Pretty interesting book with obscure yet consequential assessment and history on a controversial topic today: Religious Extremism in the Lives of Contemporary Muslims https://ia902506.us.archive.org/17/items/ReligiousExtremism/... (* written and translated well before September 11).

Another valuable read: What Is Islam? http://d1.islamhouse.com/data/en/ih_books/single/en_What_Isl... Both made it less nebulous to me of what is otherwise a largely irreconcilably contradictory narrative (http://nypost.com/2015/11/22/missing-paris-attacker-loved-ga...).

Bad Samaritans, Ha-Joon Chang : a neat illuminating read on economic development matters that are not typically articulated in discussions of relevance and dominance.