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* Prompt and utter destruction : Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan: the decision making process of the US leadership leading up to August and why the US / Truman thought the use of atomic weapons was 'necessary'. Related: American Prometheus, a bio on Oppenheimer.

* Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin: the story of the people of Eastern and Central Europe during the early 20th century.

* Man's Search for Meaning: An Holocaust survivor explains on how to find hope and meaning even in the darkest of times.

* Why civil resistance works: the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict: Examining on how most resist movements in the last one hundred years have tended to be more successful when they eschew violence.

* The origins of Canadian and American political differences: On how two very similiar-seeming countries right next to each other could diverge in their cultures. (I'm Canadian.)




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