[Hac-announce] Books We Have Read & Upcoming Selections

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Mon Aug 28 16:32:53 EDT 2017


Here are the books we have read; the next selection is highlighted in yellow with subsequent readings highlighted in light blue. Descriptions of the selections are attached. Kevin

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 12/16/17 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond 11/18/17 Kevin Gough, Moderator
American War: A Novel by Omar El Akkad 10/21/17 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 9/23/17 Kevin Gough, Moderator
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe 8/19/17 Kevin Gough, Moderator




Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey 7/15/17 Kevin Gough, Moderator
White Trash: The 400-YearOld Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg 6/17/17 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Confessions of a SecularJesus Follower: Finding Answers in Jesus for Those Who Don’t Believe by Tom Krattenmaker 5/20/17 Tom Krattenmaker, Guest,Kevin Gough, Moderator
Breaking the Spell:Religion as a Natural Phenomenon byDaniel C. Dennett 4/15/17 Kevin Gough, Moderator
The Invention of Nature:Alexander von Humboldt’s New World byAndrea Wulf 3/18/17 Kevin Gough, Moderator
The Big Sort: Why theClustering of Like-Minded Americais Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop2/18/17 Kevin Gough, Moderator
The Great Agnostic: RobertIngersoll and American Freethought bySusan Jacoby 1/21/17 Kevin Gough, Moderator
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud 11/19/16 Kevin Gough, Moderator
The Age of Reason: Beingan Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine & Thomas Paine’s Rights of Manby Christopher Hitchens 10/15/16 Kevin Gough, Moderator
The World Beyond Your Head:Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford 9/17/16 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Good Omens: the Nice andAccurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 8/20/16 Carol & RichardSiddall, Moderators
The Social Conquest ofEarth by E.O. Wilson 7/16/16 KevinGough, Moderator
The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris 6/18/16 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl 5/21/16 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Nature's God: TheHeretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart 4/16/16 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Being Mortal: Medicine andWhat Matters in the End by AtulGawande 3/19/16 Kevin Gough, Moderator
My Promised Land: TheTriumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit 2/20/16 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Their Eyes Were WatchingGod by Zora Neale Hurston 1/16/16Kevin Gough, Moderator
An Unquenchable Thirst: aMemoir by Mary Johnson & TheMissionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by ChristopherHitchens 12/19/15 Mary Johnson, Guest, Kevin Gough, Moderator
The Collapse of AmericanCriminal Justice by William Stuntz11/21/15 Roger Chapell, Moderator
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis 10/17/15 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Goliath: Life and Loathingin Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal 9/19/15 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Roger Williams and theCreation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M. Barry 8/22/15 Kevin Gough, Moderator
36 Arguments for theExistence of God: A Work of Fictionby Rebecca Newberger Goldstein 7/25/15 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Pro: Reclaiming AbortionRights by Katha Pollitt 6/20/15 KevinGough, Moderator
Fighting Back the Right:Reclaiming Americafrom the Attack on Reason by DavidNiose 5/16/15 David Niose, Guest, Kevin Gough Moderator
Waking Up: A Guide toSpirituality Without Religion by SamHarris 3/21/15 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Sex at Dawn: ThePrehistoric Origins of Modern Sexualityby Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá 2/21/15 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Bright-Sided: How theRelentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich 1/17/15 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach 12/20/14 KevinGough, Moderator
The End of Men: And theRise of Women by Hanna Rosin 11/15/14Kevin Gough, Moderator
Dog Whistle Politics: HowCoded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney Lopez 10/18/14 Dan Blinn, Moderator 
"The Case for Reparations"by Ta-Nehisi Coates from June 2014 Atlantic Monthly 8/23/14 Dan Blinn,Moderator
The Demon-Haunted World:Science as a Candle in the Dark byCarl Sagan 7/12/14 Dan Blinn, Moderator
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 5/31/14 Dan Blinn, Moderator
Don't Sleep, There AreSnakes by Daniel Everett 4/26/14Kevin Gough, Moderator
The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans de Waal 3/29/14 Dan Blinn, Moderator
Ishmael by Dan Quinn 3/8/14 Kevin Gough, Moderator
The Swerve: How the WorldBecame Modern by Stephen Greenblatt1/18/14 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Free Will by Sam Harris 10/20/2013 Dan Blinn, Moderator
Why I Am Not a Christianand Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell 9/28/2013 Dan Blinn, Moderator
The Life You Can Save:Acting Now To End World Poverty byPeter Singer 8/24/13 Dan Blinn, Moderator
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 7/27/13 Dan Blinn, Moderator
The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer 6/29/13 Dan Blinn, Moderator
Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant 5/25/13 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Good Without God by Greg Epstein 4/20/13 Kevin Gough, Moderator
The Plague by Albert Camus 3/23/13 Dan Blinn, Moderator
The Better Angels of ourNature: Why Violence Has Declined bySteven Pinker 3/9/13 Kevin Gough, Moderator
Freefall: America,Free Markets, and the Shrinking of the World Economy by Joseph Stiglitz 1/19/13 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo 12/22/12 Dan Blinn, Moderator
She's Not There: A Life inTwo Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan11/17/12 Dan Blinn, Moderator
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 10/20/12 Manny Ratafia,Moderator
