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Our Non-Fiction Book Discussions |
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
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God Is Not Great:
How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
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Primates and Philosophers:
How Morality Evolved
by Frans de Waal
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What non-fiction book should we read and discuss next?
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Our Fiction Book Discussions |
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
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The Enormous Room
by E.E.Cummings
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American Gods: A Novel
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Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved - by Frans de Waal
Book #67: June, July & August 2009 (Non-Fiction)
• Book Discussion Leader: MaryLupin
• The live chat with Dr. Frans de Waal will be Thursday, July 30th at 9:00 pm Eastern. Mark your calendars!! Please order your books from Amazon.com as Barnes & Noble and Border's Books might not have Primates and Philosophers in stock.
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Dreams From My Father - by Barack Obama
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• President Barack Obama will NOT be doing a live chat with us...in case anyone was wondering. He mumbled something about the economy and world peace. Or was it whirled peas?
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Archived Book Discussions 2008-2009
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Subforums: The Name of the Rose - by Umberto Eco, Paradise Lost - by John Milton, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism - by Kevin Phillips, The Secret Garden - by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists - by Dan Barker, The Things They Carried - by Tim O'Brien, The Limits of Power - by Andrew Bacevich, Lolita - by Vladimir Nabokov, Orlando - by Virginia Woolf, On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not - by Robert Burton, 50 reasons people give for believing in a god - by Guy P. Harrison, Walden - by Henry David Thoreau, Exile and the Kingdom - by Albert Camus, Our Inner Ape - by Frans de Waal, Your Inner Fish - by Neil Shubin, No Country for Old Men - by Cormac McCarthy, The Age of American Unreason - by Susan Jacoby, Ten Theories of Human Nature - by Leslie Stevenson & David Haberman, Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature - by Stephen Pinker
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Subforums: A Thousand Splendid Suns - by Khaled Hosseini, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil - by Philip Zimbardo, Responsibility and Judgment - by Hannah Arendt, Godless in America: Conversations With an Atheist - by George A. Ricker, Interventions - by Noam Chomsky, Religious Expression and the American Constitution - by Franklyn S. Haiman, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future - by Bill McKibben, The God Delusion - by Richard Dawkins, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal - by Jared Diamond, The Woman in the Dunes - by Abe Kobo, Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction - by Eugenie Scott, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - by Michael Pollan, I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 - by Robert Graves, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - by Daniel Dennett, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East - by David Fromkin, The Time Traveler's Wife - by Audrey Niffenegger, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - by Sam Harris, Ender's Game - by Orson Scott Card, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - by Mark Haddon, Value & Virtue in a Godless Universe - by Erik J. Wielenberg
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Subforums: The March: A Novel - by E.L. Doctorow, The Ethical Brain - by Michael Gazzaniga, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism - by Susan Jacoby, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - by Jared Diamond, The Battle for God - by Karen Armstrong, The Future of Life - by Edward O. Wilson, What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live - by A.C. Grayling, Civilization and It's Enemies: The Next Stage of History - by Lee Harris, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - by Carl Sagan, How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God - by Michael Shermer, Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain - by Antonio Damasio
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