12. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
13. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
And so on....
How about:
Eugenics, marriage and birth control by William J. Robinson MD.
http://www.archive.org/stream/eugenicsmarriage00robiuoft#page/n0/mode/2up
It was from the “eugenics” movement late 19th/early 20th century that Hitler got his ideas for racial “improvement”.
And, while the theories held sway in the US, lots of folk ended up castrated and lobotomized for the sin of being from the wrong side of the tracks.
If you wanted to expand the list to add things that turned out to be dangerous for our enemies...
How about Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia by Earl Hancock “Pete” Ellis, (Lt Col, USMC)
It was his work that prodded the USMC into developing amphibious assault capability, in direct refutation of the common belief of the time that Gallipoli proved such operations were not doable against defended beaches in the industrial era.
WW2 would have been a much harder row to hoe if there hadn't already been substantial effort to produce that amphib capability.
The Origin of Species, Darwit
No such thing. A book is like a loaded gun: a tool that is no more, and no less, dangerous, than the mind behind the hand that picks it up.