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The Forever War
Dexter Filkins
Knopf, 2008
Why They Hate Us
I've read a lot of books on Islam and our wars in Muslim lands. This is one of the best. A central lesson I took away: the Iraqi tells us what they think we want to hear so they can get our money and weapons, and say something quite different to each other.
It was ...
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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised ...
Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig
Collins Business, 2003
I should have read this book before investing
Simple like that: if you are a layman investor and don't want to lose a dime, stop your investment actions right now and start reading this book immediately.
I've started composing my stock portfolio a couple of months, before reading this book. At that time, I ...
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The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril
Eugene Jarecki
Free Press, 2008
Booking the Empire: Eugene Jarecki's AMERICAN WAY OF WAR
Booking the Empire: "Why We Fight" Filmmaker Makes His Case In Print
by Rob Williams; editor, Vermont Commons newspaper
What happens when an award-winning documentary film producer turns to a print monograph to make his case?
If you are Eugene Jarecki, the ...
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The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
James Bamford
Doubleday, 2008
Interesting and Revealing!
Bamford opens by telling us that by 2008 NSA had become the most intrusive spy organization, secretly filtering millions of phone calls and e-mails/hour, programmed to listen for thousands of names and phone numbers. The watch list once contained 20 names - now its ...
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Security Analysis Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett (Security Analysis Prior Editions)
Benjamin Graham, David Dodd
McGraw-Hill, 2008
A Classic, Updated
This book is a must-read for every investor; that said, it's a very difficult read. This edition contains essays that make the timeless lessons clearer for today's investors.
With Mr. Market currently having a fit, this book is as important as ever.
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When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
Mohamed El-Erian
McGraw-Hill, 2008
A Must Buy Book For The Chaos Ahead..
This new world order of financial chaos scares me to death. It is certainly not about me personally but rather my family and what I will leave behind for them.
I bought Mohamed El-Erian's book around the same time I bought Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming ...
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Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
Naomi Wolf
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Naomi Wolf at her best
"Give me Liberty" is Naomi Wolf at her best. She brings her usual vigor and eloquence to an increasingly urgent subject -- how to effect change in our country. This book is a very real part of the change we've been waiting for.
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The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing
Jason Kelly
Plume, 2007
Very Informative for starters
I am halfway thru this book and I liked it very much. Lot of information for first timers. Its a must read if you are just starting to invest in stocks.
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The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets: How to Keep Your Portfolio Up When the Market is Down (Little ...
Peter D. Schiff
Wiley, 2008
When the government takes the capital out of Capitalism, the only signal left is static.
Mr. Schiff's new book is a follow up to Crash Proof. I bought six copies of that book, because it was my introduction to real economics and I wanted to share it. Both his books are important because they accurately describe economic function in the context of what is ...
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The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
Andrew Bacevich
Metropolitan Books, 2008
battered wife syndrome
I discovered Andrew Bacevich by reading The New American Militarism; How Americans Are Seduced By War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), a book in which he describes how our culture's normalization and even romanticization of war "pervades our national ...
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
Michael Lewis
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990
Liar's Mortgage
Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker is a must read for anyone trying to understand the 2008 crisis in mortgage lending and home ownership. In fact, a new edition of the book should be published with a forward by Ben Bernake or Hank Paulson. The autobiography describes a ...
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Jane Mayer
Doubleday, 2008
Fear and loathing in D.C. or when you lose the past the future makes no sense.
Those of you who are considering a truly scary read for Halloween "The Dark Side" by Jane Mayer is just the book for you. The horror of the Bush Administrations' CIA Terror Project has been given the Disney treatment in main stream media but Mayer sets the record ...
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Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky
Vintage, 1989
If you want to understand Democrats - and Obama
If you want to understand Barack Obama - and Democrats in general - READ THIS BOOK.
In September of 2008, Democrat were repeating the same phrase in the media: "Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a Governor"
This was intended to imply, to voters, ...
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The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Naomi Wolf
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007
Concise and compelling
I thought I'd heard all I could of the political, military and social commentary of our time, but I gave this book a chance.
What an excellent book, compelling, well-voiced and the most concise presentation of the socio-pilitical ills brought about by our current ...
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Strategy will always include opportunity and risk
Strategy:
1. In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set. Companies need to go beyond competing. To seize new profit and growth opportunities, they also need to create blue oceans.
2. Put the clock forward 20 to ...
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