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Book Group: Past books
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Tue, 01/15/2013 - 5:34pm — Sandra.CoynerA list of books selected and read by this book group from 2008 to 2013 can be found here. For recent books, see below.
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| 05/16/2016 - 2:00pm | Book Group: "Upright Thinkers" by Mlodinow |
“The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos” by Leonard Mlodinow (2015). How human brain capacities constructed and built on key ideas to create science, from the earliest prehistoric, through agriculture, Newton and successors, up to and including Einstein and his cohorts. |
| 04/18/2016 - 2:00pm | Book group: "Capital" by Piketty, FINISH THE BOOK |
“ Capital in the Twenty-First Century ” by Thomas Piketty (2014), second discussion to finish the book (we are taking two months to read this long book). This classic book documents the dynamics of wealth and income inequality from past two centuries to the future. Why? What can be done? A somewhat grim picture, described as an important blockbuster of a book. |
| 03/21/2016 - 2:15pm | Book group: "Capital" by Piketty |
“ Capital in the Twenty-First Century ” by Thomas Piketty (2014), up to page 303 (we are taking two months to read this long book). This classic book documents the dynamics of wealth and income inequality from past two centuries to the future. Why? What can be done? A somewhat grim picture, described as an important blockbuster of a book. |
| 02/15/2016 - 2:00pm | Book Group: "Unstoppable" by Ralph Nader |
“Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State,” by Ralph Nader (2015). Why and how left-right cooperation is possible. |
| 01/18/2016 - 2:00pm | Book Group Discussion: "No Place To Hide: Edward Snowden . . ." |
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald, 2014. |
| 12/14/2015 - 2:00pm | Book Group Discussion: "Affluence and Influence. . ." |
Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America by Martin Gilens, 2014. An evidence-based investigation of whether money really does affect politics in America, or not, and if so, something about how much and how. "His findings are staggering." |
| 11/16/2015 - 2:00pm | Book Group Discussion: "Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality" |
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality by Patricia Churchland (2012) |
| 10/19/2015 - 2:00pm | Book Group Discussion: The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert |
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (2015) |
| 09/21/2015 - 2:00pm | Book Grp: "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" |
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Narari (2015) – a “groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution” exploring ways that “biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be ‘human.’” |
| 08/17/2015 - 2:00pm | Book Group Discussion Canceled |