of Aristotle reasoning examined.
Also if you are at all interested in the surveillance state, and some of the legal reasoning that it may be breaking the separation of powers, the whole issue of the Monthly Review is excellent reading
The New Surveillance Normal
http://monthlyreview.org/archives/2014/volume-66-issue-03-july-august/
It took me less than a paragraph to get to
at which point I stopped reading.