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Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War
Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and WIlliam Broad Three reporters from The New York Times survey the recent history […]
How Starbucks Saved My Life
How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill This one is a bit of a feelgood tale, the story of a high-flying advertising executive born […]
Escape
Escape, Carolyn Jessop I read Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven a few years ago and was absolutely dumbstruck by the existence and far-reaching […]
Sick
Sick, Jonathan Cohn I was browsing around The Book Passage in Corte Madera with a Christmas gift voucher from my mum when I saw this […]
Gang Leader For A Day
Gang Leader For A Day, Sudhir Venkatesh Whilst studying for his PhD. in sociology at the University of Chicago, Sudhir Venkateshchose to take a slightly […]
Three Cups Of Tea
Three Cups Of Tea, Greg Mortensen Finding himself stranded and close to death after an attempted summit of K2 in the Karakoram range of the […]
1001 Nights In Iraq
1001 Nights In Iraq, Shant Kenderian A gift from my mother-in-law for my birthday, 1001 Nights In Iraq is quite a harrowing story of an […]
Sperm Wars
Sperm Wars, Robin Baker TB left this book at our house last year, thought we might find it an interesting read. Each chapter begins with […]
Infidel
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Mum gave me this book a while back and I read it earlier this year, just forgot to put it on […]
Shantaram
Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts Jacqui Steele put me onto this book a while ago after I mentioned to her that Marching Powder is one of […]
Losing My Virginity
Losing My Virginity, Sir Richard Branson Another parting gift from TB when he left us last Christmas, thanks for a good read Big Fella. This […]
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, Ranulph Fiennes A present from my lovely wife (big props on finding this one for me), Mad, Bad and […]
Before the Dawn
Before the Dawn, Nicholas Wade Art kindly shipped his second copy of this book to me from Seattle, a very enlightening and interesting read. Given, […]
Packer’s Lunch
Packer’s Lunch, Neil Chenoweth Mum gave me Packer’s Lunch as a Christmas present last year, what an eye-opener! Although I’m sure it exists here as […]
Marching Powder
Marching Powder, Rusty Young I didn’t just read this, I read it years ago when a friend of mine put me onto it. But, I wanted […]
Scar Tissue
Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis I don’t think this would be the type of book I’d usually pick up in the book store, but I must […]
Fooled by Randomness
Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb Just finished this one, pretty good read, reminded me a lot of my Behavioral Finance class at Cal. If […]