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Our Non-Fiction Books |
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
by Andrew Bacevich
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Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
by Dan Barker
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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by Kevin Phillips
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What non-fiction book would you like to read and discuss in February & March 2009?
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Our Fiction Books |
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
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The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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What fiction book would you like to read and discuss in February & March 2009?
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Archived Book Discussions 2008
Browse our previous book discussions for the year 2008.
Subforums: 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, Orlando - by Virginia Woolf, 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, A Thousand Splendid Suns - by Khaled Hosseini, On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not - by Robert Burton
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Archived Book Discussions 2006-2007
Browse our previous book discussions for the years 2006 and 2007
Subforums: 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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Archived Book Discussions 2004-2005
Browse our previous book discussions for the years 2004 and 2005
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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Archived Book Discussions 2002-2003
Browse our previous book discussions for the years 2002 and 2003
Subforums: Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right - by Al Franken, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - by Matt Ridley, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - by Stephen Pinker, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder - by Richard Dawkins, Atheism: A Reader - edited by S. T. Joshi, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century - by Howard Bloom, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History - by Howard Bloom, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - by Jared Diamond, Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark - by Carl Sagan, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - by Dee Alexander Brown, Future Shock - by Alvin Toffler
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