Books I'm trying to read

January 2008

• Civilizations : ten thousand years of ancient history / Jane McIntosh and
• A day in a medieval city / by Chiara Frugoni ; with an introduction by
• The shorter Cambridge medieval history. Previt*e-Orton, Charles William
• Bright from the start : the simple, science-backed way to nurture your child's developing mind, from birth to age 3 / Jill Stamm,
• Good for you : fast and healthy family favorites / [Pillsbury editors]
• Good housekeeping rush hour dinners.
• The one-armed cook / by Cynthia Stevens Graubart and Catherine Fliegel.
• The art of war Sun-tzu, 6th cent. B.C.
• The bottom billion : why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it Collier, Paul
• God's Harvard : a Christian college on a mission to save America Rosin, Hanna.

  February 2008

• The guns of August Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim.
• Destination Brazil [DVD] : travel and experience the world /Pilot Guides Wright, Ian.
• Homo politicus : the strange and barbaric tribes of the Beltway Milbank, Dana.
• What this cruel war *1364080*
• Bouvard and Pecuchet Flaubert, Gustave,
• The road McCarthy, Cormac,
• Happiness is a choic*1368534*
• Watership Down Adams, Richard,
• Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH O'Brien, Robert C.
• Walt Disney World 2008 Fodor's
• THe Unoffical Guide to Walt Disney World 2008
• Top 10 Orlando DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides
• Beyond Disney : the unofficial guide to Universal, Sea World, and the best of central Florida / Bob Sehlinger and Katie Brandon.

  March 2008

• The epic of America, by James Truslow Adams 1 call number:305.523
• All the money in the world : how the Forbes 400 make-- and spend--their fortunes / edited by Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan.
• The early American Industrial Revolution, 1793-1850 / by Katie Bagley.
• Hermit crabs / Tristan Boyer Binns.
• The industrial revolution / Andrew Langley.
• The last forest : the Amazon in the age of globalization / Mark London and Brian Kelly.
• Only the paranoid survive : how to exploit the crisis points that challenge every company and career / Andrew S. Grove.
• World religions / John Bowker ; contributing consultants, David Bowker
• The know-it-all : one man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world / A.J. Jacobs.
• The last forest : the Amazon in the age of globalization / Mark London and Brian Kelly.
• Bouvard and Pecuchet / Gustave Flaubert.
• Homo politicus : the strange and barbaric tribes of the Beltway / Dana Milbank.
• The road / Cormac McCarthy.
• A people's history of the Vietnam War / Jonathan Neale.
• Women in medieval times / Fiona Macdonald.

  April 2008

• The age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby.
• All quiet on the western front [DVD] / directed by Lewis Milestone.
• Brutal journey : the epic story of the first crossing of North America / Paul Schneider.
• Overtreated : why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer / Shannon Brownlee.
• The year of living biblically : one man's humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible / A.J. Jacobs.
• You wouldn't want to be a pirate's prisoner! : horrible things you'd rather not know / written by John Malam ;
• You wouldn't want to be a Sumerian slave! : a life of hard labor you'd rather avoid / written by Jacqueline Morley ;
• You wouldn't want to be a Victorian mill worker! : a grueling job you'd rather not have / written by John Malam
• You wouldn't want to be Cleopatra! : an Egyptian ruler you'd rather not be / written by Jim Pipe

  May 2008

• The happiness myth : why what we think is right is wrong : a history of what really makes us happy / Jennifer Michael Hecht.
• I am America (and so can you!) / written and edited by Stephen Colbert
• Stardust : supernovae and life--the cosmic connection / John Gribbin with Mary Gribbin.
• The ghost map : the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world Johnson, Steven, 1968-
• Who wrote the Bible? Friedman, Richard Elliott.
• Seductive poison : a Jonestown survivor's story of life and death in the Peoples Temple Layton, Deborah, 1953-
• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream Obama, Barack.
• A world lit only by fire : the medieval mind and the Renaissance : portrait of an age Manchester, William Raymond,
• World religions / John Bowker ; contributing consultants, David Bowker... [et al.]. 200 BOW
• A pioneer sampler : the daily life of a pioneer family in 1840 / by Barbara Greenwood ; illustrated by Heather Collins.
• Sod houses on the Great Plains / written and illustrated by Glen Rounds.

