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Book Group: Past books
Book Group Information
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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| 12/19/2016 - 2:00pm | Book Group:"The Inconvenient Indian" |
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (2013) |
| 11/21/2016 - 2:00pm | Book group: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics |
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics , by Carlo Rovelli (2016) |
| 10/17/2016 - 2:00pm | Book Group: "Pacific" |
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers, by Simon Winchester (2015) |
| 09/19/2016 - 2:00pm | Book group: "The Myth of Race" (click here for more information |
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman (2014). Biological race does not exist; the social construct underlies prejudice and oppression. Traces history of this “persistent, false, and poisonous idea” from early biblical to modern pseudoscience. |
| 08/15/2016 - 2:00pm | Jeff Center Book Group CANCELED |
The August 15, 2016, meeting of this discussion group has been canceled. Books previously selected have been moved forward one month--see the calendar. |
| 07/18/2016 - 2:00pm | Book group: “Lies, Incorporated" (click here for more information) |
July 18, 2016, 2-4 pm, at the Jefferson Center in the Old Ashland Armory |
| 06/20/2016 - 2:00pm | Book Group: Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink" |
“Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter” by Cass Sunstein (2014). Do groups make better decisions than individuals? Sometimes not. This book addresses specific reasons why and how group decisions sometimes go wrong, and tactics for doing better. |
| 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. |