Comprehensive List

of

Recent Readings


AMERICAN HISTORY

R. Brookhiser. What Would the Founders Do? (Our Questions, Their Answers); Basic Books, (c) 2006.
J. J. Ellis. The Founding Brothers; Vintage Books, (c) 2000.
T. Fleming. Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America; Basic Books, (c) 1999.
A. Gordon-Reed, J.D. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy; University of Virginia Press, (c) 1997.
D. McCullough. 1776; Simon & Schuster, (c) 2005.
J. F. Simon. What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States; Simon & Schuster, (c) 2002.
G. Wills. Negro President: Thomas Jefferson and the Slave Power; Houghton Mifflin Company, (c) 2003.
J. Winik. April 1865; Perennial, (c) 2002.

(AUTO)BIOGRAPHY

A. D. Aczel. The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity; Pocket Books, (c) 2000.
F. Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; Modern Library, (c) 1845.
J. J. Ellis. His Excellency: George Washington; Alfred A. Knopf, (c) 2004.
K. Foskett. Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas; HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., (c) 2004.
C. F. Hobson. The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law; University Press of Kansas, (c) 1996.
H. Jacobs. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Modern Library, (c) 1861.
T. H. Landess, R. M. Quinn. Jesse Jackson & the Politics of Race; Jameson Books, (c) 1985.
D. McCullough. John Adams; Touchstone Rockafeller Center, (c) 2001.
W. Minutaglio. The President's Counselor: The Rise to Power of Alberto Gonzales; HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., (c) 2006.
E. Morris. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt; Modern Library, (c) 1979.
E. Morris. Theodore Rex; Modern Library, (c) 2001.
R. K. Newmyer. John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court.; Louisiana State University Press, (c) 2001.
J. E. Smith. John Marshall: Definer of a Nation; Owl Books, Inc., (c) 1998.
C. Thomas, J.D. My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir; HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., (c) 2007.
K. R. Timmerman. Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson; Regnery Publishing, Inc., (c) 2002.
B. T. Washington, LL.D. Up from Slavery; Modern Library, (c) 1901.
J. Williams. Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary; Three Rivers Press, (c) 2000.

BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY & STUDIES

W. E. B. Du Bois, Ph.D. The Souls of Black Folk; New American Library, (c) 1903.
W. H. Leckie. The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West; University of Oklahoma Press, (c) 1967.
J. Williams. Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America---and What We Can Do About It; Crown Publishers, (c) 2006.
C. G. Woodson, Ph.D. The Mis-Education of the Negro; Winston-Derek Publishers, Inc. (c) 1933.

COMPUTER HISTORY

M. Hall, J. Barry. Sunburst: The Ascent of Sun MicroSystems; Contemporary Books, Inc., (c) 1990.
D. Kushner. Masters of Doom; Random House, (c) 2003.
S. Levy. Crypto; Viking, (c) 2001.
R. E. Stross, Ph.D. Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing; Atheneum, (c) 1993.

ECONOMICS

O. Brafman, R. Brafman, Ph.D. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior; Doubleday, (c) 2008.
R. H. Frank, Ph.D. The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas; Perseus Books Group, (c) 2007.
M. Friedman, Ph.D., R. Friedman. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, (c) 1979, 1980.
T. Harford. The Undercover Economist; Oxford, (c) 2006.
S. Landsburg, Ph.D. The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life; Dell, (c) 1993.
S. D. Levitt, Ph.D., S. J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything; HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.,
P. Seabright, DPhil. The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life; Princeton University Press, (c) 2005.
R. J. Shiller, Ph.D. Irrational Exuberance (2d. Edition); Princeton University Press, (c) 2005.
T. Sowell, Ph.D. Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One; Basic Books, (c) 2004.
T. Sowell, Ph.D. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy; Basic Books, (c) 2004.
J. Surowiecki. The Wisdom of Crowds; Anchor Books, (c) 2004, 2005.
S. A. Venkatesh, Ph.D. Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor; Harvard University Press, (c) 2006.
C. J. Wheelan, Ph.D. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science; W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (c) 2002.

