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My Latest Books:
Self-Reliance in the 21st Century
When You Can't Go On: Burnout, Reckoning and Renewal
Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the U.S.
The Asian Heroine Who Seduced Me (novel)
The Adventures of the Consulting Philosopher: The Disappearance of Drake (novel)
A Hacker's Teleology: Sharing the Wealth of Our Shrinking Planet
Will You Be Richer or Poorer?: Profit, Power and A.I. in a Traumatized World
Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic
The Adventures of the Consulting Philosopher: The Disappearance of Drake
Money and Work Unchained
Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege
Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform
A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All: The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningful
Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy
Books of Interest
An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times (Kindle version)
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment
The Second Tour (a novel of the Vietnam War)
Ayurvedic Nutrition
Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide
to financial independence
The Endangered American Dream
Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
The Rise of the Creative Class Life
Escape from Freedom
Horsemen of the Red Hand: Book Two of the Operation SERF Trilogy
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization
Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Deschooling Society (Ivan Illich)
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (Chris Hedges)
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Chris Hedges)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire)
Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture
Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism
Get Ready!: Preparing for the Coming Catastrophe
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
How To Bury Your Goods: The Complete Manual of Long Term Underground Storage
Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ
Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication
China: Fragile Superpower
China: The Balance Sheet:
What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower
China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy
The Blind Watchmaker
Conspiracy World: A Truthteller's Compendium of Eye-Opening Revelations an
d Forbidden Knowledge
Democracy: The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order
The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons
Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation
Survival+ The Primer
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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Global Financial Meltdown
Coup d' tat: A Practical Handbook (1968)
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
The (Mis)behavior of Markets
The Fourth Turning
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The End of Work
Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation
The Collapse of Complex Societies
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism
Greed, Fraud & Ignorance: A Subprime Insider's Look at the Mortgage Collapse
Planet of Slums
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
Coercion
Globalization and Its Discontents
The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era
Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance
Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide
to financial independence
China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy
China
China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise
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
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
Ages of Discord
The (Mis)behavior of Markets
Escape from Freedom
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 Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
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 End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
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
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
Urban Planning
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
(James Howard Kunstler)
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century
(James Howard Kunstler)
The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition
(James Howard Kunstler)
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
The Works: Anatomy of a City
Books by CHS
Self-Reliance in the 21st Century
When You Can't Go On: Burnout, Reckoning and Renewal
Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States
A Hacker's Teleology: Sharing the Wealth of Our Shrinking Planet
Will You Be Richer or Poorer? Profit, Power and A.I. in a Traumatized World
Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic
Money and Work Unchained
Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege
Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform
A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All:
The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningful
Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy
The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy:
The Revolution in Higher Education
Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change
Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It
An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times
Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation
Survival+ The Primer
Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis
Novels
The Asian Heroine Who Seduced Me
The Adventures of the Consulting Philosopher: The Disappearance of Drake
Four Bidding For Love
Claire's Great Adventure
Kama Sutra Cadillac
Of Two Minds
Verona in Spring
For My Daughter
I-State Lines
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Empire
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
The fall of the Roman Empire: a new history of Rome and the Barbarians
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
The Fall of the Roman Empire (Michael Grant)
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Adrian Goldsworthy)
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires (Peter Turchin)
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (Anthony Everitt)
428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire (Giusto Traina)
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Jack Weatherford)
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Judith Herrin)
Venice: A New History (Thomas F. Madden)
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (Thomas Homer-Dixon)
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (abridged)
The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: Rome's Dealings with the Ancient Kingdoms of India, Africa and Arabia
Diet/Nutrition/Food
Ayurvedic Nutrition
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever
Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Food, Inc. (film)
King Corn (film)
Super Size Me (film)
Fast Food Nation (film)
Fast Food Nation (book)
Diet for a Small Planet
Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland, the Supermarket to the World
The Informant: A True Story
Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture
Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating
The obesity epidemic can be viewed visually via this slideshow map of the U.S.:
Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Obesity Trends 1985-2007
Cooking/Culinary Arts
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
(Mary Enig and Sally Fallon)
Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats
(Sally Fallon)
The Mcdougall Quick and Easy Cookbook: Over 300 Delicious Low-Fat Recipes You Can Prepare in Fifteen Minutes or Less
The Mcdougall Program: 12 Days to Dynamic Health
The Mcdougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss
Curried Favors: Family Recipes from South India
by Maya Kaimal Macmillan
Ayurvedic Nutrition
Self-Reliance/Gardening
When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency
by Matthew Stein
Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance
Just in Case
Kathy Harrison
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
Sharon Astyk
It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life
Depression 2.0: Creative Strategies for Tough Economic Times
Disclosure: I contributed a chapter to this book.
Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management
Food Security for the Faint of Heart
How to Build Animal Housing: 60 Plans for Coops, Hutches, Barns, Sheds, Pens, Nestboxes, Feeders, Stanchions, and Much More
The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse
How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It
A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil
The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged
The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization
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Ideas
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy
Toward a History of Needs
Ivan Illich
Deschooling Society
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health
Disabling Professions
Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
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
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
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
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
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
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market
Acts of Resistance: 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.
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations
The Great Transformation
The Nature of Mass Poverty
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Science As a Vocation, Politics As a Vocation
Max Weber
Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion:
Propaganda
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization
Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
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Finance/Economics
Post-Capitalist Society
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
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
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
David Hackett Fischer
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Web of Debt
Fooled by Randomness
The Richest Man in Babylon
While America Aged: the Next Financial Crisis
The Road to Serfdom
F. A. Hayek
When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era
Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph Stiglitz
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
The Rich and the Super-Rich, A Study in the Power of Money Today
(out of print, used copies only)
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
Joseph Schumpeter
Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance
Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
The Great Crash 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have
Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
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War
The Rhythm of War
by Terence Parker
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern
The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson
The Art Of War
by Sun Tzu
For God and Glory: Lord Nelson and His Way of War
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
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Summons of the Trumpet: U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective
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
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
by Chalmers Johnson
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
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
I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
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World History
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structure of Everyday Life
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. 2: The Wheels of Commerce
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3: The Perspective of the World
The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T'ang Exotics
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
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
David Hackett Fischer
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
Dmitri Orlov
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization=
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
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
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's
Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939
While America Aged: the Next Financial Crisis
The Works: Anatomy of a City
Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South
The Consumer Society Reader
The Nine Nations of North America
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
The Slave Ship: A Human History
Black Like Me
When the cheering stopped: The last years of Woodrow Wilson
Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance
War at Home: Covert action against U.S. activists and what we
can do about it
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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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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
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
Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis
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 H rtgen 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
I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years
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
The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America
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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
The Visitor
Piratical Nonsense (Pirates of the Caribbean II)
A Real Pirate Movie: Captain Blood
The Road Home
American Splendor
The World of Apu
Sea of Love 
Lost Horizon
All About My Mother
Oldboy
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media
(documentary)
Little Miss Sunshine
All the President's Men
Network
In the Heat of the Night
Modern Japanese films:
Sex and Fury
Ghost in the Shell
(animation)
Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence
(animation)
Spirited Away
(animation)
Howl's Moving Castle
(animation)
My Neighbor Totoro
(animation)
Featured Films
(International)
The Road Home
China
American Splendor
U.S.A.
The Visitor
U.S.A.
All About My Mother
Spain
The World of Apu
India
Iron Ladies
Thailand
The Mirror
Iran
Lessons of Darkness
Germany (documentary)
My Neighbor Totoro
Japan (animation)
I'm Not Scared
Italy
My Father's Glory
France
Siberiade
Russia
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Readers Recommend:
(film)
recommended by John U.
Soldier of Orange
(World War II era)
recommended by Don E.
Come and See
Apocalypse Now
Railway Station for Two
A Walk in the Sun
(World War II era)
Coup de Torchon
Valdez is Coming
The Hairdresser's Husband
The Wind and the Lion
Robin and Marian
The Wild Bunch
Charley Varrick
Hammett
Ossessione
Italian films
recommended by Emilia M.
The Bicycle Thief
(1949) Vittorio De Sica
I'm Not Scared
(2003) Gabriele Salvatores
Christ Stopped at Eboli
(1979) Francesco Rosi
Nights of Cabiria
(1957) Federico Fellini
8 1/2
(1963) Federico Fellini
1900
(1977) Bernardo Bertolucci
The Best of Youth
(2003) Marco Tullio Giordana
Don't Move
(2004) Sergio Castellitto
Il Postino (The Postman)
(1995) Michael Radford
The Legend of 1900
(1998) Giuseppe Tornatore
Amarcord
(1974) Federico Fellini
La Strada
(1954) Federico Fellini
The Last Kiss
(2001) Gabriele Muccino
Malena
(2000) Giuseppe Tornatore
Cinema Paradiso
(1990) Giuseppe Tornatore
Other Italian films worth seeing:
Umberto D.
