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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.

03/18/2019 - 2:00pm Jeff Ctr Book Grp: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker (2018)

March 18, 2019: 2-4 pm at the Jeff Center in the Old Ashland Armory

First Half:

This book is being read over two months. This month will be from page 1 through Chapter 15 (page 232)

From Amazon:

"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates

If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.
02/26/2019 - 1:30pm Brain Books: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas (2018)

February 26, 1:30-3:30 pm, in Ashland Public Library
In our global capitalist system, the winners often seek to help the losers, but without disturbing the underlying structures that created the problems in the first place. Book argues for more robust egalitarian institutions that can change the world from the bottom up. Bill Gates likes this book.
02/18/2019 - 2:00pm What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics (2018) by Adam Becker.

2/18/2019 2-4 pm at the Jeff Center in the Old Ashland Armory<\p>
From Amazon:
01/21/2019 - 2:00pm Jeff Ctr Book Grp: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015) by Peter Frankopan.

January 21, 2019: 2-4 pm at the Jeff Center in the Old Ashland Armory
A “revelatory” new view challenging basic ideas of where we come from and where we are headed. Understanding the future of nations from the Middle East to China, the Balkans to South Asia required understanding their pasts. West and East first met on the silk roads.
12/17/2018 - 2:00pm Jeff Ctr Book Grp: This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin (2006)

December 17, 2018: 2-4 pm at the Jeff Center in the Old Ashland Armory
A meeting of art and science, exploring the connection between our experiences of music and the human brain.
11/19/2018 - 2:00pm Jeff Center Book group discusses "Code Girls"

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
by Mundy, Liza (2017, pb 2018)
The award-winning national bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post).
10/15/2018 - 2:00pm Jeff Ctr Book Grp: How emotions are made : the secret life of the brain, by Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Jefferson Center Book Group meets on the third MONDAY of the month, 2-4 pm, at The Jefferson Center, in the Old Ashland Armory at 208 Oak Street, suite 101.

Recommend the 2017 edition

From Amazon:
09/17/2018 - 2:00pm Jeff Ctr Book Grp: The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle against Fate, by Robert D. Kaplan.

The Jefferson Center Book Group meets on the third MONDAY of the month, 2-4 pm, at The Jefferson Center, in the Old Ashland Armory at 208 Oak Street, suite 101.

Recommend edition 2012/2013 edition, not the 1994 edition.
08/20/2018 - 2:00pm Jeff Ctr Book Grp: From Bacteria to Bach and Back: the Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett

The Jefferson Center Book Group meets on the third MONDAY of the month, 2-4 pm, at The Jefferson Center, in the Old Ashland Armory at 208 Oak Street, suite 101.

The 2017 Edition is the recommended edition; a 2018 edition also exists.

From Amazon:
How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind?
08/07/2018 - 2:00pm Book Group Reminder

The Jefferson Center Book Group meets on the third MONDAY of the month, from 2-4 pm, at The Jefferson Center, in the Old Ashland Armory at 208 Oak Street, suite 101.
The next meeting is Mon, August 20th at 2:00pm.
This month’s book: From Bacteria to Bach and Back: the Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
The 2017 Edition is the recommended edition; a 2018 edition also exists.

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