Book Reviews
compiled by Piero Scaruffi
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Arthur, Brian: "The Nature of Technology" (2009) 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) Bergen, Peter: "The Osama bin Laden I Know" (2006) Brendon, Piers: "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire" (2007) Brown, John Seely & Duguid, Paul: "The Social Life of Information" (2000) 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) Chomsky, Noam: "Hegemony or Survival" (2003) Chomsky, Noam: "Necessary Illusions" (1989) Chomsky, Noam: "Manufacturing Consent" (1988) Coll, Steve: "9/11 Ghost Wars" (2004) Cowen, Tyler: "The Great Stagnation" (2010) Crosby, Alfred: "Ecological Imperialism" (1986)  Thornton, Bruce: "Eros - The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality" (1997)
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) Dreyfus, Hubert & Sean Dorrance Kelly: "All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age" (2010)
Duby, Georges & Perrot, Michelle: "A History of Women in the West" (1991) Ferguson, Neill: COLOSSUS (Penguin, 2004) Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe: MILLENNIUM (1995) Friedman, Thomas: "The World is Flat" (2005) Fukuyama, Francis: "The Origins of Political Order" (2011) 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) Isaacson, Walter: "Steve Jobs" (2011) Johnson, Chalmers: "Blowback" (2000) Huntington, Samuel: "The Clash of Civilizations" (1996) Johnson, Paul: "A History of the Jews" (1987) Kelly, Kevin: "What Technology Wants" (2010) Kinzer, Stephen: "Overthrow" (Henry Holt, 2006) Kristof, Nicholas & WuDunn, Sheryl: "Thunder From The East" (2000) Landes, David: "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations" (1999) Lanier, Jaron: "You Are Not A Gadget" (2010) Laqueur, Walter : "The Last Days of Europe" (Dunne, 2007) McNeely, Ian: "Reinventing Knowledge" (2008) 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) Pink, Daniel: "A Whole New Mind" (2005) Pollack, Kenneth: "A Path Out of the Desert" (2008) Nuland, Sherwin: "How We Die" (Knopf, 1994) Paczkowski, Andrzej: "The Black Book of Communism" (1999) Rashid, Ahmed: "Descent into Chaos" (2008) Ricks, Thomas : "Fiasco - The American Military Adventure in Iraq" (2006) Saul, John Ralston: "Voltaire's Bastards" (1992) Santosuosso, Antonio: "Storming the Heavens" (2004) Schuman, Michael: "The Miracle" (2009) Shlain, Leonard: "Art and Physics" (1991) Tenet, George: "At The Center Of The Storm" (2007) Turchin, Peter: "War and Peace and War" (2006) 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) Yergin, Daniel: "The Prize" (1991) Watson, Peter: "Ideas" (2005) Wright, Robert: "The Evolution of God" (2009) Zakaria, Fareed: "The Future of Freedom" (2004) See also my reviews of scientific books (several hundreds) |