FICTION & LITERATURE

D. Alighieri. The Devine Comedy; Ann Arbor Proprietary, (c) 1308, 2006.
M. Crichton. Sphere; Ballantine Books, (c) 1987.
A. Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged Edition); Ann Arbor Proprietary, (c) 1848, 2006.
T. Harris. Hannibal; Dell Publishing, (c) 1999.
T. Harris. Hannibal Rising; Dell Publishing, (c) 2007.
T. Harris. Red Dragon; Dell Publishing, (c) 1981.
T. Harris. The Silence of the Lambs; St. Martin's Press, (c) 1988.
E. Kostova. The Historian; Little, Brown and Company, (c) 2005.
F. Lauria. Pitch Black; PolyGram Holding, Inc. (c) 1999.
V. Martin. Property; Vintage Contemporaries, (c) 2003.
R. K. Morgan. Altered Carbon; Ballantine Books, (c) 2002.
R. K. Morgan. Broken Angels; Random House Publishing Group, (c) 2003.
R. K. Morgan. Woken Furies; Ballantine Books, (c) 2007.
J. Patterson. Kiss the Girls; Warner Books, (c) 1995.
E. Plante. Garden of Evil; Book Margins, Inc., (c) 1988.
K. S. Robinson. Green Mars; Bantom Books, (c) 1994.
K. S. Robinson. Red Mars; Bantom Books, (c) 1993.
J. Saul. Nathaniel; Bantom Books, (c) 1984.
J. Saul. Shadows; Bantom Books, (c) 1992.
B. Stoker. Dracula; Ann Arbor Proprietary, (c) 1897, 2006.
H. van Dyke. The Story of the Other Wise Man; Harper & Brothers, (c) 1895, 1899.

FINANCE & INVESTING

M. E. Edleson. Value Averaging: The Safe and Easy Strategy for Higher Investment Returns; Wiley & Sons, Inc., (c) 2007.
B. G. Malkiel, Ph.D. The Random Walk Guide to Investing; W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (c) 2003.
C. C. Martin. The Newlyweds' Guide to Investing & Personal Finance; Career Press, Inc., (c) 2002.
S. Orman. The Courage to Be Rich: Creating a Life of Material and Spiritual Abundance; Riverhead Books, (c) 1999, 2002.
S. Orman. The Laws of Money: 5 Timeless Secrets to Get Out and Stay Out of Financial Trouble; Free Press, (c) 2003 2004.
S. Orman. The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical & Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying; Three Rivers Press, (c) 1997, 2000.
T. J. Stanley, Ph.D. The Millionaire Mind; Andrews McMeel, (c) 2000.
T. J. Stanley, Ph.D.,
W. D. Danko, Ph.D.
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americas's Wealthy; Pocket Books, (c) 1996.

LAW

A. R. Amar, J.D. America's Constitution: A Biography; Random House, (c) 2005.
A. R. Amar, J.D. The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction; Yale University Press, (c) 1998.
D. A. Farber, J.D. Lincoln's Constitution; University of Chicago Press, (c) 2003.
A. Hamilton, J. Madison, J. Jay. The Federalist Papers; Signet Classic, (c) 1787--1788, 2003.
L. W. Levy. Origins of the Bill of Rights; Yale University Press, (c) 1999.
A. P. Napolitano, J.D. Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws; Nelson Current, (c) 2004.
A. P. Napolitano, J.D. The Constitition in Exile: How the Federal Government has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land; Nelson Current, (c) 2006.
C. R. Sunstein, J.D. Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America; Basic Books, (c) 2005.

POLICY/POLITICAL ANALYSIS

J. D. Ashcroft, J.D. Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice; Center Street, (c) 2006.
B. Bartlett. Imposter: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy; Doubleday Books, (c) 2006.
N. Boortz, J.D., J. Linder. The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS... Not to Mention the Social Security Tax, the Medicare Tax, Corporate Income Taxes, the Death Tax, the Self-Employment Tax, the Alternative Minimum Tax, the Gift Tax, Capital Gains Taxes, Tax Audits, and Some Major Headaches Every April 15; HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., (c) 2005.
P. J. Buchanan. Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency; Saint Martin's Press, (c) 2004.
R. Hofstadter. The Progressive Movement: 1900--1915; Prentice-Hall, Inc., (c) 1963.
J. R. Norton. Saving George Washington: The Right Wing Assault on America's Founding Principles; Penguin Group, (c) 2006.
J. Stossel. Give Me a Break; HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., (c) 2004.
N. Wolf. The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot; Chelsea Green Publishing Company, (c) 2007.

