Reading List

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man‎
	John Perkins - 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - Limited preview A former consultant to the U.S. government reveals the inner workings of the high-stakes economic game that encourages third world economies to borrow money so that major corporations like Halliburton end up getting the lucrative contracts.  1231 Reviews - Write review

Killing hope: US military and CIA interventions since World War II‎
	William Blum - 2003 - Political Science - Limited preview  16 Reviews - Write review

The Secret History of the American Empire‎ John Perkins - 2008 - Political Science - Limited preview The author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man presents a dramatic exposé of international corruption activities as reported by some of the world's top assassins, journalists, and activists, in a cautionary report that makes recommendations for ...  122 Reviews - Write review The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term ...‎ T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell, II - 2007 - Health & Fitness - No preview available THE CHINA STUDY is not a diet book. It is a guide that cuts through the haze of misinformation and delivers an insightful message to anyone living with or at risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, Alzheimer's disease and/or ...  0 Reviews - Write review 1984: a novel‎ George Orwell - 2001 - No preview available For use in schools and libraries only. Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia" in its representation of an ...  14111 Reviews - Write review The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals‎ Michael Pollan - 2006 - Medical - Limited preview An ecological and anthropological study of eating offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of everyday consumers to protect their health ...  7804 Reviews - Write review War against the weak: eugenics and America's campaign to create a master race‎ Edwin Black - 2004 - Political Science - No preview available An investigative journalist peels back the lid on a shameful century of mass sterilization and human breeding programs in the U.S. that began in 1904 with a large-scale eugenics movement, a movement that has been reborn in the modern era with the ...  28 Reviews - Write review Add note - Remove -  In My Library: Change ▼ The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy‎ Dani Rodrik - 2011 - Limited preview Combining history with personal insights, a professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University discusses how democracy and national self-determination cannot be simultaneously pursued with economic globalization and instead ...  0 Reviews - Write review Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA‎ Tim Weiner - 2008 - Political Science - Limited preview A New York Times reporter offers a powerful indictment of the CIA and its intelligence-gathering capabilities as he traces the history of the organization from the end of World War II to Iraq, in a study that condemns the CIA for its record, its ...  342 Reviews - Write review Rogue state: a guide to the world's only superpower‎ William Blum - 2006 - Political Science - Limited preview Updated classic from the irreverent author of Killing Hope and Freeing the World to Death.  17 Reviews - Write review The agency: the rise and decline of the CIA‎ John Ranelagh - 1987 - Snippet view Scores of interviews with insiders and more than seven thousand pages of formerly classified documents support this history of the CIA, which focuses on "The Company's" remarkable personalities and leaders from Wild Bill Donovan to William Casey  1 Review - Write review See no evil: the true story of a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism‎ Robert Baer - 2002 - Political Science - Limited preview The author discusses his twenty-year career as a CIA operative in the Middle East and examines how the agency's abandonment of its original mission resulted in a failure to acknowledge the growing threat of militant Islamic terrorist groups.  131 Reviews - Write review Sleeping with the devil: how Washington sold our soul for Saudi crude‎ Robert Baer - 2004 - History - Limited preview A veteran of the CIA provides an insider's account of the love-hate relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, giving an up-close view of the corrupt Saudi empire and how the royal family's suppport of a radical religious group ...  49 Reviews - Write review Hoodwinked: an economic hit man reveals why the world financial markets ...‎ John Perkins - 2009 - Business & Economics - Limited preview The best-selling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man takes aim and the current global economic crisis and attemps to clear a path out of the rubble by providing a plan for remaking the economic markets.  22 Reviews - Write review Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope‎ Chalmers Johnson - 2010 - Limited preview The author of the best-selling Blowback Trilogy presents a collection of essays written throughout the past three years on the cost of Pentagon-influenced economics, the nation's global empire of bases and the dangers of elongated warfare. 75,000 ...  8 Reviews - Write review Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic‎ Chalmers Johnson - 2008 - History - Limited preview The conclusion of the trilogy that began with Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire analyzes the overreaching of the American empire and its potential repercussions in terms of our political, economic, and social institutions, including the ...  46 Reviews - Write review The sorrows of empire: militarism, secrecy, and the end of the Republic‎ Chalmers Johnson - 2005 - History - Limited preview The best-selling author of Blowback provides an insightful and provocative look at American militarism and its repercussions at home and abroad, sounding a warning about the military-industrial complex, tracing America's expanding empire of ...  51 Reviews - Write review Blowback: the costs and consequences of American empire‎ Chalmers A. Johnson - 2004 - Political Science - Limited preview The new edition of the author's insightful and often troubling analysis of American foreign policy focuses on the unintended negative consequences of American actions abroad, from forced globalism to environmental disasters, in an updated study ...  85 Reviews - Write review Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and ...‎ Arianna Huffington - 2010 - Political Science - Limited preview A critical assessment of America's current economic prospects cites such factors as a shift away from manufacture, a failing education system and the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries, arguing that today's children will be facing a ...  11 Reviews - Write review Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future‎ Robert B. Reich - 2010 - Social Science - Limited preview Analyzes the economic crisis while making recommendations for responsibly navigating its aftermath, suggesting that the downturn actually resulted from a disproportionate concentration of wealth at the expense of a debt-burdened middle class.  65 Reviews - Write review The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism‎ Naomi Klein - 2008 - Business & Economics - Limited preview In an introduction to the concept of "disaster capitalism," the award-winning author of No Logo offers a revealing expos of how the global "free market" has exploited crises, violence, and shock over the past three decades to promote radical ...  918 Reviews - Write review