Books and Videos I like from other humans


In being employed in and making use of libraries I have found some excellent books:

My advice is to search all the libraries on the web to see if you can borrow the book to read. If you want to buy a book, you may like the web page:isbn.nu



"Holy Horrors: An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness" by James Haught,
ISBN 0879755784
(Nonfiction, Past of Humans on Earth in religion)
This is one of the only books I have ever actually bought ($20). There is one image on each page.

"The Dark Side of Christian History" by Helen Ellerbe
ISBN 0964487349
(Nonfiction, Past of Humans on Earth in religion)
Another book I actually bought (used for $5 with a coupon from half.com I think?).

"Holy Hatred" by James Haught
ISBN 0879759224
(Nonfiction, Religious groups of Humans on Earth)


"Women Without Superstition" by Annie Laurie Gaylor
ISBN 1877733091
(Nonfiction, Female humans on earth 1700-now
This book is a rare find. The past of atheism, and the past of female humans are difficult to find. This book includes images and stories of a number of female humans that questioned religion. I had no idea that people like Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Seneca Falls, NY) and Matilda Jocilyn Gage (Fayetteville, NY) lived hours away from where I lived for more than 10 years (Syracuse, NY)! I saw and toured both the Stanton and Gage houses, then told Gaylor and Gaylor did not muster a fart in reply. Sad that in the first page or two there is a reference to Hillary Clinton, in the first 10 pages, an average religious, cosmetic (although Gaylor also wears lipstick), and metal covered human. The rest of the book is nothing like the first 10 pages.


"Eyewitness Auschwitz : three years in the gas chambers" / Filip Müller
0812826019
the same book is also called:
"Auschwitz inferno : the testimony of a Sonderkommando" /, Filip Müller
071000138X
(Nonfiction, Past of Humans in Auschwitz, 1930-1950)
Philip Müller is a human that survived Auschwitz death camp. Philip was in the group (sundercommando "special command(?)") that burned humans the nazi people had killed. This story is absolutely amazing, and despite a some what antisexual (the word "impetent" is used two or three times for example) translation to english, the story is told with out any kind of fluff, mysticism, or religious inaccuracy. I read this book from start to end in less than 72 hours. Some parts of this story are how a Nazi human shot the daughter of a woman while the woman was holding the daughter, and then the woman threw the dead daughter at the Nazi human before being killed in front of the execution wall. Another memorable part was that one of the Nazi people (perhaps the lager füror or camp leader human) made a pit so that the fat from human bodies would run in to pans to be used to fuel the fire burning the dead bodies, Müller tells how this same Nazi person would throw humans under the age of 1 years old in to the boiling fat in the pans alive. The part that made my heart pound was after being moved from Auschwitz to a different camp (because of people from the Soviet Union were moving the Nazi people back) and in roll call hearing the person call out "all Auschwitz sundercommando fall out" (obviously to be killed). This book is in the University of California Berkeley and UCSD libraries (under a different name for UCSD). You can see Müller describing some of these stories (in a very entertaining way) in the movie "Shoah" by Claude Landzman.
Some humans in the Germany part of earth may feel responsible (or guilt) for what some Nazi humans did to other humans (in particular to Jewish humans, but also to other humans) in the death camps, and I say that the only humans that should be locked in a jail are humans that have caused pain and or damage to other humans with no consent and with intent. Only humans that caused damage to other humans should be locked in a jail and given a continuous democratic decision, all other humans should be free. Also, there were many German humans (like Max Plank) that opposed the Nazi opinions and popularity.

"I Cannot Forgive" Rudolf Vrba.
ISBN 0394621336
(Nonfiction, Past of Humans in Auschwitz from 1930-1950)
Rudolf Vrba is a human that escaped Auschwitz! With another human (Alfred Weczler) Vrba hid in a hole in the ground (?) under some boards and after 3 days ran thousands of meters to Slovakia where making a report on what was happening in Auschwitz (if only a person could do this for the brain imaging machines and camera network.but then what person would you tell? Ted Turner? ABC? those people are all in on it!). This story is amazing. Again another book I read in less than 72 hours. Again Vrba (like Müller) is not lost in religious mysticism. Going to school was not allowed for Vrba under the Nazi government, and after the people from the Soviet Union, England, France (perhaps Spain also), and the USA (Canada and Mexico also?) captured or killed all the Nazi supporting humans, Vrba went to a college and got a degree in chemical engineering (I am not sure of the degree name) and is now at a University in Canada. I sent Vrba an email but so far no reply. Vrba is also shown in the movie "Shoah" and has an interesting, entertaining story telling skill (I am of course not thrilled that Vrba wears part of a dead cow during the movie, but so does Landzmann). One funny part in the book is when some German prisoner humans were trying to find the two escaped humans and were pulling off the boards and were only one or two boards away (Rudy tightened the hold on a knife), then suddenly there was sounds from a different part of the camp and the two German prison humans ran to the other side of the camp saying "...they must have found them!..." and Weczler (also Wetzler) says to Rudy "you meet a quality kind of person here at Auschwitz" and I thought that was funny as can be. Think of these people in the camp, not even happy that a human may have escaped. I also wonder if some how the humans in the "resistance" (humans now could learn some thing from this idea) tried to make sounds to distract the humans pulling off the wood planks. This story is very interesting and was fun to read.

Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and technology : the lives and achievements of 1510 great scientists from ancient times to the present chronologically arranged", Isaac Asimov
ISBN 0385177712
(Nonfiction, Past of Humans in Science)
I recommend this book to people that want to learn the basic story of science on earth. Asimov was an atheist humans and gives a very clear telling of stories in science that are difficult to find in other places. Asimov has condensed these stories. Asimov shows a very good understanding or awareness of the stories of science (even in to the 1900s where most humans fall in to abstraction) despite wearing that idiotic "cowboy tie" (any tie is idiocy in my opinion). See the web page at www.ffrf.org/fttoday/algbio.html to see that "cowboy tie".
I am telling you this book is good, and I think 9999 of 10000 books are crap. There is no other book that I am aware of that tells the story of the excellent humans in science as precisely as Asimov does here. Asimov was a smart human and except for the phrase "now left, now right" the wording is made with the future in mind. From Asimov I first learned of Lavoisier (a human in chemistry in France that was beheaded, during the time that every thing including pets were getting killed with the brand new guillotine). Also the story of Mendeleev, and a number of other humans I had never heard of, but that made amazing contributions to life of earth.


"The Last Two Million Years"
ISBN 0895770180
(Nonfiction, Past of Humans on earth)
This book has nice images and I am amazed at the smart text (by Reader's Digest humans no less - this must have slipped by the censor humans).


"Thread of Life", the Smithsonian looks at evolution / by Roger Lewin
ISBN 0895990105
(Nonfiction, Past of Life on Earth, Evolution of Life on Earth)
There is a nice (although no where near enough species listed) timeline in the back of the book.


"The genius of China : 3,000 years of science, discovery, and invention" Robert K.G. Temple ; introduced by Joseph Needham
ISBN 1853752924
(Nonfiction, Past of Humans in Science and Invention in China)
Like Russia, some how the stories of Science in China have been ignored in the USA. More later.


"The Epic of Man" by the editors of Life
LCCN 61017388 (library of congress control number)
(Nonfiction, Past of Humans on planet Earth)
Nice drawings of sapiens from tens of thousands of years before now. Plus, no religious embarrasment in showing nude humans and other nude species. not good that the word "man" is used in stead of "human"


"The Dawn of Civilization",1967
(Nonfiction, Past of Humans on planet Earth)


"The Light of the Past"
(Nonfiction, Past of Humans on Planet Earth)


"Mad in America", by Robert Whitaker.
This has some good data on the history of psychiatric hospitals and tortures. The "tranquilizer chair" is described, where humans were tied in a chair with a hole for shit and piss. Humans would be locked to these chairs for hours, days and even months. Some humans had "teeth pulled", a lobomoty is when humans use a drill or ice pick to make holes in human brains. Drugs like haloperidol, and thorazine were seen as a "chemical lobotomy" (again for humans that, no matter how unrealistic, never caused any pain or damage), and humans some times have no choice in saying no to the drugs. There is also a good telling of how eugenics (killing or sterilizing the "defective" humans) started in the USA and spread to Europe later, and reached a climax with Hitler and the Nazi humans in Germany.


"A History of Invention", Trevor Williams


Videos:
"Cosmos", [13 1 hour parts], by Carl Sagan (with Ann Druyan and Steven Soter).
(Nonfiction, Past of Humans in Science on Planet Earth)

"The Incredible Machine", [1 hour], National Geographic, 1985.
(Nonfiction, Human Anatomy)

"Cycles of Life", [10? 1 hour parts],by Coast Community College District
(Nonfiction, Past of Life on Earth, Evolution of Life on Earth)

"Diary of Anne Frank", [2 hours]
(Nonfiction, Past of Life on Earth in Europe 1930-now)
Other videos I think are ok:
"Shoah", [9 hours]
7 hours of this video are great, the other 2 are not great. Still, this includes some good video of Vrba, Müller, and other smart humans. There are interviews with humans that lived near the death camps (Treblinka, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Belzic, and one other).
"Black Fox, The Rise of Adolf Hitler" (I have to check the title), [2 hours]
This is the only video (although done is a 60s beatnik style) that shows images of the main humans in the early Nazi group, and says that Eva Braun took poison, and then Hitler shot he self in the head thru mouth, and both were burned by some unnamed humans. May be there were video cameras there, or perhaps microphones. But to pursue that kind of thing a human would not be viewed as a human interested in truth, but as a human that was supporting Nazi.
"Architecture of Doom", [2 hours]
There is some good data here, some amount of Huntington hysteria, but for the most part is positive.
"Universe" with William Shatner
"People Vs. Larry Flynt"
I normally do not like acting, but this is acting of a story that actually happened. The story of Larry Flynt is a great and sad story of a human that stood up for nudity and sex, was not protected was shot.
"Films of Concentration Camps Made at the Request of Dwight D. Eisenhower"
I am glad that Ike had these films made. Perhaps humans were different then, and thought humans should see what is happening on the earth. "Frontline: Snitch"
"Frontline: Innocense Lost"
"Frontline: American Porn"
This was shown on Feb 7, 2001 and I have only seen 5 minutes. Nudity and sex on earth, healthy, good, wanted for pleasure, and needed to survive is some how viewed as bad, with out much doubt because of religion.