SPIRITUAL

E. L. Cole. Maximized Manhood: A Guide to Family Survival; Whitaker House, (c) 1982.
T. D. Jakes. Loose That Man & Let Him Go!; Albury Publishing, (c) 1995.
---. The NIV Study Bible; Zondervan Publishing House, (c) 1995;
The Living Bible; Tyndale House Publishers, (c) 1971
Old Testament Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Daniel
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
New Testament 1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude

STAR WARS

A. D. Foster. Splinter of the Mind's Eye; Ballantine Books, (c) 1978.
D. Karpyshyn. Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction; Del Rey Books, (c) 2006.
D. Karpyshyn. Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two; Del Rey Books, (c) 2008.
J. Luceno. Star Wars: Cloak of Deception; Ballantine Publishing Group, (c) 2001.
J. Luceno. Star Wars: Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader; Random House Publishing Group, (c) 2005.
J. Luceno. Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil; Random House Publishing Group, (c) 2005.
M. Reaves. Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter; Del Rey Books, (c) 2001.
S. Stewart. Star Wars: Yoda: Dark Rendezvous; Random House Publishing Group, (c) 2004.
M. Stover. Star Wars: Shatterpoint; Random House Publishing Group, (c) 2003.

TECHNICAL

J. Brown. The Quest for the Quantum Computer; Simon & Schuster, Inc., (c) 2000.
R. W. Hamming. Coding and Information Theory (2d. Edition); Prentice-Hall, (c) 1986.
C. Schimmel. UNIX (R) Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers; Addison-Wesley, (c) 1994.
M. Sternstein, Ph.D. Statistics; Barron's Educational Series, Inc., (c) 1996.
D. F. Wallace. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity; W. W. Norton and Co., (c) 2003.
W. Weaver, Ph.D. Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability; Anchor Books, (c) 1963.

MISCELLANEOUS

D. Attenborough. The Private Life of Plants; Princeton University Press, (c) 1995.
A. D. Aczel. Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market & Just About Everything Else; Thunder's Mouth Press, (c) 2004.
J. Bamford. Body of Secrets; Anchor Books, (c) 2001.
J. Bamford. The Puzzle Palace; Penguin Books, (c) 1982.
J. T. Eberl, Ph.D. Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There; Wiley-Blackwell, (c) 2008.
S. Flannery, D. Flannery. In Code: A Mathematical Journey; Workman Publishing Company, (c) 2001.
T. Oliver. The Real Coke, The Real Story; Random House, Inc., (c) 1986.
D. T. Rubins. The A+ Guide to Good Writing; Scholastic Book Services, (c) 1980.
J. Stossel. Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel---Why Everything You Know Is Wrong; Hyperion, (c) 2006.
S. Venkatesh. Gang Leader for a Day; The Penguin Press, (c) 2008.
S. Winchester. Krakatoa: The Day the Earth Exploded: August 27, 1883; HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., (c) 2003.


Now Reading...

R. B. McKenzie, Ph.D. Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles; Springer, (c) 2008.

Future Reading...

S. Barnes. Star Wars: The Cestus Deception; Del Rey Books, (c) 2005.
G. Bear. Star Wars: Rouge Planet; Del Rey Books, (c) 2000.
D. A. Farber, J.D. Retained by the People: The "Silent" Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have; Perseus Book Group, (c) 2007.
T. Harford. The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World; Random House, (c) 2008.
J. R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D. Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-baked Theories Don't; Regnery Publishing, Inc, (c) 2007.
J. D. Miller, Ph.D. Game Theory at Work: How to Use Game Theory to Outthink and Outmaneuver Your Competition; McGraw-Hill, (c) 2003.
R. Paul, M.D. End the Fed; Grand Central Publishing, (c) 2009.
K. S. Robinson. Blue Mars; Bantom Books, (c) 1996.
D. Sherman, D. Cragg. Star Wars: Jedi Trial; Del Rey Books, (c) 2004.
M. Specter. Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives; Penguin Press HC, (c) 2009.

Latest revision: 9 November 2009