DeNardo's Power in Numbers and Lane's Shyness

When I realized James DeNardo's book on revolutions was actually full of graphs and math, I almost didn't read it. Well, I'm glad I did. First, it treats terrorism in a different light (the book is from 1985), saying for example that it can serve as a bulwark against tyranny. Well, the world certainly has changed. Christopher Lane's book Shyness is really a diatribe against the medicalization of psychology, primarily through the expansion of definitions in the DSM. He also points to the evil, evil pharmacological companies. The book is full of pictures of ads for drugs directed at the consumer. Well, it was lightweight, but it was an easy read and a short book.