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Climate Wars, Gwynne Dyer
Too Big to Fail, Andrew R. Sorkin
The Honors Class, Ben H. Yandell
Practical Cryptography, Niels Ferguson & Bruce Schneier

July 2008 to November 2009

  1. Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
  2. Perelandra, C.S. Lewis
  3. That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis
  4. The Adventure of English, Melvyn Bragg
  5. The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg
  6. The Drunkard's Walk, Leonard Mlodinow
  7. First Man : The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, James R. Hansen
  8. The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy
  9. John Adams, David McCullough
  10. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
  11. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
  12. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
  13. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
  14. The Little Prince, Antoine de St. Exupery
  15. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
  16. A Life Decoded, J. Craig Venter
  17. All the Shah's Men, Stephen Kinzer
  18. The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson
  19. The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  20. The Path Between the Seas, David McCullough
  21. The River of Doubt, Candice Millard
  22. The Last Hero:Bill Tillman, Tim Madge
  23. The Great Crash 1929, John Kenneth Galbraith
  24. The Lost City of Z, David Grann
  25. The Lords of Finance, Liaquat Ahamed
  26. Flu:The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic, Gina Kolata
  27. The Future of Life, Edward O. Wilson
  28. Stealing MySpace, Julia Angwin
  29. Che Guevara, Jon Lee Anderson
  30. Forward the Foundation, Isaac Asimov
  31. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
  32. The Battle of Leyte Gulf, Thomas J. Cutler
  33. The Long Tail, Chris Anderson
  34. Free, Chris Anderson
  35. MacArthur's Airman, Thomas E. Griffith Jr.
  36. Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, Jeff Rubin
  37. The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki
  38. Electric Universe, David Bodanis
  39. Animal Spirits, George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller
  40. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
  41. How Would You Move Mount Fuji, William Poundstone
  42. The Last Theorem, Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl
  43. The Black Hole War, Leonard Susskind

July 2008

Morris, Charles R.
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
PublicAffairs (Mar 3 2008); ISBN-10: 1586485636

June 2008

Boorstin, Daniel J.
The Discoverers
Vintage (Feb 12 1985); ISBN-10: 0394726251

May 2008

Rhodes, Richard
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
Knopf; 1 edition (Oct 9 2007); ISBN-10: 0375414134

Tyson, Neil
Death by Black Hole

WW Norton; ISBN-10: 0393330168

January 2008

Williams, Eric
The Wooden Horse

Pen & Sword Books (September 2005); ISBN-10: 1844153037

December 2007

Smith, E.E. "Doc"
Children of the Lens
Old Earth Books (November 1998); ISBN-10: 188296814X

Smith, E.E. "Doc"
Second Stage Lensmen
Old Earth Books (November 1998); ISBN-10: 1882968131

November 2007

Greenspan, Alan
The Age of Turbulence

Penguin Press (HC) (Sep 17 2007); ISBN-10: 1594201315

Smith, E.E. "Doc"
Gray Lensman
Old Earth Books (November 1998); ISBN-10: 1882968123

Steakley, John
Armor
DAW; Reissue edition (Mar 4 2003); ISBN-10: 0886773687

October 2007

Pinker, Steven
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Viking USA; 1 edition (Sep 11 2007); ISBN-10: 0670063274

Isaacson, Walter
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Simon & Schuster; 1 edition (April 10 2007); ISBN-10: 0743264738

September 2007

Ferriss, Timothy
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Crown; 1 edition (April 24 2007); ISBN-10: 0307353133

August 2007

Thomas, Evan
The Very Best Men : The Daring Early Years of the CIA
Simon & Schuster (Oct 17 2006); ISBN-10: 141653797X

July 2007

Bird, Kai and Sherwin, Martin J.
American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Vintage; Reprint edition (April 11 2006); ISBN-10: 0375726268


June 2007

Posner, Gerald
Secrets of the Kingdom: the Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection
Random House (May 17 2005); ISBN-10: 1400062918

Wright, Robert
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: the New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Vintage; Reprint edition (Aug 29 1995) ; ISBN-10: 0679763996

May 2007

Baer, Robert
Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition (May 25 2004); ISBN-10: 1400052688

Baer, Robert
See No Evil: the True Story of a Ground Soldier in the Cia's War on Terrorism
Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition (Jan 7 2003); ISBN-10: 140004684X

Tenet, George
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
Harper Collins Canada; 1 edition (April 18 2007); ISBN-10: 0061147788

