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Book Group: Past books

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Tue, 01/15/2013 - 5:34pm — Sandra.Coyner

A 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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10/18/2022 - 1:00pm	The 9.9 Percent: the New Aristocracy That is Entrenching Inequality and Warping our Culture by Matthew Stewart	The 9.9 Percent: the New Aristocracy That is Entrenching Inequality and Warping our Culture by Matthew Stewart
09/20/2022 - 1:00pm	The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality	The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality Reclaiming genetic science from the legacy of eugenics, this groundbreaking book offers a bold new vision of society where everyone thrives, regardless of how one fares in the genetic lottery.
08/16/2022 - 1:00pm	Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation	This book, which is clearly based on primary sources, has a main theme that since about 1950, American White Evangelicals have had a powerful focus on gender roles, male- female difference, masculinity as militarism (even violence), and women to be submissive.
07/19/2022 - 1:30pm	The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We can Prosper Together	Emphasis is how we can all gain by fighting racism. The author travels around the country finding examples of racist policies that have ended up hurting everyone, not just those targeted. It ends with examples of how working together has benefited everyone. A relatively quick read compared to many of our selections.
06/21/2022 - 1:00pm	The Weirdest People in the World	Location: Zoom If you would like to join this Zoom discussion, email graf@sou.edu(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail) for connecting information The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
05/17/2022 - 1:00pm	The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story	Location: Zoom If you would like to join this Zoom discussion, email graf@sou.edu(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail) for connecting information
04/19/2022 - 1:00pm	The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the new Chinese State	Location: Zoom If you would like to join this Zoom discussion, email graf@sou.edu(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail) for connecting information
03/15/2022 - 1:00pm	Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters	Location: Zoom If you would like to join this Zoom discussion, email graf@sou.edu(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail) for connecting information
02/15/2022 - 1:00pm	How God Becomes Real -- by Lurhmann	How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others by T..M. Lurhmann
01/18/2022 - 1:00pm	Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment	In Noise, Daniel Kahneman and others show the detrimental effects of noise in judgement. With a few simple remedies, people can reduce both noise and bias, and so make far better decisions.

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