(1952) Vittorio De Sica
Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow
(1964) Vittorio De Sica
Le Notti Bianche (White Nights)
(1961) Luchino Visconti
French films
Three Colors Trilogy (Blue / White / Red)
("Trois Colours")
Amelie
A Man and a Woman
My Father's Glory
My Mother's Castle
The Fanny Trilogy (Marius/Fanny/Cesar)
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Film: special categories
French Tough-Guy films
A Man Escaped
(1956) Robert Bresson
Pickpocket 
(1963) Robert Bresson
Touchez Pas au Grisbi 
(Hands Off the Loot)(1953) Jacques Becker
Le Trou 
(1960) Jacques Becker
The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection
(1952) Henri-Georges Clouzot
Rififi 
(1954) Jules Dassin
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
(1935) Jean Renoir
Le Samourai 
(1967) Jean-Pierre Melville
Shoot the Piano Player
(1960) Francois Truffaut
Confidentially Yours
(1983) Francois Truffaut
Guy Movies
(no Merchant-Ivory here!)
Le Mans
(1971) Steve McQueen
Bullitt
(1968) Steve McQueen
Walkabout
(1971) Nicolas Roeg
Bad Timing
(1980) Nicolas Roeg
Stalag 17
(1953) Billy Wilder
The Bridge on the River Kwai
(1957) David Lean
The Flight of the Phoenix
(1965) Robert Aldrich
Das Boot
(1981) Wolfgang Petersen
The Dawn Patrol
(1938) Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone
Blow Up
(1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
Hombre
(1967) Martin Ritt, Paul Neuman
Zulu
(1964) Cy Enfield, Michael Caine
Captain Blood
(1935) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn
Three Days of the Condor
(1975) Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway
Witness For the Prosecution
(1957) Billy Wilder
Enter the Dragon
(1973) Bruce Lee
Return of the Dragon
(1973) Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris
Z (Original French)
(1969) Costa-Gavras
Beat the Devil
(1953) John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, written by Truman Capote
A Fistful of Dollars
(1967) Sergio Leone (based on Yojimbo)
Master and Commander 
(2003) Peter Weir, Russell Crowe
Mutiny on the Bounty
(1935) Frank Lloyd, Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
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Film: Japanese Classics
by director:
(links coming soon)
Masumura
Giants & Toys
Blind Beast
A False Student (not available)
Nagano Spy School (not available)
Red Angel
Kinugasa
Gate of Hell (not available)
(Best Foreign Film Oscar for 1953)
Kobayashi
The Human Condition (3 parts)
Harakiri
Samurai Rebellion - Criterion Collection
(1967)
Kurosawa
Red Beard
The Lower Depths (1957)
The Hidden Fortress
High and Low
Rashomon
Seven Samurai - 3 Disc Remastered Edition
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Ikiru
Dodes'ka-Den
This film's box-office failure drove Kurosawa to the brink of bankruptcy and suicide
Madadayo
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Kagemusha
Ran
Itami
A Taxing Woman
A Taxing Woman's Return [VHS only]
Tampopo
The Funeral
Imamura
Vengence is Mine
The Eel
The Pornographers
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Ozu
Early Spring
Late Spring
Early Summer
Equinox Flower
Floating Weeds
The End of Summer
Autumn Afternoon
I was Born, But...
Tokyo Story
Ichikawa
Harp of Burma
Fires on the Plain
The Makioka Sisters
Mizoguchi
Ugetsu
47 Ronin
The Life of Oharu
Streets of Shame
Okamoto
The Sword of Doom
Oshima
In the Realm of the Senses
Naruse
When the Woman Ascends the Stairs
Teshigahara
Woman of the Dunes
Okamoto
Kill!
(1968)
Suzuki
Story of a Prostitute
(1965)
Gate of Flesh (1964)
Youth of the Beast (1964)
Fighting Elegy
Nakahira
Crazed Fruit 
(1956)
Kinoshita
Twenty-Four Eyes
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Featured Books
January 2009
Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
The Works: Anatomy of a City
Fooled by Randomness
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
Quasi-Political
Black Like Me
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
The Ethics of Identity
The Ethics of Authenticity
When the cheering stopped: The last years of Woodrow Wilson
The Jungle
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
The Slave Ship: A Human History
China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise
Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South
While America Aged: the Next Financial Crisis
The Consumer Society Reader
The Nine Nations of North America
Web of Debt
May 2008
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
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
David Hackett Fischer
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
Dmitri Orlov
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Featured Books
Fall 2009
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
Dark Age Ahead Jane Jacob
The Limits to Capital, New Edition
(an explication of Marx's Capital)
It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Volumes 1 and 2 in One)
Elizabeth Eisenstein
Just in Case
Kathy Harrison
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
Coercion
Globalization and Its Discontents
The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era
Unrational Leadership: Using Rational And Irrational Methods To Change Your Life
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
The Collapse of Complex Societies
The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling
Learning All The Time
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi
The Road to Serfdom
F. A. Hayek
7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century
First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
Hanging On, Or, How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Life
The Richest Man in Babylon
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's
Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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
The End of Work
The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America
Civil War II: The Coming Breakup Of America
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
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