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Recommended Reading (A - Z): Politics and History
Inquisition
Peters, E July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
From Publishers Weekly
Inquisition history, a developing field, provides a key to the “understanding of past societies in their entirety.” Peters, professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Torture,...
American Theocracy
Phillips, K August 1, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
Our Final Hour
Rees, M July 28, 2007. #
Physical Science, Politics and History
From Publishers Weekly
Nano-machines stand poised to revolutionize technology and medicine, but what happens if these minuscule beasties break their leash and run amok? Rees, the U.K.‘s Astronomer Royal and prolific...
The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
Schell, J November 26, 2007. #
Politics and History
The Fate of the Earth
Schell, J July 28, 2007. #
Politics and History
From Amazon
Now combined in one volume, these two books helped focus national attention in the early 1980s on the movement for a nuclear freeze. The Fate of the Earth painted a chilling picture of the planet in the...
The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Crisis of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Schell, J July 28, 2007. #
Politics and History
From Amazon
In this work, Jonathan Schell, the author of The Fate of the Earth, proposes that the defining characteristic of the twentieth century was the uncontrolled acceleration of humankind’s capacity for...
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
Schlosser, E July 28, 2007. #
Politics and History
From Amazon
As much as 10% of the American economy, and perhaps more, is comprised of illegal “underground” enterprises, according to author and Atlantic Monthly correspondent Eric Schlosser. And while this segment is...
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience
Sereny, G July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History
From Amazon
Based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka (the largest of the extermination camps), this book bares the soul of a man who continually found ways to rationalize his role in...
The Trial of Socrates
Stone, I.F July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History, Philosophy
From Publishers Weekly
“The philosopher we meet on these pages is an arrogant, bullying elitist who welcomed death and did his best to antagonize the jury that sentenced him,” stated PW. “In this iconoclastic portrait...
The devil and the Jews: The medieval conception of the Jew and its relation to modern antisemitism
Trachtenberg, J July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu
Trofimov, Y August 6, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
Zen War Stories
Victoria, B August 7, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred
Wistrich, R.S July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945
Wyman, DS August 7, 2007. #
Politics and History
Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis
Ye'Or, B September 5, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
Zakaria, F July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History
From Publishers Weekly
Democracy is not inherently good, Zakaria (From Wealth to Power) tells us in his thought-provoking and timely second book. It works in some situations and not others, and needs strong limits to...
Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment
Zuckerman, P. October 22, 2008. #
