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Protect and Defend: A Thriller
Vince Flynn
Atria Books, 2007
Mitch Rapp Rocks!
I've read all of Flynn's Mitch Rapp thrillers and they are excellent. They are gritty, real-life characters that tell it like it is. As a fellow author of thrillers, I appreciate his attention to detail and his exhaustive research. He teaches me how to write the genre. ...
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Eos, 2006
"Sic transit mundus"
Comparing the United States to the Roman Empire seems to be a fashionable thing to do lately. And the argument is certainly not without merit. As the only superpower left its natural to make judgments based on the worlds great empires and to ask if we are making the ...
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage Books, 2007
Riveting, Spare, and Great
This is a great book that is also an absorbing and easy read. The brutal and brilliant simplicity of the book is remarkable. McCarthy imagines the world after the nuclear apocalypse in which everything is stripped away and then asks, "what's left?"
In part, the ...
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Rogue Warrior: Dictator's Ransom (Rogue Warrior)
Richard Marcinko, Jim DeFelice
Forge Books, 2008
Is Kim Jong-il really a fanatical fan of Dick Marcinko, the Rogue Warrior? Has the terrifying tyrant actually read every one of Marcinko's many New York Times bestsellers? One thing is certain: the Rogue Warrior wants nothing to do with the brutal despot. When, in Dictator's Ransom, "the loathsome dwarf"--as George W. Bush derided ...
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Michael Dobbs
Knopf, 2008
Scarier Than You Thought
We remember the Cuban Missile Crisis as the most dangerous moment of the Cold War...when we were "eyeball to eyeball". As time has allowed access to records and players on all three sides, the truth turns out to be much more dangerous than anyone could have imagined. ...
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Simon & Schuster, 1995
Outstanding Book
Myself not being a scientist there were parts of this book that were hard to understand theoretically speaking, but the historical story the book brings forth is hard not to understand. Between the people making blind discoveries to educated guesses to scientific ...
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
Excellent resource for the layman....
Don't know much about new physics? This is stuff I didn't get the first time around--they weren't discussing it back then since all of us were running from the dinosaurs....
Anyway, Greene has a good descriptive edge that will keep you reading even if the subject ...
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
Princeton University Press, 1986
Makers of Modern Strategy
"Makers of Modern Strategy" is a scholarly collection of high quality papers on strategy since Machiavelli to the present nuclear age. The beauty of the book is that one can focus on the era that one is interested in. There is no need to read the book cover to cover as ...
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Hiroshima
John Hersey
Vintage, 1989
A very good book
This is a book I would recommend for anyone to read. By reading the book you get a personal perspective on the ones affected by the bombing. This edition has an additional chapter, written years later, where the author gives an update on the people in the book. Very ...
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Alas, Babylon
Pat Frank
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
Reqd reading in High School
I remember reading this in High School and I have been looking to pick it up for a re-read.
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Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Energy Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America's Energy Odyssey
William Tucker
Bartleby Pr, 2008
An Absolutely Outstanding Book!
Several years ago I had a strong desire to write a book that would examine each of current and potential sources of energy and explain its merits and drawbacks. I wanted to have something that would help people understand why nuclear energy is such a promising source ...
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Princeton Science Library)
Richard P. Feynman
Princeton University Press, 2006
A Fantastic Theory
Even though these lectures are more than 20 years old, Feynman did an incredible job of explaining a fundamental concept in Physics. I can see now why he received the Nobel prize for his work in this area. I would call him the Carl Sagan of Physics, except that Mr. ...
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Robert F. Kennedy
W. W. Norton & Company, 1999
AS WE APPROACH IN HALF A YEAR THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS FBI ASSASSINATION LET US RECALL WHEN WISDOM AND DIPLOMACY RULED
Here we have in Robert Kennedy's own account how the world kept out of annihilating nuclear warfare nearly a half century ago, rather than the current highly profitable rushes to war with untold, uncounted millions of innocent victims these past few decades.
Here we ...
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The Camel Club
David Baldacci, 2005
The Camel Club is cool!
The Camel Club is cool. They're an odd group of conspiracy theorists, led by Oliver Stone, on a quest for the truth.
Baldacci weaves quite a tale that keeps your attention and is full of twists and turns.
I thought this was a great mystery thriller with a bunch ...
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
Lisa Randall
Harper Perennial, 2006
Groundbreaking Physics in Beautiful Prose
Professor Randall of Harvard has written a truly monumental book for physics and for those interested in science. She has brilliantly bridged the knowledge gap between the scientist and the layperson. With this book, she dispels forever the ridiculous notion that ...
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