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The Fall of the House of Credit by Alistaire Milne   The Unwinding: An Inner History of New America by George Packer   Human Smoke: Beginning of World War II by Nicholson Baker   The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright   The Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson   The Ascent of Money: Financial History of World by Niall Ferguson   Shopping in Space: Essays by Elizabeth Young

The Alps by Andrew Beattie The Soul of New Machine by Tracy Kidder  The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler The Atomic Bazaar by William Langewiesche