  June 2008

  • Seductive poison : a Jonestown survivor's story of life and death in the Peoples Temple - Layton, Deborah
  • Overthrow : America's century of regime change from Hawaii to Iraq - Kinzer, Stephen.  
  • Planet of slums
  • Ten things I wish I'd known-- before I went out into the real world Shriver, Maria.
  • Wisdom of our fathers : lessons and letters from daughters and sons Russert, Tim,
  • My lobotomy : a memoir Dully, Howard
  • The lobotomist : a maverick medical genius and his tragic quest to rid the world of mental illness El-Hai,Jack.
  • The commanding heights : the battle between government and the marketplace that is remaking the modern world Yergin, Daniel.
  • Getting to yes : negotiating agreement without giving in Fisher, Roger,
  • Ten eternal questions : wisdom, insight, and reflection for life's journey Sallis, Zoë.
  • 10 stupid things couples do to mess up their relationships Schlessinger, Laura.
  • The pursuit of happyness Gardner, Chris
  • Gnomes Huygen, Wil.
  • World without end - Follett, Ken.
  • A young people's history of the United States. Volume 1, Columbus to the Spanish American War - Stefoff, Rebecca  
  • A young people's history of the United States. Volume 2, Class struggle to the war on terror - Stefoff, Rebecca
  • Voyage of the turtle : in pursuit of the Earth's last dinosaur Safina, Carl

  July 2008

  • Welcome to your brain : why you lose your car keys but never forget how to drive and other puzzles of everyday life Aamodt, Sandra.
  • The singularity is near : when humans transcend biology Kurzweil, Ray.
  • Stolen innocence : my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs Wall, Elissa.
  • Going postal : a novel of Discworld Pratchett, Terry.
  • Copperheads : the rise and fall of Lincoln's opponents in the North Weber, Jennifer L.,
  • Worlds at war : the 2,500-year struggle between East and West Pagden, Anthony.
  • Why do men have nipples? : hundreds of questions you'd only ask a doctor after your third martini Leyner, Mark.
  • Late Victorian holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world Davis, Mike, 1946-
  • The money men : capitalism, democracy, and the hundred years' war over the American dollar Brands, H. W.
  • Mysteries of the Middle Ages : the rise of feminism, science, and art from the cults of Catholic Europe Cahill, Thomas.
  • Head cases : stories of brain injury and its aftermath Mason, Michael Paul, 1971-
  • Overthrow : America's century of regime change from Hawaii to Iraq Kinzer, Stephen.

    August 2008

  • What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848 Howe, Daniel Walker.
  • Penn & Teller's how to play in traffic
  • Born on the Fourth of July [videorecording] Cruise, Tom,
  • Penn & Teller's magic and mystery tour [DVD] Jillette, Penn.
  • The years of extermination : Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 Friedländer, Saul,
  • The woman who can't forget : the extraordinary story of living with the most remarkable memory known to science Price, Jill,
  • Public enemies : America's greatest crime wave and the birth of the FBI, 1933-34 Burrough, Bryan,
  • Shot in the heart Gilmore, Mikal.
  • Your mother was a neanderthal Scieszka, Jon.
  • A tragic legacy : how a good vs. evil mentality destroyed the Bush presidency, Greenwald, Glenn.
  • Radical evolution : the promise and peril of enhancing our minds, our bodies, Garreau, Joel.
  • Gnomes Huygen, Wil.
  • Getting to yes : negotiating agreement without giving in Fisher, Roger
  • The commanding heights : the battle between government and the marketplace that is remaking the modern world Yergin, Daniel.
  • Beatrice's goat / by*1462544*
  • The singularity is near : when humans transcend biology Kurzweil, Ray.
  • Stolen innocence : my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs Wall, Elissa.
  • Going postal : a novel of Discworld Pratchett, Terry.

