Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
10 best books like Who Killed Daniel Pearl? (Bernard-Henri Lévy): Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster, The Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice, A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq, The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, McSweeney's #33, Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq, The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 & the Loss of Liberty, Should You Leave?: A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy--and the Nature of Advice, Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior, Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program
| Author | David Icke |
| ISBN | 0953881024 |
Since the horrendous day of September 11th 2001, the people of the world have been told the Big Lie. The official story of what happened on 9/11 is a fantasy of untruth, manipulation, contradiction and anomaly. David Icke has spent well over a decade uncovering the force that was really behind those attacks...
The Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice
| Author | Mara Leveritt |
| ISBN | 0312198418 |
The Boys on the Tracks is the story of a parent's worst nightmare, a quiet woman's confrontation with a world of murder, drugs, and corruption, where legitimate authority is mocked and the public trust is trampled. It is an intensely personal story and a story of national importance. It is a tale of multiple...
A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN | 0452284988 |
The 'pro-war Left' has been an interest of mine for the last year or two, and I finally got around to reading this collection of essays by Hitchens, who is probably the most famous pro-war Leftist in the Anglophone world.
This book is a defense of the war in Iraq written in the lead-up to the war and...
| Author | Senate Select Committee on Intelligence |
“The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations.” —Los Angeles Times
Meticulously formatted, this is a highly readable and fully searchable edition of the official summary report of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1934781487 |
Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be a one-time-only, Sunday-edition sized newspaper—the San Francisco Panorama. It'll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes...
| Author | Christina Asquith |
| ISBN | 1400067049 |
Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women’s lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women’s rights activist and a U.S. soldier,...
| Author | Jim Marrs |
| ISBN | 1932857435 |
Jim Marrs presents the official government pronouncement on 9/11 as an obvious conspiracy. The only question is whose conspiracy it was. According to the government, the conspiracy involved about nineteen suicidal Middle Eastern Muslim terrorists, their hearts full of hatred for American freedom...
Should You Leave?: A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy--and the Nature of Advice
| Author | Peter D. Kramer |
| ISBN | 0140272798 |
In his phenomenal bestseller Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer explored the makeup of the modern self. Now, in his superbly written new book, he focuses his intelligent, compassionate eye on the complexities of partnerships and why intimacy is so difficult for us. With the art of a novelist and the...
Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
| Author | Bobbi S. Low |
| ISBN | 0691089752 |
Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the...
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program
| Author | Stephen Grey |
| ISBN | 0312360231 |
For the first time, Stephen Grey tells the inside story of international prisons sanctioned by the U.S. Government and used by the CIA to hold and torture people suspected of terrorism.
Using contacts deep inside the U.S. Government, Grey reveals how deeply the Bush administration is involved in...
Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Conflict
| Author | Wesley K. Clark |
| ISBN | 1586481398 |
In Waging Modern War, General Wesley K. Clark recounts his experience leading NATO's forces to a hard-fought and ultimately successful victory in Kosovo in 1999. As the American military machine has swung into action in the months following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it...
Inside Therapy: Illuminating Writings About Therapists, Patients, and Psychotherapy
| Author | Ilana Rabinowitz |
| ISBN | 0312263422 |
A scintillating collection of writings on the mysterious, controversial, and intimate process of psychotherapy.
Everyone with an interest in the art and science of psychotherapy - practitioners, patients, students, and avid readers of Freud, Jung, et al-will find this lively anthology...
The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
| Author | Robert Ardrey |
| ISBN | 1568361440 |
In the revolutionary follow up to African Genesis, Robert Ardrey demonstrates that man obeys the same laws as do many other animal species, that the drive to control territory, specifically, rankles within our breasts and determines even the largest social phenomena. Family loyalty and responsibility,...
Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
| Author | Alex Goldfarb |
| ISBN | 1416551654 |
The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the...
Signs and Symbols: Their Design and Meaning
| Author | Adrian Frutiger |
| ISBN | 0823048268 |
This is another one of those books that I've borrowed from the library so often, I should just order my own copy. It's an excellent introduction to the origin and construction of signs and symbols-- but (as they admit) it is really only an introduction. It doesn't go into great detail with any of the symbols...
| Author | Gaeton Fonzi |
| ISBN | 1560250798 |
Gaeton Fonzi's masterful retelling of his work investigating the Kennedy assassination for two Congressional committees is required reading for students of the assassination and the subsequent failure of the government to solve the crime. The Last Investigation is a compelling post mortem on...
Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas
| Author | John Hubner |
| ISBN | 0151620865 |
This was an unusual book to read, because I visit the Hare Krishna temple fairly frequently. Not that I believe in their religion--or any religion, for that matter. Rather, my husband and I just find it a peaceful place to visit and eat delicious Indian food. Hare Krishna farms are also most likely the...
| Author | Anthony Summers |
| ISBN | 0006354262 |
Conspiracy (on the John F. Kennedy assassination, '80, reissued as Not in Your Lifetime, '98), "Deserves to be read & taken seriously by all those who care about truth or justice." Prof. Robert Blakey, former Chief Counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassination.
Writing about the...
Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future
In 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeni, ruler of Islamic Iran issued a fatwa calling on all Muslims worldwide to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie for insulting the Prophet Muhammad and Islam. Rushdie’s crime? Blasphemy or “Islamophobia,” as it has come to be known. Since then we have seen worldwide...
Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website
| Author | Daniel Domscheit-Berg |
An exposé of the “World’s Most Dangerous Website” from a former WikiLeaks insider
The basis for the movie The Fifth Estate (starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange), this eye-opening account by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesman of WikiLeaks, reveals never-disclosed...
| Author | Cyril Collard |
| ISBN | 2080663755 |
Le livre n'est pas un superbe accomplissement littéraire, mais on s'en fou. Cette histoire n'est pas comme les autres parce que Cyril en est mort de cette histoire. J'ai lu chaque mot comme on regarde une empreinte de quelque chose qu'on poursuit et dans ce cas je ne suis pas certaine si c'est la mort ou...
I Wouldn't Start From Here: A Misguided Tour of the Early 21st Century
| Author | Andrew Mueller |
| ISBN | 1405038004 |
Andrew Mueller doesn't consider himself a "proper" journalist, and yet he's travelled from Afghanistan to Abkhazia, from Belfast to Belgrade and from Tirana to Tripoli in search of a good story.
I Wouldn't Start From Here
is his random history of the 21st century so far, and all its attendant absurdities,...
| Author | Frits Barend |
| ISBN | 0747543054 |
This football biography includes candid interviews, conducted between 1974 and 1997, with Johann Cryuff talking about how he learnt his trade, going on to play football for Barcelona and Ajax. He also talks about the philosophy behind total football, the driving force behind the great Dutch side...
