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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia14 reviews
Orlando Figes

Metropolitan Books, 2007

A must-read for anyone interested in modern Russian history
Over the years I've read many books about Russian and Soviet history, from Roy Medvedev's "Let History Judge"to Montefiore's "Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar," with significant stops along the way for Solzhenitsyn's magisterial polemic "The Gulag Archipelago." Orlando Fige's "The Whisperers" is one of the best single-volume studies of life in Soviet times I have read. It is a fairly long book, ... 		  
  







  
  
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America19 reviews
Susan Faludi

Metropolitan Books, 2007

It's time for all of us to wake up
This book has arrived just in time for the 2008 election. Along with the PBS program, "Bush's War", this should be required reading for all voters. We can change the future but we must understand the past. Thank you again Susan for your excellent analysis. 		  
  







  
  
Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
Richard Brody

Metropolitan Books, 2008

A landmark biography explores the crucial resonances among the life, work, and times of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Unlike any earlier films, Godard’s work shifts fluidly from fiction to documentary, from criticism to art. The man himself also projects shifting ... 		  
  







  
  
A People's History of American Empire15 reviews
Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, ...

Metropolitan Books, 2008

Must read for alternative history education
As a high school history teacher, I am drooling at the opportunity to include this in my curriculum. Yes, Zinn's politics fall heavy on the left but his unique perspective combined with this comic book stylization will make this dramatically compelling and engaging for a high school audience. 		  
  







  
  
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism215 reviews
Naomi Klein

Metropolitan Books, 2007

Corporations gone wild
This book presents a gripping portrait of what corporations seek to do when they have no restraints upon them. Klein's analysis of corporations and the Iraq war is the best I have seen. The book is worth buying for this alone. Much of the book is devoted to historical analysis of events over the last few decades in Chile, Argentina, Russia, and the like. I don't have enough background in the ... 		  
  







  
  
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy5 reviews
Michael T. Klare

Metropolitan Books, 2008

Good Problem Summary!
When the Cold war ended, Americans generally assumed the U.S. would enjoy unchallenged preponderance in the world. Instead, Russia now has reemerged as a major actor and the U.S. has, in contrast, sometimes found itself cajoling foreign suppliers to increase output. Meanwhile, China's foreign currency reserves in late 2007 were $1.4 trillion, and rich Arab states recently invested $20 billion ... 		  
  







  
  
Better70 reviews

Metropolitan Books, 2007

"When the stakes are our lives...we want no one to settle for average."
Atul Gawande, in "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance," asks, "What does it take to be good at something in which failure is so easy?" When someone's well-being is at stake, is mere competence enough? The author maintains that a great deal more is needed "to enable every human being to lead a life as long and free of frailty as science will allow." With so much on the line, knowledge is ... 		  
  







  
  
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America1072 reviews
Barbara Ehrenreich

Metropolitan Books, 2001

The Invisible Americans
I found Nickel and Dimed to be a good book. I read it for my ESL class and it helped me to improve my vocaburaly even though it was so hard at the beginning. It was amazing to realize how some Americans being Americans - as Barbara said in Nickel and Dimed - being white, English speakers, struggle in their own land with an unreasonable economic system. Barbara shows very well how poor workers ... 		  
  







  
  
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (American Empire Project)101 reviews
Chalmers Johnson

Metropolitan Books, 2004

The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
While Blowback, primarily examined the covert intervention, American style pre and during the Cold War, and its varied unintended consequences (abroad as well as at home), The Sorrows of Empire is focused on the years after fall of the Berlin Wall and at a time that the Soviet Union began to fracture into current configuration with breakaway states (Johnson, Sorrows 7, 18-20, 34, and 69). It was ... 		  
  







  
  
Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism5 reviews
Bill Kauffman

Metropolitan Books, 2008

Superb, essential, enlightening
Bill Kauffman's new book is a superb, essential and enlightening look at the noble tradition of skepticism and criticism on the American Right of predatory war and imperialism over two centuries of American history. Kauffman is a lively and entertaining writer sure to enrage many with his well-informed and researched jeremiads (especially his prescription on Texas!). This is a much needed, ... 		  
  







