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WELCOME TO THE CHONGONATION.ORG RECOMMENDED READING LIBRARY AND TEMPORARY HOME PAGE.   CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE chongonation.COM  SITE, WHICH HAS PICTURES. THIS SITE HERE HAS BOOKS ONLY.    |  Home  |  Purpose  |  Contact  |  Products  |  Learn  |  Library  |  Videos  |  Music  |  Photos  |  Links  |  News  |  Contributing  |  Lounge  |  HUMOR BOOKS SCIENCE BOOKS PHILOSOPHY BOOKS BOOKS ON BIG WALL CLIMBING RELIGIOUS BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE chongonation.org RECOMMENDED READING LIBRARY The works of the greatest minds that have ever lived, together, in one place, and for absolutely anyone, because nearly all are free! YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO READ, IN ORDER TO LEARN!!! Because YouTube will spare you the need by reading many of these books to you!!! -- as of 10/25/20 2:00 p.m. PT --     R E F R E S H     T H I S     A N D     A L L     P A G E S     F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As many pages at this site are updated often)

"Patriotism is a platitude by which spineless men can claim to have a backbone." --Initial quote of WHAT STUPIDITY BELIEVES, A Handbook for Thinking Republican

CLICK HERE FOR NEW LIST OF ALL THE BOOKS THAT CHONGO HAS WRITTEN (Now at thirty different titles, with several more near completion) HOMELESS INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, No Math >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Full Unabridged Version<<< THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BIG WALL CLIMBING Volume One: The Groung Manual >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase<<< NEW BOOK, TO BE AN IDIOT, A GUIDE TO THE CHOICES >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase<<< NEW BOOK, The Quotable Chongo, ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, VOLUME TWO, INSIGHT >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase<<< NEW BOOK, The Quotable Chongo, ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, VOLUME THREE, COMPASSION >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase<<< NEW BOOK, The Quotable Chongo, ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, VOLUME FOUR, LIBERTY >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase<<< NEW BOOK, The Quotable Chongo, ON HOW TO BE BITCHINER, VOLUME ONE, DISCIPLINE   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase<<< NEW BOOK, THE ORIGIN STORY, How We Got Here >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase<<< CLICK HERE FOR NEW, FREE BOOK, CONFUCIUS, According to Chongo CLOCKS ON A TRAIN Click here to see Relativity's geometry illustrated online in The Infinite Void, below >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<< The Quotable Chongo, ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, VOLUME ONE, COURAGE >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase<<< THE INFINITE VOID, Relativity's Space and Time Without Math >>>Relativity's geometry illustrated online (Supplements Clocks on a Train above) >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Full Unabridged Version<<< MONKEY IN THE MIRROR, Simple Courage, A Story About Life >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase<<< CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL THE DIFFERENT BOOKS THAT CHONGO HAS WRITTEN

R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)     YouTube Videos   CLICK HERE FOR MUSIC CLICK HERE TO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT THE LIFE OF THE GREAT THINKER AND TEACHER, CONFUCIUS CLICK HERE TO SEE THE GREAT GEORGE CARLIN ON AMERICA CLICK HERE FOR A MORE ACCURATE AMERICAN HISTORY CLICK HERE FOR A HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF MIDDLE EAST 1 2 3 4 5 CLICK HERE TO SEE A BRAVE MARIA TOORPAKAI WAZIR SPEAK OF A WOMAN'S LIFE IN AFGHANISTAN CLICK HERE FOR A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIFE ON EARTH CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW BEAVERS MITIGATE DROUGHT

Click on author or title to either read or download free, on-line in PDF format, or to watch pertinent video on YouTube. Click here to move down page.            An Essay by Chris Hedges   Or, A Short and Stunning Speech by Chris          Neil Degrasse Tyson Speaks Candidly

