Below is a list of the books, ebooks, music and videos ordered in December 2014 (a record month, for which many thanks) 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
365 Sports Cars You Must Drive
Ace of Aces: The Life of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
Bumf Vol. 1: I Buggered The Kaiser
Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries)
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Herman the German: Just Lucky I Guess
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command
On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
Rifle Magazine – The Legacy of Lever Guns – 2000 – Volume 1 (Volume 1)
Rifle Magazine – The Legacy of Lever Guns – Winter 2009 (Volume 2)
Simon & Schuster’s Pimsleur Conversational Italian
Supercars 2015: 16-Month Calendar including September 2014 through December 2015
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 10000
Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom
Kindle eBooks
Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution’s Greatest Puzzle
Blue Labyrinth (Pendergast series Book 14)
Oil & Gas Handbook: A Roughneck’s guide to the Universe
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and
Items with no orders
Nabisco Club Pack Sandwich Cookies, Nabisco Oreo Chocolate, 52.5 Ounce
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History)
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
Americanism:The Fourth Great Western Religion
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)
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Armys Art of Attack, 1916-18
Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
Britain and the Origins of the First World War: Second Edition
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes and Asides from National Review
Churchill: A Study in Failure 1900-1939
Comanches: The History of a People
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Copse 125: A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918
Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries Book 1)
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
Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
Fire Power: The British Army Weapons & Theories of War 1904-1945 (Pen & Sword Military Classics)
Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871
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
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
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
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
Lightning Fall: A Novel of Disaster
Lightning Fall: A Novel of Disaster
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Penguin Classics)
Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too
Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Monstrous Stories #1: Night of the Zombie Goldfish
Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
My Forty Years with Ford (Great Lakes Books Series)
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
Night of Thunder (Bob Lee Swagger Novels)
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue: How Politicians Caused the Financial Crisis and Why their Reforms Failed
Osama Bin Laden in Jihad Against the Us: Intelligence Report (World Business Information Library)
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
Parallel Motion: A Biography of Nevil Shute Norway
Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
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 Warand Patterns (Developer’s Library)
Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon, Annotated
Resilience Engineering: Concepts And Precepts
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
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)
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
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf
Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries, No. 3)
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
State of the Union: A Thriller
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
Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb
That Hideous Strength: (Space Trilogy, Book Three) (The Space Trilogy 3)
The 47th Samurai
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
The American Boomerang: How the World’s Greatest ‘Turnaround’ Nation Will Do It Again
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolutionng Us Apart
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (New York Review Books Classics Book 3)
The Caine Mutiny (Combat Classics)
The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)
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 Double Comfort Safari Club: The New No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Novel
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
The Essence of Scenarios: Learning from the Shell Experience
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: An Agrarian Interpretation
The Frontier in American History
The General Theory Of Employment, Interest, And Money
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)f History’s 100 Worst Atrocities
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
The Human Face of War (Birmingham War Studies)
The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War
The Kaoboys & R&AW: Down Memory Lane
The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards
The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum
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 Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Bollingen Series (General))
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 Pattern of the Chinese Past
The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I
The Radetzky March (Works of Joseph Roth Book 1)
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay
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 Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries (ColumbiaHurst)
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
The Writer and the World: Essays
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)
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
Time of Gifts (Transaction Large Print Books)
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Study Guide Edition)
Trumark Slingshots Normal Pull Slingshot
Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity
Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches November 1916
US World War II Amphibious Tactics, Army and Marine Corps, Pacific Theater
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Dover Thrift Editions)
Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society
Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and a Nation’s Challenge
Upon the Types of the Old Testament (2 volume set)
Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series) (1997)
Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (American Empire Project)
Who Are We: The Challenges to America’s National Identity
Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Non-Book Items
20MP Waterproof ACQUA 8800 Shockproof UnderWater Digital Camera Video recorder (Blue) By SVP
Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK 15.6-Inch Laptop (Intel Celeron Processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive)
SGT111 DOD Military USB Common Access CAC Smart Card Reader
Ceptics Grounded Universal Plug Adapter for Italy (Type L) – 3 Pack
Sony MDRZX300/RED Outdoor Headphones
Symphonized NRG Premium Genuine Wood In-ear Noise-isolating Headphones with Mic (Orange Stripe)
Amazon Gift Card – Email – Christmas Memories (Animated) [American Greetings]
Amazon Gift Card – Email – God’s Gifts (Animated) [American Greetings]
Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Treats Original Crispy Marshmallow Squares .78 oz Bars – 54 Bars
Citracal Maximum Caplets with Vitamin D, 120-Count
NOW Foods St. John’S Wort 300Mg, 250 Capsulestd>
Canon PowerShot ELPH 100 HS 12.1 MP CMOS Digital Camera with 4X Optical Zoom (Grey) (OLD MODEL)
Canon PowerShot S110 12MP Digital Camera with 3-Inch LCD (Black)ge Stabilized Zoom and 3.0-Inch LCD
Sony BDP-BX58 Blu-ray Disc Player 3D Built-in Wireless
Sony DSC-RX100M III Cyber-shot Digital Still Camera
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I am reading “A Time of Gifts” by Patrick Leigh Fermor and have to it is excellent! This is a book that I will be passing around to friends.