My Cool Book List

Cool fiction books
• All the king's men. / Robert Penn Warren
• Animal farm ; 1984 / George Orwell
• The Caine mutiny, a novel of World War II / Herman Wouk
• Kurt Vonnegut
• God bless you, Mr. Rosewater; or, Pearls before swine
• Deadeye Dick
• Player Piano
• Slaughterhouse-five; or, the children's crusade, a duty-dance with death
• Joseph Heller
• Catch 22
• Philip Roth
• The human stain / Philip Roth
Cool nonfiction books
• Somalia
• Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War / Mark Bowden
• Somalia : the missed opportunities / Mohamed Sahnoun
• Somalia and Operation Restore Hope : reflections on peacemaking and peacekeeping / John L. Hirsch, Robert B. Oakley
• Whatever happened to Somalia? / John Drysdale
• The accidental guerrilla : fighting small wars in the midst of a big one / David Kilcullen
• After America : get ready for Armageddon / Mark Steyn
• America alone : the end of the world as we know it / Mark Steyn
• The anatomy of revolution / Crane Brinton
• The Armed Forces officer
• The book of war / introduction by Ralph Peters
• The Bluejacket's manual / Thomas J. Cutler
• Bobos in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There / David Brooks
• Bush at War / Bob Woodward
• The canons of jihad : terrorist's strategy for defeating America / edited by Jim Lacey
• The case for democracy : the power of freedom to overcome tyranny and terror / Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer
• The Chief Petty Officer's guide / John Hagan and J.F. Leahy
• Cicero : the life and times of Rome's greatest politician / Anthony Everitt
• Citizen Soldiers : The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945 / Stephen E. Ambrose
• The conscience of a conservative / by Barry Goldwater ; with a new introduction by Patrick J. Buchanan
• Cost and value management in projects / Ray R. Venkataraman and Jeffrey K. Pinto
• Dangerous nation / Robert Kagan
• Defending identity : its indispensable role in protecting democracy / Natan Sharansky with Shira Wolosky Weiss
• The Dilbert Principle / Scott Adams
• Division officer's guide : a handbook for junior officers and petty officers of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard afloat, in the air, under the sea, ashore / James Stavridis and Robert Girrier
• Doing Battle : The Making of a Skeptic / Paul Fussell
• Down range : to Iraq and back / Bridget C. Cantrell & Chuck Dean
• Dude, Where's My Country? / Michael Moore
• Eternal Iran : continuity and chaos / Patrick Clawson and Michael Rubin
• Ethnicity Kills? : The Politics of War, Peace, and Ethnicity in Subsaharan Africa (International Political Economy Series)
• Ethnonationalism / Walker Connor
• The Evolution of Us Peacekeeping Policy Under Clinton : A Fairweather Friend? / Michael G. MacKinnon
• Faith of My Fathers / John McCain and Mark Salter
• Finding the target : the transformation of American military policy / Frederick W. Kagan
• The Future and Its Enemies : The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress / Virginia Postrel
• Geek Silicon Valley: The Inside Guide to Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, San Francisco / Ashlee Vance
• God and gold : Britain, America, and the making of the modern world / Walter Russell Mead
• The grand Jihad : how Islam and the left sabotage America / Andrew C. McCarthy
• Heart of A Lion: The Leadership of LT. Michael P. Murphy, U.S. Navy SEAL / Gary Williams
• Henry M. Jackson : a life in politics / Robert G. Kaufman
• Hog pilots, blue water grunts : the American military in the air, at sea, and on the ground / Robert D. Kaplan
• House to house : an epic memoir of war / David Bellavia ; with John R. Bruning
• How did this happen? : terrorism and the new war / edited by James F. Hoge, Jr., and Gideon Rose
• How to Win Friends & Influence People / Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie, and Arthur R. Pell
• The human factor : inside the CIA's dysfunctional intelligence culture / Ishmael Jones
• Infidel / Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Innovate or die : a personal perspective on the art of innovation / Jack V. Matson
• The Iranian Puzzle Piece: Understanding Iran In The Global Context
• Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World / Benjamin R. Barber
• Killing Pablo : The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw / Mark Bowden
• Leadership skills for project managers / [editors, Jeffrey K. Pinto, Jeffrey W. Trailer]
• Learning to eat soup with a knife : counterinsurgency lessons from Malaya and Vietnam / John A. Nagl
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree / Thomas L. Friedman
• Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them : A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right / Al Franken
• Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong / James W. Loewen
• Lone survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10 / Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson
• The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 / Lawrence Wright
• Love, sex, and lasting relationships / Chip Ingram
• The management of projects / Peter W.G. Morris
• The mind of jihad / Laurent Murawiec
• Moment of truth in Iraq / Michael Yon
• My grandfather's son : a memoir / Clarence Thomas
• The Naval Institute guide to naval writing / Robert Shenk
• The naval officer's guide / William P. Mack, Harry A. Seymour, Jr., and Lesa A. McComas
• Neoconservatism : why we need it / Douglas Murray
• Network-centric warfare : how navies learned to fight smarter through three world wars / Norman Friedman
