Got these off amazon last week, both great. The Bubishi one is really in-depth. 
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I read the tales of Uncle Remus when I was a small boy and loved them. Recently, I found a copy of all of the tales online and decided to reread them. Still a great read. Brer Rabbit---and Uncle Remus himself---smokes a pipe.
Currently reading Mythago Wood, a classic of British fantasy literature. Been reading a lot of fantasy recently to keep me in that mindset, as I'm 21,000 words into a manuscript of my own, so it helps to keep me focused.
Got this book yesterday its pretty good. If your a Macgyver you will love it
The sink that goes onto of toilet cistern a good idea.
I paid about $17au for it but just found a link for a free pdf or a small donation dohhhhh I like having hard copy's though.
The sink that goes onto of toilet cistern a good idea.
I paid about $17au for it but just found a link for a free pdf or a small donation dohhhhh
I like having hard copy's though.
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American heroes: profiles of men and women who shaped early America , Edmund S. Morgan
The early chapters of the book are about specific Puritan men and women, Puritan values and their society.
Steel boats, iron hearts , Hans Goebeler
The author writes of his experiences in WWII as a crewman of U-505, the German submarine that now rests in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
Steve
The early chapters of the book are about specific Puritan men and women, Puritan values and their society.
Steel boats, iron hearts , Hans Goebeler
The author writes of his experiences in WWII as a crewman of U-505, the German submarine that now rests in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
Steve
Reading this at the moment, got it for like $15au/$11us, from alliexpress a really good reference book.
If your into this type of thing I found a review video of this book after I bought it
I have this one as well and think it is also great. Has a lot on essential oils .
If your into this type of thing I found a review video of this book after I bought it
I have this one as well and think it is also great. Has a lot on essential oils .
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Not really a inspirational type book reader but got to learn about Ant Middleton through a UK TV series called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS:_Who_Dares_Wins then they made a series in Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Australia:_Who_Dares_Wins with celebrities and sports people I loved it.
I will be buying more of his books I really enjoy the way he writes, insights and mantras
Life and leadership lessons from the Special Forces, accompanying the Channel 4 series SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Are you up to the challenge of SAS leadership? Only the best will succeed...
Britain's SAS (Special Air Service) has an unparalleled reputation for soldiering excellence. Their skills and techniques have been perfected in the most demanding environments imaginable, but many of these can also be used in our everyday lives.
This book takes situations all of us will experience during our lives and presents tactical lessons drawn from SAS training and battlefield experience. Its four authors - stars of the hit Channel 4 show SAS: Who Dares Wins - how their finely honed understanding of how to handle extreme challenges can be applied in any environment. Their advice on negotiation, people management, self-motivation and resilience, among other things, can transform your performance in a whole range of scenarios: from buying a house, nailing a job interview, and the experience of dealing with rejection, to maintaining a diet, or managing that pushy colleague at work.
This is the ultimate guide to leadership and personal achievement.
No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned over the course of his fascinating, exhilarating life.
Special forces training is no walk in the park. The rules are strict and they make sure you learn the hard way, pushing you beyond the limits of what is physically possible. There is no mercy. Even when you are bleeding and broken, to admit defeat is failure.
To survive the gruelling selection process to become a member of the elite you need toughness, aggression, meticulous attention to detail and unrelenting self-discipline, all traits that make for the best leaders.
After 13 years service in the military, with 4 years as a Special Boat Service (SBS) sniper, Ant Middleton is the epitome of what it takes to excel. He served in the SBS, the naval wing of the special forces, the Royal Marines and 9 Parachute Squadron Royal, achieving what is known as the ‘Holy Trinity’ of the UK’s Elite Forces. As a point man in the SBS, Ant was always the first man through the door, the first man into the dark, and the first man in harm’s way.
In this fascinating, exhilarating and revealing book, Ant speaks about the highs and gut-wrenching lows of his life – from the thrill of passing Special Forces Selection to dealing with the early death of his father and ending up in prison on leaving the military – and draws valuable lessons that we can all use in our daily lives.
I will be buying more of his books I really enjoy the way he writes, insights and mantras
Life and leadership lessons from the Special Forces, accompanying the Channel 4 series SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Are you up to the challenge of SAS leadership? Only the best will succeed...
