{"id":3281,"date":"2013-03-11T01:43:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T01:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?page_id=3281"},"modified":"2019-08-04T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T14:37:19","slug":"previously-read-books-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/previously-read-books-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Previously Read Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2019 June 20 to July 31 &#8211; <span lang=\"en-US\">\u201cLost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression \u2014 and the Unexpected Solutions\u201d<em>.<\/em><em> By Johann Hari\u2019s, 2019<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>2019 &#8211; March 27 to June 19 &#8211; \u201cThe Skeptics&#8217; Guide to the Universe: How to Know What&#8217;s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake\u201d, Steven Novella, 2018<\/p>\n<p>2019 &#8211; Jan 16 to March 20 &#8211; &#8220;Justice: What&#8217;s the Right Thing to Do?&#8221; by Michael J. Sandel , 2009<\/p>\n<p>2018 &#8211; Oct 2019 &#8211; 2019 Jan &#8211; &#8220;The Happiness Hypothesis&#8221; by Jonathan Hardt, 2006<\/p>\n<p>2018 July &#8211; Oct &#8211; &#8220;Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind&#8221; by Yuval Noah Harari, 2015<\/p>\n<p>2018 May &#8211; July &#8211; &#8220;Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?&#8221; by Thomas Frank<\/p>\n<p>2018 Mar &#8211; May &#8211; First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe by Richard Preston<\/p>\n<p>2018 Jan &#8211; Mar \u201cThe The Theory That Would Not Die\u201dSharron Bertsch Mcgrayne<\/p>\n<p>2017 Nov 2017 to Jan 2018\u201cThe Zero Marginal Cost Society\u201dJeremy Rifkin<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>DATE<\/td>\n<td>BOOK<\/td>\n<td>AUTHOR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2018 Jan &#8211; Mar<\/td>\n<td>\u201cThe The Theory That Would Not Die\u201d<\/td>\n<td>Sharron Bertsch Mcgrayne<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2017 Aug-Nov<\/td>\n<td>\u201cThe New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man\u201d<\/td>\n<td>John Perkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2017 May-Aug<\/td>\n<td>\u201cThe Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy\u201d<\/td>\n<td>William Strauss, Neil Howe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2017 Jan &#8211; Apr<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;&#8221;The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion&#8221;&#8221;<\/td>\n<td>Jonathan Haidt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2016 Sept-Dec<\/td>\n<td>Thinking Fast and Slow<\/td>\n<td>Daniel Kahneman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2016 Aug-Sept<\/td>\n<td>The Age of Empathy: Nature&#8217;s Lessons for a Kinder Society<\/td>\n<td>Levitt and Dubner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2016 June-July<\/td>\n<td>Super Freakonomics<\/td>\n<td>Frans de Waal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2016 May-June<\/td>\n<td>The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder<\/td>\n<td>Peter Zeihan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2015 Dec-2016 Feb<\/td>\n<td>The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them<\/td>\n<td>Joesph Stigliz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2015 Nov-Dec<\/td>\n<td>The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm<\/td>\n<td>Lewis Dartnell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013 Jul-Aug<\/td>\n<td>Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void<\/td>\n<td>Mary Roach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013 Apr-Jul<\/td>\n<td>The Shock Doctrine<\/td>\n<td>Naomi Klein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013 Feb-Mar<\/td>\n<td>The Abacus and the Cross<\/td>\n<td>Nancy Marie Brown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013 Jan-2013 Feb<\/td>\n<td>The World Without Us<\/td>\n<td>Alan Weisman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 Nov-2013 Jan<\/td>\n<td>Losing My Religion<\/td>\n<td>William Lobdell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 October<\/td>\n<td>The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion<\/td>\n<td>Jonathon Haidt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 September<\/td>\n<td>The Quest for Cosmic Justice<\/td>\n<td>Thomas Sowell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 July-August<\/td>\n<td>Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam<\/td>\n<td>Michel Onfray.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 June<\/td>\n<td>Islam: A Mosaic, not a Monolith<\/td>\n<td>Vartan Gregorian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 Apr-May<\/td>\n<td>Three Roads to Quantum Gravity<\/td>\n<td>Lee Smolin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 Feb-Mar<\/td>\n<td>Five Minds for the Future<\/td>\n<td>Howard Gardner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 Dec-Feb<\/td>\n<td>The Warmth of Other Suns<\/td>\n<td>Isabel Wilkerson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 Oct-Nov<\/td>\n<td>Real Enemies<\/td>\n<td>Kathryn S Olmsted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 Aug-Sep<\/td>\n<td>Authentic Happiness<\/td>\n<td>Martin E P Seligman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 Jul-Aug<\/td>\n<td>Third World America<\/td>\n<td>Arianna Huffington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 May-Jun<\/td>\n<td>The