Caracas Gringo’s Book Recommendations
Jack Turner: Spice: The History of a Temptation
Yves Smith: ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism
Ian Morris: Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Mara Hvistendahl: Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Charles Fishman: The Big Thirst
Amy Chua: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Mike Davis: Planet of Slums
Jason Stearns: Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Jonathan Silvertown: An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds
Paul S. Martin: Twilight of the Mammoths:: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America (Organisms and Environments)
David Mamet: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
Misha Glenny: McMafia
Ha-Joon Chang: Bad Samaritans
Sean McMeekin: The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power
Roger Crowley: Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
Martin Van Creveld: The Culture of War
Lars Brownworth: Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