Britain's SAS (Special Air Service) has an unparalleled reputation for soldiering excellence. Their skills and techniques have been perfected in the most demanding environments imaginable, but many of these can also be used in our everyday lives.
This book takes situations all of us will experience during our lives and presents tactical lessons drawn from SAS training and battlefield experience. Its four authors - stars of the hit Channel 4 show SAS: Who Dares Wins - how their finely honed understanding of how to handle extreme challenges can be applied in any environment. Their advice on negotiation, people management, self-motivation and resilience, among other things, can transform your performance in a whole range of scenarios: from buying a house, nailing a job interview, and the experience of dealing with rejection, to maintaining a diet, or managing that pushy colleague at work.
This is the ultimate guide to leadership and personal achievement.
No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned over the course of his fascinating, exhilarating life.
Special forces training is no walk in the park. The rules are strict and they make sure you learn the hard way, pushing you beyond the limits of what is physically possible. There is no mercy. Even when you are bleeding and broken, to admit defeat is failure.
To survive the gruelling selection process to become a member of the elite you need toughness, aggression, meticulous attention to detail and unrelenting self-discipline, all traits that make for the best leaders.
After 13 years service in the military, with 4 years as a Special Boat Service (SBS) sniper, Ant Middleton is the epitome of what it takes to excel. He served in the SBS, the naval wing of the special forces, the Royal Marines and 9 Parachute Squadron Royal, achieving what is known as the ‘Holy Trinity’ of the UK’s Elite Forces. As a point man in the SBS, Ant was always the first man through the door, the first man into the dark, and the first man in harm’s way.
In this fascinating, exhilarating and revealing book, Ant speaks about the highs and gut-wrenching lows of his life – from the thrill of passing Special Forces Selection to dealing with the early death of his father and ending up in prison on leaving the military – and draws valuable lessons that we can all use in our daily lives.
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A good read
Today, the seductive allure of pipe smoking has never been stronger. This elegant, full-color book is both a celebration of the pipe -- the history, romance, and lore -- and a practical guide that advises readers on how to care for pipes, choose the right blend of tobacco, and enrich the smoking experience.
Today, the seductive allure of pipe smoking has never been stronger. This elegant, full-color book is both a celebration of the pipe -- the history, romance, and lore -- and a practical guide that advises readers on how to care for pipes, choose the right blend of tobacco, and enrich the smoking experience.
...Reading Blood and Soil, The memoir of a Third Reich Brandenburger, by Sepp De Giampietro, Greenhill Books,1984. English Translation, 2019.
Part of Hitler's special forces, the Brandenburgers, specializing in espionage, were virtually all killed. De Giampitero survived, and gives a first person account of daring and foolhardy missions.
Part of Hitler's special forces, the Brandenburgers, specializing in espionage, were virtually all killed. De Giampitero survived, and gives a first person account of daring and foolhardy missions.
I finally got this book yesterday and finding it hard to put down,really enjoying it. Great recommendation William.
I picked a copy up recently, glad to hear it’s good. I’ve been reading My Side of the Mountain which was recommended after a couple Peter Heller works, but I’m sluggish in finishing the last bit. I like the outdoor element but the lack of any real struggle in it has been a little boring.I finally got this book yesterday and finding it hard to put down,really enjoying it. Great recommendation William.
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I’m looking forward to The Wager, though I’m not sure if it will be my next read or further down the list. I purchase books much faster than I read them.
I mainly get my books from the library, often through Interlibrary loan. I would buy them, however, have no more room in my own library for any more acquisitions.
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Currently a little over halfway through A Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Really enjoying this series (Kingslayer Chronicles). Hopeful that someday he will finally release the third book.
I finally wrapped up The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and will follow it up with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. That should get Douglas Adams out of my system for a while. I am not a steady reader anymore. In time that was I would have consumed both these books in a week, I'm still getting used to my progressive lenses. They make reading and driving much easier but lack versatility in active day-to-day wear, too small a focal area for either scrip.
I lied,testing,I am such a childOhhh yes defiantly Lee Van Cleef and granny too I forgot she smoked a cob
Note to self don't use dy ke or dic k in any of my posts
Please note; I am not mocking our site it is the same everywhere on all sites, was just hoping for a giggle is all
Reading dick and jane
and the hole in the dyke dike
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Currently working my way through "Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years." It's the fifth book in the Woodworker series, which itself is a collection of articles and drawings written by Charles Hayward and published in "Woodworker Magazine" between 1937 and 1967.
