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5/08 Featured Books
World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler
Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health
Dr. J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.
Greed, Fraud & Ignorance: A Subprime Insider's Look at the Mortgage Collapse
Richard Bitner
Planet of Slums
Mike Davis
Hapas
Non-fiction
Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution .
(Michael Lind)
Intersecting Circles: The Voices of Hapa Women in Poetry and Prose
(ed. Maria Hara & Nora Keller)
The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans
(ed. Teresa Williams-Leon)
Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural
(Claudine O'Hearn)
Check All That Apply: Finding Wholeness as a Multiracial Person
(Sundee Frazier)
What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People
(Pearl Fuyo Gaskins, for 8th grade +)
The Multiracial Experience : Racial Borders as the New Frontier
(Maria Root)
(academic focus)
Rethinking 'Mixed Race'
(ed. David Parker & Miri Song) (academic focus)
New Faces in a Changing America : Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century (Sage Masters in Modern Social Thought)
(Ed. Loretta Winters & Herman DeBose) (academic focus)
Sui Sin Far: A Literary Biography
by Annette White-Parks, Roger Daniels
fiction
Crushing Soft Rubies: A Memoir
by Janet Stickmon
Face
by Aimee Liu
American Knees
by Shawn Wong
Country of Origin
by Don Lee
American Son
by Brian Ascalon Roley
Caucasia
by Danzy Senna
The Frontiers of Love
by Diana Chang
Shark Dialogues
by Kiana Davenport
The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
by Kien Nguyen
Memories of My Ghost Brother
by Heinz Insu Fenkl
Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography
by Kip Fulbeck
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5/08 Featured Films
Coup de Torchon
(1981, Bertrand Tavernier, recommended by Don E.)
Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow
(1964, Vittorio de Sica)
Confidentially Yours
(1983, Francois Truffaut)
China
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge To China's Future
by Elizabeth C. Economy
The Future of Life
by E. O. Wilson
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Mao's War against Nature : Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
by Judith Shapiro
China's New Rulers: The Secret Files
by Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley
China Wakes : The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
by Nicolas D. Kristof
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
by Peter Hessler
The River at the Center of the World : A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
by Simon Winchester
The Good Women of China : Hidden Voices
by Xinren Xue
Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
Hungry Ghosts : Mao's Secret Famine
by Jasper Becker
BIG DRAGON : The Future of China: WHAT IT MEANS FOR BUSINESS, THE ECONOMY, AND THE GLOBAL ORDER
by Daniel Burstein
Mao : The Unknown Story
by Jung Chang
The Private Life of Chairman Mao
by Li Zhi-Sui
The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security
by Andrew J. Nathan
China Dawn: The Story of a Technology and Business Revolution
by David Scheff
Streetlife China
by Michael Dutton
China's New Order : Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition
by Hui Wang
Red Sorrow: A Memoir
by Nanchu
The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads
The China Dream: The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth
by Joe Studwell
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Essential Books
The Misbehavior of Markets
Boiling Point (Global Warming)
Our Stolen Future: How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival
How We Know What Isn't So
Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future
The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
The Future of Life
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future
The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures
Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated .
The Fourth Turning
Urban Planning
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Streets for People: A Primer for Americans
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
Global City Blues
The New Transit Town: Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development
Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings (1886)
Planet of Slums
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Ideas
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Against Method
Creativity and Taoism
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
Thinking about the Unthinkable
End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
The Wisdom of Crowds
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
The Ethics of Identity
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers 
The Ethics of Authenticity
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States
The Fourth Turning
Politics of Experience
The Divided Self
Reason & Violence
The Rhythm of War
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market
The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches
Tristes Tropiques
Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
Unpopular Essays
Bertrand Russell
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
E.O. Wilson
Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization
Karen Horney
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
James Le Fanu M.D.
Minds, Brains and Science
John Searle
Who am I? The 16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions and Define Our Personalities
Steven Reiss
How The World Really Works
Alan Jones
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
by James Howard Kunstler
Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health
Dr. J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.
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Finance/Economics
The Misbehavior of Markets
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
Irrational Exuberance
Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America ,
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
The Paradox of Plenty: Hunger in a Bountiful World
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
Greed, Fraud & Ignorance: A Subprime Insider's Look at the Mortgage Collapse
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures
Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
How The World Really Works
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War
The Rhythm of War
Terence Parker
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Vietnam
Big Story: How the American Press and Television
Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 1968 in Vietnam and Washington
About Face/the Odyssey of an American Warrior
Dispatches
Prisoner of War: Six Years in Hanoi
Iraq/Mideast
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
by V.S. Naipaul
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
by David Fromkin
Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America
by Michael Scheuer
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
by Ali A. Allawi
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project)
by Chalmers Johnson
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
by Robert Young Pelton
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror
by Michael Scheuer
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
by Bob Woodward
World War II
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
William Manchester
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
(two volumes)
William Manchester
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur
William Manchester
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Eugene Sledge
Prisoners of the Japanese: Pows of World War II in the Pacific
Gavan Daws
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
James D. Hornfischer
Miracle at Midway
Gordon Prange
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully
Winds of War\War and Remembrance
Herman Wouk
Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd
Masayo Duus and Peter Duus
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang
Stones from the River
by Ursula Hegi
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World History
The Structures of Everyday Life (Volume 1)
The Wheels of Commerce (Volume 2)
The Perspective of the World (Volume 3)
All the Tea in China ,
For God and Glory: Lord Nelson and His Way of War
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East.