Paul Hawken                                                               'GREEN LIST' (BELOW) INCLUDES TWELVE BOOKS THAT EVERYONE SHOULD READ + MORE                  DRAWDOWN: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever to Reverse Global Warming           Carl Sagan   1   2                  Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey                   The Demon Haunted World  (Or click here to hear it in its entirety on YouTube)                      Broca's Brain                       Dragons of Eden            Dwight Eisenhower                    Presidential Farewell Speech 1961  (Or click here to hear the speech in its entirity on YouTube)                      A Two-Thousand Year Old Parallel (And A Commentary on 'Justice')           Albert Einstein  (The one and the only, among the smartest humans to have ever lived, a truly enlightened individual)                  Ideas and Opinions                  Clocks on a Train  Relativity -- The Pamphlet  SPRING 2017 EDITION!                              (Hour long introduction to Relativity by Chongo)   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy of Clocks on a Train<<<                      Relativity by Albert Einstein (Prerequisite conceptual understanding of relativity is highly recommended. Click here to see prerequisite.)                      Relativity as Explained by Chongo in The Infinite Void   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<                      Relativity as Explained by David Mermin in It's About Time                      Relativity as Explained by Charles Steinmetz                      Relativity as Explained by a Textbook ------> 1 Special Relativity: Straight Lines   2 General Relativity: Curves

R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)             Howard Zinn                  The People's History of the United States (The history of poor people of the United States)           Nancy Isenberg                      White Trash.  The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (The origins of our modern, backward country)           Niccolo Machiavelli                      The Prince (An examination of the genuine character of common human ambition in government)           Christopher Hitchens   1   2   3   4   5                  God Is Not Great  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube)                      The Portable Atheist           Sam Harris (Or click here to listen to Sam Harris on YouTube)                      Letter to a Christian Nation                      End of Faith                      The Moral Landscape

H. L. Mencken                                                                                               'GREEN LIST' CONTINUES BELOW -- CLICK HERE TO BRING INTO VIEW            Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)            Confucius                      Analects  (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)           Lao Tzu                      Tao Te Ching  (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)           Eric Ladizinsky (The individual most responsible for the rich content of this Library page)                      Magical Science                      More Magical Science           The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski (Video Presentation)           Laurence G. Boldt                  Zen and the Art of Making a Living            Albert Camus           Wise Arabic Sayings (Desert Wisdom)           Aesop (Click here for condensed version of Fables)                    Aesop's Fables   (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)

R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)            Ardea Skybreak                  Evolution and the Myth of Creationism Knowing What's Real and Why It Matters           Richard Dawkins                     The Greatest Show on Earth (Dawkins most recent look at Evolution)                  The Selfish Gene (A physical explanation for the self-serving origins of altruistic behavior and wants)                     The Blind Watchmaker (Evolution and design)           Jared Diamond                  Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fate of Human Societies  (The pre-history and history of humankind)                  Collapse  How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed  (A Treatsie on Empires)           Julian Jaynes                  The Origin of Consciousness In the Break-Down of the Bicameral Mind <Fixed the Link>                      Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind                      Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jayne's Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited                      Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind, The Theories of Julian Jaynes

Nick Lane                                                                                                                  'BLUE LIST' BEGINS BELOW -- CLICK HERE TO VIEW START OF LIST                      Why Energy Shapes Evolution, An Essay                     The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life  (Information, Energy, and Living System)                     Life Ascending: Ten Great Inventions of Evolution                      Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and The Meaning of Life           Erwin Schroedinger                     Mind and Matter (An early, brilliant definition of life)           Yuval Noah Harari                 Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind (The most recent work on human origins, and the best.)           Douglas Hofstadter                     Godel, Esher, Bach, The Eternal Golden Braid   (A great and stunning work of explanation and understanding that is wholly unique and encompassing.)           Davis, Hersh                 The Mathematical Experience           Scott Aaronson                 Quantum Computing Since Democratus           Murray Gell-Mann  (Among the greatest minds on Earth)                 The Quark and the Jaguar  (Explorations in the simple and the complex)

R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)             Melanie Mitchell                 Complexity, A Guided Tour  (The most recent worthwhile book on complexity)           Richard Feynman                      Q.E.D. (Quantum Electrodynamics) The Strange Theory of Light and Matter                     The Meaning of It All                       The Character of Physical Laws (Advanced Reading)                      The Feynman Lectures (Extremely Advanced Reading)

