Wooo! More recs!

I must be living right, or something. I mentioned last week that thanks to doing survey, I was getting a $20 gift certificate to Amazon.com, and asked for recommendations. Well, between then and now I got that certificate, I got a completely unexpected $5 certificate from a survey I filled out some time ago and forgot about, and a third survey company sent me a two-part excruciatingly long (an hour to fill out each portion, spread over 2 days) survey on what beverages I drink, when, where, and how they make me feel, for which I got enough points to redeem for $30 in Amazon gift certificates.

So I am rollin' in the virtual dough right now and am planning my Amazon splurge. You guys recommended me fantasy last week, how about interesting nonfiction this week? I've read and liked Mary Roach's books, I've read and like Peter Sagal's The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them), and in the middle of and enjoying Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai, enjoyed Comfort of Things. I like social history, anthropology, science, those weird sorts of books that seem to not quite fit a classification (Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - economics, psychology, mass psychology, what?). Also cookbooks.

There's also my Amazon wishlist - not for buying-for-me purposes, but to give you an idea of what I've looked at recently and went "Huh. Sounds interesting. Maybe I'll try that one day."