New Chinese Empire<\/td>\n<td>Ross Terrill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 Apr<\/td>\n<td>The Grand Design<\/td>\n<td>S Hawking &amp; L Mlodinow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 Feb-Mar<\/td>\n<td>Nudge<\/td>\n<td>R H Thaler &amp; C Sunstein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 Dec-Jan<\/td>\n<td>Self Comes to Mind<\/td>\n<td>Antonio Damasio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 Nov-Dec<\/td>\n<td>The Moral Landscape<\/td>\n<td>Sam Harris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 Sep-Oct<\/td>\n<td>Heart of Dryness<\/td>\n<td>James G Workman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 Aug-Sep<\/td>\n<td>Godless<\/td>\n<td>Dan Barker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 Jun-Jul<\/td>\n<td>Cornered<\/td>\n<td>Barry C Lynn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 May<\/td>\n<td>The Crime of Reason<\/td>\n<td>Robert B Laughlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 Mar-Apr<\/td>\n<td>The Tangled Wing<\/td>\n<td>Melvin Konner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 Feb<\/td>\n<td>Out of the Cage<\/td>\n<td>Burt &amp; Marge Liebert<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 Jan<\/td>\n<td>Unscientific America<\/td>\n<td>C Mooney &amp; S Kirshenbaum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 Dec<\/td>\n<td>Religulous (video)<\/td>\n<td>Bill Maher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 Nov-Dec<\/td>\n<td>Invisible History<\/td>\n<td>P Fitzgerald &amp; E Gould<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 Sep-Oct<\/td>\n<td>The Family<\/td>\n<td>Jeff Sharlett<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 Jul-Aug<\/td>\n<td>Made to Stick<\/td>\n<td>Chip &amp; Dan Heath<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 Jul<\/td>\n<td>Letting Go of God (video)<\/td>\n<td>Julia Sweeney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 Jun-Jul<\/td>\n<td>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions<\/td>\n<td>Thomas S Kuhn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 May-Jun<\/td>\n<td>The Mind of the Market<\/td>\n<td>Michael Shermer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 Mar-Apr<\/td>\n<td>Collapse<\/td>\n<td>Jared Diamond<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 Jan-Feb<\/td>\n<td>Black Swan<\/td>\n<td>Nassim Taleb<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 Oct-Dec<\/td>\n<td>Common Wealth<\/td>\n<td>Jeffrey D Sachs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 Sep-Oct<\/td>\n<td>Earth: The Sequel<\/td>\n<td>F Krupp &amp; M Horn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 Jul-Aug<\/td>\n<td>The Singularity Is Near<\/td>\n<td>Ray Kurzweil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 May-Jun<\/td>\n<td>The GOD Delusion<\/td>\n<td>Richard Dawkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 Apr<\/td>\n<td>All Rise<\/td>\n<td>Robert W Fuller<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 Jan-Mar<\/td>\n<td>The Ancestor&#8217;s Tale<\/td>\n<td>Richard Dawkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 Nov-Dec<\/td>\n<td>The Power of Myth<\/td>\n<td>Joseph Campbell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 Oct<\/td>\n<td>The Assault on Reason<\/td>\n<td>Al Gore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 Aug-Sep<\/td>\n<td>God Is Not Great<\/td>\n<td>Christopher Hitchens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 Jul<\/td>\n<td>Azim&#8217;s Bardo<\/td>\n<td>Azim Khamisa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 May-Jun<\/td>\n<td>Snow<\/td>\n<td>Orhan Pamuk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007<\/td>\n<td>Religion Is Not About God<\/td>\n<td>Loyal Rue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007<\/td>\n<td>On the Gods and Other Essays<\/td>\n<td>Robert G Ingersoll<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006<\/td>\n<td>Whose Freedom?<\/td>\n<td>George Lakoff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006<\/td>\n<td>Why Zebras Don&#8217;t Get Ulcers<\/td>\n<td>Robert Sapolsky<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006<\/td>\n<td>The Singing Neanderthals<\/td>\n<td>Steven Mithen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006<\/td>\n<td>Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon<\/td>\n<td>Daniel Dennett<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006<\/td>\n<td>Natural Atheism<\/td>\n<td>David Eller<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005<\/td>\n<td>The End of Faith<\/td>\n<td>Sam Harris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005 Jul<\/td>\n<td>The Devil&#8217;s Chaplain<\/td>\n<td>Richard Dawkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005<\/td>\n<td>How Proust Can Change Your Life<\/td>\n<td>Alain de Boton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005<\/td>\n<td>Looking for Spinoza<\/td>\n<td>Antonio Damasio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004<\/td>\n<td>Why I Am Not a Muslim<\/td>\n<td>Ibn Warraq<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004<\/td>\n<td>A History of God<\/td>\n<td>Karen Armstrong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004<\/td>\n<td>Freethinkers<\/td>\n<td>Susan Jacoby<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 June 20 to July 31 &#8211; \u201cLost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression \u2014 and the Unexpected Solutions\u201d. 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