Below is a list of the books, ebooks, music and videos that Chicago Boyz readers viewed and/or ordered in July and August 2016 via Amazon links on this blog. (A cumulative list of Chicago Boyz readers’ Amazon purchases is here.)
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July 2016
Items with orders
Amazon Instant Video
Planes
Books
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constant (Princeton Science Library)
Generational Dynamics: Forecasting America’s Destiny
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire
Literature in the Vernacular (De Vulgari Eloquentia)
Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot
Not For Tourists Guide to Brooklyn 2016
Rhetoric (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Made Easy)
The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does
Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with …
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Kindle eBooks
A History of the Future: A World Made By Hand Novel
A Time For Audacity: New Options Beyond Europe
RACE WARS: Season Ten: Episodes 55-62: “The Battle”
The Brother’s Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)
The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel (World Made by Hand Novels)
Items with no orders
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
A Chicken in Every Yard: The Urban Farm Store’s Guide to Chicken Keeping
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America’s War on Terror
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history)
American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration
Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Armys Art of Attack, 1916-18
Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy
Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan-And Why Truman Dropped the Bomb
Cracking Hitler’s Atlantic Wall: The 1st Assault Brigade Royal Engineers on D-Day
David Busch’s Sony Alpha a7R IIa7 II Guide to Digital Photography
Death’s End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past)
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Eggs are Expensive, Sperm is Cheap: 50 Politically Incorrect Thoughts for Men
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin
Free Speech Isn’t Free: How 90 Men Stood Up Against The Globalist Establishment — And Won
Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
George Washington’s Great Gamble: And the Sea Battle That Won the American Revolution
HOW THE 1 PERCENT PROVIDES THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE 99 PERCENT
Herman the German: Just Lucky I Guess
How Can Man Die Better: The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed
How the Post Office Created America: A History
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
Japan Through the Looking Glass
Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It’s Not Safe to Believe
Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
MacArthur in Asia: The General and His Staff in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War
Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
Patton’s Air Force: Forging a Legendary Air-Ground Team
Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines (MIT Press)
Purgatory Illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the Saints
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Rhetoric (Dover Thrift Editions)
Rifle Magazine – The Legacy of Lever Guns – Winter 2009 (Volume 2)
Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
That Hideous Strength: (Space Trilogy, Book Three) (The Space Trilogy 3)
The Ashes of Pompeii (Purge of Babylon, Book 5)
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past)
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The God of the Machine (Library of Conservative Thought)
The Great Courses: Optimizing Brain Fitness
The Legacy of Lever Guns: A Complete Reference for Loading and Shooting Lever Actions
The Mass: A Study of Roman Liturgy
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
The Salt Lick Cookbook: A Story of Land, Family, and Love
The Seven Military Classics Of Ancient China (History and Warfare)
The Trouble with History: Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution (Politics and Culture)
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
The Year of the French (New York Review Books Classics)
The True Blue: The life and adventures of Colonel Fred Burnaby, 1842-85
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Time’s Arrow (Vintage International)
To Sail a Darkling Sea (Black Tide Rising Book 2)
Totalitaria: What If The Enemy Is The State: BREXIT Edition: Look What’s Coming
US World War II Amphibious Tactics: Mediterranean & European Theaters (Elite)
War Stories: 50 Years in Medicine
When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana
Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age
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August 2016
Items with orders
Books
Darkstalker (Wings of Fire: Legends)
Michael Vey 2: Rise of the Elgen
Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Book 1)
Proofs Without Words II: More Exercises in Visual Thinking (Classroom Resource Materials) (v. 2)
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past)
Treasury of Polish Love Poems: In Polish and English (Hippocrene Treasury of Love) (Polish Edition)
DVD
My Many Sons
Kindle eBooks
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
The Indo-Europeans: In Search of the Homeland
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
War Stories: 50 Years in Medicine
Items with no orders
American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant
Death’s End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past)
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
Last to Die: A Defeated Empire, a Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II
Rhetoric (Dover Thrift Editions)
Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
The Brothers Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why
The Middle Parts of Fortune (Vintage Classics)
Theirs Was the Kingdom (Swann Family Saga)
Travels With Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford: A Journal