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7th Century China

• The Phantom of the Temple by Robert van Gulik

Abdera, Thrace

• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• The Emperor (Vintage International) by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Admiral Benbow Inn

• The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela

Aegean Sea

• The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

Afghanistan

• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
• Bush at War by Bob Woodward

Africa

• Africa in History by Basil Davidson
• The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
• In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo by Michela Wrong

Airstrip One

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell (England)

Alaska, USA

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

• What Do You Care What Other People Think ? : Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman

Allegheny River Bridge

• Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)

Almogordo, New Mexico, USA

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

America

• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by the writers of The Daily Show

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma

Andalusia, Spain

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry

Anza-Borrego, California, USA

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Arrakeen, Arrakis

• Dune by Frank Herbert

Arrakis

• Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune)

Asmara, Eritrea

• I Didn't Do It for You : How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong

Athens, Greece

• The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
• The Republic of Plato by Plato

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• The Hacker Crackdown : Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling

Atlantis

• The Republic of Plato by Plato

Australia

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond

Balkans

• Eastward to Tartary : Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (Vintage Departures) by Robert D. Kaplan

Barcelona, Spain

• Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) by George Orwell

Bavaria, Germany

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Belgium

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. by Adam Hochschild

Belize

• A Brief History of Central America by Hector Perez Brignoli
• Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring) by Tom Brosnahan

Berkeley Lab

• The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll (Berkeley, California, USA)

Berlin, Germany

• The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 by Michael R. Beschloss
• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Biafra

• The brothers' war;: Biafra and Nigeria by John De St. Jorre

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

• The plain people of Boston, 1830-1860: a study in city growth by Peter R. Knights
• Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas

Brandeis University

• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom

Brazil

• Lonely Planet Brazil (Lonely Planet Brazil) by John Noble

British Empire

• Bury the Chains : Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild

Broadmoor Hospital, Crawthorne, Berkshire, England

• Professor and the Madman, the - Intl Edition by Simon Winchester

Brooklyn Bridge

• Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough (New York, New York, USA)

Brooklyn, New York, USA

• The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
• Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

Buenaventura, Colombia

• Looking for a Ship by John McPhee

Buenos Aires, Argentina

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry
• Candide (Dual-Language) by Voltaire

Bullhead City, Arizona, USA

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Caladan

• Dune by Frank Herbert

California, USA

• Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli

Callao, Peru

• Looking for a Ship by John McPhee

Canton, China

• Murder in Canton: A Judge Dee Mystery by Robert van Gulik

Cartagena, Columbia

• Looking for a Ship by John McPhee

Carthage, South Dakota, USA

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Castile, Spain

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry

Catalonia, Spain

• Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) by George Orwell

Caucasus Mountains

• Eastward to Tartary : Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (Vintage Departures) by Robert D. Kaplan

Central America

• A Brief History of Central America by Hector Perez Brignoli
• Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring) by Tom Brosnahan
• Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter Lafeber

Central Asia

• Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl Ernest Meyer

Central Intellligence Agency

• Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA by Tim Weiner

Chad

• Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli

Charleston, South Carolina, USA

• Looking for a Ship by John McPhee

Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, USA

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Chicago, Illinois, USA

• City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller
• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
• The Hacker Crackdown : Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven B. Levitt

Chihuahua State, Mexico

• The Life and Times of Pancho Villa by Friedrich Katz

China

• Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli
• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond
• Travels with Herodotus
• The Chinese Bell Murders (Judge Dee Mysteries) by Robert van Gulik
• A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China by Patrick Tyler
• The Chinese Gold Murders (Judge Dee Mysteries) by Robert van Gulik

Cincinnati Bridge

• Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

• Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Vintage) by Ron Chernow

Colchester, Essex, England, UK

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

Colombia

• Vivir Para Contarla by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Colonus, Greece

• Oedipus Plays of Sophocles

Columbia

• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah

Congo

• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah
• Travels with Herodotus
• In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo by Michela Wrong

The Congo

• A burnt-out case by Graham Greene

Congo Free State

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. by Adam Hochschild

Constantinople

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Constantinople, Turkey

• Candide (Dual-Language) by Voltaire

Corrientes, Argentina

• The honorary consul by Graham Greene

Costa Rica

• A Brief History of Central America by Hector Perez Brignoli
• Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring) by Tom Brosnahan
• Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter Lafeber

Crawthorne, Berkshire, England

• Professor and the Madman, the - Intl Edition by Simon Winchester

Cuba

• The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 by Michael R. Beschloss

Cyberspace

• The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll

Davis Gulch, Utah, USA

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State by Crawford Young
• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. by Adam Hochschild

Den Haag, The Netherlands

• Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma

Dominican Republic

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond

Dune

• Dune by Frank Herbert

Earth

• The Timetables of History : A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events by Bernard Grun

East Asia

• The chastening : inside the crisis that rocked the global financial system and humbled the IMF by Paul Blustein

Easter Island

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond

Eastern World

• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria

El Dorado

• Candide (Dual-Language) by Voltaire

El Mozote, El Salvador

• The Massacre at El Mozote (Vintage) by Mark Danner

El Salvador

• A Brief History of Central America by Hector Perez Brignoli
• Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring) by Tom Brosnahan
• Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter Lafeber
• The Massacre at El Mozote (Vintage) by Mark Danner

