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Book Reviews

compiled by Piero Scaruffi
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Aslan, Reza: "No God But God" (2005)
Atkins, Peter-William: "The Second Law" (1984)
Barzun, Jacques: "From Dawn To Decadence" (2000)
Bauer, Wolfgang: "China and the Search for Happiness" (1976)
Bawer, Bruce: : "While Europe Slept" (2006)
Carse, James: "The Religious Case Against Belief" (2008)
James Chambers: "The Devil's Horsemen - The Mongol Invasion of Europe" (1979)
Chang, Jung: "The Real Mao" (2005)
Coll, Steve: "9/11 Ghost Wars" (2004)
Diamond, Jared: "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" (2004)
Diamond, Jared: "Guns, Germs and Steel" (1997)
Dohrn-VanRossum, Gerhard : "The History of the Hour" (1996)
Duby, Georges & Perrot, Michelle: "A History of Women in the West" (1991)
Ferguson, Neill: COLOSSUS (Penguin, 2004)
Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe: MILLENNIUM (1995)

Fukuyama, Francis: "The End of History and the Last Man" (1992)
Gordon, John Steele : "An Empire of Wealth" (2004)
Gregg, Gary: "The Middle East - A Cultural Psychology" (2005)
Hastings, Max : "Armageddon" (2004)
Hayes, Stephen : "The Connection" (2004)

Huntington, Samuel: "The Clash of Civilizations" (1996)
Kinzer, Stephen: "Overthrow" (Henry Holt, 2006)
Kristof, Nicholas & WuDunn, Sheryl: "Thunder From The East" (2000)
Landes, David: "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations" (1999)
Laqueur, Walter : "The Last Days of Europe" (Dunne, 2007)
Michael Mandelbaum: "The Case for Goliath - How America Acts as the World's Goernment in the 21st Century" (2005)
Mamdani, Mahmood : "Good Muslim Bad Muslim" (2004)
Pollack, Kenneth: "A Path Out of the Desert" (2008)
Nuland, Sherwin: "How We Die" (Knopf, 1994)
Paczkowski, Andrzej: "The Black Book of Communism" (1999)
Ricks, Thomas : "Fiasco - The American Military Adventure in Iraq" (2006)
Saul, John Ralston: "Voltaire's Bastards" (1992)
Santosuosso, Antonio: "Storming the Heavens" (2004)
Shlain, Leonard: "Art and Physics" (1991)
Tenet, George: "At The Center Of The Storm" (2007)
Tyler, Patrick: "A World of Trouble" (2008)
Hugh Thomas: "The Slave Trade" (1997)
Wright, Robert: "Non Zero" (2000)
Wilson, A. N.: "The Decline of Britain in the World" (2005)
Turchin, Peter: "War and Peace and War" (2006)
Yergin, Daniel: "The Prize" (1991)
Zakaria, Fareed: "The Future of Freedom" (2004)

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