What Chicago Boyz Readers Are Reading (April and May 2015)

Below is a list of the books, ebooks, music and videos that Chicago Boyz readers viewed and/or ordered in April and May 2015 via Amazon links on this blog. Despite some overlap between April and May there are many interesting book references here. (A cumulative list of Chicago Boyz readers’ Amazon book purchases is here.)

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April Orders Report
An Uncanny Era: Conversations between Václav Havel and Adam Michnik

How to Learn Any Language

Pilgrim’s Progress

Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War

The Trouble with History: Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution (Politics and Culture)

Munich (Widescreen Edition)

Angles of Attack (Frontlines Book 3)

Here Comes Earth: Emergence

Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings

The Frozen Sky: The Novel

The Green Gauntlet (A Horseman Riding By Book 3)

The Man Who Ended the World

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

18 Easy Laptop Repairs Worth $60,000 A Year!

A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind

A Man in Full

A Perfect Life: A Novel

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)

Adelsverein – The Sowing

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

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

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

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

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

Apocalypse in Islam

Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

Basic Benchwork (Workshop Practice Series, No 18) (Workshop Practice Series, No 18) (Workshop Practice Series, No 18)

Beyond Forecasting: Creating New Strategic Narratives – Journal Article

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

Bowie: A Biography

By Tom Holland In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire (Reprint)

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Churchill: A Life

Churchill: A Study in Failure 1900-1939

Comanches: The History of a People

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

Coolidge

Cougar Attacks: Encounters of the Worst Kind

Daemon

Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes

Danger Close, Second Edition

Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

Depopulation: An Investor’s Guide to Value in the Twenty-First Century

Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

Erich Maria Remarque: The Last Romantic

Every Man Dies Alone

FMR America July 1984 No. 2 First Year (Ca’ d’Oro, Beatus of Liebana, The Vittoriale, Romaine Brooks)

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

Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871

Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth

Freedom (TM)

Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

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

Give Us This Day

Give Us This Day (God Is an Englishman)

God Is An Englishman

God Is an Englishman

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

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, Their Jihads, and Osama bin Laden

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

I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford

ISIS: The State of Terror

Infantry Attacks

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

Lincoln’s Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton (Civil War America)

Lone Star Sons: Being The Entertaining and Mostly If not Always True Adventures of Texas Ranger Jim Reade and his Blood Brother Delaware Scout Toby Shaw in the Time of the Republic of Texas

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Lucifer’s Hammer

MacArthur’s Amphibious Navy: Seventh Amphibious Force Operations, 1943-1945

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

Mexican Cooking

Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy

My Forty Years with Ford (Great Lakes Books Series)

Netatmo Weather Station for Smartphone

Nice Work (King Penguin)

Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue

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

On Artillery

On China

On War, Indexed Edition

Once an Eagle

Oster A5 Turbo 2-Speed Professional Animal Clipper

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

Parallel Motion: A Biography of Nevil Shute Norway

Patton’s Air Force: Forging a Legendary Air-Ground Team

Post of Honour (A Horseman Riding By Book 2)

Response to Disaster: Fact Versus Fiction and Its Perpetuation

Rockets and People – Volume I

Rockets and People Volume I

Romans and Aliens

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

Second-Mile People (Isobel Kuhn)

St. Louis Then and Now (Then & Now)

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 480

The Afghan Campaign: A Novel

The Anabasis of Cyrus

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

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

The Art of War (History and Warfare)

The Bell Jar

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

The Brother’s Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)

The Bureau of Substandards Annual Report

The Changing Face of War: Lessons of Combat, from the Marne to Iraq

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

The Crowd, The Critic, and the Muse: A Book for Creators

The Death of the Author (The Contemporary Art of the Novella)

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)

The End Is Near and It’s Going to Be Awesome: How Going Broke Will Leave America Richer, Happier, and More Secure

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 Generation of 1914

The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

The Jet Race and the Second World War

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

The Landmark Thucydides

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.)

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940

The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life

The Life of Thomas More

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 911

The Name of the Rose: including the Author’s Postscript

The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America

The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm

The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000

The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class

The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class

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

The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People’s Religion

The Testing of Luther Albright

The Thief Taker

The Transatlantic Persuasion: The Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of Gladstone

The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns

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

The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate, 1889

The Year of the French

The Year of the French (New York Review Books Classics)

The cruel coast

Theirs Was the Kingdom

Theirs Was the Kingdom

Theirs Was the Kingdom (Swann Family Saga Book 2)

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

Threats in the Age of Obama

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

Travels With Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford: A Journal

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

Two Years Before the Mast

Ubik

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Victory in the Pacific, 1945: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 14 (History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II)

When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana

Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism

William the Silent

Words And Rules: The Ingredients Of Language (Science Masters Series)

World Order

Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism

unSafe by Design: Forensic Firearms Investigations

May Orders Report
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

And the Good News Is…: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side

Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith

Dragonfly In Amber (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Outlander)

Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

Fodor’s Greece: with Great Cruises & the Best Islands (Full-color Travel Guide)

No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb

The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don’ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life

The Essential Hal Clement Volume 1: Trio for Slide Rule & Typewriter

The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech

The Year of The French

The wonderful flight to the Mushroom Planet

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

Breakfast with the Dirt Cult

Depopulation: An Investor’s Guide to Value in the Twenty-First Century

EMP: Equipping Modern Patriots: The Aftermath

The NEW Kindle Fire HD 6 & 7 User Guide: Beginner to Expert in 1 Houright for One Billion Consumers

The Space Trilogy

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

how nature works: the science of self-organized criticality

Very Best of Dwight Yoakam

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

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

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance (revised edition)

Churchill: A Life

Comanches: The History of a People

Defying Hitler: A Memoir

Douglas Haig and the First World War (Cambridge Military Histories)

Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871

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

Generational Dynamics: Forecasting America’s Destiny

Give Us This Day

God Is an Englishman

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

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, Their Jihads, and Osama bin Laden

Infantry Attacks

MacArthur in Asia: The General and His Staff in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea

Mexican Cooking

Modern Classics Storm of Steele (Penguin Modern Classics)

Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy

My Forty Years with Ford (Great Lakes Books Series)

No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb

People on Sunday (The Criterion Collection)

Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)

Response to Disaster: Fact Versus Fiction and Its Perpetuation

Snake

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

Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions)

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

The Age of Longing

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

The Anubis Gates (Ace Science Fiction)

The Brother’s Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)

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

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The Making of the Modern World: Visions from the West and East

The Middle Parts of Fortune (Vintage Classics)

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Bollingen Series (General))

The Wisdom of Crowds

The Year of the French

To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45

True Crime: The Novel