Emory College

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (Atlanta)

Essen, Germany

• The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War by William Manchester

Eternal Night

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (fictional)

Ethiopia

• The Emperor (Vintage International) by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Europe

• Fodor's Europe
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• Of Paradise and Power : America and Europe in the New World Order (Vintage) by Robert Kagan
• The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century by Robert Cooper
• The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
• Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

European Union

• Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to European Integration by Desmond Dinan

Faerie

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (fictional)

Failing states

• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About it by Paul Collier

Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Florence, Tuscany, Italy

• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Florida, USA

• Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts by Richard A. Posner

Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA

• The Civil War: A Narrative--Fort Sumter to Perryville, Vol. 1 by Shelby Foote

France

• Guia Visual: Folha de São Paulo: Paris by Dorling Kindersley
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
• The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
• Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
• Citizens : A Chronicle of the French Revolution (Vintage) by Simon Schama
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke

France, Austria, Russia, Britain, Italian terrirtories, Netherlands, Warsaw, Saxony,

• The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815 by Sir Charles K. Webster

Frankfurt/Main, Germany

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Gallipoli, Turkey

• The Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester
• The First World War by John Keegan

Geidi Prime

• Dune by Frank Herbert

Germany

• Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor
• The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
• Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA

• LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG: THE WORDS THAT REMADE AMERICA by Garry Wills

Ghawar, Saudi Arabia

• Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy by Matthew R. Simmons

Greece

• The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

Greenland

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond

Guatemala

• A Brief History of Central America by Hector Perez Brignoli
• Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring) by Tom Brosnahan
• Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter Lafeber

Guayaquil, Ecuador

• Looking for a Ship by John McPhee

Haiti

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond
• The Comedians (Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene

Hamburg, Germany

• A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Hanover, Germany

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions) by James D. Watson

Havana, Cuba

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry
• Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene

Heidelberg, Germany

• Absolute Friends by John le Carre

Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

• Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams by Michael D'Antonio

Hiroshima, Japan

• Hiroshima (Vintage) by John Hersey

Hispaniola

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry

Honduras

• A Brief History of Central America by Hector Perez Brignoli
• Honduras Handbook: Including the Bay Islands and Copan (Moon Travel Handbooks) by Chris Humphrey
• Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring) by Tom Brosnahan
• Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter Lafeber

Hong Kong

• The Fall of Hong Kong : Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation by Philip Snow

Iceland

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond

Ilion, Troy

• The Iliad by Homer

India

• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
• Travels with Herodotus

Indo-China

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Indonesia

• Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester

Iran

• Travels with Herodotus
• Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli
• Shah of Shahs (Vintage International) by Ryszard Kapuscinski
• The Persian Puzzle : The Conflict Between Iran and America by Kenneth Pollack
• All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

Iraq

• Bush at War by Bob Woodward

Italy

• The Italian City-Republics by daniel waley
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Modern Library) by Jacob Burckhardt

Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

Jamestown, Virginia, USA

• American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan

Japan

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond
• Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 (Modern Library Chronicles) by Ian Buruma
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
• Hiroshima (Vintage) by John Hersey

Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

• Looking for a Ship by John McPhee

Kandahar, Afghanistan

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

Kansas, USA

• What's the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank

Key West, Florida, USA

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Kigali, Rwanda

• Shake hands with the devil : the failure of humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
• Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain

Kingston, Jamaica

• Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene

Korphe, Pakistan

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

Latin America

• Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring) by Tom Brosnahan

Liberia

• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah
• Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain

Lima, Peru

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry

Lisbon, Portugal

• Candide (Dual-Language) by Voltaire

London, England, UK

• London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
• The Secret Agent (Modern Library (Paperback)) by Joseph Conrad
• Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke

Long Walls

• The Republic of Plato by Plato

Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

• Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• What Do You Care What Other People Think ? : Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
• Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman

Lost-Hope, Faerie

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (fictional)

Luanda, Angola

• Another Day of Life (Vintage International) by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Luxembourg

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Mexico

• The Mexican Revolution: Porfirians, Liberals and Peasants (Mexican Revolution) by Alan Knight
• The Mexican Revolution: Counter-Revolution and Reconstruction by Alan Knight
• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry
• Distant Neighbors : A Portrait of the Mexicans (Vintage) by Alan Riding
• The Broken Spears : The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico by Miguel Leon-Portillo
• The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Middle East

• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah
• Eastward to Tartary : Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (Vintage Departures) by Robert D. Kaplan
• All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Mogadishu, Somalia

• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
• Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain

Montana, USA

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond

Mount Everest

• Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Nairobi, Kenya

• The Constant Gardener by John le Carre

New Granada

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry

New Guinea

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

• Lafitte the Pirate by Lyle Saxon

New York, New York, USA

• Looking for a Ship by John McPhee
• Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Vintage) by Ron Chernow
• Zagatsurvey New York City Shopping (Zagat Survey: New York City Shopping) by Zagat Survey
• Zagatsurvey 2003/04 New York City Nightlife (Zagatsurvey : New York City Nightlife)
• Zagatsurvey 2004 New York City Marketplace (Zagat Survey: New York City Gourmet Marketplace) by Zagat Survey
• Bush at War by Bob Woodward
• Feeding a Yen : Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco by Calvin Trillin
• Blue Blood by Edward Conlon
• Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain
• What Do You Care What Other People Think ? : Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
• Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
• Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman

New York, USA

• Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace by Michelle Slatalla
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Niagara Bridge

• Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough (Buffalo, New York, USA)

Nicaragua

• A Brief History of Central America by Hector Perez Brignoli
• Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring) by Tom Brosnahan
• Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter Lafeber

Nigeria

• Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli
• This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria by Karl Maier

Ottoman Empire

• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin

Padua, Veneto, Italy

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke

Pakistan

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

Panama

• A Brief History of Central America by Hector Perez Brignoli
• Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring) by Tom Brosnahan

Panama Canal

• Looking for a Ship by John McPhee

Paris, France

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor
• Guia Visual: Folha de São Paulo: Paris by Dorling Kindersley
• Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
• Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

Pennsylvania, USA

• A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger

Peru

• The Broken Spears : The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico by Miguel Leon-Portillo

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

• Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell by Jane Golden
• A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

• Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain

Piraeus, Greece, Roman Empire

• The Republic of Plato by Plato

Pitcairn Island

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond

Poland

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

• Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain

Portland, Maine, USA

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Portugal

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke

Potsdam, Germany

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Puerto Belo

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry

Qom, Iran

• Shah of Shahs (Vintage International) by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Rawalpindi, Pakistan

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

Reston, Virginia, USA

• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

Rhineland, Germany

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman

Rio de la Plata

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry

Rome, Italy

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Rumania

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Rwanda

• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah
• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond
• Shake hands with the devil : the failure of humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

Saigon, Vietnam

• The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Sarajevo, Austria-Hungarian Empire

• Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Savannah, Georgia, USA

• Looking for a Ship by John McPhee

Scotland, UK

• Andrew Carnegie (Your Coach in a Box) by David Nasaw

Seville, Spain

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry

Shropshire, England, UK

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke

Sicily, Italy

• The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

Sierra Leone

• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah

Skardu, Pakistan

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

Somalia

• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden

Somme, Picardy, France

• The First World War by John Keegan

Southest Asia

• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah

Sparta, Greece

• The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

St. Petersburg, Russia

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Sudan

• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah

Tanzania

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

Tehran, Iran

• Shah of Shahs (Vintage International) by Ryszard Kapuscinski
• All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

Texas, USA

• Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli
• Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace by Michelle Slatalla

Thebes, Greece

• Oedipus Plays of Sophocles

Third world

• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About it by Paul Collier

Tikopia

• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond

Topock, Arizona, USA

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Transvaal, South Africa

• The Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester

Transylvania, Romania

• Candide (Dual-Language) by Voltaire

Trenton, New Jersey, USA

• Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

• Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris

Troy

• The Iliad by Homer

Turkey

• The First World War by John Keegan

Tuskegee

• Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by James H. Jones

UK

• Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl Ernest Meyer
• Bury the Chains : Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild
• Professor and the Madman, the - Intl Edition by Simon Winchester
• On Liberty (Hpc Classics Series) by John Stuart Mill

University of Chicago

• The Chicago Manual of Style by University of Chicago Press Staff (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

USA

• Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA by Tim Weiner
• Andrew Carnegie (Your Coach in a Box) by David Nasaw
• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah
• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
• A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China by Patrick Tyler
• Of Paradise and Power : America and Europe in the New World Order (Vintage) by Robert Kagan
• Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
• Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics by Joseph S. Nye
• The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
• The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century by Robert Cooper
• On Liberty (Hpc Classics Series) by John Stuart Mill

USSR

• Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl Ernest Meyer
• The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by C Courtois

Uzbekistan

• Bush at War by Bob Woodward

Valais, Switzerland

• La Place de la Concorde Suisse by John McPhee

Valparaiso, Chile

• Looking for a Ship by John McPhee

Venezuela

• Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli
• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry

Venice, Veneto, Italy

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke

Vera Cruz, Mexico

• The Spanish seaborne empire by J. H. Parry

Verdun, France

• The First World War by John Keegan

Vienna, Austria

• Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Vietnam

• The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Virginia, USA

• American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan

Wal-Mart

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)

Warsaw, Poland

• Travels with Herodotus

Washington, D.C., USA

• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
• Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965 by Michael R. Beschloss
• The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh
• Bush at War by Bob Woodward
• Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Wessex, England, UK

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

West Africa

• Heart of the Matter, The : (Great Books edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Graham Greene

West Berlin, Germany

• Absolute Friends by John le Carre

West Newton, Massachusetts, USA

• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom

Western World

• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria

Westphalia, Germany

• Candide (Dual-Language) by Voltaire

White House

• Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965 by Michael R. Beschloss

The World

• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria

York Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England, UK

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke

York, Yorkshire, England, UK

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke