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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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01/15/2024 - 12:00pm	Debt: The First 5000 Years	Sweeping narrative history essentially argues that many of our ideas about money and credit are limited, if not wrong.
12/18/2023 - 12:00pm	Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It	Everybody complains about big Pharma but we aren’t fixing it yet.
11/20/2023 - 12:00pm	Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity	How do people get misled so easily?
10/16/2023 - 12:00pm	Persuasion in Parallel: How Information Changes Minds about Politics	Persuasion in Parallel: How Information Changes Minds about Politics: "Overturns” conventional wisdom. Is sharing information useless in politics? This book argues that people do change their minds in response to information.. Uses evidence from randomized controlled trials; most everyone updates toward information, at least a little. Affects people on both right and left. “The other side is not lost."
09/19/2023 - 1:00pm	Being You: A New Science of Consciousness	Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth 2021, 352 pages. About “the neuroscience of consciousness,” drawing from many disciplines, this book advances its own model, reviews competing model, and is a lucid, accessible, engaging read. A “great wide look.” Blurb: “You could even say that we’re all hallucinating all the time. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, that’s what we call reality.”
08/15/2023 - 1:00pm	Indigenous Continent: the Epic Contest for North America	Indigenous Continent: the Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hamalainen, 2022, 600 pp., The history “recast” from a Native American perspective; “magisterial”; “Indigenous power has affected everything about America.”
07/18/2023 - 1:00pm	Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and what comes next.	Location: Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88955380062?pwd=UWwwU2h6Ym11TGFHQUlWSDlzdVM0Zz09 A “study of the road to Jan. 6 and the possible future of the politics-versus-religion battle in the U.S.” Includes his own experiences in prayer meetings in the 1990s and an account of the years-long campaign of White Christian nationalism including 1960-2015. From Amazon:
06/20/2023 - 1:00pm	Dark Money	Location: Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88955380062?pwd=UWwwU2h6Ym11TGFHQUlWSDlzdVM0Zz09 From Amazon: In her new preface, Jane Mayer discusses the results of the most recent election and Donald Trump's victory, and how, despite much discussion to the contrary, this was a huge victory for the billionaires who have been pouring money in the American political system.
05/16/2023 - 1:00pm	The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era	Location: Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88955380062?pwd=UWwwU2h6Ym11TGFHQUlWSDlzdVM0Zz09
04/18/2023 - 1:00pm	Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions	Location: Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88955380062?pwd=UWwwU2h6Ym11TGFHQUlWSDlzdVM0Zz09 Emotions arise from social context. They are not some innate, universal, response felt only inside. Includes case studies from many continents. From Amazon: A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together.

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