The Wichita Divide: The Murder of Dr. George Tiller, the Battle over Abortion, and the New American Civil War

8 best books like The Wichita Divide: The Murder of Dr. George Tiller, the Battle over Abortion, and the New American Civil War (Stephen Singular): Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, The Untold History of The United States, Storms Of My Grandchildren: The Truth About The Climate Catastrophe And Our Last Chance To Save Humanity, Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire, Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Author	Hampton Sides
ISBN	0385507771

A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won—a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory

In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting...

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Author	Jonathan Haidt
ISBN	0307377903

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual...

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Author	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ISBN	1400067820

From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some systems actually benefit from disorder.

In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem; in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder...

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Author	Steven Pinker
ISBN	0143122010

“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)

A provocative history of violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate and the forthcoming Enlightenment...

The Untold History of The United States

Author	Oliver Stone
ISBN	1451616449

The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look at the dark side of American history.

The notion of American...

Storms Of My Grandchildren: The Truth About The Climate Catastrophe And Our Last Chance To Save Humanity

Author	James Hansen
ISBN	1408807459

In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen—the nation’s leading scientist on climate issues—speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming: The planet is hurtling even more rapidly than previously acknowledged to a climatic point of no return.

Although...

Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire

Author	Mark Bowden
ISBN	0802137571

I've read several of Bowden's books - Black hawk Down, Killing Pablo and Guests of the Ayatollah, among them - and all have been riveting, and am planning to read his latest about the capture of Bin Laden. This book, however, fell short of the standards of those three in particular. Maybe it was because...

Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered

Author

Amber Hunt

Explore the mysteries of 20 compelling unsolved murder cases, from the Zodiac Killer to the death of JonBenét Ramsey, with this true crime book.Featuring both well-known and more obscure cases spanning across the 20th and 21st century, Unsolved Murders combines page-turning text with images to...