1493: Uncovering the NewWorld ColumbusCreated by Charles C. Mann 9/22/12Marsha Zellner, Moderator
Nonbeliever Nation by David Noise 8/12/12 Dan Blinn, Moderator
The Cider House Rules by John Irving 7/14/12 Dan Blinn, Moderator
God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens 6/9/12 Dan Blinn, Moderator
The Road by Cormac McCarthy 5/12/12 Dan Blinn, Moderator
God's Harvard: A ChristianCollege on a Mission to Save America by Hanna Rosin 4/1/12 Dan Blinn, Moderator
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or,Life Among the Lowly by HarrietBeecher Stowe 2/25/12, Dan Blinn, Moderator
Half the Sky: TurningOppression into Opportunity for WomenWorldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof andSheryl WuDunn 1/21/12, Dan Blinn, Moderator
Predictably Irrational:TheHidden Forces That Shape Our Decisionsby Dan Ariely 12/10/11 Carol Siddall, Moderator
Descartes' Bones: ASkeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason By Russell Shorto 10/22/11 Dan Blinn, Moderator
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 8/27/11 Dan Blinn, Moderator
God Is Not One: The Eight RivalReligions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero 7/17/11 Bill McWilliams,Moderator
Poetry Reading (no book)5/14/11 George Brenner, Moderator
Monkey Girl : Evolution,Education, Religion, and the Battle for America'sSoul by Edward Humes 3/26/2011 DanBlinn, Moderator
The Color of Water by James McBride 2/26/2011 Bonnie Cohen, Moderator
Three Cups Of Tea – OneMan’s Mission To Promote Peace . . . One School At A Time by Greg Mortenson And David Oliver Relin 1/22/2011Doug Peary, Moderator
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris 11/20/10 Doug Peary, Moderator
The Good Earth by PearlBuck 10/3/10 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Paul Robeson: A Biography by Martin Bauml Duberman Date 8/1/2010 Manny Ratafia,Moderator
Justice: What's The RightThing To Do? by Michael J. Sandel.5/22/2010 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain 3/14/2010 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman! : Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman 1/30/2010 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedomin America by Steven Waldman 11/21/2009 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
The Audacity of Hope:Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama 10/3/2009 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Doubt: A History: TheGreat Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to ThomasJefferson and Emily Dickinson byJennifer Michael Hecht (remainder of book) 8/15/2009 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
The Varieties ofScientific Experience: a Personal View of the Search for God (Selected Readings)by Carl Sagan 7/18/2009 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 5/9/2009 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Doubt: A History: TheGreat Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to ThomasJefferson and Emily Dickinson byJennifer Michael Hecht 4/18/2009 (Chapters 1-5) Manny Ratafia, Moderator
What Evolution Is by ErnstMayr 2/14/2009 Manny Ratafia,Moderator
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 12/14/2008 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Team of Rivals: ThePolitical Genius of Abraham Lincolnby Doris Kearns Goodwin 10/25/2008 MannyRatafia, Moderator
Creating a World WithoutPoverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus 9/6/2008 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
The Devil’s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw 7/19/2008 Manny Ratafia,Moderator
Your Inner Fish: A Journeyinto the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin 5/10/2008 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
1984 by George Orwell 3/22/2008 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Moral Politics: HowLiberals and Conservatives Think byGeorge Lakoff 1/12/2008 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
The Fundamentals ofExtremism: The Christian Right in America (last two chapters) by Kimberly Blaker (Editor)10/27/2007 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Moral Minority: OurSkeptical Founding Fathers by BrookeAllen 9/15/2007 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
The Varieties ofScientific Experience : a Personal View of the Search for God (Chapter 6, The God Hypothesis) by Carl Sagan8/11/2007 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
The Undercover Economist:Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy aDecent Used Car! by Tim Harford6/30/2007 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 4/14/2007Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Galileo's Daughter: AHistorical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel 2/11/2007 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Inheriting the Holy Land:An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East by Jennifer Miller 12/10/2006 Manny Ratafia,Moderator
The Kidnapping of EdgardoMortara by David Kertzer 9/10/2006Manny Ratafia, Moderator
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 5/21/2006 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Blood and Oil: The Dangersand Consequences of America'sGrowing Dependency on Imported Petroleumby Michael T. Klare 3/12/2006 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 1/29/2006 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
The End of Faith by Sam Harris 11/12/2005 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio 9/10/2005 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff 7/9/2005 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis 5/14/2005 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Freethinkers: A History ofSecularism by Susan Jacoby 3/12/2005Manny Ratafia, Moderator
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer 1/15/2005 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker 11/13/2004 Manny Ratafia, Moderator
Demonic Males by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson 10/9/2004 MannyRatafia, Moderator
The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner 6/19/2004 Manny Ratafia,Moderator
Terror in the Name of God by Jessica Stern 4/10/2004 Manny Ratfia, Moderator








 








 



















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