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Books from Amazon.com:

• September 11, 2001:
  • Above Hallowed Ground: A Photographic Record of September 11, 2001 by Photographers of the New York City Police Department
  • Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back by Jere Longman
  • The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
  • Let's Roll: Finding Hope in the Midst of Crisis by Lisa Beamer
  • Out of the Blue: The Story of September 11, 2001, From Jihad to Ground Zero by Richard Bernstein
• Biological & Chemical Warfare
  • Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak by Jeanne Guillemin - the deaths, in 1979, of 64 Soviet citizens in the Ural mountains
  • Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It by Ken Alibek - written by a top scientist in the Soviet who defected to the U.S. in 1992
  • The Biology of Doom : The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Project by Ed Regis - the U.S. biological weapons program from its inception in 1942 to its termination by President Richard Nixon in 1969
  • Germs : America's Secret War Against Biological Weapons by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg &William J. Broad - recent history of biological weapons and evidence of what may come in the future
  • Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe by Michael T. Osterholm
  • Plague Wars : A True Story of Biological Warfare by Tom Mangold, Jeff Goldberg - a comprehensive study of the development and use of biological warfare
  • Scourge : The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox by Jonathan B. Tucker - the history and future of smallpox as a weapon
• Infectious Diseases
  • The Coming Plague : Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
  • The Hot Zone by Richard Preston - about the Ebola virus
  • Pox Americana : The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 by Elizabeth A. Fenn - the effects of smallpox on the American Revolution
• Middle East History
  • Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban by Larry P. Goodson - how Afghanistan got to be what it is today
  • A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
  • Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer
  • The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years by Bernard Lewis
  • Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid - local view of politics and history written by a Pakistani journalist
  • Warriors of God : Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston, Jr.
• Religion & Culture
  • The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
• Spies
  • Body of Secrets : Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century by James Bamford
  • On Intelligence : Spies and Secrecy in an Open World by Robert David Steele
  • Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph E. Persico
  • The Wizards of Langley : The Cia's Directorate of Science and Technology by Jeffrey T. Richelson
• Terrorism
  • The New Jackals : Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism by Simon Reev
  • Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence by Mark Juergensmeyer
  • Usama Bin Laden's Al-Qaida : Profile of a Terrorist Network by Yonah Alexander and Michael S. Swetnam - an extensive reference and resource book
• World Economics
  • Geodestinies : The Inevitable Control of Earth Resources over Nations and Individuals by Walter Lewellyn Youngquist
  • Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
  • The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto