BOOK CLUB: Poll for July -- >>> 8 great titles to choose from!

[CrispyQ]

Poll question: BOOK CLUB: Poll for July -- >>> 8 great titles to choose from!

Non-fiction book club poll for July:


"The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century" by James Howard Kunstler

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=557qTnZBGu&isbn=0871138883&itm=1

“The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It” by Marcia Angell

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375508465/qid=1118271080/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-2349647-1398402?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

“House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties” by Craig Unger

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Hg3cZBDBjp&isbn=074325337X&itm=1

“Blinded by the Right” by David Brock

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Hg3cZBDBjp&isbn=1400047285&itm=1


"I Will Bear Witness" by Victor Klemperer

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Hg3cZBDBjp&isbn=0375756973&itm=1

"Collapse" by Jared Diamond

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Hg3cZBDBjp&isbn=0670033375&itm=1

“The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib” edited by Karen Greenberg & Joshua Dratel

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Hg3cZBDBjp&isbn=0521853249&itm=1


“A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-22” by Henry Kissinger

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395172292/002-2349647-1398402?v=glance



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[pscot]

1. This is a real "Eat your Broccoli" kind of list

Does anyone realy want to go to the beach with Metternich, Castlereagh and Henry Kissinger?

[CitySky]

3. for beach reading, please see

"Fiction" forum. ;) Although, I've been known to read Dostoevsky at the beach so that might not help much.

Seriously, though, the Non-Fiction book club has read books as short as Lakoff's "Don't Think of An Elephant" - this just happens to be a heavier list than usual. Why not wander over to "Nonfiction" and suggest a book for next month?

[justinsb]

2. I'm interested in International politics

most of these seem like more US navel gazing, which I've read plenty of already.

[CitySky]

4. I read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"

with the DU book club (okay, I was a little behind the curve, but I did post in that thread eventually!) and it gave me an appetite for more international offerings too. Maybe suggest a title for future book club months?

[justinsb]

5. Somthing that I haven't read yet but I should

will serve as my suggestion

The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?Item=978159420045&Catalog=Books&Ntt=End+of+Poverty&N=35&Lang=en&Section=books&zxac=1

This, outside the US is the hot button issue: 3rd world (and first world poverty) and how to really, finally, completely end it. If this issue had been addressed a decade ago there likely would not have been a 9/11, a war on terror, a war in Iraq, possibly not even a Bush administration. Who knows what horrors can be prevented in future decades if the world agrees to do do something real this time.

[CrispyQ]

6. Looks like

"The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century" by James Howard Kunstler

is the July book title. Looking forward to it!

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[DemExpat]

9. Locking per request

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