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