wht - Gift List

Suggestions for gifts:

Books

• By Robert Forward: Dragon's Egg and Starquake.
• Witsec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program, by Gerald Shur
• The SAS Survival Handbook, by John "Lofty" Wiseman (Barnes and Noble)
• The Gun Digest Book Of Concealed Carry (amazon.com)
• SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper, by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin (May 10, 2011), $14.88 from Amazon.
• Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit, by Eric L. Haney (Aug 30, 2005).
• The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
• Deer Hunting with Jesus, by Joe Bageant (Amazon.com)
• Safe Travel in Bear Country, by Gary Brown
• Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars (the Mars Trilogy), by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity, by Tariq Ali. "Puts the events of the September 11 attacks in historical perspective, covering the history of Islam from its foundations." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Ali)
• The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World, by Jay Bahadur (Jul 19, 2011) (Amazon.com)
• The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals, by Lonnie H. Athens (Amazon.com)
• Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist, by Richard Rhodes (Amazon.com).
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins (Amazon.com)
• By Howard Zinn:
  • Declarations of Independence
  • Howard Zinn on War
  • Just War
  • The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
• The Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine
• Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
• Jessica Mitford: The American Way of Dying
• The Ungoverned, by Vernor Vinge
• Travels in Hyperreality, by Umberto Eco.
• Authors:
  China Mieville
  Scott Westerfeld
  Steven Pinker
  Don Eagleman
  Brian Greene
  Kathy Reichs
  Emerson (Ralph Waldo)
  HD Thoreau
  Lawrence Lessig
• Rappeling, by Tom Martin
• Mountaineering First Aid, by Lentz et al., from The Mountaineers.

Online stores:

• Barnes and Noble books, movies, and music
• Amazon.com
• Mountain Gear