 | After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Emmanuel Todd
Buy new: $50.38 / Used from: $0.01 A congressman suggested I read this. It is interesting, though I don't agree with (or follow) all of it.
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 | Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard Clarke
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 This man's got an axe to grind. But what an axe!
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 | All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.05 The "America is never to blame" crowd should be forced to read this with their eyes held open.
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 | Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut by James Marcus
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.01 What the early days of Amazon.com looked like to someone who didn't understand it very well.
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 | American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 No big surprises here, really. Unger's book is probably the more interesting in this genre.
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 | Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America Into a One-Party State by Sheldon Rampton
Buy used from: $0.01 Much better than the insipid title and cover art would suggest. Details the Right's organized rise to power.
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 | The Complete Advanced Pilot: A Combined Commercial & Instrument Course by Robert E. Gardner
Buy used from: $12.30 An excellent text for pilots working on the instrument rating.
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 | Directing the Documentary, Fourth Edition by Michael Rabiger
Buy used from: $16.99 The text for a course I ended up not taking... I read this though. It was interesting, but I bet there is something better out there.
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 | Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 Good, but I'm not sure it justifies the large amount of hype it's received.
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 | Exception to the Rulers, The: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them by Amy Goodman
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $0.01 Amy Goodman is a national treasure.
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 | The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.00 A few hours of good clean fun!
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 | Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life by Leonard Mlodinow
Buy new: $13.67 / Used from: $3.48 Eh.
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 | The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq by Christopher Scheer
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 No surprises. Probably more salient when first released.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy used from: $0.01 Really enjoyable.
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 | Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times by Geoffrey Nunberg
Buy used from: $0.01 Some pleasant diversions. I generally enjoyed it.
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 | IFR Communications Manual: Radio Procedures for Instrumental Flight by Bryan Harston
Buy used from: $1.19 A page turner. No, I really did like it. What can I say?
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 | Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $0.01 Another guy with another considerable axe to grind. Grind on!
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 | Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Franken can be a funny guy, but this book didn't do much for me.
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 | Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 If this guy could survive psychologically, so can you!
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 | The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland by Harvey Pekar
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $4.50 Sick bastard. Gotta love him.
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 | Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies by Ian Buruma
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $5.89 Intriguing, though not particularly enlightening.
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 | The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $3.44 A very long and hard to read book, though worthwhile.
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 | The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Another in a long line of axe-grinders. I must have a thing about them. All of them are worth reading.
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 | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything by Joe Trippi
Buy used from: $0.44 Quite an interesting read, from inside the Dean campaign.
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 | Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web by David Weinberger
Buy new: $11.54 / Used from: $1.51 Enjoyable and thought provoking. Why only 25 books on these lists? Annoying...
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