# Reading List

-   [X] Holiday - *Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator*
-   [ ] Vaughan - *Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA (reread)*
-   [ ] Zuboff - *The Age of Surveillance Capitalism*
-   [ ] Ousterhout - *A Philosophy of Software Design*
-   [ ] Mao, Lawson - *The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty (Cambridge China Library)*
-   [ ] Kuran - *Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification*
-   [ ] Tuchman - *The Guns of August*
-   [ ] Furet - *The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century*
-   [ ] Smith - *Russia In Revolution: An Empire In Crisis 1890-1928*
-   [ ] van Buren - *We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People*
-   [ ] Scott - *Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes To Improve The Human Condition Have Failed*
-   [ ] Graeber - *Debt: The First 5000 Years*
-   [ ] Eubanks - *Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish The Poor*
-   [ ] Wrong - *In The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living On The Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo*
-   [ ] Callahan - *The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age*
-   [ ] Edgerton - *Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900*
-   [ ] Dasgupta - *Capital: The Explosion of Delhi*
-   [ ] Gleick - *Chaos*
-   [ ] Danielsen - *Making Warriors in a Global Era: An Ethnographic Study of the Norwegian Special Operations Commando*
-   [ ] Principe - *Secrets of Alchemy*
-   [ ] Beard - *SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome*
-   [ ] Lee - *Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign*
-   [ ] Glantz - *When Titans Clashed*
-   [ ] Caro - *The Path To Power*
-   [ ] Caro - *Means of Ascent*
-   [ ] Caro - *Master of the Senate*
-   [ ] Caro - *The Passage of Power*
-   [ ] Marra - *A Constellation of Vital Phenomena*
-   [ ] Naval History and Heritage Command - *War in the Shallows: US Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam: 1965-1986*
-   [ ] Nagl - *Learning To Eat Soup With A Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons From Malaysia and Vietnam*
-   [ ] Afzal - *Pakistan Under Seige: Extremism, Society and the State*
-   [ ] Biddle - *Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle*
-   [ ] Anderson - *Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)*
-   [ ] Burroughs - *Days of Rage*
-   [ ] Slobodian - *Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism*
-   [ ] Deming - *The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education*
-   [ ] Achen Bartels - *Democracy of Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government*
-   [ ] Varble - *The Suez Crisis 1956 (Essential Histories)*
-   [ ] Vaishnav - *When Crime Pays*
-   [ ] Arendt - *The Origins of Totalitarianism*
-   [ ] Bostrom - *Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies*
-   [ ] Mahan - *The Influence of Sea Power Upon History*
-   [ ] Robb - *The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography*
-   [ ] Jacobs - *The Death and Life of Great American Cities*
-   [ ] Hofstadter - *Goedel Escher Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid (reread)*
-   [ ] Rawls - *A Theory of Justice*
-   [ ] Keegan - *The Face of Battle (reread)*
-   [ ] George - *Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes On Your Back, Gas In Your Car and Food On Your Plate*
-   [ ] Hamid - *How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel (reread)*
-   [ ] Shambaugh - *China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation*
-   [ ] Dekker - *The Field Guide To Understanding Human Error*
-   [ ] Robins - *The Corporation That Changed The World*
-   [ ] Cohen - *Rescuing Justice and Equality*
-   [ ] Stiglitz - *Globalization and Its Discontents*
-   [ ] Whyte - *The Organization Man*
-   [ ] Maine - *Ancient Law and its Connection To The History of Early Society*
-   [ ] Maine - *Popular Government*
-   [ ] Ferguson - *When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Devaluation, Deficit Spending and Hyperinflation In Weimar Germany*
-   [ ] Chopra, White - *A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents*
-   [ ] Ellickson - *Order Without Law*
-   [ ] Posner - *Law and Social Norms*
-   [ ] Posner - *How Judges Think*
-   [ ] Luttwak - *Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook*
-   [ ] Pinker - *The Better Angels of our Nature*
-   [ ] Friedman, Kraus - *Engineering The Financial Crisis*
-   [ ] Porter - *The Competitive Advantage of Nations*
-   [ ] Hartcher - *The Ministry: The Inside Story of Japan's Ministry of Finance*
-   [ ] Ferguson - *The Pity of War*
-   [ ] Israel - *Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution and Human Rights 1750 - 1790*
-   [ ] Steiner - *Triumph of the Dark: European International History: 1933-1939*
-   [ ] Weinberger - *Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That The Facts Aren't The Facts, Experts Are Everywhere and the Smartest Person In The Room Is The Room*
-   [ ] Bhide - *A Call For Judgement*
-   [ ] Dodge - *Schelling's Game Theory: How To Make Decisions*
-   [ ] Self - *American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland*
-   [ ] Nozick - *Anarchy, State and Utopia*
-   [ ] Acemoglu, Robinson - *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, Poverty*
-   [ ] Spufford - *Red Plenty*
-   [ ] Johnson - *Thirteen Bankers*
-   [ ] Desrochers, Shimizu - *The Locavore's Dilemma - In Praise of the 10,000 Mile Diet*
