Reddit mentions: The best research reference books

Out of the ballpark this week with two! Also super stoked I'm #1 on Amazon New Releases in Erotica Fiction Writing Reference (Ok. So I'm the only one there. But still!) Well, here you go authors. Enjoy :) Feel free to ask me anything about it all!

Breaking Your Sales Cap

This is a no-holds-barred how-to guide for publishing erotica. Many authors feel they have reached a “wall” when self-publishing erotica. This guide aims to help those authors break past their wall and look at things in a new light with concepts, step by step instructions and professional advice from an already successful author.

This is not a guide for beginners, but for authors that wish to further increase the value of their stories beyond simply just publishing more. This guide will teach you the approximate amount you should be earning with your current catalog and breaking past that maximum amount. This guide assumes you have already read Publishing Erotica: How to Make Your First $1,000, which focuses upon creating a successful foundation for your catalog. From here, I will teach you how turn that $1,000/month catalog into a $10,000/month catalog!

This guide gives away all of my secrets. This is an unrestrained how-to guide for publishing erotica. As always, my name is Write2LiveFree on Reddit and I am always available for any questions you may have!

“The breaking point is a common issue that frustrates authors even though they are doing everything correctly!”

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24 Hours to 5k Rankings

How to break into sub 5k rankings on Amazon within 24 hours.

It’s a known fact well ranking stories on Amazon receive additional exposure. Amazon promotes stories that do well. This guide will help any author, with a focus on erotica authors, to get their stories to rank very well, very quickly. I focus on ways to get a story into the ~5k rankings for every published work within the first 24 hours of launch.

I can almost guarantee if you follow this guide when publishing your next stories, each will rank at or under 5,000 on Amazon. If you already have a following and know what you are doing, expect a much better ranking. These aren’t “cheap tricks,” or “black-hat” methods. These are real ways that when done correctly will skyrocket your stories ahead of everyone else and into the eyes of the readers.

This guide assumes you have read "Publishing Erotica: How to Make Your First $1,000" and "Publishing Erotica: Breaking Your Sales Cap." Without reading and employing the tactics within my first and second guide, this one will only work so well.

Trust me – I can’t even tell you how many messages and emails I receive every day from readers of my guides that have “finally made it” or been able to quit their day job because of the things they’ve learned.

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I would not recommend the Audubon guide it is very out of date (this can range from outdated taxonomy all the way to toxicology that has changed over the years). It is useful because it lists species other guides lacks but you'll learn to hate it.

Buy a location specific guide. It depends on where you live. If you get really into field hunting buy some specific guides that give you a more in depth understanding and help you not to die. Joining a local mycological society is also an extremely valuable resource in understanding mycology.

Here's a bit of everything

Regional guides

Alaska

Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams

Western US

All The Rain Promises and More
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest

Mushrooms Demystified This is an old book, while still useful it definitely needs updating.

The New Savory Wild Mushroom Also dated but made for the PNW

Midwestern US

Mushrooms of the Midwest

Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States

Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest

Southern US

Texas Mushrooms: A Field Guide

Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States

Common Mushrooms of Florida

A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms It's old so you'll need to learn new names.

Eastern US

Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians

Mushrooms of Northeast North America (This was out of print for awhile but it's they're supposed to be reprinting so the price will be normal again)

Mushrooms of Northeastern North America

Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America(Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America)

Mushrooms of Cape Cod and the National Seashore

More specific (Advanced) guides

Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World

North American Boletes

Tricholomas of North America

Milk Mushrooms of North America

Waxcap Mushrooms of North America

Ascomycete of North America

Ascomycete in colour

Fungi of Switzerland: Vol. 1 Ascomycetes A series of 6 books.

Fungi Europaei A collection of 14 books.

PDFs and online Guides

For Pholiota

For Chlorophyllum

American species of Crepidotus

Guide to Australian Fungi If this is useful consider donating to this excellent set of guides.

Websites that aren't in the sidebar

For Amanita

For coprinoids

For Ascos

MycoQuebec: they have a kickass app but it's In French

Messiah college this has a lot of weird species for polypores and other things

For Hypomyces

Cultivation

The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home (If your home is a 50,000 sq ft warehouse)

Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation

Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms

Mycology

The fifth kingdom beginner book, I would recommend this. It goes over fungal taxonomy Oomycota, Zygomycota and Eumycota. It also has ecology and fungi as food.

The kingdom fungi coffee table book it has general taxonomy of the kingdom but also very nice pictures.

Introduction to fungi Depends on your definition of beginner, this is bio and orgo heavy. Remember the fungi you see pop out of the ground (ascos and basidios) are only a tiny fraction of the kingdom.

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Both time series and regression are not strictly econometric methods per se, and there are a range of wonderful statistics textbooks that detail them. If you're looking for methods more closely aligned with econometrics (e.g. difference in difference, instrumental variables) then the recommendation for Angrist 'Mostly Harmless Econometrics' is a good one. Another oft-prescribed econometric text that goes beyond Angrist is Wooldridge 'Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach'.

For a very well considered and basic approach to statistics up to regression including an excellent treatment of probability theory and the basic assumptions of statistical methodology, Andy Field (and co's) books 'Discovering Statistics Using...' (SPSS/SAS/R) are excellent.

Two excellent all-rounders are Cohen and Cohen 'Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences' and Gelman and Hill 'Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Modelling' although I would suggest both are more advanced than I am guessing you need right now.

For time series I can recommend Rob Hyndman's book/s on forecasting (online copy freely available)

For longitudinal data analysis I really like Judith Singer's book 'Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis'.

It sounds however as if you're looking for a bit of a book to explain why you would want to use one method over another. In my experience I wanted to know this when I was just starting. It really comes down to your own research questions and the available data. For example I had to learn Longitudinal/fixed/random effects modelling because I had to do a project with a longitudinal survey. Only after I put it into practice (and completed my stats training) did I come to understand why the modelling I used was appropriate.

> I am very familiar with classical mechanics but not relativity at all

In that case, this is an excellent (and modern) introduction to special relativity:

Spacetime Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0716723271/

An older but equally excellent introduction is by Einstein himself, and it’s in the public domain so you can find it for free,

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

(paid) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00R86QABW/

(free) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5001

Finally, if you allow me to make a plug for myself, I’ve written a few posts here on Reddit that give the gist of the ideas behind both theories. They start here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/dnexh8/question_about_gravity/f5ab0w1/

This is the best, most accessible book I've read on the topic. Also UCLA has a wonderful companion website on the topic. The book is straight forward and the website will give you all of the commands that you need for whatever statistical package you are using. You can simply substitute the variable names for the data set you are using. If you need a more advanced analysis and use STATA try this book. I use it weekly. The University of Bristol has a video series and sweet website on the topic as well.

I can recommend Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence by Judith Singer & John Willett.

The second half of the book considers survival analysis, and R code for the examples from each chapter of the book are available here -- in addition to code for SAS, SPSS Stata, etc.

Full disclosure: I have only worked through the first half of the book so far (growth curve modeling), but the text is very complete and the code on that webpage has been really helpful. I imagine the section on survival analysis is similarly helpful.

So, I don't know how much stats background you have, but if you have some, or at least don't take a crying game shower if you see a formula, Sage monographs has a little paperback called Introduction to Survey Sampling which was used in one of my courses, and it has been quite valuable to me.

You can see in the recommended list, a couple of others of these that are in the same vein. I really like these little Sage monographs because a) they're cheap and b) they're high quality content. You can get right on their website too and sort by subject area.

Paul Allison's monograph on missing data is good too (I don't know if that's a big problem for your field, but for mine, when we get down to sensitive questions some populations leave things blank a lot more frequently than others).

>For Odin knows whatever reason, the NMJ started rewriting degrees.

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In The Degree Rituals of the Supreme Council, 33°, AASR for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction United States of America, C. DeForrest Trexler, 33° literally says:

https://imgur.com/a/8LOvMux

Brother Trexler then spends several chapters retconning past behaviors based on contemporary society's "shorter audience attention span", and other incorrect speculations on human behavior, ultimately concluding that on the matter of re-writing degrees "Pike started it first". No, I'm not joking.

In short - we know why Supreme Council NMJ wants to change things (because they want to, and can). But instead of just owning it, they complicate the matter by telling themselves it is someone else's fault.

I'm a big fan of the Chapman & Hall/CRC "Texts in Statistical Science" series. Their book [Modeling Survival Data in Medical Research] (http://www.amazon.com/Modelling-Survival-Medical-Research-Edition/dp/1584883251) covers the topic from more of a medical approach.


If you're interested in more of human population tracking (from a survey perspective) then Introduction to Variance Estimation by Wolter may better meet your needs.

Link to Amazon UK if anyone wants..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Relativity-Special-General-Theory-ebook-ebook/dp/B00R86QABW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502052916&sr=8-1&keywords=Relativity%3A+The+Special+and+General+Theory

Apparently you can get it free elsewhere, but for a paltry £0.99 to get it delivered to my Kindle, who cares really?

if you like you can read the first couple chapters for free using amazons "look inside" here: https://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Explained-History-Artifacts-Cyberspace-ebook/dp/B015YDZJ7Q

This has already been done. Check out the book by Cheryl Costa - https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Sightings-Desk-Reference-2001-2015/dp/1544219237

I heard her on the Open Minds podcast just yesterday. I should clarify. I was listening to this episode yesterday. She was on a few months ago.

http://www.openminds.tv/cheryl-costa-ufos-by-the-numbers-april-10-2017/39955

Hope this helps :D

IMO repeated measures and longitudinal data are extremely underappreciated topics for data scientists, which you encounter if you work with any kind of data where you record data on "subjects" or "users" over time. The most accessible and best resource I have seen on this topic is Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis by Singer and Willett, which is written for a graduate-level social science audience and has a light touch on the math but goes heavy on building intuition for random effects models and survival analysis. There is a cache of examples in R for it here. There are more mathematical treatments of this from a biostatistics perspective, such as Analysis of Longitudinal Data, but I would start with Singer and Willett.

When you do make that chart, please send a copy to this guy.

I self-published a book for the sole purpose of educating/trolling my students on the topic of what constitutes a valid source for a research paper.

Because you can't copyright book titles in the US, Professor Plausible's Big Book of Baloney has three alternate titles: Handbook of Organizational Psychology, Clinical Pharmacokinetics, and Das Kapital. It's a blank, lined notebook, billed as "the world's first combination notebook, sketchpad, and academic source: the only [Citation] you'll ever need."

Is there some topic or book title that would amuse/alarm your students? Maybe tell them you're quitting your day job to write full time? Then you can hold up a copy of your steamy new Roman à clef, scathing exposé, billionaire Yeti cowboy erotica, whatever suits.

CreateSpace makes it really easy. If you start now, you can have actual books in hand by April 1. I did mine over Christmas break.

One thing I didn't expect to happen was that some poor fellow bought the Kindle version, was understandably annoyed at the paucity of content, and left me a one-star review.

Because the entire east of Bolivia doesn't produce shit for the country while the west produces almost 77% of the national income so he made a political campaign based of the coca industry aka drugs. He allowed his own people to produce as much cocaine as they wanted to without facing any sort of consequence which is why the first thing he did as president was kick the US drug task force out of the country because he knew that they would expose this. And anytime a journalist exposed him he would exile them from Bolivia and in the end his own people in the east ended up turning against him because he sold land regions to China and Russia handing Bolivian resources to them and getting nothing in return.

If you really want to know all the details buy this book https://www.amazon.com/Mito-Enga%C3%B1o-Spanish-Carlos-Valverde/dp/1544138881/ref=sr_1_14?keywords=Evo+Morales&qid=1572199550&sr=8-14

Statistics in a nutshell has a lot of information without an overwhelming amount of math. Chapter 18 is on medical and epidemiological statistics. Amazon says there's a new version coming out soon.

If you want to round out your ancient philosophy a little more, add the following authors to your list.
Greek Philosophy

• The Pre-Socratics
  
• Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics
  
  Roman
  
  
• Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
  
• Seneca and Marcus Aurelius (stoic philosophy)
  
• Plotinus (neo-platonism)

LF:

https://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Database-Management-Joy-Starks/dp/1337093424

https://www.amazon.ca/Physics-Life-Sciences-Martin-Zinke-Allmang/dp/0176558691/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Research-Planning-Design-12th/dp/0134775651

The world is flat. You can't feel motion and gravity is just electromagnetism and there is a dome.

If you don't believe me (I know I'm explaining this badly),

Please read:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NWWV985/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Proofs-That-Earth-Globe-ebook/dp/B077KZ5T6T/ref=pd_sim_351_2/257-1590296-6003635?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B077KZ5T6T&pd_rd_r=c6ae0a94-8314-11e9-a809-4568a1bbcbf5&pd_rd_w=7Acbt&pd_rd_wg=xYukx&pf_rd_p=1b8636ae-4f21-4403-a813-e8849dd46de4&pf_rd_r=WXY5D51KBP5NP4ACQ329&psc=1&refRID=WXY5D51KBP5NP4ACQ329

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zetetic-Astronomy-Earth-Globe-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B077VV6QM4/ref=pd_sim_351_1/257-1590296-6003635?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B077VV6QM4&pd_rd_r=c6ae0a94-8314-11e9-a809-4568a1bbcbf5&pd_rd_w=7Acbt&pd_rd_wg=xYukx&pf_rd_p=1b8636ae-4f21-4403-a813-e8849dd46de4&pf_rd_r=WXY5D51KBP5NP4ACQ329&psc=1&refRID=WXY5D51KBP5NP4ACQ329

Same here. In addition we used Arranging & Describing Archives & Manuscripts and Providing Reference Services for Archives & Manuscripts.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Survey-Research-Polling-Analysis/dp/0803974027

You need to read this book if you're going to be serious about writing surveys/doing statistics. There are lots of issues with the design of your survey.

http://www.amazon.com/Improving-Survey-Questions-Evaluation-Research/dp/0803945833