| Date: | Author | Title |
| April 2004 | Martin Seligman | Authentic Happiness |
| February 2004 | Thomas Gold | The Deep Hot Biosphere : The Myth of Fossil Fuels |
| January 2004 | Daniel C. Dennett | Freedom Evolves |
| December 2003 | Robert J. Shiller | The New Financial Order: Risk in the Twenty-First Century |
| November 2003 | Paul H. Rubin | Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom |
| September 2003 | Steven Pinker | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature |
| August 2003 | Amy Chua | World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability |
| June 2003 | William Easterly | The Elusive Quest for Growth : Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics |
| May 2003 | Lawrence Lessig | The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World |
| April 2003 | Andy Clark | Being There : Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again |
| March 2003 | Tom Bethell | The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages |
| February 2003 | Alfred W. Crosby | The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 |
| January 2003 | Michael D. Coe | Breaking the Maya Code |
| December 2002 | Mancur Olson | Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships |
| November 2002 | Joseph Ledoux | The Emotional Brain : The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life |
| August 2002 | Robert J. Shiller | Irrational Exuberance |
| July 2002 | Victor Davis Hanson | Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power |
| June 2002 | Joel Mokyr | Lever of Riches : Technological Creativity and Economic Progress |
| April 2002 | Leonard Shlain | The Alphabet Versus the Goddess : The Conflict Between Word and Image |
| March 2002 | Burton W. Folsom | The Myth of the Robber Barons |
| March 2002 | Matthew Josephson | The Robber Barons |
| January 2002 | Julian L. Simon | The Ultimate Resource 2 |
| December 2001 | Richard 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 2001 | Jane Jacobs |
Systems of Survival : A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of
Commerce and Politics |
| August 2001 | Marc D. Hauser |
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
|
| June 2001 | Anthony Stevens and John Price |
Evolutionary Psychiatry: New Beginning
|
| May 2001 | V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee |
Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
|
| April 2001 | Joel Kotkin |
Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine
Success in the New Gobal Economy
|
| (2 books discussed together): |
| February 2001 | Paul W. Ewald |
Plague Time : How Stealth Infections Are Causing Cancers,
Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments |
| Matt Ridley | The Future of Disease : Predictions
|
| January 2001 | Keith 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, David | The Transparent Society |
| February 1999 |
Strauss, William and Neil Howe | The Fourth Turning |