Reading List 2019

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Reading List

• Holiday - Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
• Vaughan - Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA (reread)
• Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
• Ousterhout - A Philosophy of Software Design
• Mao, Lawson - The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty (Cambridge China Library)
• Kuran - Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
• Tuchman - The Guns of August
• Furet - The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
• Smith - Russia In Revolution: An Empire In Crisis 1890-1928
• van Buren - We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
• Scott - Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes To Improve The Human Condition Have Failed
• Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
• Eubanks - Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish The Poor
• Wrong - In The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living On The Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
• Callahan - The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
• Edgerton - Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900
• Dasgupta - Capital: The Explosion of Delhi
• Gleick - Chaos
• Danielsen - Making Warriors in a Global Era: An Ethnographic Study of the Norwegian Special Operations Commando
• Principe - Secrets of Alchemy
• Beard - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
• Lee - Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign
• Glantz - When Titans Clashed
• Caro - The Path To Power
• Caro - Means of Ascent
• Caro - Master of the Senate
• Caro - The Passage of Power
• Marra - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
• Naval History and Heritage Command - War in the Shallows: US Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam: 1965-1986
• Nagl - Learning To Eat Soup With A Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons From Malaysia and Vietnam
• Afzal - Pakistan Under Seige: Extremism, Society and the State
• Biddle - Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
• Anderson - Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)
• Burroughs - Days of Rage
• Slobodian - Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
• Deming - The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education
• Achen Bartels - Democracy of Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
• Varble - The Suez Crisis 1956 (Essential Histories)
• Vaishnav - When Crime Pays
• Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
• Bostrom - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
• Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
• Robb - The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography
• Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• Hofstadter - Goedel Escher Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid (reread)
• Rawls - A Theory of Justice
• Keegan - The Face of Battle (reread)
• George - Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes On Your Back, Gas In Your Car and Food On Your Plate
• Hamid - How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel (reread)
• Shambaugh - China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation
• Dekker - The Field Guide To Understanding Human Error
• Robins - The Corporation That Changed The World
• Cohen - Rescuing Justice and Equality
• Stiglitz - Globalization and Its Discontents
• Whyte - The Organization Man
• Maine - Ancient Law and its Connection To The History of Early Society
• Maine - Popular Government
• Ferguson - When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Devaluation, Deficit Spending and Hyperinflation In Weimar Germany
• Chopra, White - A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents
• Ellickson - Order Without Law
• Posner - Law and Social Norms
• Posner - How Judges Think
• Luttwak - Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook
• Pinker - The Better Angels of our Nature
• Friedman, Kraus - Engineering The Financial Crisis
• Porter - The Competitive Advantage of Nations
• Hartcher - The Ministry: The Inside Story of Japan's Ministry of Finance
• Ferguson - The Pity of War
• Israel - Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution and Human Rights 1750 - 1790
• Steiner - Triumph of the Dark: European International History: 1933-1939
• Weinberger - Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That The Facts Aren't The Facts, Experts Are Everywhere and the Smartest Person In The Room Is The Room
• Bhide - A Call For Judgement
• Dodge - Schelling's Game Theory: How To Make Decisions
• Self - American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
• Nozick - Anarchy, State and Utopia
• Acemoglu, Robinson - Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, Poverty
• Spufford - Red Plenty
• Johnson - Thirteen Bankers
• Desrochers, Shimizu - The Locavore's Dilemma - In Praise of the 10,000 Mile Diet
• Blum - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
• Ho - Liquidated
• Christensen - The Innovator's Dilemma
• Henwood - Wall Street
• Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles - War, Peace and the Course of History
• Matias - Bartleby & Co
• Arnold - Everyday Technology - Machines and the Making of India's Modernity
• Drescher - Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics
• Studwell - How Asia Works
• Leibovich - This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral Plus Plenty of Valet Parking In America's Gilded Capital
• Shapiro - The Terrorists' Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
• Turse - Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
• Simpson - War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat As Politics
• Mishra - From The Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
• Perkins - East Asian Development: Foundations And Strategies
• Posner - Reflections On Judging
• Feldman - The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics and Society in the Great German Inflation: 1914-1924
• Lewis - The Big Short
• Lewis - Liar's Poker
• Sorkin - Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought To Save The Financial System and Themselves
• Harrison - Light
• Bass - The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide
• Roberts - Shantaram
• Sanderson - The Way of Kings
• Sanderson - Words of Radiance
• Hayek - The Market and Other Orders
• Weil - The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad For So Many And What Can Be Done To Improve It
• Lieven - Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry
• Figes - The Crimean War
• Akysyonov - The Island of Crimea
• Freedman - Strategy: A History
• Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow
• Armstrong - Paying For the Party: How Colleges Maintain Inequality
• Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
• Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• Roy - Capitalism: A Ghost Story
• Doniger - The Hindus: An Alternative History
• Gall - The Wrong Enemy: American in Afghanistan: 2001-2014
• Taylor - The People's Platform
• Brook - The Quelling of the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement
• Lim - The People's Republic of Amnesia
• Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel (reread)
• Kay - The Lions of Al-Rassan
• Zweig - Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
• Davies - Europe: A History
• Mak - In Europe: Travels Through The Twentieth Century
• Schlosser - Command And Control
• Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
• Meek - Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else
• al-Ali - The Struggle for Iraq's Future
• Reynolds - The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century
• Dawisha - Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia
• Remnick - Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
• Johennsen - The Tigers and the Taliban: Risking Everything for Afghanistan
• Armstrong - A History of God
• Rajaniemi - The Quantum Thief
• Rotman - Advanced Modern Algebra
• Xenophon - Anabasis
• Arian - Anabasis Alexander
• Karnad - Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
• Sky - The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
• Stern, Berger - ISIS: The State of Terror
• Hayton - The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia
• O'Malley - The Two State Delusion: Israel And Palestine: A Tale of Two Narratives
• Kilcullen - The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars In The Midst of a Big One
• Hoffman - Why Did Europe Conquer The World
• Walzer - The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolution and Religious Counterrevolutions
• Cherry-Garrard - The Worst Journey in the World
• Sumner - The Midas Paradox
• Taleb - Fooled By Randomness
• Allison, Blackwill, Wyne - Lee Kyuan Yew
• Polyani - The Great Transformation
• Berlin - Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
• Wilson - The Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
• Macaes - The Dawn of Eurasia
• Preston - The World's Worst Warships: The Failures and Repercussions of Naval Design and Construction
• Hastings - The Battle for the Falklands
• Michishita - North Korea's Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008
• Girard - Things Hidden Since The Foundation of the World
• Williams - Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art And Soul in Video Games
• Hansen - Notes on a Foreign Country
• Hirschman - /Exit Voice and Loyalty /
• Crabtree - The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
• Edgerton - The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A 20th Century History
• Clapham - The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay
• Goldstein - Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path To War in Vietnam
• Sorley - A Better War: Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam