Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

The book that was made into the highly succesful movie Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and Edward NortonEvery weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as t...

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, "The Shock Doctrine" cracks open the ...

Two Wheels Good - The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Jody Rosen

A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world"The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride--across the centuries and around the globe, through startling history and vivid first-person reporting."--Patrick Radden Keefe...