False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World

False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World
Riverhead Books; 336 pages; $26.95. Penguin; £20.

http://www.amazon.com/False-Economy-Surprising-Economic-History/dp/0670068594/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248576607&sr=1-1

To explain why countries have ended up rich or poor requires a close look at the detail. Time and again, the answer lies not in luck, nature, the strictures of this or that religion, or the plots of perfidious foreigners, but largely in the choices of rulers and ruled.

http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14082073

Secrets of long life from the world's healthiest humans

http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2009/06/live-longer-dan-buettner-text/5

Pritzker Military Library

http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/