(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best educational & nonfiction graphic novels

Depends on what kind of travel you prefer but these are a few I've read and heartily recommend:

Vagabonding by Rolf Potts

• My bible for motivation and the reasons why I travel. Lots of information about why you should prioritise travel in your life.
  
  
  A Short Ride in the Jungle by Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent
  
  
• A young british women rides the original Ho Chi Minh trail, well written with a great amount of history thrown in.
  
  
  Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
  
  
• Not your standard travel book, Guy draws daily life in the countries he's living with his wife. This book is all about his time in Burma (Myanmar)
  
  
  Jupiters Travels by Ted Simon
  
  
• Another motorcycle adventure book, Ted rode around the world on a Triumph back in 1973. Great example of don't fret about things outside your control.
  
   
  
  If anybody has any similar recommendations based on the above I'd love to hear them too :)
  

In addition to the obvious strategy of continuing to be a good client, here's some more things clients can do to help, with varying degrees of commitment involved:

• Come out of the closet. Be open with friends and family about hiring sex workers. It's harder for others to demonize clients if someone they know and trust--a brother, a father, a friend--is a client.
  
• Speak out against stereotypes of providers and clients. Don't let the tropes of "prostitute as victim" or "exploitative john" go unchallenged.
  
• Speak out against the exaggerated statistics of rescue industry non-profits and sex worker hostile feminists.
  
• Talk up the "New Zealand model", and show how full decriminalization works much better than the "Swedish model".
  
• Talk up the support of decriminalization by well respected non-profits, such as Amnesty International
  
• Donate money to sex work non-profits such as SWOP-USA and Red Light Legal.
  
• Donate money to politicians who are sympathetic to sex workers such as Rand Paul
  
• Join the Free State Project, and work on decriminalization there. If there were a state where prostitution were wholly decriminalized, it could serve as a model for other states.
  
• Run for, and win political office.
  
• Write model legislation, if it doesn't already exist, so that you have something tangible to ask politicians to support.
  
• Write letters to the editor, blog posts, etc in support of decriminalization.
  
• Hold fundraising parties to raise money for decriminalization, legal defense funds.
  
• Join the ACLU/EFF, and help them fight back against FOSTA/SESTA.
  
• If you're an academic, host conferences and speakers in defense of decriminalization. Make sure that sex work hostile academics don't get tenure, don't get published, and don't funding. Speak out against the bad statistics, and bad methodology that are often practiced by sex work hostile academics.
  
• Write software to support sex workers, such as apps that help them to screen out cops and bad clients.
  
• Start businesses in support of sex workers, as AssemblyFour is doing with Switter.
  
• Out hypocrites such as Trump, Spitzer, etc, who persecute sex workers, even as they make use of their services.
  
• Join decentralized social networks such as Switter and Hubzilla, and boycott censorship prone organizations like Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
  
• Buy and promote the books of sex worker positive authors, such as Laura Agustin, Chester Brown, and Lola Davina.

i've got a few to recommend. for the nerdy geeky side of things, you'd wanna read A Geek in Japan.

if you're interested in food - Pretty Good Number One is solid (don't read this on an empty stomach).

For culture, i love reading Untangling My Chopsticks - the author basically went to kyoto to learn a tea ceremony but writes really beautifully about her experience there.

i also really enjoyed Wrong About Japan where Peter Carey writes about travelling to Japan with his son with the sole purpose of satisfying the kid's curiosity.

my last recommendation is not really a book but a sketchbook called Tokyo on Foot - very good to flip through when you're missing the streets of japan.

enjoy!

Climate scientist Michael Mann criticizes several of the claims in the article as overstated in this facebook post, though like most scientists he agrees with the general point that the consequences of climate change will be dire unless we take serious action (he has a book for non-scientists outlining the dangers and the politicization of the issue, The Madhouse Effect). And if anyone's interested in a book focused specifically on the best scientific predictions about the consequences of various amounts of warming, you could check out Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (see this post from one of the climate scientists on the realclimate.org blog, which gives it a positive review and says it accurately reflects the scientific literature on future scenarios).

I think our best chance of avoiding disaster lies in some combination of moving over to renewables and/or nuclear within the next few decades combined with massive production of carbon capture devices in the second half of the century, which could allow us to keep the warming to around 2 degrees or less. One important point is that without such massive deployment of carbon capture we don't really stand a chance of keeping it that low--check out the graphs here where the first two graphs show how fast carbon emissions would have to go to zero without any carbon capture if we want to keep warming to 1.5 degrees or less, along with a third graph showing how the decline can be more gradual if we have negative emissions later. The graphs are based on the "carbon quotas" for different amounts of warming on p. 64 of this IPCC report, and the quota for 2 degrees is not that much larger than 1.5 degrees (2900 gigatons vs. 2250 gigatons, only 29% larger) so the corresponding graphs for keeping it under 2 degrees wouldn't look too different.

The cause for hope here is that prototypes for carbon capture devices that remove CO2 much more efficiently than trees have already been built, see this article and this one, along with this interview with a physicist involved in the research where he makes the following point:

>My hope would be that we then would have a device that can take out a ton a day of carbon from the atmosphere. If you take out a ton a day, you would need 100 million air capture devices to take out all the C02 that we putting into the atmosphere today. And I would argue that it would be a lot less than that because we would also be capturing carbon at the flue stack, and not making the C02 in the first place by developing solar and wind technologies. ... There are about 1 billion cars out there. We are building 70 million cars and light trucks a year. So that kind of industrial production is quite possible. Eventually we should be able to produce an air capture device for roughly what it costs to manufacture a car.

I also think that another reason to be hopeful is that we may in the not-too-distant future achieve full automation of the production process for most mass-produced goods, leading to the possibility of self-replicating robot factories (what Eric Drexler calls clanking replicators), and I think the effect of this would tend to drive down the prices of all mass-produced goods--including things like carbon capture devices and solar panels--down to barely more than the cost of the raw materials and energy that went into them, so large-scale production of any good would be much cheaper. I talked more about this idea here.

My favorite author, and this is his most fun book even if he has a couple better received books

Bukowski is an amazing author regardless of what succs say.

Great book. Brought the term grok into existence

Really cool graphic novel series

David sedaris is probably the best comedic novelist i've ever read/heard. I recommend audio though because he has great delivery, which is what made him such a popular guest on NPR


selfish gene by dawkins. I know Dawkins is a meme, but this book is actually really good along with a lot of his earlier books.

Maybe try some general graphic novels of good stories and slowly transition to books. I teach sixth grade and its tough to get them reading sometimes. I have some suggestions:

https://www.amazon.com/Odysseus-Escaping-Poseidons-Graphic-Paperback/dp/0822585154/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=D51ZJET6PYE2E7TBQ9T4

That one is the Odyssey in graphic novel form. Under "Customers Also Bought" or w/e they have lots of other ones.

Since those are mostly straight up comic books, maybe start with those and move to "graphic history" further down the road. Like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-Graphic-Invasion-Fortress-Histories/dp/0760343926

That one is a book about history that is illustrated. From there maybe the student will be interested enough in reading and have the reading stamina for a full novel.

That's just some ideas I've come up with dealing with sixth graders with low interest in reading.

Good luck!

Burma Chronicles is awesome. It's a graphic novel / travel diary of the author. He lived in Burma, and does an amazing job of painting a picture of his experience -- funny, entertaining, and occasionally heartbreaking. It seems like a pretty realistic depiction of day to day life as well (although it was written in 2004, so it may be a bit dated).

Two of my perennial favorites, which I'll add to some of the terrific suggestions below:

• 'The Elements of Journalism' by Kovach and Rosenstiel. Great grounding in the essential principles of the practice. There's also a decade-old online supplement.
  
  
• 'The Influencing Machine,' a graphic non-novel by Brooke Gladstone, offering an easy-to-read overview of a lot of thinking about journalism and media, including a discussion of journalism's real biases.
  
  But besides those, much of the writing, especially on technology, gets old very quickly, so as other people have pointed out, books aren't always your best route. Get yourself into the social media conversation about journalism, where you'll find people like @romenesko and @jayrosen_nyu and many many other astute and intelligent commentators taking on the issues that are going to shape your career. But those two books are a solid foundation of the ideas underlying journalism.

Youtube is a vast resource for almost any gun these days.

Four basic rules of gun safety:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQrlDUIZ3f0

Basic range safety and ettiquette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvFyw-6Fqs


How to operate an AR15:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFFN_j3WD80

How to zero it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9oXGT55cV8


How to shoot it (like a boss):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ligUEAJH25E

How to maintain it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4DQ5QlwrA

How it works:

P1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKKQcJnMEOo

P2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VntwFqcE4-g

Development history:

Early development and current ongoing modernization
https://www.full30.com/video/9b50f8a825ab510b4c227c7b32a76bc1

A2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX5RoaYqQ04

Army approved camouflaging methods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE_Ly61h10w

Things you should consider if your going to involve yourself in gun ownership and the greater gun community:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGYf9AZlSyU



Literature (for your library of badassery):

Owners guide:

http://www.amazon.com/NEW-AR-15-Complete-Owners-Guide/dp/1888722193/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419244413&sr=1-3&keywords=ar15

Builders guide:

http://www.amazon.com/AR-15-Complete-Assembly-Guide-Kuleck/dp/1888722126/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419244598&sr=1-4&keywords=ar15

DOD technical manual (vintage repro) A1:

http://www.amazon.com/The-M16A1-Rifle-Preventive-Maintenance/dp/1616088648/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1NXC05W604YBE436A34P

