<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[longandvariable]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://longandvariable.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Tony Yates]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://longandvariable.wordpress.com/author/anthonyyates01/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Reading list from&nbsp;Twitter]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>An excuse for a blog post, but one of the things I like most about Twitter is how it&#8217;s showered me with great reading recommendations I would never have come across otherwise.  In case any of you have not read these, they are all great, and thanks to those Tweeps who passed them on.  I can&#8217;t remember who they were.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Deluge-America-Remaking-1916-1931/dp/0670024929">The deluge [Adam Tooze]</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Greece-Everyone-Needs-Know%C2%AE/dp/0199948798/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439137549&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=modern+greece">Modern Greece [Stathis Kalyvas]</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-America/dp/074324303X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439137615&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=nixonland">Nixonland [Rick Perlstein]</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Poor-Economics-Radical-Rethinking-Poverty/dp/1610390938/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439137647&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=poor+economics">Poor Economics [Banerjee/Duflo]</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Movements-Perennial/dp/0060505915/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439137701&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+true+believer">The True Believer[Eric Hoffer]</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143125788/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439137735&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=command+and+control">Command and control</a> [Eric Schlosser], <a href="http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059">1491</a>, [Charles Mann].</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll take the risk that this looks like book-dropping [literary equivalent of name-dropping] in the hope that it prompts people to reply with more.</p>
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