Below is a list of the books, ebooks, music and videos that Chicago Boyz readers viewed and/or ordered in December 2016 via Amazon links on this blog. (A cumulative list of Chicago Boyz readers’ Amazon purchases is here.)
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Amazon Instant Video
The Landing (English subtitled)
Books
A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
American Buildings and Their Architects: The Colonial and Neoclassical Styles
American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration
Excel 2013 VBA and Macros (MrExcel Library)
Exploding Fuel Tanks – Saga of Technology That Changed the Course of the Pacific Air ar
Flyover Nation: You Can’t Run a Country You’ve Never Been To
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875
Neo-conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea
Seeking a Better Country: 300 Years of American Presbyterianism
Seven Miracles That Saved America Why They Matter & Why We Should Have Hope [HC,2009]
TCM Classic Movie Trivia: Featuring More Than 4,000 Questions to Test Your Trivia Smarts
The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle Against Authority
The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech
The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church: Vision of An American Era
The New Yorker Book of Golf Cartoons
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander
Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel
Voyages of the Self: Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature
Kindle eBooks
“Trickle Down Theory” and “Tax Cuts for the Rich”
Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
Frugaling: Save more, live well, give generously
Murphy’s Law of Vampires (Love at First Bite Book 2)
The Defence of Sevastopol 1941-1942: The Soviet Perspective
War and Peace (Complete Version, Best Navigation, Active TOC)
X-Day: Japan: Front Line Reporting at the Greatest Invasion and the Dawn of Nuclear Warfare
Items with no orders
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
“Trickle Down Theory” and “Tax Cuts for the Rich”
‘Cross the Green Mountain (From Gods and Generals Soundtrack)
4th Generation Warfare Handbook
A History of the Future: A World Made By Hand Novel
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
A Time For Audacity: How Brexit Has Created The CANZUK Option
A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America’s War on Terror
Alive for Now (The Infected Dead Book 1)
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalities
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan-And Why Truman Dropped the Bomb
Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea
Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–and Why They Fall
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (Contemporary Asia in the World)
Eggs are Expensive, Sperm is Cheap: 50 Politically Incorrect Thoughts for Men
Elementary Geometry from an Advanced Standpoint (3rd Edition)
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Engineers of the Southwest Pacific 1941-1945. Vol IV. Amphibian Engineer Operations.
Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism
Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constant (Princeton Science Library)
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Give Us This Day (Swann Family Saga Book 3)
God Is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye
Herman the German: Just Lucky I Guess
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
How Can Man Die Better: The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed
Ice Is Nice!: All About the North and South Poles (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library)
Impossible Languages (MIT Press)
In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire
In the Beginning…Was the Command Line
In the Beginning…was the Command Line
Japan Through the Looking Glass
King John and Henry VIII (Bantam Classics)
Last to Die: A Defeated Empire, a Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II
Long Road To Abilene: The Western Adventures of Cade McCall
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Luna City 3.1 (The Chronicles of Luna City)
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 2 The Hammer of Thor
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command
Modern Classics Storm of Steele (Penguin Modern Classics)
Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue: How Politicians Caused the Financial Crisis and hy their Reforms Failed
PRISONERS OF HOPE (Pen & Sword Paperback)
Patton’s Air Force: Forging a Legendary Air-Ground Team
Pea and Lentil Cookbook: From Everyday to Gourmet
Pericles (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Proofs Without Words II: More Exercises in Visual Thinking (Classroom Resource Materials) (v. 2)
RACE WARS: Season Ten: Episodes 55-62: “The Battle”
Red River Revenge (Remington Book 1)
Rhetoric (Dover Thrift Editions)
That Hideous Strength: (Space Trilogy, Book Three) (The Space Trilogy 3)
The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970
The Eternal City: Rome & the Origins of Catholic Christianity
The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State
The Great Courses: Geometry: An Interactive Journey to Mastery
The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist’s Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan
The Indo-Europeans: In Search of the Homeland
The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Made Easy)
The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America
The New Father: A Dad’s Guide to the First Year
The Outcast (The Empire’s Corps Book 5)
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It
The Seven Military Classics Of Ancient China (History and Warfare)
The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
Time’s Arrow (Vintage International)
Timmy Failure: The Book You’re Not Supposed to Have
To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War
War Stories: 50 Years in Medicine
Welcome to the Symphony: A Musical Exploration of the Orchestra Using Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5
When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana
Still reading Mobility Conquers: The Story of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group 1978-2005–it’s over 1000 pages. But have only a couple of hundred pages to go. It is about a South African military group designed to fight conventional battles in the border war in SWA/Namibia and supporting Jonus Savimbi’s UNITA guerrillas fighting the Marxist Angola government and their Soviet and Cuban allies. Their efforts, especially in their 1987-88 efforts to thwart the Angolan-Soviet-Cuban attempts to capture Savimbi’s headquarters in southeaster Angola, while greatly outnumbered, is a testimony to good training, leadership, plus using equipment designed to function in the terible unfriendly African bush. What makes this reading more pleasant for me is that I know a lot of the South Africans that were involved in the fight during those years. The book is terribly expensive but it is well written; well illustrated with photos and maps. If you like studying military history and their involved campaigns, etc., I would suggest forgoing your Starbucks coffees until you’ve saved enough to purchase it, costly as it may be. I don’t think you will be disappointed.