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Social/Political Suggestions Here are a number of social/political recommendations from various Spacers. Did we miss anything indispensible? Amazon.com provides excellent customer service and a wide range of shipping options to both U.S. and worldwide customers. Amazon.com also includes a few pages of excerpts for many of these. Click through to buy these volumes that belong in any library: 
K-PAX How would we treat a person claiming to be a traveler from another planet? Not surprisingly, the traveler becomes the patient of a psychiatrist baffled by his unusual abilities but convinced that his reality is a delusion. This story unfolds so smoothly that the listener is drawn into the compelling narrative immediately. Empathy builds for the characters so quickly that it becomes impossible to stop listening once begun. Gene Brewer. Countdown: A History of Space Flight This is a well-engineered history of a complex subject, the entire story of how humans got into space. Starting with Nazi rocketeers, and progressing through the intense secret competition of the cold war, the story moves through the United States' landing on the moon and up to the present day. T. A. Heppenheimer Failure Is Not an Option In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an embryonic department run by whiz kids (such as himself), sharp engineers and technicians who had to create the Mercury mission rules and procedure from the ground up. As he says, "Since there were no books written on the actual methodology of space flight, we had to write them as we went along." Gene Kranz. The Last Man on the Moon Veteran journalist Don Davis, helps Cernan craft a colloquial prose style that nicely captures the competitive, macho personality that seemed virtually mandatory for astronauts in the 1960s and '70s. Detailed accounts of each flight, including technical problems and personal tensions (particularly with Apollo 17 teammate Jack Schmitt, distrusted because he was a scientist, not a test pilot), remind readers that the space program is a human endeavor, with inevitable failures that make the triumphs that much sweeter. His career spanned the Gemini and Apollo programs, during which time he was both the first man to space walk during a complete circle of the Earth, and the last man to step foot on the Moon. Cernan and Davis. John Glenn One of the most compelling aspects of this particular American icon is his down-to-earth personality. His earnestness and vitality come across clearly in this memoir. Not many of us realize just how significant John Glenn was as a national contributor. A sense of patriotism deeply instilled during his childhood in Ohio led to his serving as a fighter pilot in both WWII and Korea, then to his best-known achievements with NASA and beyond. The final pages detail Glenn's 1998 mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery at the age of 77. John Glenn. 
The Case for Mars "For our generation and many that will follow, Mars is the New World," writes Zubrin. This book went to press serendipitously, just as NASA was making its startling if heavily-qualified announcement that simple life may have once existed on the fourth rock from the sun. Zubrin doesn't spend an enormous amount of time arguing why Mars exploration is desirable -- we all want astronauts to go there, don't we? -- but rather devotes the bulk of this book explaining how it can happen on a sensible, bare-bones budget of $20-30 billion and a "travel light and live off the land" philosophy. Bob Zubrin. Entering Space Humans are not native to the Earth. We're native to just a small sliver of it, the spot where our species originated in tropical Kenya. We set out from that paradise about 50,000 years ago, north into "the teeth of the Ice Age," and all the ground we've gained since then has been thanks to our tenacity and our tools. Zubrin reasons that it's time we cover a little more ground. Written with a boyish enthusiasm and formidable techie know-how, Entering Space urges us to realize "the feasibility, the necessity, and the promise" of becoming a space-faring civilization, of colonizing our own solar system and beyond. Bob Zubrin. Third Wave This book is one that makes you hit your head and say "Why did'nt I see that". This should be required reading for anyone in management or in the IT field. It brings everything into focus as to why things are happening. I was amazed at the keen perception the author has. This is a must read. Alvin Toffler. The Myth of Development (no cover photo available) This provocative book asks readers to be politically realistic about what is happening to the overwhelming majority of people in Third World countries. With few exceptions, development has not come. A myriad of people in feeble infant-states have been born-children of self-determination, but not of economic and scientific progress. State-driven, communist, and neo-liberal development models have failed most of these people. The large majority of Third World countries are only mistakenly called "developing." They are not actually in the process of becoming Newly Industrialized Countries (NIC's), but Non-Viable National Economies (NNE's). This book explores the option of replacing the wealth of nations agenda with a survival of nations agenda. Oswaldo De Rivero. . . . your suggestions go here . . .
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