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SOME BOOKS THAT I'VE
READ RECENTLY OR I'M STILL READING AND THAT I REALLY RECOMMEND
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THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD
(The incredible and infuriating story behind one of the most devastating
"natural" disasters America has ever known) by David
McCullogh - published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
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109 EAST PALACE:
Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
(A personalised and fascinating history of the Manhattan Project) -
published by Simon & Schuster
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THE DONKEYS (A
chilling and enraging description of World War I) by Alan Clark -
published by Pimlico Press, London
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INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT
(A highly-readable primer to the physics and maths behind space flight
by one of the scientists who predicted most of the related innovations
and invented some of them) by Arthur C. Clarke - published by Berklely
Books, New York
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GOD is not GREAT (How
Religion Poisons Everything) by Christopher Hitchens - published by
Twelve Hachette Book Group USA
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CAPITALISM'S ACHILLES
HEEL (Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System - a scary
look at how the global money system works today and how much
international criminal activity cripples it) by Raymond W. Baker -
published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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THE BLOODY SHIRT
(Terror after Appomattox - if you were ever nervous about travelling
through the Deep South, this won't make you feel safer) by Stephen
Budiansky - published by Viking/The Penguin Group
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1776 by David
McCullough (How the most powerful Army and Navy in the world was
defeated and humiliated by a rag-tag bunch of ill-trained rebels)-
published by Simon and Schuster
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CHRONICLES - VOLUME I
by Bob Dylan (An evocative and knowlegeable journey through the 60's
and later by one who was there and who helped form an era. Fascinating
and one of the best volume of "personal writings that I've read)-
published by Simon and Schuster
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CLAPTON - The Autobiography
(A scary and personal look into the private life and the artistic
growth of one of the icons of modern rock and blues music) - published
by Broadway Books, New York
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THE FLY IN THE
CATHEDRAL - How a group of Cambridge Scientists won the race to split
the atom by Brian Cathcart - published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
New York
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A SHORT HISTORY OF
NEARLY EVERYTHING – All you always wanted to know about science but
were afraid to ask. By Bill
Bryson – published by Broadway Book, New York
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