Following BurtWorm's lead, what's the last non-fiction book you've read?

[ghostsofgiants]

Last book in its entirety for me would be Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine." I've been looking through sections of "Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics" and "Design It Yourself." All well worth checking out if you hate neoliberalism, are iterested in filmmaking, or like making things (respectively).

[Deep13]

1. Queen Isabella, by Alison Weir.

I'm almost done with it. I've been reading a little at a time before going to sleep forever.

[Catsbrains]

32. Haha...me too..I have about 20 pages left!!! Great book!

[Forkboy]

2. Choosing Death: The Improbable History Of Death Metal And Grindcore.

Pretty cool book, and it even mentions a show in Boston that I was at where Godflesh's drum machine got stolen, and Napalm Death had to play first while Godflesh reprogrammed a handful of songs. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

12. That sounds kinda rad.

[Forkboy]

13. if you're a fan of that kind of music it's indespensible.

Lots of cool stuff in it.

[ghostsofgiants]

21. I'm actually not a huge fan, but I don't hate it, and I love reading rock journalism and the like.

[bicentennial_baby]

24. oooh, I know what my Ex is getting for Christmas!!

:bounce:

[DS1]

3. Chain of Command - Hersh

[MissMillie]

4. Broken Government by John Dean

well written

[mitchum]

5. Deconstructing Sammy

forget the author's name, though

[BurtWorm]

17. You mean this cat, babe?

[mitchum]

28. That's the cat, cat!

[BurtWorm]

29. That must be some swingin' tome.

The original Mr. Yes, I Can.

:smoke:

[murielm99]

6. One Minute to Midnight, by Michael Dobbs.

It has new information about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Economic Gangsters

[ghostsofgiants]

35. Tha sounds kind of interesting...

For an economics book. :P

[bicentennial_baby]

44. it's more of Behavioral Econ, not mainstream

It's a fun read, trust me. :)

[Iggo]

8. The Prosecution Of George W. Bush For Murder

by Vincent Bugliosi.

[krispos42]

"Imperial Hubris" n/t

[fizzgig]

9. i'm almost done with 'public enemies' by bryan burroughs

it chronicles the 1933-34 crime wave and the rise of the fbi.

[puerco-bellies]

10. The Ethnobotany of the Hopi Indians.

Good stuff.

[enigmatic]

11. "The Lonely Crowd"- David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney.

I've been giving away most of my old sociology/psychology books away to a friend here to consume, but I decided to read this again after not having picked it up for many years..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_Crowd

[DS1]

14. Goddamn we're a miserable bunch

:rofl:

[SecularMotion]

15. Propaganda - Edward Bernays

before that

La Dolce Morte-Vernacular Cinema And The Italian Giallo Film-Mikel Koven

[jpgray]

16. 100 Billion Suns by Kippenhahn

A bit out of date, but nonetheless very personable and informative.

[BurtWorm]

18. The Unforgiving Minute, by Craig T. Mullaney

It's not out yet. I reviewed it pre-pub. It's a war memoir of a West Point alumnus and Rhodes Scholar who saw combat in Afghanistan. I'm not a big fan of war memoirs, but this guy is pretty cool. I think he's a Democrat, and I wouldn't be surprised if he runs for office some day.

[Bucky]

19. The Dark Side, by Jane Mayer -- how the Bush political appointees legalized torture

It's a very tough book to finish. I get real upset while reading it & have to take a week off sometimes. But I'm up to the last two chapters. Really, just a grueling read.

The last book I finished was Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511A70XQE2L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_AA219_PIsitb-sticker-dp-arrow,TopRight,-24,-23_SH20_OU01_.jpg

[FloridaJudy]

20. Collapse, by Jared Diamond

Not quite up to his Guns, Germs, and Steel, but a compelling book nonetheless. Harrowing descriptions of how previous civilizations doomed themselves by over-exploiting their resources, much as the US is doing today. I've also just finished The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, a fascinating glimpse of what would happen to the earth if every single human disappeared tomorrow.

A bit of trivia from the latter book: which human-created structure would still be recognizable several million years from now? Hint: it's neither the Great Wall nor the Pyramids. It's American. The answer surprised me.

[FloridaJudy]

22. Oops. Double post

[Mojambo]

23. The Wrecking Crew by Frank. n/t

[YankeyMCC]

25. "The Snow Leopard"

by Peter Matthiessen

A beautifully told story, it prompted me to finally get off my duff and actually try and start practicing some Zen meditation.

[sasquatch]

26. Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea

One helluva eye opening book that tells you the story of Migrants that are forced to come here and be treated like Helots.

[evlbstrd]

27. Brew Like a Monk.

History and techniques of Belgian beers.

