wht - Gift List

Suggestions for gifts:

Books

• By Robert M. Sapolsky:
  • The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predicament
• By Paul Brokso:
  • Into the Silent Land
• Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist, by Zakaria Erzinclioglu
• The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies?, by David B Kopel
• Books by William Faulkner
• The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, by Rashid Khalidi.
• Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
• By Tim O'Brien:
  If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
• By Howard Zinn:
  • A People's History of the United States
  • Declarations of Independence
  • Howard Zinn on War
  • Just War
  • The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
  • The Future of History: Interviews with David Barsamian
• Fight At Night: Tools, Techniques, Tactics, And Training For Combat In Low Light And Darkness by Andy Stanford
• American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, by Jon Meacham
• Seeing Voices; A Journey into the World of the Deaf
• John Updike
• A Social History of the Telephone
• Jessica Mitford: The American Way of Dying
• Truman Capote:
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • In Cold Blood
• The Banality of Evil, by Hannah Arendt
• Misquoting Jesus, by Bart Ehrman
• World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age
• Shadow Cities
• By Chaim Potok:
  • The Chosen
  • My Name is Arthur Lev
• A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• From the NPR Shop
  • Condor: To the Brink and Back, by John Nielsen, Item No: NPRCONAUTO
  • Pretty Birds, by Scott Simon, Item No: NPRPBAUTO
• Temple Grandin: Thinking in Pictures, And Other Reports From My Life With Autism
• The Labyrinth of Solitude, by Octavio Paz
• Any photography books by Shinzo Maeda, except Intimate Seasons, which I already have (such as Tree a Blade of Grass;, etc.).
• The Ungoverned, Vernor Vinge
• Casting the Net, Peter Salus
• Albert Camus: The Plague, The First Man
• Saltykov-Shchedrin's Gospoda Golovievy and The Golovievs
• TCP/IP Network Administration, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly, $37.95
• Alexis de Tocqueville: Journey to America
• Good Soldier Schweik, Author: Gustav Hasek
• James Branch Cabell, Jurgen: A Comedy of Manners (1922)
• Rappeling, by Tom Martin
• Mountaineering First Aid, by Lentz et al., from The Mountaineers.
• Public Editor Number One: The Collected Columns, by Daniel Okrent

Movies on DVD

• Two Nights with Cleopatra (1964 [or 1954])
• Scenes From The Class Struggle In Beverly Hills
• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959)
• Gene Tierney:
  • Laura

Online stores:

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