Good Books (updated 28-Aug-05)

Favorite books (Date Finished)
Against the Gods Peter L. Bernstein  
Coming plague Laurie garret 2-Jun-01
Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 1-Jun-05
Dark Sun The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Richard Rhodes  
Deadly Feasts Richard Rhodes 29-Nov-04
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History Stephen J. Gould 29-Nov-04
DNA : The Secret of Life  James Watson 6-Dec-04
Don't Know Much About Geography Kenneth C. Davis 10-Oct-04
Don't Know Much About History Kenneth C. Davis 10-Oct-04
Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution Robert Atkins 1-Jun-05
Eat More, Weigh Less Dean Ornish, M.D. 16-Jul-00
Eniac Scott McCartney 19-Oct-04
Ever since darwin Stephen Jay Gould 16-Jul-00
Fabric of the Cosmos Brian Greene 19-Oct-04
Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser 19-Oct-04
Genome War  James Shreeve 28-Aug-05
Great Bridge David McCullough 1-Jun-05
Guns, Germs & Steel Jared Diamond 8-May-99
Hot Zone Richard Preston  
Intelligence in War  John Keegan 28-Aug-05
Longitude Dava Sobel 4-Feb-00
Man in Full Tom Wolfe, read by David Ogden Stiers 28-Mar-01
Millionaire mind Eugene stanley 16-Oct-01
Millionaire Next Door Eugene stanley 10-Oct-04
Mismeasure of man Stephen Jay Gould 22-Apr-00
Moneyball Michael Lewis 8-May-00
Nature via Nurture  Matt Ridley 28-Aug-05
New new thing Michael Lewis 4-Jun-00
Only The Paranoid Survive Andrew S. Grove 19-Dec-98
Power of Gold Peter L. Bernstein   29-Oct-00
Questioning The Millenium Stephen Jay Gould, read by E Zimbalist, Jr.  
Reckoning David Halberstam, Sections 1 and 2  
Skunk works Leo Janos and Ben Rich 8-Aug-01
Trust Susan E. Tifft, Alex S. Jones 14-May-00
Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale Stephen Jay Gould 29-Oct-01
Younger next year  Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge 28-Aug-05
Other books I liked
1L, Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow  
A New Understanding of the Atom (Science & Discovery ) Narrated by Edwin Newman  
Aeneid By Virgil  
Aids C. Everett Koop, M.D.  
Alfred Marshall and Neoclassicism (Great Economic Thinkers) Narrated by Louis Rukeyser  
An Incomplete Education Judy Junes/William Wilson  3-Apr-99
Analyzing Financial Statements Eric Press 1-Jun-05
Aristotle (Greece) 384-322 B.C.  (The Giants of Philosophy)    
Art of War Sun Tze  
Basic Economics  Clarence B. Carson  
Beating the Dow with Bonds Michael B. O'Higgins  
Beating the Street Peter Lynch  
Being Digital Nicholas Negropante  
Bell Curve Richard J. Hernstein, Charles Murray  
Bertrand Russell and A.N. Whitehead (The World of Philosophy) Narrated by Lynn Redgrave  
Best and The Brightest David Clennon  
Biology on Tape- Understanding The Cell Audio Text, Inc.  
Biology-on-Tape Genetics, Diversity, and the Biosphere     
Book of Virtues William J. Bennett  
Brief History of Time Stephen W. Hawking  
Buddhism (Religion, Scriptures and Spirituality ) Narrated by Ben Kingsley  
Buffett The Making of an American Capitalist Roger Lowenstein  
Chance and Chaos David Ruelle  
Chaos Making A New Science James Gleick  
Character of Physical Law Richard Feynman  
Charater Above All Robert A. Wilson   
Chemistry & The Enlightenment (Science & Discovery ) Narrated by Edwin Newman 19-Dec-98
Children David Halberstam  
Churchill In His Own Voice    
Citizen Soldiers Stephen E. Ambrose 2-Jun-01
Civil War Ken Burns  
Civil War - Part I  (The United States at War) Narrated by George C. Scott  
Civil War - Part II  (The United States at War) Narrated by George C. Scott 10-Oct-04
Common Sense (Giants of Political Thought) Thomas Paine                                     
Communist Manifesto (Giants of Political Thought) Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels  
Complexity & Chaos (Science & Discovery ) Narrated by Edwin Newman  
Consitutional Convention (Giants of Political Thought) Walter Conkrite  
Constitutions of the World Professor Albert P. Blaustein  
Co-opetition Barry J. Nalebuff  
Creators A History of Heroes of the Imagination Daniel J. Boorstin  
Darwin & Evolution (Science & Discovery ) Narrated by Edwin Newman  
Day the Universe Changed James Burke  
D-Day (June 6, 1944:) The Climactic Battle of World War II Stephen E. Ambrose  
Dealers of Lightning Micahel Hiltzik 21-Mar-00
Declaration of Independence (Giants of Political Thought) Thomas Jefferson   
Direct from Dell - Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry   21-Mar-00
Don't Know Much About the Civil War Kenneth C. Davis  
Don't Know much about the Universe Kenneth C. Davis  
Earth in the Balance Al Gore  
Economics-Government Budget, Deficit and Trade Policy    
Einsteins Dreams Alan Lightman  
Evolution : The Triumph of an Idea Carl Zimmer 11-Nov-04
Evolution and Extinction Stephen Jay Gould  
Exploring and Map Making (Science & Discovery ) Narrated by Edwin Newman  
Faster Gleick 17-Feb-99
Fifties David Halberstam, read by Edsin Newman 23-Oct-01
Friedrich Nietzche (Germany) 1844-1900  (The Giants of Philosophy)    
Full House Stephen Jay Gould  
Future Medicine Michael Toms  
Fuzzy Thinking Bart Kusko  
Genius: the Life and Science of Richard Feynman James Gleick 1-Jan-00
George Wilhelm Friedrich (Germany) 1770-1831  (The Giants of Philosophy)   9-Jan-02
German Historical School of Economics (Great Economic Thinkers)    
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War Judith Miller, William Broad, Stephen Engelberg 1-Dec-04
Good Life Ben Bradlee  
Great American Speeches 1950-1963    
Great American Speeches1931-1947    
Great minds of science   9-Jan-02
Great World- Religions, Practices and Histories    
Greatest Generation  Tom Brokaw  
Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time Will Durant 1-Jun-05
Guide to Wine Julian Curry 1-Jun-05
Guns of August Barbara W. Tuchman  
Hamlet William Shakespeare  
Hamlet and MacBeth Gets to the Heart of It! Dr. Elizabeth McNamer   
Hinduism (Religion, Scriptures and Spirituality ) Narrated by Ben Kingsley  
Hobbit and The Fellowship of The Ring J.R.R. Tolkien 29-Nov-99
How The Mind Works Steven Pinker  
Human Evolution Stephen Jay Gould  
Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham 29-Aug-01
Into the Storm A Study in Command Tom Clancy with General Fred Franks Jr.(Ret.)   