• Newjack : guarding Sing Sing / Ted Conover
• On Bullshit / Harry G. Frankfurt
• Open doors : Vietnam POWs thirty years later / Jamie Howren, Taylor Baldwin Kiland
• Persian puzzle : the conflict between Iran and America / Kenneth M. Pollack.
• Phoenix and the birds of prey : counterinsurgency and counterterrorism in Vietnam / Mark Moyar
• Politically incorrect guide to socialism / Kevin Williamson
• Project leadership : from theory to practice / Jeffrey K. Pinto
• Project management : achieving competitive advantage / Jeffrey K. Pinto
• A question of command : counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq / Mark Moyar
• The rise and fall of the great powers, economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000 / Paul M Kennedy
• Rules for radical conservatives : beating the left at its own game to take back America / David Kahane
• The run-up to the Punch Bowl : a memoir of the Korean War, 1951 / John Nolan
• Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations / Al Franken
• Safety, liberty, and Islamist terrorism : American and European approaches to domestic counterterrorism / Gary J. Schmitt
• SEAL of honor : Operation Red Wings and the life of Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN / Gary Williams
• See no evil : the true story of a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism / Robert Baer
• Service etiquette / Cherlynn Conetsco and Anna Hart
• Sex 180 : the next revolution / Chip Ingram and Tim Walker
• Ship killer : a history of the American torpedo / Thomas Wildenberg and Norman Polmar
• Skating on stilts : why we aren't stopping tomorrow's terrorism / Stewart A. Baker
• The Soldier's Guide Book / Raymond K. Bluhm, Jr. and James B. Motley
• Special providence : American foreign policy and how it changed the world / Walter Russell Mead
• Surrender is not an option : defending America at the United Nations and abroad / John Bolton
• System under stress : homeland security and American politics / Donald F. Kettl
• Taliban : Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia / Ahmed Rashid
• Terrorism and counterterrorism : understanding the new security environment : readings & interpretations / [edited by] Russell D. Howard, Reid L. Sawyer
• A terrorist's call to global jihad : deciphering Abu Musab al-Suri's Islamic jihad manifesto / edited by Jim Lacey
• The Terrorist Perspectives Project : strategic and operational views of Al Qaida and associated movements / Mark E. Stout, Jessica M. Huckabey, John R. Schindler with Jim Lacey
• Three Billion New Capitalists : The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East / Clyde Prestowitz
• Thunder from the East : Portrait of a Rising Asia / Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn
• Too soon old, too late smart : thirty true things you need to know now / Gordon Livingston
• Triumph forsaken : the Vietnam war, 1954-1965 / Mark Moyar
• Voice of America : a history / Alan L. Heil, Jr.
• War made new : technology, warfare, and the course of history, 1500 to today / Max Boot
• Watch officer's guide : a handbook for all deck watch officers / James Stavridis and Robert Girrier
• Wartime : Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War / Paul Fussell
• The Wealth of Choices : How the New Economy Puts Power in Your Hands and Money in Your Pockets / Alan S. Murray
• Welcome to Scranton / Greg Halpin
• What We Owe Iraq : War and the Ethics of Nation Building / Noah Feldman
• Willful blindness : a memoir of the Jihad / Andrew C. McCarthy
• Winning the future : a 21st century Contract with America / Newt Gingrich
• Working With Emotional Intelligence / Daniel Goleman
• World War IV : how it started, what it means, and why we have to win / Norman Podhoretz
• The World Is Flat : A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century / Thomas L. Friedman
• The 22 immutable laws of marketing : violate them at your own risk / Al Ries and Jack Trout
Cool technical books
• O'Reilly and Associates
• Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Programming with Packages
• Advanced Perl Programming with Packages
• The Cathedral & the Bazaar
• Essential System Administration
• Learning Ruby / Michael Fitzgerald
• Linux Network Administrator's Guide
• Managing NFS and NIS
• Managing Projects with make
• Mastering Regular Expressions
• Oracle PL/SQL Programming
• Oracle Scripts
• Perl Cookbook
• Perl in a Nutshell
• Perl/Tk Pocket Reference
• Programming Perl
• Programming Perl (Perl5 edition)
• Programming the Perl DBI
• Sendmail
• TCP/IP Network Administration
• Time Management for System Administrators
• Using C on the UNIX System
• vi Editor Pocket Reference
• Volume 3M: X Window System User's Guide: Motif Edition
• Volume 8: X Window System Administrator's Guide
• Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C
• Bell Labs
• The C programming language. / Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
• The UNIX programming environment. / Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
• Oracle Press
• Oracle Backup & Recovery Handbook. / Rama Velpuri
• Oracle8 DBA Handbook. / Kevin Loney
• Oracle PL/SQL Programming. / Scott Urman
• Other Publishers
• C++ Primer / Stanley Lippman
• An Introduction to Database Systems / Chris J. Date
• LATEX, a document preparation system. / Leslie Lamport
• Object Oriented Perl / Damian Conway
• Open Source Development With CVS / Karl Fogel
• The TeXbook. / Donald E. Knuth

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John D. Groenveld <groenveld@acm.org>


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