Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam by John A Nagl

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E Ricks

Video of the interview with Michael Shermer, director of The Skeptics Society

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the United States by Nikolas Kozloff Summary of interview | video And, for your amusement, that video of Chavez calling Bush a donkey.

The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen Boing Boing’s summary of the interview

Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them by John McCain

The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate by Michael Wallis

Six Arguments for a Greener Diet by Michael F. Jacobson

The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown