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Books and movies that I've read or seen and recommend. The links go to the blog post. Titles with a * are available at Sno-Isle Libraries. Check them out! The most recent books and movies I've read or seen can be found in the right column of my weblog.

Kyoichi Tsuzuki
Tokyo:
A Certain Style*

Peter Matthiessen
The Birds of Heaven:
Travels with Cranes*

Jacques Gernet
A History of Chinese Civilization*


Edgar Snow Red Star over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism*	Margaret MacMillan Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World*	Joe Conason It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush*	Thomas E. Kida Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking*	Cordelia Fine A Mind of its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives*

movie Who Killed the Electric Car*	William Eggleston 5x7*	Paul Hendrickson Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43*	Guy Stricherz Americans in Kodachrome 1945-1965*	Anthony Arnove Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal*

movie Hayao Miyazaki Porco Rosso*	movie Susan Stroman and Mel Brooks The Producers*	movie Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club*	Chris Hedges American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America*	Paul Kriwaczek Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation*

Roman Vishniac A Vanished World*	Roman Vishniac Children of a Vanished World*	Joel Meyerowitz Cape Light: Color Photographs*	Joel Meyerowitz Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive*	Richard Powers The Echomaker*

Michael T. Klare Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum*	Mike Disfarmer Mike Disfarmer	Mark Klett Third Views, Second Sights: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West	Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zoned*	Jimmy Carter Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid*

Jenny Nimmo Midnight for Charlie Bone (The Children of the Red King, Book 1)*	Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism*	Rebecca Solnit Wanderlust: A History of Walking*	Eliot Porter The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado	Ben Shahn The Shape of Content (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)*

Howard Greenfeld Ben Shahn: An Artist's Life*	Susan Chevlowe Common Man, Mythic Vision*	Deborah Martin Kao, Laura Katzman, Jenna Webster Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times*	Alastair Reid drawings by Ben Shahn Ounce, Dice, Trice	movie Andy Goldsworthy Rivers & Tides: Working with Time*

Jacques-Henri Lartigue Jacques Henri Lartigue, Photographer*	Brassaï Brassaï: The Monograph*	Vali Nasr The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future*	Orhan Pamuk My Name Is Red*	Ramzy Baroud The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle*

Ross King Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture*	Mark Klett Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest*	Mark Klett, Rebecca Solnit, Byron G. Wolfe Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers*	Mark Klett, Michael Lundgren, Philip L. Fradkin, Rebecca Solnit After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire*	Robert Fisk Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon*

Benny Morris Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001*	Ambrose Bierce Civil War Stories	Saul Steinberg and Inge Morath Masquerade	Tanya Reinhart The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003*	Rebecca Solnit River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West*

Paul Rieckhoff Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington*	Fred Pearce When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century*	Kevin Phillips American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury*	Naguib Mahfouz Midaq Alley*	Sandy Tolan The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East*

Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East*	Myra MacPherson All Governments Lie!: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone*	Amira Hass Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege*	Virginia Tilley The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock*	O. Winston Link The Last Steam Railroad in America*

Edward Burtynsky Burtynsky - China*	Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma*	James Howard Kunstler The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century*	Edward Burtynsky Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky*	Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It*

Zadie Smith White Teeth*	George Soros The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror*	Elizabeth Kolbert Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change*	Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio Hungry Planet: What the World Eats*	Peter Menzel Material World: A Global Family Portrait

Charles C. Mann 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus*	Michelle Goldberg Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism*	Alec Soth Sleeping on the Mississippi*	William Eggleston William Eggleston, 2 1/4	movie TransAmerica*

Robert Adams Beauty in Photography	Benjamin Hoff The Tao of Pooh*	Kevin Phillips Wealth and Democracy*	Darius Kinsey Kinsey Photographer*	Darius Kinsey Kinsey Photographer: The Locomotive Portraits*

movie Z*	movie Mike Nichols Catch-22*	Nir Rosen In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq*	movie Tim Burton and Johnny Depp Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*	Irene Nemirovsky Suite Francaise*

Linda Butler Rural Japan: Radiance of the Ordinary*	Linda Butler Yangtze Remembered: The River Beneath The Lake*	Richard B. Alley The Two-Mile Time Machiner*	James Carroll House of War : The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power*	Truman Capote In Cold Blood*

movie Capote*	movie The World's Fastest Indian	Britt Salvesen and John Szarkowski Harry Callahan : The Photographer at Work*	movie Michelangelo Antonioni Blow-Up	William Eggleston William Eggleston*

Wendy Moore The Knife Man : The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery*	Joel Sternfeld Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects*	Noam Chomsky Failed States*	Kevin Baker Dreamland*	Kevin Baker Paradise Alley*

Kevin Baker Strivers Row*	Stephen Shore Uncommon Places*	Patrick O'Brian Master and Commander*	Patrick O'Brian Post Captain*	Vandana Shiva Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit*

movie Good Night, and Good Luck*	Morris Graves: Flower Paintings*	Jared Diamond Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed*	Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies*	Will Eisner A Contract with God : And Other Tenement Stories*

movie Everything is Illuminated*	Chalmers Johnson Blowback*	David Bayles and Ted Orland Art & Fear*	Matthi Forrer Hokusai	movie The Tao of Steve*

Hannah Crafts The Bondwoman's Narrative*	David Bradley The Chaneysville Incident*	Caroline Alexander The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition*	Jerome Armstrong, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics*	Laure Beaumont-Maillet Atget Paris*

Joel Meyerowitz, Colin Westerbeck Bystander : A History of Street Photography*	David Halberstam The Fifties*	Barbara Tuchman Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45*	movie Starring Bruce Campbell Bubba Ho-Tep*	Compiled by Paul Reps Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

James Boswell Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson: Now First Published from the Original Manuscript	Chalmers Johnson The Sorrows of Empire*	Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Peter and the Starcatchers*	Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer	Dorothea Lange: American Photographs

John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath*	John McPhee The Control of Nature*	Margeurite Duras The War	Nancy Drew The Mystery at Lilac Inn	That's all folks!