TalBotvinnik by Mikhail Tal (John Arquilla, 81: "Ostensibly a chess book, [this] is really an allegory about the enduring tension between art and science.")

Talking to Terrorists by John Bew, Martyn Frampton, and Inigo Gurruchaga (David Kilcullen, 44)

Terrorism: How to Respond by Richard English (John Arquilla, 81: "The clearest thinking on this scourge to have come along in many years.")

The Theological Aspect of Reformed Judaism by Max Margolis (Abdolkarim Soroush, 45)

This Time Is Different by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (Willem Buiter, 91; Mohamed El-Erian, 16)

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A Thousand Hills by Stephen Kinzer (Robert Zoellick, 33)

To Live or to Perish Forever by Nicholas Schmidle (David Petraeus, 8)

Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt (Chris Anderson, 24)

Tribes by Seth Godin (Jaqueline Novogratz, 85)

True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy (Anwar Ibrahim, 32)

Turbulence by Giles Foden (Clare Lockhart, 20: "A novel that tells the story of the art and science of weather prediction during World War II. Books such as these that explain how people have solved problems and set about understanding the world about them -- with the right mixture of humility and imagination -- I find enormously useful in my own work. As our world becomes more interconnected and seemingly complex, this ability to see and comprehend patterns without losing sight of the humanity of our condition is enormously valuable. Literature that conveys the alienation, disorientation and frustration of enormous swathes of people confined to lives of poverty and exclusion by dint of the nature of their leaderships or their geographic positions, is important as it makes personal and human what otherwise can often appear to policy makers merely as numbers. Finally, accounts of remarkable individuals -- whether fictional or real -- and their struggles to transcend their inheritance to live wisely, make fair decisions, and make an impact whether in large scale or very local terms, serve as an inspiration and guide.")

Unscientific America by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum (John Holdren, 34)

Verzamelde Gedichten by Hendrik Marsman (Willem Buiter, 91)

Waiting by Ha Jin (Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, 60)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 48)

Wars, Guns, and Votes by Paul Collier (Hans Rosling, 96; Rizal Sukma, 92)

The Weary Titan by Aaron Friedberg (Robert Kagan, 66: "One of the best books ever written about the decline of a great power, in this case Great Britain at the end of the 19th century. It is instructive in the ways the United States of today may be like but also strikingly unlike Britain.")

When China Rules the World by Martin Jacques (Rizal Sukma, 92)

Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington (Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 48)

A Whole Mind, by Daniel Pink (Ashraf Ghani, 20: "A very interesting book. It is about the whole divide between the right-brain- and left-brain-dominant people, and how new technology will shift power to the right-brain, more creative people.")

Wired for War by Peter W. Singer (Jamais Cascio, 72)

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper (Robert Kagan, 66: "A scholar who has in the past written the most incisive and balanced studies of Wilson's presidency.")

The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (Salam Fayyad, 61)

Zen and the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel (Abdolkarim Soroush, 45)

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