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Recently Read Books & Articles

Subjects
Computers:
other computer books

Economics
Edward Tenner 1996 _Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of UnIntended Consequences_ (303.483)
Joel Kotkin 1993 _Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy_ (343 pages; 650.1)
Joseph E. Stiglitz 2002 _Globalization and Its Discontents_
Alexandra Harney 2008 _China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage_ (300 pages; 337.51)
Marjorie S. Holt, William L. Armstrong, John H. Rousselot, Jack F. Kemp, William M. Ketchum, Robin L. Beard, William F. Goodling, Sam Steiger, Edward J. Derwinski, Philip M. Crane et al. 1976 _The Case Against the Reckless Congress_
Amy Chua 2011 _Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother_ (233 pages; 306.8743)
Mark R. Levin 2012 _Ameritopia: The UnMaking of America_ (250 pages; 320.97301)

History:
Anne Savage 2000 _The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles_ (278 pages; 942.01)
William H. McNeill 1977, 1993, 2010 _Plagues and Peoples_ (340 pages; 614.49)
Bruce S. Feiler 2009 _America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story_ (323 pages; 973)
Robin Brownstein & Peter Guttmacher 1988 _The Scotch-Irish Americans_ (104 pages; 973.04)
Daniel J. Boorstin 1987 _Hidden History_ (313 pages; 973)
Miyamoto Musashi & Victor Harris 1645, 1974 _A Book of 5 Rings_
Alexander Rose 2006 _Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring [in NY]_ (973.385)
see separate pages
 

Career
Calvin C. Newport 2012 _So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love_ (250 pages; 650.1)
see career books
 

Screen-plays
none this year
see movie-making books

Religion
Elie Wiesel & Mark Podwal 1993 (הגדה של פסח) _A PassOver Haggadah_
Robert Eisenman 1996 _The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians_ (296.155)
see earlier pages

Fiction
Eric Flint, David Weber, Mercedes Lackey, Dave Freer, Andrew Dennis, Virginia de Marce Loren K. Jones, S.L. Viehl, Anette M. Peersen, Jonathan Cresswell, Scott Washburn, Deann Alen, Mike Turner, Greg Donahue, Walt Boyes, Jody Dorsett & K.D. Wentworth 2004 _Ring of Fire_
Brad Meltzer 2001 _The First Counsel_
Eric Flint 2000 _1632_
Jim Butcher 2012 _Cold Days_
David Weber, Eric Flint & Mike Spehar 2002 _1633_
Eric Flint & Virginia de Marce 2007 _1634: The Bavarian Crisis_
Dorothy Gilman 1966 _The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax_
Dorothy Gilman 1970 _The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax_
Dorothy Gilman 1971 _The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax_
Dorothy Gilman 1976, 1977 _Mrs. Pollifax on Safari_
other fiction

Other
John Carroll, Larry Haun, George Nash, Don Dunkley, Scott McBride, James Docker, John Spier, Rick Arnold & Mike Guertin 2003 _Framing Roofs_
Ann Coulter 2012 _Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the 1970s to Obummer_ (275 pages; 305.800973)
Peter Schweizer 2008 _Makers and Takers: Why Conservatives Work Harder, Feel Happier, Have Closer Families, Take Fewer Drugs, Give More Generously, Value Honesty More, Are Less Materialistic and Envious, Whine Less... and Even Hug Their Children More than Leftists_ (212 pages; 320.50973)
Peter Schweizer & Caspar Weinberger 1996 _The Next War_ (450 pages; 355.020112)


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