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Which books are you happy to read for the December Book of the Month?

by bestiaauris ·
Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 Adventure Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down Group of rabbits flee their home warren and face the dangers of their natural predators as well as other rabbit societies.
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Probability Theory: The Logic of Science E.T. Jaynes 2003 Textbook https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151848.Probability_Theory?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=zuGdCJBfoq&rank=1 This would make a bean happy. E.T. Jaynes is one of my heroes, and this book is about how frequentist statistics is stupid. Bayesian statistics is really cool, and it really helped make probability make sense.
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The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman, 1962. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128755430-the-guns-of-august-by-barbara-w-tuchman "Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and how it could have been stopped but wasn't. "
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The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy Mariana Mazzucato 2020 Nonfiction: Economics https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29502362-the-value-of-everything The Value of Everything rigorously scrutinizes the way in which economic value has been determined and reveals how the difference between value creation and value extraction has become increasingly blurry. Mariana Mazzucato argues that this blurriness allowed certain actors in the economy to portray themselves as value creators, while in reality they were just moving existing value around or, even worse, destroying it.
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Superintelligence Nick Bostrom 2014 Nonfiction, Science https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20527133-superintelligence The fate of the gorillas now depends more on humans than on the species itself, so would the fate of humankind depend on the actions of the artificial superintelligence. But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed Artificial Intelligence, to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable?
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Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones, 1986. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6294.Howl_s_Moving_Castle "Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady."
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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 2011 . Historical fiction, romance https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13623848-the-song-of-achilles Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice
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The Story of the Stone Volume 1 Cao Xueqin 1792 Historical Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139874.The_Story_of_the_Stone_or_The_Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber_Vol_1 The Dream of the Red Chamber is a semi autobiographical fantastical story about a prominent family during 18th century China. It is the most popular book in all of Chinese literature, and is one of my all-time favorite novels. I recommend the David Hawkes translation for English readers.
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Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule, 2020. History. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53138120-robert-e-lee-and-me Former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.
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