Who Stole the American Dream? Paperback by Hedrick Smith (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Stole-America...&sr=8-1&keywords=who+stole+the+american+dream Everyone that has posted in the "Politics and Religion" forum should read this book.
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality Hardcover by Edward Frenkel (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Love-Math-Hea...&qid=1379267204&sr=8-1&keywords=math+and+love A book that will show you what real mathematics is. Perhaps the book of the year. Give it to every high school student you know. I am going to give it to my daughter, and pray.
You just read this one? It's never too late to read a good book... I keep getting Perkins and Robert Baer confused. Baer wrote "See No Evil", the basis for Syriana, and "Sleeping With The Devil". Both are eye-opening accounts of our Oil/Middle East/Terrorism conundrums...
Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America Glenn Hubbard (Author), Tim Kane (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Balance-Econo...e=UTF8&qid=1381422428&sr=8-3&keywords=Balance Must read IMO
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit [Mass Market Paperback] http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Hunter-I...8&qid=1382708867&sr=8-3&keywords=fbi+profiler Fascinating
Some REAL math books are appearing that should replace every rote learning in school that kills imagination: Math Girls Paperback by Hiroshi Yuki (Author) , Tony Gonzalez (Translator) http://www.amazon.com/Math-Girls-Hiroshi-Yuki/dp/0983951306/ref=pd_sim_b_1 Math Girls 2: Fermat's Last Theorem (Volume 2) Paperback http://www.amazon.com/Math-Girls-Fermats-Theorem-Volume/dp/0983951322/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y Amazingly well done. You will learn, through the most famous problem in all of mathematics (second book, now a theorem) some VERY deep math (does that scare you?). Should be bought together.