DOD technical manual A2/M4:

http://www.amazon.com/M16A2-Carbine-5-56mm-Technical-Manual/dp/1601700199/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419244734&sr=1-3&keywords=m16+manual

Another manual:

http://www.amazon.com/M16-Weapon-Gordon-Rottman/dp/1849086907/ref=sr_1_31?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419245604&sr=1-31&keywords=black+rifle

Collectors guide (early rifles):

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rifle-Retrospective-Modern-Military/dp/0889351155/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1419245668&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=black+rifle+retrospective

Collectors guide (modernized rifles & carbines):

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rifle-II-Into-Century/dp/0889353484/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419245763&sr=1-5&keywords=black+rifle


Wiki page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15

If you decide to get into gun ownership taking a firearms safety course and getting what you need to participate in an Appleseed marksmanship clinic are good first steps into getting some hands on experience with firearms and the history of the 2nd amendment. Safety courses are held all over the place some googling will find you one in your area pretty easily they are usually fairly inexpensive. Appleseed clinics are scheduled events that are at predetermined ranges. https://www.appleseedinfo.org/ Beyond that if you choose to get an AR15 there are a lot of schools that host "Introductory Carbine Classes" designed around the AR15. They are good ways to get some hands on training but they usually require you to bring your own rifle, mags, some basic load bearing kit, and ammo. If you can afford to get into an entry level carbine class they are usually worth it. Watching youtube videos and reading some text on the stuff can be greatly useful but there is a limit to how much you can learn without getting hands on experience.

I just turned in a pretty beastly graphic novel order at work--over a thousand dollars! Among those I'm looking forward to reading are The Hunting Accident, The Last Days of American Crime, Voices in the Dark (which is supposed to be fantastic) and Verax.

Non-graphic novelwise, I'm currently waiting on the new Gregory Maguire book, Hiddensee--I'm not much for deconstructed fairy tales but I love The Nutcracker, so we'll see. Also itching to read both Three Piece Meal, the new one by Zane though god knows when it'll be out, and Fresh Complaint, the new short story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides.

(All links are to Amazon.)

In addition to the answers provided here, Jon Gruber also wrote an extremely short (comic) book (www.amazon.com/Health-Care-Reform-Necessary-Works/dp/0809053977/) that describes in detail the mechanisms by which it's supposed to save money. Gruber was a major architect/proponent of both Romneycare and Obamacare, so he's an obviously biased source (and it shows), but it's a good easy read if you want to understand the motivation behind the plan.

How about:

• This Crash Course US History Timeline Poster ($12)
  
• This Crash Course US Government Poster ($10)
  
• This beautiful book of illustrated maps ($25)
  
• Rad American Women A-Z ($17)
  
• Literally anything related to Hamilton
  
• A "On This Day In History" Calendar ($9)
  
• The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation ($15)
  
• A History of America in 100 Maps ($23)
  
• Something under "history classroom" on Etsy
  
  Also: Have you tried having a look at what she's pinned on Pinterest? You might find some helpful ideas there. Good luck!

I know he was one of ten people with the title of "Playwright" for the army during WW2.

If you are interested in comic creators in the military be sure to check out Will Eisner's work on PS Magazine. From 1951 to 1971, he did comics about maintenance, conservation and prevention of military resources (like tires, engines, bullets...). It's a great and interesting sampling.

https://www.amazon.com/PS-Magazine-Preventive-Maintenance-Monthly/dp/0810997487

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There is a great book that includes this premise as a big part of the author's thesis. The book is Unflattening by Nick Sousanis. It's primarily filled with drawings and supported by text. Definitely worth the read.

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Kaiser Foundation: Get Ready for Obamacare: Health Insurance Changes Coming Your Way Under the Affordable Care Act

The Actual Prices for Insurance Under Obamacare

Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works

Where Americans get health coverage

Will I qualify for lower out-of-pocket costs?

Kaiser Foundation Subsidy Calculator

Chart from the Kaiser Family Foundation - premiums for a 25-year-old who earns $25,000

two-minute Obamacare explainer

It exists! I had to read it over the summer for my freshman year of high school, and honestly it was pretty decent. Would recommend.

I found Trinity (sorry for the mobile link)

Awesome review of the creation and uses of the atomic bomb in graphic novel form. Well done.

A comic book about autism: https://www.amazon.com/World-beyond-my-Shadow-ebook/dp/B01GSDHDLQ/
It is pretty popular (among adults and children) in Germany and was recently translated to English.

My wife just pushed a graphic novel into my hands and told me to read it. It was like it was about me. I cried from relief. Finally I know why my life seems hard, why I sometimes blow up at someone, even why I hate sunshine.

Give him more info. The revelation towards himself might really help him.

If he indeed is autistic he will value the information. Autist like to understand things and not understanding aspects of oneself is extremely frustrating. Most of us (and most might even mean all, but I'm not absolutely sure) love to learn and gather knowledge.

But be aware that knowing will not make him less autistic. There will still be shutdowns and meltdowns. It might well make a huge difference for both of you if you know the hows and whys.

Would they like something like this? A Korean cookbook in the form of a comic book? https://www.amazon.com/Cook-Korean-Comic-Book-Recipes/dp/1607748878/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

I'll let others throw out some examples, but if you're interested in how philosophical topics have already been incorporated into comics, I would check out Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy, and Unflattening.

The best place to start is the comic book. Not even kidding.

This one is really cool. In the same vein, I like Cook Korean, another cooking comic that came out recently.

Three graphic novels that you might enjoy: there is this one on enlightenment figures, this one on Bertrand Russell, and this one about contemporary physics.

I HIGHLY recommend the comic book History of Professional Wrestling.

https://www.amazon.com/Comic-Book-Story-Professional-Wrestling/dp/0399580492

The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport

The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399580492/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_cDQRCbNYRVPJH

If you've not read Brooke Gladstone's book, The Influencing Machine, I highly recommend you check it out. Should be required media literacy reading. http://www.amazon.com/The-Influencing-Machine-Brooke-Gladstone/dp/0393342468

While Eisner was serving the US making educational comics to help the war effort other luminaries stepped in for him on The Spirit, including Jack Cole and Wally Wood. But if you want real Eisner Spirit, center cut, check out the DC reprints, The Spirit Archives, especially volumes 2 and 3. Like many serial characters, it took Eisner a while to figure out what was great and essential in the character he created.

As a side note, Ebony White, the Spirit's sidekick, is a cringeworthy, antiquated stereotype. Eisner lived long enough to struggle with the damage he did with this character. But that's another story for another thread. Ebony is still painful to read for me and many other Eisner enthusiasts. The past isn't all perfect or easy to deal with.

You must read March by John Lewis.You might also like Trinity and Relish.

I know someone who purchased this and found it enjoyable: https://www.amazon.com/Health-Care-Reform-Necessary-Works/dp/0809053977

Also, there is another TIMES article that is worth the read. Heads up, its pretty long but does a good job discussing the affordability crisis: http://www.uta.edu/faculty/story/2311/Misc/2013,2,26,MedicalCostsDemandAndGreed.pdf

Also this: https://sph.umich.edu/sep/overview/pdf/Hall%202014.pdf

Jon Gruber's website has a lot of relevent stuff. And a comic book!

Check out Unflattening by Nick Sousanis

https://www.amazon.com/Unflattening-Nick-Sousanis/dp/0674744438

It's actually from this rad book-
https://www.amazon.com/Comic-Book-Story-Professional-Wrestling/dp/0399580492

Amazon Link
This guide is the source of everything I said. The self-similar sets are repeated throughout all of nature.

Yup. https://www.amazon.com/United-States-Constitution-Graphic-Adaptation/dp/0809094703

https://www.amazon.com/M16A1-Rifle-Operation-Preventive-Maintenance/dp/1616088648/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466698005&sr=8-1&keywords=m16+will+eisner

Must be a Romance Novel she's got there.

https://www.amazon.com/M16A1-Rifle-Operation-Preventive-Maintenance/dp/1616088648

I think this comic book does a good job of answering your question, if I'm understanding it correctly:

https://www.amazon.com/Health-Care-Reform-Necessary-Works/dp/0809053977/ref=sr_1_1?crid=7OH7RP0RNGW3&keywords=gruber+health+care+reform&qid=1570152048&sprefix=grouber+health%2Caps%2C159&sr=8-1

"Open Market" health insurance, if I'm understanding you right, is pre-ACA health insurance. Before the ACA (aka Obamacare) was enacted, individuals could purchase health insurance, but it wasn't easy or great coverage. Insurers were allowed to underwrite (i.e. set prices and/or deny coverage) based on a variety of things - it was nigh impossible to get health insurance if you had a pre-existing condition.

I was appealing a medical bill for someone back in the "open market" days who had been injured hunting. However, he didn't have health insurance to cover his care because nobody had been willing to sell him any because he was diabetic. In many states, it was impossible to purchase individual "open market" health insurance that would cover maternity services.

On the surface, when you could get it, it looked more affordable due to its lower premiums (which was easy to do since insurers could simply exclude sick people). But these policies often left people high and dry when they actually needed their medical costs covered.

I can't find this one article from several years ago that I was looking for, but this one from 2010 does an ok job of explaining what it was like: https://health.usnews.com/health-news/managing-your-healthcare/healthcare/articles/2010/03/11/dont-get-short-changed-by-short-term-medical-insurance