    September 2008

  • The origin of wealth : evolution, complexity, and the radical remaking of economics Beinhocker, Eric D.
  • Building decks [videorecording] Hall, Jim.
  • Empire of debt : the rise and fall of an epic financial crisis Bonner, William,
  • Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly Bourdain, Anthony.
  • Richistan : a journey through the American wealth boom and the lives of the new rich Frank, Robert, 1968-
  • The sirens of Titan Vonnegut, Kurt.
  • A nation of counterfeiters; capitalists, con men, and the making of the u.s. by stephen mihm
  • Traffic : why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us) Vanderbilt, Tom. Due:
  • The cheating culture : why more Americans are doing wrong to get ahead Callahan, David,
  • Just how stupid are *1507162*
  • The scientist in the crib : minds, brains, and how children learn Gopnik, Alison.
  • Right is wrong : how the lunatic fringe hijacked America, shredded the Constitution, and made us all less safe : (and what you nee to know to end the madness) Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos, 1950-
  • Medieval cities : their origins and the revival of trade Pirenne, Henri, 1862-1935.

    October 2008

  • How to haunt a house for Halloween / Friedhoffer, Robert.
  • The social atom : why the rich get richer, cheaters get caught, and your neighbor usually looks like you / Mark Buchanan.
  • U.S. vs. them : how a half century of conservatism has undermined America's security / Scoblic, J. Peter.
  • The Judas economy : the triumph of capital and the betrayal of work / William Wolman and Anne Colamosca.
  • The terror presidency : law and judgment inside the Bush administration Goldsmith, Jack L.
  • Dark side : the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals Mayer, Jane.
  • The way we'll be : the Zogby report on the dramatic changes transforming the American dream Zogby, John.
  • God is not great : how religion poisons everything Hitchens, Christopher.
  • The case for Mars : the plan to settle the red planet and why we must Zubrin, Robert.
  • Energy victory : winning the war on terror by breaking free of oil / Robert Zubrin.
  • The economic naturalist : in search of explanations for everyday enigmas Frank, Robert H.
  • Stephen Biesty's incredible explosions Biesty, Stephen.
  • Man-of-war Biesty, Stephen
  • The Visual dictionary of the earth Dorling Kindersley Limited.

    November 2008

  • The wrecking crew : how conservatives rule Frank, Thomas
  • America, 1908 : the dawn of flight, the race to the Pole, the invention of the Model T, and the making of a modern nation Rasenberger, Jim.
  • A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation Blight, David W.
  • A funny thing happened on the way to the White House : humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail Osgood, Charles.
  • Panama fever : the epic story of one of the greatest human achievements of all time--the building of the of the Panama Canal Parker, Matthew.
  • Death by black hole : and other cosmic quandaries Tyson, Neil deGrasse.
  • Eat that frog! : 21 great ways to stop procrastinating and get more done in less time Tracy, Brian.
  • Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance Obama, Barack.
  • American-made : the enduring legacy of the WPA : when FDR put the nation to work Taylor, Nick,
  • The political brain : the role of emotion in deciding the fate of the nation Westen, Drew.
  • Does Atlas shrug? : *1536786* Due: 11/29/2008,23:59
  • The political mind : why you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain Lakoff, George.

    December 2008

  • The predator state : how conservatives abandoned the free market and why liberals should too Galbraith, James K.
  • One minute to midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war Dobbs, Michael,
  • Dangerous business : the risks of globalization for America Choate, Pat.
  • The limits of power : the end of American Exceptionalism Bacevich, A. J.
  • The war within : a secret White House history, 2006-2008 Woodward, Bob.
  • The post-American world Zakaria, Fareed.
  • The Ascent of Money Ferguson, Niall
  • Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution Giberson, Karl
  • Groupthink : psychol*1541658*
  • Good calories, bad calories : challenging the conventional wisdom on diet, weight control, and disease Taubes, Gary.
  • Groupthink : psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes / Irving L. Janis.
  • The Judas economy : the triumph of capital and the betrayal of work / William Wolman and Anne Colamosca.
  • Sea venture : shipwreck, survival, and the salvation of the first English colony in the New World / by Kieran Doherty.
  • Thumbs, toes, and tears : and other traits that make us human / Chip Walter.