What Chicago Boyz Readers Are Reading (October 2014)

Below is a list of the books, ebooks, music and videos ordered in October 2014 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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Books
A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine

America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century-Why America’s Greatest Days Are Yet to Come

Cultured Food for Life: How to Make and Serve Delicious Probiotic Foods for Better Health and Wellness

Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries)

Monstrous Stories #1: Night of the Zombie Goldfish

Python in Practice: Create Better Programs Using Concurrency, Libraries, and Patterns (Developer’s Library)

Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries)

State of the Union: A Thriller

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compasionate Conservatism Who Gives, Who Doesn’t, and Why It Matters

Kindle eBooks
A Time of Gifts

Pafko at the Wall: A Novella

The Double Comfort Safari Club: The New No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Novel: A No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Novel (11)

The Essence of Scenarios

To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

Items with no orders
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

A Man in Full

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

A Perfect Life: A Novel

A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (New York Review Books Classics Book 1)

A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (New York Review Books Classics)

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

Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft

After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000

Alas, Babylon

Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History)

America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century?Why America’s Greatest Days Are Yet to Come

American Singularity: The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, The 1862 Homestead And Morrill Acts, and the 1944 G.I. Bill

American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant

American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration

Americanism:The Fourth Great Western Religion

An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America

An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths

Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Armys Art of Attack, 1916-18

Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates (New York Review Books Classics)

Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World

Bowie: A Biography

Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes and Asides from National Review

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

Common Sense

Coolidge

Copse 125: A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918

Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes

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

Every Man Dies Alone

Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond

Fire Power: The British Army Weapons & Theories of War 1904-1945 (Pen & Sword Military Classics)

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Eminent Lives)

Free: The Future of a Radical Price

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present

From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War

Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-Up of Gulf War Syndrome

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 (P.S.)

God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

Havre de Grace

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It

How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times

I Never Can Relax

Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy

In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor

Infantry Attacks

Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World

Japan Through the Looking Glass

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

Kill Shot: An American Assassin Thriller (Mitch Rapp Book 2)

Last of the Ebb: The Battle of the Aisne 1918

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam

Leon Russell

Life of an American Workman

Lightning Fall: A Novel of Disaster

Little Man, What Now

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Lucifer’s Hammer

Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

Managing in the Next Society

Many Unhappy Returns: One Man’s Quest To Turn Around The Most Unpopular Organization In America (Leadership for the Common Good)

Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Penguin Classics)

Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too

Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too

Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy

Mr. Churchill’s Profession: The Statesman as Author and the Book That Defined the “Special Relationship”

Mud, Blood and Poppycock: This Will Overturn Everything You Thought You Knew about Britain and The First World War (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist

Nice Work (King Penguin)

Night of Thunder (Bob Lee Swagger Novels)

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue

Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue: How Politicians Caused the Financial Crisis and Why their Reforms Failed

On Artillery

On War, Indexed Edition

Once an Eagle

Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers

Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

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

Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon, Annotated

Resilience Engineering: Concepts And Precepts

Rockets and People Volume I

Romans and Aliens

Romans and Barbarians: Four Views from the Empire’s Edge, 1st Century AD

Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate

SHIPKILLER

Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)

Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)

Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)

Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-15

Shanghai: The Architecture of China’s Great Urban Center

Sharing Rachel (wife at the swingers club, cuckold wife, hot wife)

Ship Killer: A History of the American Torpedo

Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries, No. 3)

Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You

Storm of Steel (Penguin Modern Classics)

Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918

TRENCH WARFARE 1850-1950

Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb

That Hideous Strength: (Space Trilogy, Book Three) (The Space Trilogy 3)

The 47th Samurai

The 480

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

The Age of Longing

The American Boomerang: How the World’s Greatest ‘Turnaround’ Nation Will Do It Again

The Anabasis of Cyrus

The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century

The Art of Self-Adjusting

The Art of War (History and Warfare)

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

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 Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)

The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics: How Conservatism and Liberalism Evolved Within Humans

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

The First World War: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation

The General Theory Of Employment, Interest, And Money

The Generation of 1914

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 Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History’s 100 Worst Atrocities

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)

The Handbook of 5GW

The Human Face of War (Birmingham War Studies)

The Human Factor: Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture

The Jackals of Babylon

The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War

The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front & Emergence of Modern Warfare 1900-1918 (Pen & Sword Military Classics)

The Landmark Thucydides

The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards

The Life of Thomas More

The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600

The Memoirs Of Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1920 Years Of Adventure

The Middle Parts of Fortune (Vintage Classics)

The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times

The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself

The Origins of English Individualism: The Family Property and Social Transition

The Overthrow of Allende and the Politics of Chile, 1964-1976 (Pitt Latin American Studies)

The Quivera Trail

The Radetzky March (Works of Joseph Roth)

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It

The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France

The Shirley Letters: Being Letters Written in 1851-1852 from the California Mines

The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns

The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries (ColumbiaHurst)

The Volunteer

The War of the World

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919

The Wisdom of Crowds

The World of Yesterday

The World of Yesterday

The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan

The cruel coast

The true blue;: The life and adventures of Colonel Fred Burnaby, 1842-85

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

Time of Gifts (Transaction Large Print Books)

To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth

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

True Crime: The Novel

Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity

Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches November 1916

Twenty Letters To A Friend

Two Years Before the Mast – Full Version (Annotated and Illustrated) (Literary Classics Collection Book 93)

Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series)

Wag the Dog: A Novel

Who Are We: The Challenges to America’s National Identity

Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism

Wilderness Run: A Novel

William the Silent

World War One: A Short History

World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

You Still Don’t Understand

Young Hamilton

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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