  
  
Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America2 reviews
Barbara Ehrenreich

Metropolitan Books, 2001

ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN...
This is a well-written, interesting, anecdotal book about a well-educated woman's sojourn among the working poor. If only the author had stopped there, the book still would have been a hit. Instead, the author chose to claim it to be representative undercover reportage. Unfortunately, she does not do this with any objectivity, as she views all that she does through liberal, rose colored glasses. ... 		  
  







  
  
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure70 reviews
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Metropolitan Books, 1998

Outstanding book for all ages
I purchased this book at a college book store. I think it was there because it was required reading for math education majors. It also might have been a book for elementary teachers that were taking a math methods course. Regardless of why it was there, I purchased it and read it. It was a fun and interesting look at lots of different math topics. My son has enjoyed this book since he ... 		  
  







  
  
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives6 reviews
Nick Turse

Metropolitan Books, 2008

sobering, worrisome, thoughtful and scary
This book begins with a short catalogue of the various products in your cupboard that are made by companies with huge Department of Defense contracts and continues by identifying the Navy technicians who helped design your child's computer games. In between, Nick Turse, an elegant writer, and clearly a fearsome researcher, details the ways the military has insinuated itself into all of our ... 		  
  







  
  
1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East7 reviews
Tom Segev

Metropolitan Books, 2007

One of the Best Books of 2007
Rated by the Economist Magazine as one of the best books of 2007, 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East provides exactly what it tries to provide, an insight into how the "Six Day War" affected Israel. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to gain a greater understanding of Israel and their view of the Middle East. This book also provides an inside look into ... 		  
  







  
  
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science146 reviews
Atul Gawande

Metropolitan Books, 2002

Humble Human makes a Great Doctor!
An amazing thriller... Dr.Atul's superb portrayal of finest qualities of a doctor, yet the limitations of an individual, their weekness,strengths, system flaws etc with vivid examples of real life cases makes "Complications" the best medical book I'v ever read.It's not the content of the book alone that deserves appreciation, it's also the flow of words that blend with the topic. Certainly ... 		  
  







  
  
The Book of Love: The Story of the Kamasutra1 review
James McConnachie

Metropolitan Books, 2008

The History of the World's Most Famous Sex Manual
The _Kamasutra_ is a misunderstood book, and it has been misunderstood largely because of the censors who have given it a reputation for naughty depictions of sexual variety and athleticism. Not only was the original book without illustrations, it describes only eighteen positions for lovemaking, most of them quite within the realm of execution by non-gymnasts. It has nothing to do with tantric ... 		  
  







  
  
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World19 reviews
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

Metropolitan Books, 2007

Fine critique of US (and therefore British) foreign policy
Chomsky consistently finds documents and articles that the rest of us have missed. Like all his books, this is full of fascinating revelations. His title comes from a speech by George Bush senior in 1991, when he said that the main principle of his new world order was, `what we say goes'. In eight interviews conducted in 2006 and 2007, Chomsky and radio journalist David Barsamian cover ... 		  
  







  
  
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy94 reviews
Noam Chomsky

Metropolitan Books, 2006

outstanding
so, i'm writing a review of a book by noam chomsky? presumptuous of me ... well, failed states summarizes chomsky's beliefs regarding failures of our democracy, mostly international but a few domestic failings as well. one gets the distinct feeling that he writes not just with facts at his fingertips, but with great passion about the topic. while he presents a strongly cynical perspective of ... 		  
  







  
  
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
Barbara Ehrenreich

Metropolitan Books, 2008

America in the ’aughts—hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as “the soul mate”* of Jonathan Swift Barbara Ehrenreich’s first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives , about the Reagan era, was received with bestselling acclaim. The one problem was the title: couldn’t some prophetic fact-checker have seen that the worst ... 		  
  







  
  
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic [American Empire Project]66 reviews

Metropolitan Books, 2007

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
In Nemesis, Johnson argues that US military and resultant economic overextension may result in the nation's demise as a constitutional republic. As mentioned above, Nemesis is the last of the "Blowback Trilogy." More as an extension of The Sorrows of Empire, in Nemesis we begin to see our way of life being eroded an obsessive chase for empire through the auspices of a military industrial complex ... 		  
  







  




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