A list of books selected and read by this book group from 2008 to 2013 can be found here. For recent books, see below.
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 |
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 |
06/21/2022 - 1:00pm | The Weirdest People in the World |
Location: Zoom 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 |
04/19/2022 - 1:00pm | The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the new Chinese State |
Location: Zoom |
03/15/2022 - 1:00pm | Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters |
Location: Zoom |
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. |
12/21/2021 - 1:00pm | American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures |
An illuminating history of North America's 11 rival cultural regions that explodes the red state/blue state myth. |
11/16/2021 - 1:00pm | The Other Slavery: The Undiscovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America |
A landmark history — the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century |