My Book Recommendations
Some books and papers I've read that I'd recommend to others ..
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass MediaEdward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
Chalmers Johnson
Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural PhenomenonDaniel C. Dennett
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky
People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
Howard Zinn
Taking Economics Seriously (Boston Review Books)
Dean Baker
Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy
Dean Baker
The Puzzle Palace: Inside America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
James Bamford
The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990
Marilyn B. Young
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Norman G. Finkelstein
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
Norman G. Finkelstein
Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948, 2nd ed.
Tanya Reinhart
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappe
Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, And the Origins of Globalism
James Peck
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Norman Solomon
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Vietnam and Other American Fantasies
H. Bruce Franklin
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get RicherDean Baker
Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism
John K. Cooley
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Leon Lederman
The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould
Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle
Thomas W. Walker
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
Thom Hartmann
Trapped in the War on Terror
Ian S. Lustick
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Noam Chomsky, 1966
What Do Bosses Do?Stephen Marglin
The Review of Radical Political Economics, Summer 1974
Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship
Noam Chomsky, 1969 (in American Power and the New Mandarins)
Crimes Against LogicJamie Whyte
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
Katie Hafner
Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
Daniel Guerin
Accidental Empires
Robert X. Cringely
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Robert Hofstadter
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Al Franken
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
Ross J. Anderson
Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time
Heinz Pagels
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Princeton Science Library)
Richard P. Feynman
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian RelationsJames Bill
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
Western State Terrorism
Alexander George (Editor)
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
William Strunk Jr., E B White
The History of the Earth: An Illustrated Chronicle of Our Planet
William K. Hartmann, Ron Miller
The Longest War
Dilip Hiro
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
Robert B. Smith, Lee J. Siegel