Book Recommendations.

[rkangel]

Thanks for this, I'll check it out, presume it's on iPlayer?[/QUOTE

I'm sure it's there too, but I just use Sounds app.

 

[Redwurzel]

E74

Just been reading again "Luftwaffe over the North" by Bill Norman

The author was from Middlesbrough and worked as a lecturer in a local FE college.

He wrote the book in 1993 and a lot of the stories are about aerial German attacks on Teesside and North Yorks. Some interesting photos and maps of Middlesbrough during WW2. I learnt how the Co-op building on Linthorpe Road was hit and thus why it had a car park, how Middlesbrough Station looked with a roof looked before it was bombed. About dummy airfields and installation around Teesside to misled German bombers.

 

[Lefty]

Just realised I have 4 audible book credits. Any suggestions for audiobooks?

usually I read/listen to business books and some history.

so would be keen for business/economics/financial history/history

not a big fiction reader but would be open to classics like 1984.

cheers in advance

I would recommend The Skeptics Guide To The Universe (Steven Novella)

It is a fine work on critical thinking and the mistakes we make and biases we have. He is a practising neurologist and professor at Yale, so he brings into it the latest understanding of how the brain works. He is also a founder of the Science Based Medicine website which is very much about understanding and championing the scientific process. He has also investigated many types of psychic/paranormal activity.

So if you want to know why people believe in stupid things, conspiracy theories and

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

I found a book called guns germs and steel to be a more compelling history of the human race than sapiens.

Chernobyl is a very good book.

 

[Erimus74]

Erimus - Audible usually has 2 free books available on sign up so you could pick a couple up. Just don't forget to cancel the subscription if it's not for you (or you'll end up on here asking people for book ideas to use your credits)

Cheers Jostler, I'll give it a go

 

[Erimus74]

E74

Just been reading again "Luftwaffe over the North" by Bill Norman

The author was from Middlesbrough and worked as a lecturer in a local FE college.

He wrote the book in 1993 and a lot of the stories are about aerial German attacks on Teesside and North Yorks. Some interesting photos and maps of Middlesbrough during WW2. I learnt how the Co-op building on Linthorpe Road was hit and thus why it had a car park, how Middlesbrough Station looked with a roof looked before it was bombed. About dummy airfields and installation around Teesside to misled German bombers.

Thanks red

 

[rkangel]

I found a book called guns germs and steel to be a more compelling history of the human race than sapiens.

Chernobyl is a very good book.

"Guns, Germs and Steel" is a fantastic book. I read it a couple of years ago in Spain and was a rude bloke whilst reading it as I stopped talking to the friends I was staying with. Still, their fault for loaning it to me out there.

 

[atypical_boro]

Alan Partridge - From the Oasthouse