Below is a list of the books, ebooks, music and videos ordered in January 2015 by Chicago Boyz readers via Amazon links on this blog. (A cumulative list of Chicago Boyz readers’ Amazon book purchases is here.)
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Items with orders
.NET 2.0 Interoperability Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Bitter Harvest: Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of its Independence
Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid
Screwcutting in the Lathe (Workshop Practice Series)
Show Dad How (Parenting Magazine): The Brand-New Dad’s Guide to Baby’s First Year
Soldering and Brazing (Workship Practice, No 9) (Workship Practice, No 9) (Workshop Practice Series)
The Anubis Gates (Ace Science Fiction)
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
The Legacy of Lever Guns: A Complete Reference for Loading and Shooting Lever Actions
The New Father: A Dad’s Guide to the First Year
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Words And Rules: The Ingredients Of Language (Science Masters Series)
unSafe by Design?: Forensic Firearms Investigations
Second-Mile People (Isobel Kuhn)
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and
Treasure Planet (Man-Kzin Wars Series offshoot Book 2)
Items with no orders
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
365 Sports Cars You Must Drive
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
A Terrorist’s Call to Global Jihad: Deciphering Abu Musab al-Suri’s Islamic Jihad Manifesto
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
A Town Like Alice (Vintage International)
A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America’s War on Terror
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Ace of Aces: The Life of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history)
Amazon Gift Card – Email – Christmas Memories (Animated) American Greetings
Amazon Gift Card – Email – God’s Gifts (Animated) American Greetings
American Slavery, American Freedom
American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant
American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration
An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus’ab al-Suri (ColumbiaHurst)
Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution’s Greatest Puzzle
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army’s Art of Attack, 1916-18
Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book)
Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism
Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
Blue Labyrinth (Pendergast series Book 14)
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
Britain and the Origins of the First World War: Second Edition
Bumf Vol. 1: I Buggered The Kaiser
Comanches: The History of a People
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Copse 125: A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918
Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–and Why They Fall
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition
Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries)
Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence In America
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Erich Maria Remarque: The Last Romantic
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 61-1871
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Generational Dynamics: Forecasting America’s Destiny
Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
Herman the German: Just Lucky I Guess
Herman the German: Just Lucky I Guess
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
Japan Through the Looking Glass
Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Treats Original Crispy Marshmallow Squares .78 oz Bars – Bars
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
Lightning Fall: A Novel of Disaster
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command
Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too
Modern Classics Storm Of Steele (Penguin Modern Classics)
Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Night of Thunder (Bob Lee Swagger Novels)
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
Oil & Gas Handbook: A Roughneck’s guide to the Universe
On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers
Poorly Made in China: An Insider’s Account of the Tactics Behind China’s Production Game
Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines
Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Resilience Engineering: Concepts And Precepts
Rifle Magazine – The Legacy of Lever Guns – 2000 – Volume 1 (Volume 1)
Rifle Magazine – The Legacy of Lever Guns – Winter 2009 (Volume 2)
Romans and Barbarians: Four Views from the Empire’s Edge, 1st Century AD
Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate
Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)
Simon & Schuster’s Pimsleur Conversational Italian
Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed
Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You
Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb
That Hideous Strength: (Space Trilogy, Book Three) (The Space Trilogy 3)
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Caine Mutiny (Combat Classics)
The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)
The Death of the Author (The Contemporary Art of the Novella)
The Devil’s Garden: Rommel’s Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
The Essence of Scenarios: Learning from the Shell Experience
The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition
The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation
The Frontier in American History
The General Theory Of Employment, Interest, And Money
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why
The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich (Modern War Studies)
The God of the Machine (Library of Conservative Thought)
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
The Human Face of War (Birmingham War Studies)
The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900
The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War
The Kaoboys & R&AW: Down Memory Lane
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.)
The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum
The Middle Parts of Fortune (Vintage Classics)
The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Bollingen Series (General))
The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from self
The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America
The Origins of English Individualism: The Family Property and Social Transition
The Pattern of the Chinese Past
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies
The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It
The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life is Funny as Hell
The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate, 1889
The Year of the French (New York Review Books Classics)
Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom
They Fought for the Sky: The Dramatic Story of the First War in the Air
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Study Guide Edition)
Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 911
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Dover Thrift Editions)
Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (American Empire Project)
When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana
Who Are We: The Challenges to America’s National Identity
Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism
Wow ! Great list !