Books discussed at a reading group that I run

Date:AuthorTitle
April 2004Martin SeligmanAuthentic Happiness
February 2004Thomas GoldThe Deep Hot Biosphere : The Myth of Fossil Fuels
January 2004Daniel C. DennettFreedom Evolves
December 2003Robert J. ShillerThe New Financial Order: Risk in the Twenty-First Century
November 2003Paul H. RubinDarwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom
September 2003Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
August 2003Amy ChuaWorld on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
June 2003William EasterlyThe Elusive Quest for Growth : Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
May 2003Lawrence LessigThe Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
April 2003Andy ClarkBeing There : Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
March 2003Tom BethellThe Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages
February 2003Alfred W. CrosbyThe Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600
January 2003Michael D. CoeBreaking the Maya Code
December 2002Mancur OlsonPower and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships
November 2002Joseph LedouxThe Emotional Brain : The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
August 2002Robert J. ShillerIrrational Exuberance
July 2002Victor Davis HansonCarnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
June 2002Joel MokyrLever of Riches : Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
April 2002Leonard ShlainThe Alphabet Versus the Goddess : The Conflict Between Word and Image
March 2002Burton W. FolsomThe Myth of the Robber Barons
March 2002Matthew JosephsonThe Robber Barons
January 2002Julian L. SimonThe Ultimate Resource 2
December 2001Richard D. Alexander The Biology of Moral Systems (Foundations of Human Behavior)
November 2001 Hernando De Soto The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
September 2001Jane Jacobs Systems of Survival : A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
August 2001Marc D. Hauser Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
June 2001Anthony Stevens and John Price Evolutionary Psychiatry: New Beginning
May 2001V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
April 2001Joel Kotkin Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Gobal Economy
(2 books discussed together):
February 2001Paul W. Ewald Plague Time : How Stealth Infections Are Causing Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments
Matt RidleyThe Future of Disease : Predictions
January 2001Keith J. Devlin The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
October 2000 Sarah Hrdy Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
September 2000 Geoffrey Miller The Mating Mind : How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
August 2000 F. A. Hayek The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (Collected Works of F A Hayek, Vol 1)
JuLy 2000 Susan Blackmore The Meme Machine
June 2000 Steven Pinker How the Mind Works
April 2000 Gary Klein Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
March 2000 Sober, Elliott Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
February 2000 Fukuyama, Francis The Great Disruption
January 2000 Robert H. Frank Luxury Fever
December 1999 Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian Information Rules
October 1999 Judith Rich Harris The Nurture Assumption
September 1999 Howard Baetjer, Jr. Software as Capital
July 1999 Diamond, Jared Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
April 1999 Moravec, Hans Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
March 1999 Brin, DavidThe Transparent Society
February 1999 Strauss, William and Neil HoweThe Fourth Turning