View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism (Vol 1)

by Simon Reeve

Published: 1999-10-07

Hardcover: 256 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Details the manhunt for Ramzi Yousef, the terrorist behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and the discovery that he was backed by Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden, an increasingly influential sponser of international terrorism.

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Flatbellies: It's Not About Golf, It's About Life

by A.B. Hollingsworth, Alan B. Hollingsworth

Published: 2001-03

Hardcover: 344 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

"Reads like a combination of American Graffiti and Hoosiers put on pages with humor and wit. It's a wonderful story.... I loved it."?Associated Press It's not about golf. It's about life. Set in a small Oklahoma town in the mid-1960s?a simple place in a confusing time?Flatbellies is partly...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Doomsday Scenario - How America Ends: The Official Doomsday Scenario Written By the United States Government During the Cold War

by Douglas Keeney

Published: 2002-03-17

Hardcover: 128 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Subtitled: . This chilling 1958 Cold War defense document lays the foundation for how Bush, Cheney and Congress reacted to the September 11th attack on America. Under government wraps for forty years, "The Emergency Plans Book" was de-classified in 1998 and moved to the public viewing area...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

by Eliot A. Cohen

Published: 2003-09-09

Paperback: 320 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democracies contends that politicians should declare a military operation's objectives and then step aside and leave the business of war to the military. In this timely and controversial examinatio...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Murder at Melrose Court: A Country House Christmas Murder (Heathcliff Lennox)

by Karen Menuhin

Published: 2018-12-05

Paperback: 282 pages

0 members reading this now
5 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Downton Abbey meets Agatha Christie with a touch of Wodehouse and a dog of distinction.What readers are saying... Couldn't put it down'. Humorous - did I say humorous?' 'And there's even a dog!' 'Cozy murder mystery at its best!' 'Love the setting, old country house, eccentric guests, snow...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Full Faith & Credit: A Novel About Financial Collapse

by James R. Cook

Published: 2000-03-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Full Faith & Credit: A Novel About Financial Collapse by James R. Cook.

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

by Philip K. Howard

Published: 2011-05-03

Paperback: 256 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Published: 2005-08-23

Paperback: 368 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragil...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

What Color is a Conservative?

by J. C. Watts Jr.

Published: 2002-10-15

Hardcover: 320 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

An inspiring autobiography by one of America's emerging African-American leaders. This is the inspiring story of J. C. Watts' journey from poverty to college football acclaim to the United States Congress. For the first time in print, Watts shares his hopes and plans for the future of America. Included...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The War Over Iraq: Saddam’s Tyranny and America’s Mission

by Lawrence F. Kaplan, William Kristol

Published: 2003-02-01

Hardcover: 170 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

As the crisis with Iraq continues, Americans have questions. Is war really necessary? What can it accomplish? What broad vision of U.S. foreign policy underlies the determination to remove Saddam Hussein? What were the failures of the last couple of decades that brought us to a showdown wi...