Articles in Not So Recent Reads
Title: When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Author: Harold S. Kushner
Date: 20-Oct-04
As a young theology student, Harold Kushner puzzled over the Book of Job. As a small-town rabbi he counseled other people through pain and grief. But not until he …
Title: Hegemony or Survial
Author: Noam Chomsky
Date: 23-Sep-04
For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing, as …
Title: America
Author: Jon Stewart
Date: 23 Sep-04
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots deliver a hilarious look at American government.
Termed a “political king-maker” by Newsweek, …
Title: Mind Wide Open
Author: Steven Johnson
Date: 18-Aug-2005
Brilliantly exploring today’s cutting edge brain research, Mind Wide Open allows readers to understand themselves and the people in their lives as never before. Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal …
Title: American Soldier
Author: General Tommy Franks
Date: 18-Aug-2004
Few individuals have the chance to contribute so much of themselves to the American story as General Tommy Franks. In American Soldier, he captures it all.
The Commander in Chief of the …
Title: How to Talk to Anyone
Author: Leil Lowndes
Date: 22-Jul-04
You’ve admired successful people who seem to have it all, seen them chatting confidently at parties and being listened to in business meetings. They’re the ones with the best jobs, …
Title: My Life
Author: Bill Clinton
Date: 22-Jul-04
President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts to serving the public.
It …
Title: The Wisdom of Crowds
Author: James Surowiecki
Date: 19-June-2004
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no …
Title: Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
Author: Paul Strathern
Date: 19-June-04
With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. Nietzsche ended up going mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in …
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Date: 20 May 2004
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, a baffling …
Title: Does America Need a Foreign Policy?
Author: Henry Kissinger
Date: 20-May-04
In this timely, thoughtful, and important audiobook, America’s most famous diplomatist explains why we urgently need a new and coherent foreign policy and what our foreign policy goals should be …
Title: Against All Enemies
Author: Richard A. Clarke
Date: 17-May-04
The real war on terror has happened largely behind closed doors, run by the White House, drawing on secret intelligence and operations around the world. There is no man …
Title: Bush at War
Author: Bob Woodward
Date: 17-Apr-04
With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September …
Title: Dude, Where's My Country?
Author: Michael Moore
Date: 19-Mar-04
He is the scourge of Stupid White Men everywhere. He’s taken on fat cats, gun nuts, lying politicians. The Guardian describes him as “a wake-up call, a kick in the …
Title: The Age of Sacred Terror
Author: Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon’
Date: 19-Mar-04
Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this project shortly after leaving the National Security Council, where, as director and senior director for counterterrorism, they watched …
Title: THe Crisis Of Islam
Author: Bernard Lewis
Date: 18-Feb-04
Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the frustrations and resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at …
Title: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Author: AL Franken
Date: 18-Feb-04
Al Franken, “one of our savviest satirists” (People), takes on the issues, the politicians, and the pundits in one of the most anticipated books of the year.
Once again, the author …
Title: The Marrigage of Sense and Soul
Author: Ken Wilber
Date: 11-Feb-04
Science and religion have always been considered mutually exclusive concepts, but are they really? Philosopher Ken Wilber shows how we might begin to think about science and religion in ways …
Title: The Millionaire Next Door
Author: Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and William D. Danko, Ph.D.
Date: 25-Jan-2004
Who are the rich in this country? What do they do? How do they invest? How did they get rich? Can you ever become one …
Title: Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
Author: Peter L. Bergen
Date: 25-Jan-2004
On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The assault on the World Trade Center was the most sophisticated and horrifying in a series of operations …
Title: Think for a Change
Author: John C. Maxwell
Date: 19-Dec-03
At the heart of John C. Maxwell’s brilliant and inspiring program is a simple premise: To do well in life, we must first think well. But can we actually …
Title: Speak Up With Confidence
Author: Jack Valenti
Date: 12-Dec-03
Public speaking is one of the most intimidating and important aspects of many jobs. As a one-time speechwriter for President Johnson, and current president of the Motion Picture Association of …
Title: Intelligence in War
Author: John Keegan
Date: 22-Nov-03
In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, …
Title: Sleeping with the Devil
In an effort to understand the underpinings of the current wave of anti-American/Westernism currently unleashed around the world by so called forces of terrorism, I set out on a study of the history of such …
Title: 7 Steps to Fearless Speaking
Author: Lilyan Wilder
Date: 23-Oct-03
Lilyan Wilder is a communications expert who has worked with the world’s most notable public figures, broadcast correspondents at ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and many Fortune 500 companies. Her …
Title: Getting Things Done
Author: David Allen
Date: 23-Oct-03
In today’s world of exponentially increased communication and responsibility, yesterday’s methods for staying on top just don’t work. Veteran management consultant and trainer David Allen recognizes that “time management” is …
Title: Hatred's Kingdom
Author: Dore Gold
Date: 21-Sep-03
From New York City to Bali, Indonesia, ideologically motivated terrorist groups have chillingly demonstrated their global reach. And terrorism is now far more lethal than before.
But what is causing it? …
Title: 17 Lies that Are Holding You Back and the Truth that Will Set You Free
Author: Steve Chandler
Date: 13-Sep-03
“It’s who you know.” “I don’t have time.” “I’m too old.” “That’s just the way I am.” These crippling statements deny our power to change our lives. In this program, …
Title: The Dream of Reason
Author: Anthony Gottlieb
Date: 17-Aug-2003
In this landmark new study of Western thought, Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thinkers, questions much of conventional wisdom, and explains his findings with unbridled brilliance and …
Title: The History of the Middle East
Author: Peter Mansfield
Date: 17-Aug-2003
In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield, drawing on his experience as a journalist and a historian, explores two centuries of history in the Middle East. He forms a picture of …
