Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Reading List

If you are having trouble thinking of a gift for me (which happens to about everyone), here are some books that I would like to have.

A translated and annotated copy of the Quran
The Torah
The Bible
 
Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust
Peter Bergen, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Andrew J. Birtle, U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1942-1976
Eric Blehm, Fearless: The Undaunting Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team Six Operator Adam Brown
Daniel Bolger, Savage Peace: Americans at War in the 1990's
Rusty Bradley, Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds
Jerry Brito, Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess
Todd Brown, Battleground Iraq: Journal of a Company Commander
Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men
James Carrell, Constitine's Sword
Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Mark A. Clodfelter, The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam
Osha Gray Davidson, Clean Break
John Dewey, Individualism Old and New
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
David Galula, Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
Henry George, Progress and Poverty
David Goldhill, Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor
David Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Mary Habeck, Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror
David Harvey, The New Imperialism
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism
David Harvey, Social Justice and the City
David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital 
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf 
Jay Inslee, Apollo's Fire
Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Robert Kaplan, Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond
Robert Kaplan, Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power 
John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Peter S. Kindsvatter, American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam
Edwin LeFevre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Primo Levi, The Survival of Auschwitz
Marcus Luttrell, Service: A Navy SEAL at War
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War 
Marty Makary, Unaccountable
Burton Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Michael Mann, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Thomas E. Mann and Norman Ornstein, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
Karl Marx, Capital (or Das Capital)
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Seth Mnookin, The Panic Virus
Paul Offit, Deadly Choices
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Ahmed Rashid, The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism?
Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
Timothy Schneider, Bloodlands
Jack D. Schwager, Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager, The New Market Wizards 
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Joseph Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality
Robert Strassler, The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Tony Wagner, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice