==================================== Ol' Lavahead's On-Going Bibliography ==================================== **** Current Events & World History **** The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism - Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad - Tariq Ali When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences - Eric Alterman American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy - Andrew Bacevich My Turn to Speak: Iran, The Revolution and Secret Deals With the US - Abolhassan Bani-Sadr Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire - Morris Berman Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis - William Bonner & Addison Wiggin Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran - Christiane Bird Toward a New Civilization: Why We Must Tame Our Instincts to Save Our World - Arthur Blech This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity - David Christian Armageddon Science: The Science of Mass Destruction - Brian Clegg Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet - Bill Davidow War: The Lethal Custom - Gwynne Dyer Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War - Barbara Ehrenreich Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon - Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East - Robert Fisk America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies - George Friedman The Price of Empire - J William Fulbright & Seth Tillman Empire of Illusion - Chris Hedges War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster - David Icke Tales from the Time Loop - David Icke Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War - Michael Isikoff & David Corn Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos - Derrick Jensen & Karen Tweedy-Holmes Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire - Chalmers Johnson Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic - Chalmers Johnson The Coming Anarchy - Robert Kaplan The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away From the War in Iraq - Joshua Key The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century - James Kunstler Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo - Murat Kurnaz American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville - Bernard-Henri Levy The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation - Sandra Mackey It's the Crude, Dude! - Linda McQuaig Above Top Secret: Uncover the Mysteries of the Digital Age - Jim Marrs Rule by Secrecy: Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids - Jim Marrs The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies that Threaten to Take Over America - Jim Marrs Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn - Jamie Maslin Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq - T Christian Miller Amerika Psycho: Behind Uncle Sam's Mask of Insanity - Richard Neville The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq - George Packer The History of White People - Nell Painter Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery - Robert Parry Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families - Pamela Paul Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded and What We Need to do to Remake Them - John Perkins American Theocracy - Kevin Phillips Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism - Kevin Phillips A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression - Richard Posner Baghdad Burning I - Riverbend How the End Begins: The Road to Nuclear World War III - Ron Rosenbaum Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World - Mike Ruppert Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil - Mike Ruppert Archaeology Unearthing the Mysteries of the Past - Kate Santon Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran - Elaine Sciolino The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation - Philip Shenon October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan - Gary Sick Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government and How We Take It Back - David Sirota Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things - Gail Steketee & Randy Frost The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire - Matt Taibbi The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy - Strobe Talbot Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran - Terrence Ward Cold War, Cold Peace: The United States and Russia Since 1945 - Bernard Weisberger ***** Religion **** The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Myth of Christianity - John Allegro Instant Creation: Not Evolution - Dorothy Allford The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History - Michael Baigent Dead Sea Scrolls Deception - Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh Holy Blood, Holy Grail - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln The Messianic Legacy - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul - Mario Beauregard & Denyse O'leary God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question Why We Suffer - Bart Ehrman Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the faiths We Never Knew - Bart Ehrman The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the origin of Its Sacred Texts - Isreal Finkelstein & Neil Silberman Digging Through the Bible: Modern Archaeology and the Ancient Bible - Richard Freund Who Wrote the Bible? - Richard Friedman Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Search for the Secret of Qumran - Norman Golb When Atheism Becomes Religion - Chris Hedges god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens The Miracles of Exodus: A Scientist's Discovery of the Extraordinary Natural Causes of the Bibilical Stories - Colin Humphreys In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred - Sam Keen A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization - Jonathan Kirsch Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace - William Lobdell The God Theory - Bernard Maisch New Living Translation of Holy Scriptures - NLT Translation Committee The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics - Elaine Pagels When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity During the Last Days of Rome - Richard Rubenstein The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth - Gerald Schroeder The Secret Scrolls - Neil Silberman The Story of Scripture: From Oral Tradition to the Written Word - Daniel Silver The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence that Points Toward God - Lee Strobel The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil's Biblical Roots - TJ Wray & Gregory Mobley **** Cosmology, Ancient History, Mythology, Etc. **** Crop Circles: Exploring the Designs and Mysteries - Werner Anderhub & Hans Peter Roth The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids - Robert Bauval Atlantis: The Eighth Continent - Charles Berlitz Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West - Morris Berman A Brief History of the Human Race - Michael Cook Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond The Complete Ice Age: How Climate Change Shaped the World - Brian Fagan Heaven's Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock The Message of the Sphynx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind - Graham Hancock & Robert Bauval A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy - Dan Hooper What We Leave Behind - Derrick Jensen & Aric McBay Book of Hiram: Freemasonry, Venus, Secret Key to Life of Jesus - Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas The Hiram Key - Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island - Giulio Magli The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility - William Moore & Charles Berlitz The Secret of Atlantis - Otto Muck Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs - Mark Pilkington The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos - Joel Primack & Nancy Ellen Abrams The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization - Colin Wilson & Rand Flem-Ath The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War - David Smith The World Without Us - Alan Weisman The Stones of Atlantis - David Zink **** EOF