-   [ ] Blum - *Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet*
-   [ ] Ho - *Liquidated*
-   [ ] Christensen - *The Innovator's Dilemma*
-   [ ] Henwood - *Wall Street*
-   [ ] Bobbitt - *The Shield of Achilles - War, Peace and the Course of History*
-   [ ] Matias - *Bartleby & Co*
-   [ ] Arnold - *Everyday Technology - Machines and the Making of India's Modernity*
-   [ ] Drescher - *Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics*
-   [ ] Studwell - *How Asia Works*
-   [ ] Leibovich - *This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral Plus Plenty of Valet Parking In America's Gilded Capital*
-   [ ] Shapiro - *The Terrorists' Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations*
-   [ ] Turse - *Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam*
-   [ ] Simpson - *War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat As Politics*
-   [ ] Mishra - *From The Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia*
-   [ ] Perkins - *East Asian Development: Foundations And Strategies*
-   [ ] Posner - *Reflections On Judging*
-   [ ] Feldman - *The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics and Society in the Great German Inflation: 1914-1924*
-   [ ] Lewis - *The Big Short*
-   [ ] Lewis - *Liar's Poker*
-   [ ] Sorkin - *Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought To Save The Financial System and Themselves*
-   [ ] Harrison - *Light*
-   [ ] Bass - *The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide*
-   [ ] Roberts - *Shantaram*
-   [ ] Sanderson - *The Way of Kings*
-   [ ] Sanderson - *Words of Radiance*
-   [ ] Hayek - *The Market and Other Orders*
-   [ ] Weil - *The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad For So Many And What Can Be Done To Improve It*
-   [ ] Lieven - *Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry*
-   [ ] Figes - *The Crimean War*
-   [ ] Akysyonov - *The Island of Crimea*
-   [ ] Freedman - *Strategy: A History*
-   [ ] Kahneman - *Thinking Fast and Slow*
-   [ ] Armstrong - *Paying For the Party: How Colleges Maintain Inequality*
-   [ ] Lynch - *The Lies of Locke Lamora*
-   [ ] Piketty - *Capital in the Twenty-First Century*
-   [ ] Roy - *Capitalism: A Ghost Story*
-   [ ] Doniger - *The Hindus: An Alternative History*
-   [ ] Gall - *The Wrong Enemy: American in Afghanistan: 2001-2014*
-   [ ] Taylor - *The People's Platform*
-   [ ] Brook - *The Quelling of the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement*
-   [ ] Lim - *The People's Republic of Amnesia*
-   [ ] Diamond - *Guns, Germs and Steel (reread)*
-   [ ] Kay - *The Lions of Al-Rassan*
-   [ ] Zweig - *Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion*
-   [ ] Davies - *Europe: A History*
-   [ ] Mak - *In Europe: Travels Through The Twentieth Century*
-   [ ] Schlosser - *Command And Control*
-   [ ] Mitchell - *Cloud Atlas*
-   [ ] Meek - *Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else*
-   [ ] al-Ali - *The Struggle for Iraq's Future*
-   [ ] Reynolds - *The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century*
-   [ ] Dawisha - *Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia*
-   [ ] Remnick - *Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire*
-   [ ] Johennsen - *The Tigers and the Taliban: Risking Everything for Afghanistan*
-   [ ] Armstrong - *A History of God*
-   [ ] Rajaniemi - *The Quantum Thief*
-   [ ] Rotman - *Advanced Modern Algebra*
-   [ ] Xenophon - *Anabasis*
-   [ ] Arian - *Anabasis Alexander*
-   [ ] Karnad - *Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War*
-   [ ] Sky - *The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq*
-   [ ] Stern, Berger - *ISIS: The State of Terror*
-   [ ] Hayton - *The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia*
-   [ ] O'Malley - *The Two State Delusion: Israel And Palestine: A Tale of Two Narratives*
-   [ ] Kilcullen - *The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars In The Midst of a Big One*
-   [ ] Hoffman - *Why Did Europe Conquer The World*
-   [ ] Walzer - *The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolution and Religious Counterrevolutions*
-   [ ] Cherry-Garrard - *The Worst Journey in the World*
-   [ ] Sumner - *The Midas Paradox*
-   [ ] Taleb - *Fooled By Randomness*
-   [ ] Allison, Blackwill, Wyne - *Lee Kyuan Yew*
-   [ ] Polyani - *The Great Transformation*
-   [ ] Berlin - *Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age*
-   [ ] Wilson - *The Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire*
-   [ ] Macaes - *The Dawn of Eurasia*
-   [ ] Preston - *The World's Worst Warships: The Failures and Repercussions of Naval Design and Construction*
-   [ ] Hastings - *The Battle for the Falklands*
-   [ ] Michishita - *North Korea's Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008*
-   [ ] Girard - *Things Hidden Since The Foundation of the World*
-   [ ] Williams - *Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art And Soul in Video Games*
-   [ ] Hansen - *Notes on a Foreign Country*
-   [ ] Hirschman - /Exit Voice and Loyalty /
-   [ ] Crabtree - *The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age*
-   [ ] Edgerton - *The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A 20th Century History*
-   [ ] Clapham - *The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay*
-   [ ] Goldstein - *Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path To War in Vietnam*
-   [ ] Sorley - *A Better War: Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam*