Inside the Company: CIA Diary
10 best books like Inside the Company: CIA Diary (Philip Agee): The Mismeasure of Man, The 42nd Parallel, The Way of Zen, Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10, Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills, Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden, The Glitter Dome, The Jamestown Experiment: The Remarkable Story of the Enterprising Colony and the Unexpected Results That Shaped America, The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
| ISBN | 0393314251 |
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.
How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it" and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition...
| Author | John Dos Passos |
| ISBN | 0618056815 |
With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world....
| Author | Alan W. Watts |
| ISBN | 0375705104 |
In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion to Western readers. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible...
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
| Author | Marcus Luttrell |
| ISBN | 0316067598 |
On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then...
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
| Author | Charles Henderson |
| ISBN | 0425181650 |
This is an incredibly whitewashed, essentially jingoistic quasi-novel rather than a genuine biography. In the preface, the author freely admits that he ”took the liberty of inventing dialogue for Hathcock’s North Vietnamese and Viet Cong opponents.” He also invents their thoughts, and,...
| Author | G. Gordon Liddy |
| ISBN | 0312119151 |
From soldier to Washington insider; from a prisoner who preferred the walls of a prison rather than the betrayal of his principles; to a writer and top radio personality, G. Gordon Liddy is a hero to some, a villain to others, but always an enigma.
In 1980, G. Gordon Liddy shocked, surprised,...
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
| Author | Mark Owen |
| ISBN | 0525953728 |
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the...
| Author | Joseph Wambaugh |
| ISBN | 0553263021 |
HRF Keating claims this as Wambaugh's finest work of fiction in his rundown of the best 100 works of crime and mystery; the former policeman turned author famed for his realistic portrait of the boys in blue as something less than heroic being something of a literary sensation in the 70s when coppers were...
| Author | Tony Williams |
| ISBN | 1402245661 |
This book needs maps!!!! Why do so many people who write historical accounts fail to include maps in their books? My reason for reading the book is that we will be moving to the Jamestown area shortly and I wanted to learn more about the colony. I feel that I learned more about some of the men who became Jamestown's...
The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation
| Author | Frans Johansson |
| ISBN | 1422102823 |
Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs.
Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
| Author | Douglas Murray |
| ISBN | 1635579988 |
The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.
In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals...
| Author | Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard |
La faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal est le dépotoir de l’humanité. Tu le sais : t’en es le déchet cardinal. Tu viens de commencer ta première session, mais y a pas une minute à perdre : si tu veux un beau poste en finissant faudra un beau stage au Barreau et si tu veux un beau stage...