Chongo (Click here to see ALL the books by Chongo at end of Library below)          'BLUE LIST' CONTINUES BELOW -- CLICK HERE TO VIEW REST OF LIST                  CLOCKS ON A TRAIN (Hour Long Introduction to Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<                      HONOUR THY FATHER Foundations of Monotheism                      THE CHRISTIAN STATE, Whn Religious Law Rules a Nation                      THIS BOOK IS INTENDED TO OFFEND... Series                      THE QUOTABLE CHONGO: ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, Volume One (Philosophy)                      NEW!!!  THE QUOTABLE CHONGO: ON HOW TO BE BITCHIN, Volume Two: Insight              ...in collaboration with José                      THE AN ETERNITY OF TOMORROWS, Everlasting Life and Quantum Theory (The Uncertainty Principle)   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<                      DECISIONS OF NATURE, A Story About God (The Scientific One)   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<                      TOUCH OF THE OBSERVER, Life, the Multiverse, and Immortality (The Deepest Truth in Nature)   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<                      THE INFINITE VOID, Relativity's Space and Time Without Math (In-Depth Relativity)   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<                              (The Infinite Void provides the recommended prerequisite conceptual understanding for Albert Einstein's great work, Relativity, above.)                      HOMELESS INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, No Math  (Quantum Theory, inluding Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<                              (The Homeless Interpretation provides recommended prerequisite understanding for David Deutsch's great work, The Fabric of Reality, just below.)                      PHYSICS FOR PHUCKHEADS, No Math  (Quantum Theory, inluding Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<                              (The Infinite Pattern can provide recommended prerequisite understanding for David Deutsch's great work, The Fabric of Reality, just below.)           David Deutsch  (Dean of Physics, Cambridge, England, and one of the formost thinkers in science today, as well as a champion writer)                  The Fabric of Reality (Prerequisite conceptual understanding of both relativity and modern quantum theory are highly recommended)                       The Beginning of Infinity           Leonard Susskind   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9                   Quantm Mechanics, The Theoretical Minimum (Nothing short of a great work by a great teacher.)                              Basics of Quantum Theory from a Textbook           Greenstein                 The Quantum Challenge           David Wallace                   The Emergent Multiverse (The most recent book on the multiverse, math and all)           James V. Stone                 Information Theory, A Tutorial Introduction            Roger Penrose                          The Road to Reality, A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (An epic work, slightly dated in light of new experiments since publication.)

R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)             Lewis Carroll Epstein                   Thinking Physics (Nothing short of a masterpiece work)           Joseph Campbell                    The Hero's Journey (Short)                    The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Common to all cultures)                        The Power of Myth            Gilgamesh Epic Folk Myth (The Original Recorded Legend of the Hero, 4,000 B.C.)           Sun Tzu                    The Art of War           Daniel Dennet                        Consciousness Explained    Chapter 7   Chapter 8   Chapter 12           Sigmund Freud (on social psychology)                    The Future of an Illusion  (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)                    Civilization and Its Discontents (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)           Marcus Arelius                    Meditations  (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)           Jean-Jacques Rouseau                    Discourse on Inequality  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)                    The Social Contract  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)           Baruch Spinoza                    The Complete Works  (Or click here to hear it on YouTube)           Bertrand Russel                    The History of Western Philosophy  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)                    Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy                        Essay Collection                        Basic Writings                        All Works           Karl Popper                       The Logic of Scientific Discovery                       The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume I , Volume II

R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)            Benjamin Franklin           Leonardo da Vinci           Edward Gibbon                    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire           Adam Smith                      The Wealth of Nations  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)                      The Theory of Moral Sentiments  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)           Marx -- Engles           Thomas Paine                      The Age of Reason  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)                      The Rights of Man  (Or click here to listen to it on YouTube.)           Thomas Jefferson                      The United States Constitution                      The United States Declaration of Independence           Noam Chomshy                      Imperial Ambitions (2005)                      Understanding Power (2002)           Yanis Varoufakis                   The Global Minotaur (The Future of the World Economy)           Carl Sandburg           Raj Patel                   The Value of Nothing  (Economics)           William Blum                        Rogue State           Bernal Diaz (A direct, first hand observer)                   The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (The genuine character of cultural conflict)           William H. Prescott                   The History of the Conquest of Peru (An examination of the character of the cultural conflict in the Inca world)                   The History of the Conquest of Mexico (An examination of the character of cultural conflict in the Aztec World)

R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)             Seth Lloyd                    Programming the Universe                    The Universe as a Quantum Computer           Julian Brown                   Minds, Machines, and the Mutiverse           Hugh D, Young                   Fundamentals of Waves, Optics, and Modern Physics            Paul Davies                   The Forces of Nature           Desmond Morris                    The Naked Ape (An examination of the character of the human animal)           Michael Pollan                    In Defense of Food (Healthy Eating)           Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddah)           Eugene Herrigel                    Zen and the Art of Archery           Gabriel Garcia Marquez                    A Hundred Years of Solitude (Not exactly fiction)                    Cien Años de Soledad (No es precisament ficción, pero chido lo es)           Kahlil Gibran                    The Voice of the Master (Among other considerations, the disadvantages of power)           Miyamoto Musashi     1    2    3                     The Book of Five Rings (Journey of a homeless samurai)           Lance Fortnow                  The Golden Ticket  P, NP, and the Search For the Impossible

  R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)  

John C, Taylor                   Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws            David Berlinski                 Tour of the Calculus

  R E F R E S H    F R E Q U E N T L Y ! ! !    (As this page is updated often)  

Chongo                   The Quotable Chongo: On How to Be Bitchin (Philosophy)                      NEW!!!  The Quotable Chongo: On How To Be Bitchin, Volume Two: Insight                    Honour Thy Father, Foundations of Monotheism                      The Christian State, When Religious Law Rules a Nation                      This Book Is Intended to Offend... Series                   Monkey in the Mirror Episode One: Simple Courage                   Love and Hate at Sea, A Book About Wall Partners (An Exploration in Relationships)                   Clocks on a Train (Hour Long Introduction to Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<             Chongo in collaboration with José                   An Eternity of Tomorrows, Everlasting Life and Quantum Theory      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<                   DecisionsofNature, A Story about God (The Scientific One)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<                   Touch of the Observer, Life, The Multiverse, and Immortality      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<                  The Infinite Void, Relativity's Space and Time Without Math (In-Depth Relativity)   >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Bound Copy<<<                                    (The Infinite Void provides the recommended prerequisite conceptual understanding for Albert Einstein's great work, Relativity, above.)                   Homeless Interpretation on Quantum Mechanics, No Math  (Quantum Theory, inluding Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<                                    (The Homeless Interpretation of Q.M. provides the recommended prerequisite conceptual understanding for David Deutsch's great work, The Fabric of Reality, above.)                   Physics for Phuckheads, No Math  (Compact Quantum Theory, inluding Relativity)      >>>Click Here to See How to Purchase Complete Copy of Full Version<<<                                    (Physics for Phuckheads can serve to provide the recommended prerequisite conceptual understanding for David Deutsch's great work, The Fabric of Reality, above.)

ADVANCED TECHNICAL ROCK CLIMBING BOOKS BY CHONGO   >>>Click here to go to the .COM site, the other chogonation web site, oriented toward big wall rockclimbing, slacklining, and highlining<<< IF YOU ARE A TECHNICAL ROCKCLIMBER OR ARE CURIOUS ABOUT BOOKS THAT EXPLAIN TECHNICAL ROCKCLIMBING (SPECIFICALLY, BIG WALL CLIMBING), THEN LISTED BELOW ARE SOME OF THE MOST ESSENTIAL TITLES ON THE SUBJECT (BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ARE VERY TECHNICALLY ADVANCED BOOKS THAT EXPLAIN THE MOST TECHNICAL FORM OF CLIMBING IN EXISTENCE, SO PLEASE, UNDERSTAND THIS, AND UNDERSTAND ALSO THE GREAT DANGERS SUCH ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN SUCH AN EXTREME SPORT PRESENT): CLICK HERE TO READ IMPORTANT WARNING ABOUT BOOKS ON EXTREME OUTDOOR SPORTS!                              THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BIG WALL CLIMBING: Volume One, The Ground Manual                                         (Unquestionably, the most comprehensive how-to book ever written on modern big wall methods. Also known as the Big Wall "Bible")                        Advanced Big Wall Stations and Hauling                        Advanced Big Wall Ropes and Rope Management                        Big Wall Racking                        Advanced Big Wall Leading Equipment                        Advanced Big Wall Personal Rack                        Love and Hate at Sea, A Book About Wall Partners   © 2016, Charles Victor Tucker III (Chongo), All rights reserved.               ADVANCED TECHNICAL ROCK CLIMBING BOOKS BY AUTHORS OTHER THAN CHONGO (Below)                                 CLICK HERE TO READ IMPORTANT WARNING ABOUT BOOKS ON EXTREME OUTDOOR SPORTS!             Ryan Jenks                      THE BOLTING BIBLE, The Holy Guide to Bolting Highlines             Roger Putnam and Erik Sloan (w/ significant contributions by Don Reid)                      YOSEMITE BIG WALLS, A Compltete Guide (The most up-to-date and comprehensive guide in existence)           RockClimbingYosemite.com                        ROCKCLIMBING YOSEMITE VALLEY, 750 Best Free Routes (A beautiful work filled with colorful pictures.)

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