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This is a list of books that have been suggested as possible choices for our group in the
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect |
Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie |
2018 | Scott | Amazon HC, $21.75 + Kindle |
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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucidides’s Trap? |
Graham Allison | 2017 | Kevin | Amazon HC, $17.97 + Kindle |
| Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook | Mark Bray | 2017 | Scott | PB, 259 pp., $16.99 |
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Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization |
Parag Khanna | 2016 | Kevin | Amazon HC: $18; 496 p. |
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The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good |
Donald W. Pfaff | 2015 | Scott | Amazon HC: $20.54; 281 p. |
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Operation Paperclip: Secret Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America |
Annie Jacobsen | 2014 | Scott | Amazon PB: $11.68 + Kindle |
| The Innovators | Walter Isaacson | 2014 | Kevin | Amazon HC: $23.84 + Kindle |
| The Beginning of Infinity | David Deutsch | 2011 | Rosie | On quantum computation. Amazon HC: $17.24; 496 pp. |
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The Sibling Effect: What Bonds among Brothers and Sisters Reveal... |
Jeffrey Kluger | 2011 | Rosie | Amazon, HC: $17.43; 320 pp. |
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Where Good Ideas Come From: Natural History of Innovation |
Steven Johnson | 2010 | Rosie | Amazon, HC: $16.05; 336 pp. |
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Faust in Copenhagen: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics |
Gino Segré | 2008 | Rosie | Amazon, PB: $6.40; 320 pp. |
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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet |
Oliver Morton | 2008 | Emily/ Kirby |
Amazon, HC: $19.11; 480 pp. How photosynthesis works. |
| Outliers: The Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell | 2008 | Kirby | Amazon, HC: $15.39; 320 pp. |
| Planet of Slums | Mike Davis | 2007 | Scott | Amazon, used from $0.98 up, or Kindle. |
| The Making of the Fittest: DNA and ... Evolution |
Sean B. Carroll | 2007 | Kirby | Amazon, PB: $11.43; 304 pp. |
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Death by Black Holes and Other Cosmic Quandaries |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | 2007 | Ron | Amazon, HC: $15.72 |
| Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants | Nicholas Harberd | 2006 | Rosie | Amazon, HC used $1.96 & up, + Kindle. |
| This is Your Brain on Music | Daniel Levitin | 2006 | Rosie | Amazon, PB: $10.88. |
| Conversations on Consciousness | Susan Blackmore | 2006 | Scott | Amazon, HC: $15.64; 288 pp. Survey of current views. |
| Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth |
Marcia Bjornerud | 2005 | Rosie | Amazon, PB: $14.11 + Kindle. |
| Hitler’s Scientists | John Cornwall | 2003 | Scott | Amazon, PB: $14.91 + Kindle. |
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Lowly Origin: Where, When and Why Our Ancestors Stood Up |
Jonathan Kingdon | 2003 | Rosie | Amazon, PB: $13.57; 416 pp. |
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Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Tech. & the Future of Human Intelligence |
Andy Clark | 2003 | Scott | Amazon, PB: $10.17; 229 pp. |
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Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation |
Joâo Magueijo | 2003 | ? | HC Amazon, $17.68; 288 pp. Magueijo fancies himself the new Einstein! |
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Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are |
Joseph LeDoux | 2003 | Rosie | Amazon, PB: $10.88; 416 pp. |
| The Triumph of Sociobiology | John Alcock | 2003 | Kirby | Amazon, PB: $11.17; 272 pp. |
| The Years of Rice and Salt | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2002 | Rosie | Amazon, PB: $8.99 + Kindle. Sci-Fi novel: What if the Black Death had been much worse? |
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The Five Ages of the Universe: A History... From the Big Bang On |
Greg Laughlin & Fred Adams |
2002 | Rich | PB may be o/p; 288 pp. |
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E = mc2: A Biography of the Most Famous Equation |
David Bodanis | 2001 | Kevin C. | PB Amazon, $11.20; 337 pp. |
| The Code Book | Simon Singh | 2000 | Rich | Cryptography. Amazon, PB: $10.85. |
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The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero |
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1999 | Kevin | Amazon, PB: $14.99; 240 pp. |
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The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 |
Robert McElvaine | 1993 | Scott | Amazon, PB: $11.53; 349 pp. Excellent social & economic history. |
| A Little History of the World | E. H. Gombrich | 1985 (English: 2005) |
Rosie | Amazon, PB: $5.09, 284 pp. |
| The Communistic Societies of the U.S. | Charles Nordhoff | 1875! (But still in print) |
Rosie | Amazon, PB: $7.68 About utopian socialist communes. |
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