Into thin air Jon Krakauer 5-Mar-05
Irish in America Colm Meaney  
Isaac Newton's New Physics (Science & Discovery ) Narrated by Edwin Newman  
Islam (Religion, Scriptures and Spirituality ) Narrated by Ben Kingsley  
John  Dewey (USA) 1859-1952 (The Giants of Philosophy)    
Joseph Schumpter & Dynamic Economic Change (Great Economic Thinkers) Narrated by Louis Rukeyser  
Karl Marx: Das Kapital (Great Economic Thinkers) Narrated by Louis Rukeyser  
Keynesian Revolution   (Great Economic Thinkers) Narrated by Louis Rukeyser  
Kings and Queens of England   28-Mar-01
Korean War (The United States at War) Narrated by George C. Scott 3-Apr-99
Language and Problems of Knowledge Noam Chomsky 19-Dec-98
Leonardo's mountain of clams and the diet of worms Stephen Jay Gould  
Lessons of History Will & Ariel Durant   
Life in Darwin's Universe Gene Bylinsky 1-Jan-00
Lincoln David Herbert Donald  
Lives of a cell Lewis Thomas  
Living and The Dead Paul Hendrickson 16-Oct-01
Long Gray Line Rick Atkinson 10-Oct-04
Machiavelli- The Prince Fritz Weaver  
Map that changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology   4-Feb-00
Mars and Venus on a Date John Gray 1-Jan-00
Master of the senate Robert Caro 1-Jun-05
Medical Science (Science & Discovery ) Narrated by Edwin Newman 19-Dec-98
Middle East (The World's Political Hot Spots) Narrated by Harry Reasoner  
Monetarism and Supply Side Economics (Great Economic Thinkers) Narrated by Louis Rukeyser 5-Nov-99
Motley fool, rule makers   4-Feb-00
Natural Science & The Planet Earth (Science & Discovery ) Narrated by Edwin Newman  
Next Generation David Halberstam, read by The E.G. Marshall  
October 1964  David Halberstam  
One-Day MBA Paul Lerman, Ph.D. and John H. Turner, Ph.D. 29-Oct-00
Organizing for the Creative Person Dorothy Lehmjukl, Dolores Colter Lamping 11-Aug-00
Origin of the Species Charles Darwin  
Origins of the Universe (Science & Discovery ) Narrated by Edwin Newman  
Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianity  Narrated by Ben Kingsley  
Painted Word Tom Wolfe 8-May-00
Plato (Greece) Ca. 428-348 B.C (The Giants of Philosophy)     
Playing for Keeps Michael Jordan and The World He Made David Halberstam  
Pour Your Heart Into It Howard Schultz  
Present, Time Past Bill Bradley   
Professor and the madman S Winchester 11-Aug-00
Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind Noam Chomsky 4-Nov-05
Protestant Christianity  (Religion, Scriptures and Spirituality ) Narrated by Ben Kingsley  
Science Good, Bad & Bogus Martin Gardner  
Science in Antiquity (Science & Discovery ) Narrated by Edwin Newman  
Science of Jurassic Park and The Lost World or How To Build a Dinosaur Robert DeSalle, Ph.D.  
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey  
Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson 25-Nov-04
Social Contract (Giants of Political Thought) Jean-Jacques Rousseau  
Stalin Edvard Radzinsky 30-Aug-00
Technical Traders and Commodity Speculators (Secrets of the Great Investors) Narrated by Louis Rukeyser 6-Mar-99
The Curve of Binding Energy John McPhee 1-Jan-00
The Road Ahead  Bill Gates  
They Made America Harold Evans 1-Jun-05
Thomas Jefferson   21-Mar-00
Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell 17-Oct-01
Titan Ron Chernow 30-Aug-00
Transformed Cell Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D. 2-Jan-00
T-rex and The Crater of Doom Walter Alvarez  
Truman David McCullough  
Undaunted Courage Stephen E. Ambrose 10-Oct-04
Vietnam War - Part I (The United States at War) Narrated by George C. Scott 9-Jan-02
Vietnam War - Part II (The United States at War) Narrated by George C. Scott  
Visions of Technology Richard Rhodes 1-Jan-00
Wall Street and Its Mystery Men (Secrets of the Great Investors)   3-Apr-99
War in a time of Peace David Halberstam 9-Jan-02
Warren Buffet Way Robert G. Hagstrom, Jr.  
What I Believe Bertrand Russle  
Why Geese Don't Get Obese Eric P. Widmaier  
Wild blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany  Stephen E. Ambrose 18-Jun-02
World war I John Keegan 2-Jan-00
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