The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
Prisoners of the Japanese : Pows of World War II in the Pacific
Merchants of Grain
The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
The Gulag Archipelago 2
Gulag Archipelago 3
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order
Tristes Tropiques
Kimono Mind: an informal guide to Japan and the Japanese
The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
U.S. History/Geography
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer .
Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire or 1906
A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Shoal of Time: a History of the Hawaiian Islands
Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America
The Jungle
The Fourth Turning
Napa: The Story of an American Eden
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
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Adventure
A General History of the Robberies & Murders
of the Most Notorious Pirates
Roughing It
Mark Twain
The Long Walk
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Scouting on Two Continents
Frederick Russell Burnham
Burning Daylight
Jack London
Cooking/Culinary Arts
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
Diet for a Small Planet
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
by Sally Fallon
Curried Favors: Family Recipes from South India
by Maya Kaimal Macmillan
Gardening/Self-Sufficiency
Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance
Fiction/Novels
The Enigma of Arrival
The Confidence-Man
Heart of the Matter
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values .
I-State Lines
Walk On, Bright Boy
Don Quijote (trans. Raffel/Norton)
Stones from the River
The Annotated Lolita
(This is "Lolita" by Nabokov but in an annotated edition I found useful)
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Moby-Dick
Kokoro
Natsume Soseki
The Makioka Sisters
Junichiro Tanizaki
The Counterfeiters
Andre Gide
L'Assommoir
Emile Zola
The Fall
Albert Camus
Notes From Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler
Poetry
Essential Haiku
The Spring of My Life: And Selected Haiku (Issa)
Culture/Marketing
The Kimono Mind; an informal guide to Japan and the Japanese
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America
The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes
Music (books)
The Year the Music Died, 1964-1972: A Commentary on the Best Era of Pop Music, and an Irreverent Look at
the Musicians and Social Movements of the Time
Dwight Rounds
Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture
by Gavan Daws and Jac Holzman
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Readers Recommend:
(World War II)
recommended by Lloyd L.
Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator
Samuel Hynes
We Few: The Marine Corps 400 in the War Against Japan
Bill Dickenson
My Father's War: A Son's Journey
Peter Richmond
Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb
George Feifer
Helmet For My Pillow
Robert Leckie
Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor
Bill Ross
The Peenemunde Raid: The Night of 17-18 August 1943
Martin Middlebrook
Tarawa: The Story of a Battle
Robert Sherrod
Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943
Joel Hayward
Saving the Breakout: The 30th Division's Heroic Stand at Mortain, August 7-12, 1944
Alwyn Featherston
Hell in Hürtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment
Robert Rush
A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Battle of World War II
Cornelius Ryan
The Fall of Berlin 1945
Anthony Beevor
Recommended by John U.
The Forgotten Soldier
Guy Sajer
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Slavomir Rawicz
World War I
Recommended by John U.
Mud Beneath My Boots: A Poignant Memoir of the Effects of War on a Young New Zealander
Allan Marriott
Recommended by Lloyd L.
The Guns of August
The Great War and Modern Memory
Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War
Duffy's War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69th in World War I
The Doughboys: The story of the AEF, 1917-1918
Goodbye to All That
The First Day on the Somme
The Roses of No Man's Land
Storm of Steel
The Arms of Krupp
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Readers Recommend:
(all topics)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles MacKay
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
by Charles Kindleberger
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
by Peter L. Bernstein
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor
The Great Crash 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Crowd
by Gustave Le Bon
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
by Fred Pearce
China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America
by James Kynge
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
by James Howard Kunstler
The Theory of the Leisure Class
by Thorstein Veblen
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
by Sally Fallon
Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Fourth Turning
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
by Tim Blanning
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution
by Mark Puls
The yankee and cowboy war: Conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate
A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II
Scouting on Two Continents
Frederick Russell Burnham
Burning Daylight
Jack London
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Documentaries/films
Lessons of Darkness / Fata Morgana
(documentary, Werner Herzog)
Dogtown and Z-Boys
(documentary)
Around the World in 80 Days
Hamlet
To Be Or Not to Be
Outrageous Fortune
What Dreams May Come
The Undiscovered Country (Star Trek V)
Suzhou River
Three Days of the Condor
Mutiny on the Bounty
Iron Ladies
The Thin Man
The Mirror
Piratical Nonsense (Pirates of the Caribbean II)
A Real Pirate Movie: Captain Blood
The Road Home.
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