"The Grand Chessboard" -Z. Brzezinski "Tragedy and Hope" -C. Quigley "Crossing the Rubicon -M. Ruppert "The Big White Lie" -M. Levine "1000 Years for Revenge" -P. Lance "The Demon Haunted World" -C. Sagan ...and if you're a real masochist- "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers" -Robert Heilbroner (One of my required textbooks in Macro Economice I)