Bamford, James
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
Anchor; Reprint edition (May 10 2005); ISBN-10: 140003034X

MacMillan, Margaret
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Random House Trade Paperbacks; 1 edition (Sep 9 2003); ISBN-10: 0375760520

March 2007

Lowenstein, Roger
When Genius Failed: the Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Random House Trade Paperbacks (Oct 9 2001); ISBN-10: 0375758259

Ross, Bill D.
Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor
Vintage (May 12 1986); ISBN-10: 0394742885

McCullough, David
1776

Simon & Schuster (May 24 2005); ISBN-10: 0743226712

Daniel-Rops, H.
The Church in the Dark Ages
Sterling Publishing (Jul 11 2003); ISBN-10: 184212465X

February 2007

Dawkins, Richard
The God Delusion
Houghton Mifflin (Oct 18 2006); ISBN-10: 0618680004

Heinlein, Robert A.
Double Star

Del Rey; Reissue edition (Oct 12 1986); ISBN-10: 0345330137

Heinlein, Robert A.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Tor Books; 1 edition (Jun 28 1997); ISBN-10: 0312863551

January 2007

Gottlieb, Anthony
The Dream of Reason

WW Norton; 1 edition (Nov 26 2002); ISBN-10: 039332365X

Golding, William
Lord of the Flies

Perigee; 50th Annv edition (October 2003); ISBN-10: 0399529209

Del Rey, Lester
Tunnel Through Time
Scholastic Paperbacks (June 1970); ISBN-10: 0590025341

Aczel, Amir D.
Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics
Raincoast Books (Jul 15 2003); ISBN-10: 1551926474

December 2006

Rubenstein, Richard E.
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom
Harcourt, Inc.; Reprint edition (Sep 15 2004); ISBN: 0156030098

November 2006

Pollard, Justin
Rise And Fall Of Alexandria
Viking US; 1 edition (Oct 24 2006); ISBN: 0670037974

Shenk, David
The Immortal Game: a History of Chess
Bond Street Books (Sep 5 2006); ISBN: 0385662262

Aczel, Amir D.
The Mystery of the Aleph : Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
Washington Square Press (Aug 28 2001); ISBN: 0743422996

October 2006

Barabasi, Albert
Linked : How Everything is Connected to Everything Else
Plume; 2003; ISBN: 0452284392

Battelle, John
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
Portfolio; ISBN: 1591840880

Reid, Constance
Hilbert

Copernicus; ISBN: 0387946748

Shurkin, Joel N.
Broken Genius : The Rise & Fall of William Shockley,Creator of the Electronic Age
Palgrave (Jun 15 2006); ISBN: 1403988153

Feynman, Richard and Leighton, Ralph
What Do You Care What Other People Think
WW Norton; 1 edition (Feb 1 2001); ISBN: 0393320928

September 2006

Nasar, Sylvia
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition (Dec 4 2001); ISBN: 0743224574

Poundstone, William
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
Douglas & McIntyre / Fsg Adult (Sep 1 2005); ISBN: 0809046377

Altobello, Brian
Into the Shadows Furious: the Brutal Battle for New Georgia
Presidio Press (Nov 7 2000); ISBN: 0891417176

August 2006

Cordingly, David
Under the Black Flag: the Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Random House Trade Paperbacks; ISBN: 081297722X

Herrmann, Paul
The Great Age of Discovery, Volume 1: Columbus, Magellan, and the Early Explorations

Audio Connoisseur, 2005

July 2006

Herrmann, Paul
The Great Age of Discovery, Volume 2: Captain Cook and the Scientific Explorations
Audio Connoisseur, 2005

Gamble, Bruce
The Black Sheep: the Definitive History of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II
Presidio Press ; ISBN: 0891417117

Hastings, Max
The Korean War
Simon & Schuster ; ISBN: 067166834X

June 2006

Bruning, John A.
Crimson Sky: The Air Battle for Korea
Potomac Books Inc ; ISBN: 1574888412

Manchester, William
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
Little Brown and Company ; ISBN: 0316544981

May 2006

Winchester, Simon
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Harper Collins Canada ; ISBN: 0060838590

April 2006

Bradbury, Ray
The Martian Chronicles
HarperCollins Canada / General ; ISBN: 0380973839

Latham, Jean Lee
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Houghton Mifflin Co. ; ISBN: 0618250816

Feynman, Richard Phillips
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics, Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
HarperCollins Canada / Basic Books ISBN: 0465023924

