Archives: Books
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Gun Machine
Gun machineWarren Ellis; Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2013 Â
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The Ghost Map
The Ghost MapSteven Johnson; Riverhead Hardcover 2006 But Engels and Dickens suggested a new twist: that the advance of civilization produced barbarity as an unavoidable waste product, as essential to its metabolism as the gleaming spires and cultivated thought of polite society. The barbarians weren’t storming the gates. They were being bred from within.…
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The Shanghai Factor
The Shanghai FactorCharles McCarry; Mysterious Press 2013Â This read like a manuscript from 1975 with ‘Vietnam’ replaced by ‘Afghanistan’ and a few passing references to cell phones added to make it feel contemporary. If we are meant to care any more for the bland, patrician, quietly psychotic main character than any of the flat, unmotivated supporting…
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The Way of the Knife
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the EarthMark Mazzetti; Penguin 2013Â Â
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The Signal and the Noise
The signal and the noise: why most predictions fail but some don’tNate Silver; Penguin Press 2012  The Boston Red Sox failed to make the playoffs in 2011 despite having a 99.7 percent chance of doing so at one point27—although I wouldn’t question anyone who says the normal laws of probability don’t apply when it…
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One Way Forward
One Way Forward: The Outsider’s Guide to Fixing the Republic Lawrence Lessig; Byliner Inc. 2012 I aim to talk about the rules of the game, and not about which side should win.Lessig We must remake a republic dependent not upon campaign funders, direct or indirect, but instead, as Federalist 52 puts it, “dependent upon the…
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Empires of the Sea
Empires of the SeaRoger Crowley; Random House Publishing Group 2008 The Maltese are the Basques of the Mediterranean, a unique micro-people formed by the particular position of their island at the center of every invasion, migration, and trading enterprise in the history of the sea. Crowley A man hit in the eye by an arrow…
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Reamde
ReamdeNeal Stephenson; William Morrow 2011WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinderÂ