|
History and Current Events May 2017
|
|
|
|
|
Old School: Life in the Sane Lane by Bill O'ReillyIdentifies the fundamental differences between Snowflakes, who take offense to views that challenge their own, and traditional Old Schoolers, and evaluates the Snowflake movement's efforts to diminish Old School philosophies.
|
|
|
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Daniel J LevitinAn esteemed psychology professor outlines recommendations for critical thinking practices that meet the challenges of the digital era's misinformation, demonstrating the role of science in information literacy while explaining the importance of skeptical reasoning in making decisions based on online information.
|
|
| The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark MazzettiOnline. After the 9/11 attacks, the CIA changed its practice of shunning violence in its operations and adopted covert paramilitary techniques to carry out White House orders to assassinate specific enemies. In The Way of the Knife, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Mazzetti reviews the policy shift that now permits the use of predator drones, paramilitary contract agents, and similar operations, obscuring the distinction between espionage and acts of war. Focusing on less-well-known operations in Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, Mazzetti details the CIA's work and explains how these maneuvers prompt increased anti-Americanism abroad. This is "a well-reported, smoothly written" account, says Kirkus Reviews. |
|
| Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen ThorpeUntil 2015, the U.S. excluded women from ground combat, but they have increasingly served as non-combatants on the front lines since deployments to Iraq began in 2002. In Soldier Girls, journalist Helen Thorpe chronicles the experiences of three Indiana women who joined the National Guard before 9/11, not expecting to be sent to a war zone. Describing their different backgrounds, the importance of their friendship throughout their 12 years' service, and the effects of deployment on the women and their families, Thorpe vividly portrays the lives of women in the armed forces. |
|
| Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby WarrickIn Black Flags, Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick chronicles the birth of ISIS and its rise to become a major international threat. Recounting the history of Muslim zealot Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, he explains how Zarqawi organized the insurgency into a coherent movement called al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), which survived his 2006 death in an airstrike and became ISIS. Warrick reveals how errors in U.S. responses to the crises in Iraq and Syria fed the anger of Zarqawi and his followers and bolstered their formation of a powerful army and a borderless nation. This book won Warrick his second Pulitzer Prize (the first was for a newspaper series). |
|
Contact your librarian for more great books!
|
|
|
|
|
|