I have a different kind of "books to Iraq" story. After leaving a Ph.D. program in English, I tried to sell a lot of my grad school books on the Web. I'd taken a class on Masochism in Victorian literature and had a book called "The Mastery of Submission," which I was trying to get rid of. Short version: a solider in a FOB (forward operating base) in Iraq bought the book. (This was post-Abu Ghraib.) I was a bit disturbed, even though the book was pretty academic and dry. But based on my seller's contract, I had to send the book, which I did...