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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America  by Victor Davis Hanson, Basic Books (2021)

Intellect: Mind over Matter by Mortimer J. Adler, Collier Books, 1993.

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor, Penguin Books, 2009.

An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks, Vintage, 1996.

Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs  by Michael J. Stephen, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021.  Topics The Great Oxygenation Event of the Earth's Atmosphere Nicotine Cystic Fibrosis

The Case for Colonialism  by Bruce Gilley, New English Review Press, 2023.

Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross, Princeton University Press, 2022.

Intelligence: All That Matters  by Stuart Ritchie, Teach Yourself, 2016.

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser, Penguin Books, 2014.

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers  by Tom Standage, Bloomsbury USA, Second Edition, Revised, 2014.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America  by Author, Crown Publishers (2003)

People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman  by Richard Lloyd Parry, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012.  The crime occurred in a neighborhood of Tokyo called Roppongi. In this neighborhood there are many kinds of foreigners: Koreans, Chinese, Filipinas, Thais, Ghanians, Nigerians, Gambians, Russians, Iranians,  Israelis, and even the French. Most Koreans in Japan belong to Zainichi Chōsenjin, which is subdivided into Mindan (which has close ties with South Korea) and Chōs

Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America  by David Horowitz, Humanix Books, 20018.  The First Amendment to the United States Constitution forbids this country from establishing a state religion. The Church of England is the State religion of the United Kingdom This is a government sponsored religion. The founding Fathers decided we should not have that in our country. But in the 1960s the U.S. Supreme Court  decided to widen the separation of church and state by proh

Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal  by Michael D'Antonio, St. Martin's Griffin, 2014.

Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples  by Peter H. Schuck and Richard J. Zeckhauser, Brookings Institution Press, 2006.  The authors argue that the government is wasting money on two kinds of recipients of aid: bad bets, and bad apples. Examples of bad bets: Very sick old patients who will die soon Vegetative patients Liver transplants for chronic alcoholics Stupid people attending college Giving cancer screening tests to people who are young an

Great Society: A New History  by Amity Shales, Harper, 2019.

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance,and the Minimum Wage by Kirstin Downey, Vintage, 2010.

Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners by James B. Nardi, University of Chicago Press, 2007.

The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District  by James Rebanks, Doubleday Canada, First Edition, Canadian First, Hardcover, 2015.

Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig  by Mark Essig, Basic Books, 2015.