THE WAR ON SCIENCE,EXPERTS, FACTS & TRUTH/S. These books focus on the USA mainly but they apply to every society in this day and age. Surely the foundations of modernity are built on facts, knowledge, the enquiring mind, the seeking of truth or truths, academic expertise and science. How did we get to a point that many of these beliefs and systems are under constant attack?
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters. Tom Nichols
The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It. Shawn Lawrence Otto
Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies. Susan Jacoby
The Death of Truth. Michiko Kakutani
Idiot America. How stupidity became a virtue in the land of the free. Charles P. Pierce
AntiIntellectualism In American Life. Richard Hofstadter. First published in the 1960’s

GLOBAL WARMING
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WAR
July 1914: Countdown to War. Sean McMeekin – Machinations of States and leaders that slid in to the meatgrinder called WW1.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. William L. Shirer

PSYCHOLOGY/THE PERSONAL
Outliers: The Story of Success. Malcolm Gladwell
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales. Oliver Sacks
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women. Naomi Wolf
How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values. Robert M. Pirsig

AMERICA versus CHINA
Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order. Steven W. Mosher
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower. Michael Pillsbury
Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept.  Robert Spalding
The Great U.S.-China Tech War. Gordon G. Chang
Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy. Bill Gertz
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? Graham Allison
China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine. Rosemary Gibson
You Will Be Assimilated: China’s Plan to Sino-form the World. David P. Goldman
The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century. Jonathan E Hillman
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State. Elizabeth C. Economy
Red Star Over the Pacific, Second Edition: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy. Toshi Yoshihara. , James R. Holmes
The Coming Collapse of China.  Gordon G. Chang

AMERICANA
Who Stole The American Dream. Hedrick Smith
In Cold Blood. Truman Capote
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. Barbara Ehrenreich
The American Way of Death Revisited. Jessica Mitford
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. Dee Brown
All the President’s Men. Carl Bernstein
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present. Howard Zinn
Unsafe at Any Speed Unsafe at Any Speed. Ralph Nader
What It Takes: The Way to the White House. Richard Ben Cramer

FOOD
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Michael Pollan
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Eric Schlosser

NATURE/ENVIRONMENT/BIOLOGY
Silent Spring. Rachel Carson
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. Bill Bryson
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Elizabeth Kolbert

HEALTH/THE BODY
The Emperor of All Maladies The Emperor of All Maladies. Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal. Desmond Morris
The Selfish Gene. Richard Dawkins

SCIENCE
A Brief History of Time. Stephen Hawking.

GENERAL READING
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America. George Packer
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Lawrence Wright
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Jared Diamond
Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.  Steven Levitt
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding. Robert Hughes
The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Malcolm X
No LOGO. Naomi Klein
Capitalism and Freedom. Milton Friedman
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Thomas S. Kuhn
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Samuel P. Huntington
Animal Liberation. Peter Singer
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. John Maynard Keynes
The End of History and the Last Man. Francis Fukuyama
Out of Africa. Isak Dinesen
And the Band Played on. Randy Shilts
Dispatches. Michael Herr

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