BookTalk.org News: 7/27/2009
BookTalk.org News: 7/27/2009
• Join us in the BookTalk.org chat room for a live chat with author Frans de Waal this Thursday, July 30th at 9:00 pm eastern. Please be 15 minutes early so Dr. de Waal enters a full chat room and sees an audience. We’ll be discussing his “Primates and Philosophers,” but you’re welcome to attend even if you haven’t completed reading the book.
• The poll is up for selecting our next Non-Fiction book and there are only a few more days to vote. Our 3 Non-Fiction book choices are:
Book 1:
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt
Book 2:
Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum
Book 3:
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
by Richard Dawkins
Vote at
http://www.booktalk.org/official-poll-s ... t6731.html
• Vote for your favorite creative writing entry at
http://www.booktalk.org/please-vote-for ... t6723.html and help us give away a minimum of 5 free books to the winners.
• The next FACTS book has been selected and will be read and discussed in August & September of 2009.
When Good Thinking Goes Bad:
How Your Brain Can Have a Mind of Its Own
by Todd C. Riniolo
Chris
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