[crim son]

30. The Devil's Advocate: Famous Closing Arguments in

Criminal Cases. I can't remember the author and I'm too lazy to look, but it's an excellent book that gives perspective on some of the abuses of power we are seeing today. edited for typo

[sniffa]

31. "All Souls" thanks to a wonderful DUer

Speaking of which, I need to get to the post office soon.

[BlueIris]

33. "Your Behavior Is Showing: 40 Prescriptions for Understanding and Liking Yourself."

Perry W. Buffington, Ph.D.

[MrCoffee]

34. A Tour Of The Calculus - David Berlinski

[Rabrrrrrr]

50. I like his books - I haven't read that one yet, though.

[MrCoffee]

51. Didn't you recommend it to me?

Who was that that recommended it in a thread I started about not understanding a thing about the calculus?

[Rabrrrrrr]

53. I might have recommended it, based on his other books.

His Newton book was fantastic.

[JitterbugPerfume]

36. The Shock Doctrine

[ghostsofgiants]

38. *HIGHFIVE*

[jonnyblitz]

41. I read it when it first came out. you are late.

j/k :D

seriously. she (Naomi Klein) is yet another gift from Canada besides Nickelback and Celine Dion.

[ghostsofgiants]

43. Yeah, I read it a few months back.

Mind you I was reading stuff like David Harvey and Mike Davis that talks about the same kind of stuff when it came out. :P

Naomi is great though.

[femmocrat]

47. One of the best books I have ever read.

It has just stayed with me and I am seeing some correlations to her theory in the current economic news. And I actually understand the history of global-economy since reading it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

37. The Widow Cliquot. It's a history of Cliquot Champagne, but mostly of the Vueve herself.

Absolutely wonderful!

[jonnyblitz]

39. "Benevolence and Betrayal, the story of five Italian Jewish

Families Under Fascism" by Andrew Stille. My next non-fiction book will be "Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics" by Paul Street. it's a left wing critique of Obama, critique that focuses on important stuff instead of the loony RW "traitor, foreigner, terrorist, n-word, socialist" bullshit.

http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=186987



off topic: "what we do is secret" comes out on DVD election day, Nov 4th, which means the possiblities of it being "around" will be much greater then. the copy out there now (a fake axxo upload) is fake or not good.

[ghostsofgiants]

42. I've read a few of Street's articles on Znet, I like him.

It's funny, I just posted on Twitter a few hours ago that I can't wait for the election to be over so I can go back to being cynical about Obama, haha.

Ill keep my eyes open for What We Do as well. :thumbsup:

[mokawanis]

40. Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux

Great book about Theroux's travel from Cairo to Capetown.

[femmocrat]

45. The Audacity of Hope

Currently reading The One-Percent Solution.

[Rue]

46. Jeremy Scahill's "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army" (nt)

[astonamous]

48. Guilt by Association by: Jeff Gates

I got a copy a couple of months ago before it was published. Jeff Gates emailed me the other day to say that Helen Thomas just finished it and called him to discuss over lunch. As expecte, Jeff said the Ms. Thomas is a lovely woman.

Her reaction to the book was: "I knew it was bad, but I didn't realize how bad".

[Rancid Crabtree]

49. Copper Country Connections, Gus O. Linja

...small book by a local man...Bork!Bork!Bork!...local color...Northern Tool Catalog probably doesn't count.

[Gormy Cuss]

52. The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan) n/t

[kwassa]

54. "Dreams of My Father" by this guy Barack-whatsisname

[grammysandie]

55. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

by ex-CIA dude Robert Baer.

I wondered how Baer was voting this year, so I went searching and found this Tavis Smiley interview:

Baer: The world's economy. We can't hit Iran without suffering a major economic setback that would last for 10, 15 years.

Tavis: Does George Bush understand that?

Baer: No. Well, he doesn't understand because he went into Iraq, he opened up Iraq for Iranian influence. He essentially gave Iraq to Iran. It's the greatest folly this country's ever committed, invading Iraq.

Tavis: Does McCain understand that?

Baer: No. Neither of them do.

Tavis: Does Obama understand that?

Baer: He does understand that. He's going to go talk to the Iranians. It's the thing to do - without preconditions. Look, with this sort of power they have in the Persian Gulf, the power over the price of gasoline in this country, we have to talk to these guys without preconditions, ask them what they want.

[LeftyMom]

56. I just started The Tyranny of Oil

I heard the author speak yesterday and was really impressed.

[charlie and algernon]

57. Started reading Michelle's Biography, and a bio of TR's childhood

"Mornings on Horseback"

[Beer Snob-50]

58. pleqse don't flame me but

john mccains memoirs. it was given to me as a gift earlier this year and to be honest i only got through about 3/4 of it. he blames others for his problems (yes, i am a hot head but why did they have to continue to bring this up!) and he is easily offended and will not deal with or has to take action against anyone who offends him.