 | The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $8.82 I think this book should be required by anyone who works outside the home, has a family, travels, drives, is a government official, or a corporate executive. And everyone else. :-)
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 | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Arendt
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $6.80 The similarities between Eichmann and, say, Alberto Gonzales, or the guy in the cubicle next to you, shows just how insidious evil creeps into our society.
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 | The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.30 Sagan was brilliant and an island of sanity in a sea of media crazies. Now he's dead and the crazies rule.
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 | A Force More Powerful
Buy new: $39.95 The answer to everything isn't always just "bomb 'em." The most enduring, positive changes come about through something more courageous the war. Sometimes it may seem like war is the least of all bad choices, but it is NEVER a "good" choice.
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 | A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $1.84 Those who do not learn history are condemned to learn it -- one way or the other. Our times, perhaps all times, are reflected in this one horrifying century.
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 | I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.75 Life is absurd. Bryson captures absurdity in a trip to the library, standing in line at the post office, or just wandering around his back yard. The short piece on how Americans get injured will make you laugh so hard you may need medical attention.
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