Flannery, Tim
Weather Makers

Harper Collins Canada ; ISBN: 0002007517

Kolbert, Elizabeth
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Bloomsbury UK ; ISBN: 0747583838

Rashid, Ahmed
Taliban
Pan Macmillan ISBN: 0330492217

March 2006

Crile, George
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History

Grove Press ; ISBN: 0802141242

Greenblatt, Stephen
Will in the World

WW Norton ; ISBN: 0393050572

Collinson, Patrick
The Reformation: a History
Modern Library ; ISBN: 0679643230

February 2006

Franks, Tommy R. and McConnell, Malcolm
American Soldier
HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade ; ISBN: 0060779543

Gladwell, Malcolm
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
H.B. Fenn & Company ; ISBN: 0316172324

January 2006

Berntsen, Gary
Jawbreaker: the Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
Crown ; ISBN: 0307237400

Wells, H.G.
The Time Machine

Tor Books (M/M) ; ISBN: 0812505042

Menand, Louis
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

Douglas & McIntyre / Fsg Adult ; ISBN: 0374528497

Gladwell, Malcolm
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
H.B. Fenn & Company ; ISBN: 0316346624

Hawkins, Jeff
On Intelligence

H.B. Fenn & Company ; ISBN: 0805078533

Brown, Dan
The Da Vinci Code

Doubleday ; ISBN: 0385504209

December 2005

McGregor, Ewan and Boorman, Charley
Long Way Round
Penguin ; ISBN: 0316729698

Guderian, Heinz
Panzer Leader
Penguin ; ISBN: 0141390271

November 2005

Restak, Richard M.
The New Brain: How the Modern Age Is Rewiring Your Mind
Vhps Rodale ; ISBN: 1579545017

October 2005

Lilley, James R.
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
HarperCollins Canada / Public Affairs ; ISBN: 1586483439

Carpenter, Humphrey
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
Houghton Mifflin Company ISBN: 0618057021

September 2005

Lohr, Steve
Go to: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts
HarperCollins Canada / Basic Books ; ISBN: 0465042260

Tuccille, Jerome
Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker
John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. ISBN: 047139906X

August 2005

Budiansky, Stephen
Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq
Penguin ; ISBN: 014303474X

Cray, Ed
General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman
Cooper Square Press ; ISBN: 0815410425

Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Game
H.B. Fenn & Company ; ISBN: 0812550706

Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Lost World
Dover Publications Inc ; ISBN: 0486400603

July 2005

Borovik, Artyom
The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan
GROVE/ATLANTIC ; ISBN: 080213775X

Parker, Richard
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics
Harper Collins Canada ; ISBN: 0002007010

June 2005

Maclean, Fitzroy
Eastern Approaches
Penguin ; ISBN: 0140132716

May 2005

Hopkirk, Peter
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
Kodansha Globe ISBN: 1568360223

Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit
Harper Collins Canada ; ISBN: 0261102214

April 2005

Hilton, James
Lost Horizon

Summersdale ISBN: 1840243538

French, Patrick
Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
HarperCollins Canada / Flamingo ; ISBN: 0006376010

McRae, Michael
The Siege of Shangri-La: the Quest for Tibet's Sacred Hidden Paradise
ASIN: 0767904850

Saint-Exupery, Antoine
Wind, Sand and Stars
Harcourt Trade Publishers ; ISBN: 0151970874

March 2005

MacRae, Norman
John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer ...
American Mathematical Society ; ISBN: 082182676X

Sontag, Sherry and Drew, Christopher
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
HarperCollins Canada / Mm, Us Adult ; ISBN: 006103004X

February 2005

Craven, John Pina
The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea
Simon and Schuster ; ISBN: 0743223268

Lemert, Charles
Postmodernism Is Not What You Think
Blackwell Science, Inc. ; ISBN: 1557862869

January 2005

Bester, Alfred
The Demolished Man
Vintage ; ISBN: 0679767819

Gaiman, Neil
American Gods

HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade ; ISBN: 0060558121

December 2004

Smith, E.E. "Doc"
Galactic Patrol

Old Earth Books ISBN: 1882968115

Norton, Andre
Time Traders

Simon and Schuster ; ISBN: 0671318292

Everitt, Anthony
Cicero: the Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Random House Trade Paperbacks ; ISBN: 037575895X

November 2004

Smith, E.E. "Doc"
First Lensman
Old Earth Books ISBN: 1882968107

Smith, E.E. "Doc"
TriPlanetary
Old Earth Books ISBN: 1882968093

Russell, Bertrand
"Mathematics and the Metaphysicians", pp.1576-1590
in
The World of Mathematics, Volume 3
Edited by James Newman
Dover Publications ; ISBN: 0486411516

Haldeman, Joe
The Forever War

HarperCollins Canada / Fiction ; ISBN: 0060510862

Singh, Simon
Fermat's enigma: The quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem
Penguin ; ISBN: 0140268693

October 2004

Clancy, Tom & Horner, Chuck
Every Man a Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign
Putnam ; ISBN: 0399144935

Feng-Hsiung Hsu
Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion
Princeton University Press ; ISBN: 0691090653

Bruning, John R.
Jungle Ace: Col. Gerald R. Johnson, the USAAF's Top Fighter Leader of the Pacific War
Brassey's Inc ISBN: 1574886940

September 2004

Herbert, Brian
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Hebert
Tor Books (Hc) Consignment ; ISBN: 0765306468

Restak, Richard
Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot: Unleashing Your Brain's Potential
Three Rivers Press ; ISBN: 0609810057

Nisbet, Jack
Sources of the river: Tracking David Thompson across western North America
Sasquatch Books ; ISBN: 1570610061

Shreeve, James & Singer, Eric
The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World
Random House Audio ; ISBN: 0739309943

Milner, Samuel
Victory in Papua: United States Army in World War II - The War in the Pacific
University Press of the Pacific ISBN: 1410203867

Grove, Andrew S.
Swimming Across: A Memoir
Time Warner - Trade Paper ; ISBN: 0446679704

August 2004

Higgins, Jack
Solo
New York: Pan ; ISBN: 0330263684

Reid, T.R.
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
Random House Trade Paperbacks ; ISBN: 0375758283

July 2004

Taaffe, Stephen R.
MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign
University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700608702

Oren, Michael B.
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Presidio Press ; ISBN: 0345461924

May 2004

Holden, David,
Johns, Richard

House of Saud

Pan Macmillan ISBN: 0330268341

Coll, Steve
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
The Penguin Press ; ISBN: 1594200076

Von Mellenthin, F.W.
Panzer Battles
Ballantine Books ; ISBN: 0345321588

April 2004

Bernstein, Peter L.
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. ; ISBN: 0471295639

Verne, Jules (Author),
Walter, Frederick Paul  (Translator),
Miller, Walter James  (Translator)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea:
The Completely Restored and Annotated Ed.
Naval Institute Press ISBN: 0870216783

March 2004

Niven, Larry and Pournelle, Jerry
The Mote in God's Eye
Simon and Schuster ; ISBN: 0671741926

Heinlein, Robert A.
The Door Into Summer
Del Rey ; ISBN: 0345330129

Ferris, Timothy
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade ; ISBN: 0060535954

February 2004

Ferris, Timothy
Seeing in the Dark:
How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe
Simon & Schuster Trade ; ISBN: 0684865807

January 2004

Kurzweil, Ray
The Age of Spiritual Machines

Penguin ; ISBN: 0140282025

Joyner, Tim
Magellan

International Marine Publishing ISBN: 0070331286

December 2003

Gleick, James
Isaac Newton
Pantheon ; ISBN: 0375422331

Hughes, Robert
The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding
Vintage Books, New York, 1988

November 2003

Chaikin, Andrew
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
Penguin ; ISBN: 0140272011, 704 pages (March 16, 1998)

Rasimus, Ed
When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam
Smithsonian Books, Washington and London

October 2003

Coram, Robert
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Little Brown, USA

Rich, Ben R. & Janos, Leo
Skunk Works
Little Brown, USA

Ford, Daniel
Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group
Smithsonian Books, New York, 1995

Wagner, Ray
Mustang Designer: Edgar Schmued and the P-51
Smithsonian Books, New York, 1990

September 2003

Bergerud, Eric M.
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific
Penguin Books, New York, New York, 1997

Flannery, Tim
The Eternal Frontier : An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 2001

Feldt, Eric
The Coast Watchers

Nelson Doubleday, 1979

Murray, M.
Hunted: A Coastwatcher's Story
Adelaide,: Rigby Limited, 1967

August 2003

Bergerud, Eric M.
Fire In the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific
Westview Press

July 2003

Bryson, Bill
A Short History of Nearly Everything

London, et al Doubleday, 2003

Segre, Emilio
Enrico Fermi: Physicist
University Of Chicago, 1972.

June 2003

Stoll, Cliff
The Cuckoo's Egg
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2000

S.M. Ulam
Adventures of a Mathematician
University of California Pr Berkeley 1991

Goodchild, Peter.
J.Robert Oppenheimer 'Shatterer of Worlds'
BBC,London,1980.

Poundstone, William
Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb
Doubleday, 1992

Lewin, Ronald
Ultra Goes to War : The first account of World War II's greatest secret, based on Official Documents.
McGraw HIll N.Y. 1978

Stone,I F
The Trial of Socrates
Little Brown & Co,Boston 1988

May 2003

Ellis, Joseph J.
American Sphinx : The Character of Thomas Jefferson
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1997

Johnson, George
A Shortcut Through Time. The Path to the Quantum Computer
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003

April 2003

Brands, H.W.
The First American: The life and times of Benjamin Franklin

New York, NY Doubleday & Company 2000

March 2003

Frank, Richard B.
Downfall : The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 2001

Carroll, James
Constantine's Sword, the Church and the Jews, a History
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2001

February 2003

Eco, Umberto.
Name of the Rose
Harcourt, Brace N.Y 1994

January 2003

Eco, Umberto
Baudolino
NY: Harcourt, 2000

December 2002

James Clavell
SHOGUN
Dell, 1977

Guth, Alan H. Foreword by Alan Lightman
The Inflationary Universe. The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins
Perseus Books Reading 1998

Sledge, Eugene B., Jr.
With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1990

POTTER, E.B. (Elmer Belmont)
Nimitz.
Annapolis,: U.S. Naval Institute, 1976

Armstrong, Karen
A History of God : The 4,000-Year Quest for Judaism, Christianity and Islam
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Publishing Group, 1994

ALBom, Mitch
Tuesdays with Morrie
NYC: Broadway Books, 2002

November 2002

Frank, Richard B.
Guadalcanal : The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle

Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 1992

Ellis, Joseph J.
Founding Brothers
NYC: Vintage (Random), 2000

October 2002

Joseph H.Alexander
Utmost Savagery.The Three Days of Tarawa
Naval Institue Press, 1995

Spence, Cameron
Sabre Squadron
London: Penguin Books, 1998

September 2002

Yergin, Daniel
Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

Simon and Schuster ; ISBN: 0671799320

Watson, James D.
The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Scribner Classics Ser.)
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1998

August 2002

Ridley, Matt
Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000

Freeman, Douglas
Lee
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1997

July 2002

Chernow, Ron
Titan: The Life Of John D. RockeFeller, Sr.

Vintage Publishing, 1999 Trade

McCullough, David
Truman

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992

Yeager, General Chuck
Yeager
Bantam, 1986

June 2002

Rigden, John S.
Rabi: Scientist and Citizen, with a new preface
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard UP, 2000

Wheeler, John Archibald, with Ford, Kenneth
Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: a Life in Physics
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

Johnson, George
Strange Beauty, Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House 2001)

May 2002

Greene, Brian
The Elegant Universe
Vintage, 2000

Feynman,Richard as told Leighton,ed. Hutchings
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!":Adventures of a Curious Character
Norton 3rd printing thus,1997

Feynman, Richard P.
QED The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Princeton U Press copyright 1985

Gleick, James
Chaos: Making a New Science

New York: Penguin, 1988

April 2002

Gleick, James
Genius, The Life And Science Of Richard Feynman

New York, Vintage Books, A Division Of Random House, Inc., First Vintage Books Edition, l993

Rhodes, Richard
Dark Sun : The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1996

March 2002

Kershaw, Ian
Hitler 1936 to 1945 Nemesis
Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 2001

February 2002

Kershaw, Ian:
Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris.
Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 2001

January 2002

Rhodes, Richard
The Making of the Atomic Bomb

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, 1995

November 2001

Reeve, Simon
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism
Northeastern University Press ISBN: 1555535097

Reston, James, Jr.
The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D.
Anchor Books, 1999

October 2001

Michael Maclear
Vietnam. The Ten Thousand Day War.
Thames Methuen

Clancy, Tom
INTO THE STORM: A Study in Command
Berkley 1998

June 2001

Churchill, Winston L. S.
The River War : An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Incorporated, 2000

May 2001

Churchill, Winston L. S.
My Early Life : 1874-1904
Simon and Schuster 1996