The first four books are a collection of woodworking techniques and illustrations. The fifth book is a collection of stories and observations on life from the "chips from the chisel" column, what we would call "a letter from the editor" today.
Christopher Schwarz (editor of Lost Art Press) was concerned that this volume would be poorly received by his readers. The fact that my copy is from the second printing indicates that his concerns were unfounded.
It is a master class on exercising one's powers of observation, mindfulness, and the importance of having a purpose in life. It covers a breathtaking range of ideas and history and was written by a fellow who knew how to think and why.
It has been a very long time since I've read a book that has so profoundly changed my day to day observations on the world around me.
I leave you with this quote:
"By keeping our minds critically alert we do at least keep them alive and develop our powers of judgement, the chances being that if we fail to exercise them over the less important things, they will fail us over the big. The mind, like any tool, can be blunted and spoiled by rust and neglect, can lose its fine cutting edge, grow slack and unreliable...
...We have to be able to look at our own work, and the work of others, critically; to contrast and compare methods and designs. In this way we shall gradually acquire the knowledge that is more than skill-- an appreciation of what is really good and sound, of the part played by true proportion and clean, shapely line in a really fine piece of work, and a standard of taste which will become a natural part of our mental make-up, so that we shall not tolerate-- at least in our own homes-- anything that falls below it."
The first four books are a collection of woodworking techniques and illustrations. The fifth book is a collection of stories and observations on life from the "chips from the chisel" column, what we would call "a letter from the editor" today.
Christopher Schwarz (editor of Lost Art Press) was concerned that this volume would be poorly received by his readers. The fact that my copy is from the second printing indicates that his concerns were unfounded.
It is a master class on exercising one's powers of observation, mindfulness, and the importance of having a purpose in life. It covers a breathtaking range of ideas and history and was written by a fellow who knew how to think and why.
It has been a very long time since I've read a book that has so profoundly changed my day to day observations on the world around me.
I leave you with this quote:
"By keeping our minds critically alert we do at least keep them alive and develop our powers of judgement, the chances being that if we fail to exercise them over the less important things, they will fail us over the big. The mind, like any tool, can be blunted and spoiled by rust and neglect, can lose its fine cutting edge, grow slack and unreliable...
...We have to be able to look at our own work, and the work of others, critically; to contrast and compare methods and designs. In this way we shall gradually acquire the knowledge that is more than skill-- an appreciation of what is really good and sound, of the part played by true proportion and clean, shapely line in a really fine piece of work, and a standard of taste which will become a natural part of our mental make-up, so that we shall not tolerate-- at least in our own homes-- anything that falls below it."
Wrapping up The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It has always been my practice to thoroughly examine both sides of an argument. John Stuart Mill said something to the effect that we gain conviction in our beliefs through their active defense in On Liberty. If I have misremembered this quote or its source, please forgive me. I read it over 30 years ago.
I'm reading for the third time Neverness by David Zindell. I'm listening to Monster Hunter International Nemesis.
Neverness is an epic piece of literature spanning time and space. I wholeheartedly recommend it.
I'm a reading machine. Usually about 2-4 books a week. I read really fast. Kind of my super power. I can read a pleasure book in a single sitting. Glasses has slowed me down a little but I average 2000 to 2500 words per minute with 90% + comprehension. Average reader is 400 wpm.
I was gifted books as a boy by a disabled man my mother took care of and he was an avid reader. Gave me all his books when he saw me interested in reading. I've read all of them. To date with mine about 10,000. I love books. The smell of a book makes me feel happy.
Neverness is an epic piece of literature spanning time and space. I wholeheartedly recommend it.
I'm a reading machine. Usually about 2-4 books a week. I read really fast. Kind of my super power. I can read a pleasure book in a single sitting. Glasses has slowed me down a little but I average 2000 to 2500 words per minute with 90% + comprehension. Average reader is 400 wpm.
I was gifted books as a boy by a disabled man my mother took care of and he was an avid reader. Gave me all his books when he saw me interested in reading. I've read all of them. To date with mine about 10,000. I love books. The smell of a book makes me feel happy.
