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Ed Moloney – A Secret History of the IRA

Ed Moloney is Irish journalist who has followed IRA – and Sinn Fein – for decades. For this books he also interviewed lots of people, including members of the IRA who will remain anonymous. He admits that this book is also about career of Gerry Adams, one of the most prominent members of the Irish Republican movement.

( From terrorism to parliament )

Steven E. Landsburgh - More Sex is Safer Sex

( How economists ruin our life by dodgy mathetics )

Ben Shephard - A War of Nerves

Warfare causes more than just physical wounds – but the mental side of the toll of war was really not studied for centuries (mainly because common soldiers were expendable anyway). So the study really started only around the World War One. Ben Shephard traces some of those developments, mostly based of Western European and US records.
( From shell shock to PTSD )