<p>Honestly, when I read "Me Talk Pretty One Day" (I don't know how to italicize, btw), I laughed out loud. A lot. In public. "Barrel Fever" is overall not as good, but the essay "SantaLand Diaries" is glorious. "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" is brilliant, too.</p>
<p>The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg (I liked parts of it)</p>
<p>The Mideast Peace Process : An Autopsy by Kozodoy and Helprin</p>
<p>Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Martin Gardner (again, parts of it were garbage)</p>
<p>The Capitalist Manifesto by Ayn Rand</p>
<p>Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study by Thomas Sowell</p>
<p>Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell</p>
<p>A History of the American People by Paul Johnson (Be careful with this, because its full of right wing revisionist pieces..but its a far better American history book than you will encounter at school)</p>
<p>The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins</p>
<p>Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes</p>
<p>Meltdown : The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media by Patrick J. Michaels</p>
<p>Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality by Olaf Gersemann</p>
<p>Origin of Species by Charles Darwin</p>
<p>"A History of the American People by Paul Johnson (Be careful with this, because its full of right wing revisionist pieces..but its a far better American history book than you will encounter at school)"</p>
<p>-Its counterpart on the other side of the political spectrum could be "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn. While it does have some left-wing revisionist parts, it does provide a particularly interesting perspective on the Progressive era of the United States, esp. with regards to the initial union movements and their tactics. Also, the introduction is spellbinding.</p>
<p>ahh you guys are so useful!</p>
<p>haha thanks :) i'll check them all out.</p>
<p>Guns, Germs, and Steel was my required summer reading for AP World History, and I did not find it too interesting until the middle of the book when all the nonsense is weaved together.
The Box by Marc Levinson, traced the development of shipping containers and how they have affected culture and global trade since their invention.
Miss Leavitt's Starts by George Johnson is a story of the first major female astronomer and her discoveries in universe expansion, offering some proof to the Big Bang theory.</p>