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Steve
Apr 26, 2012, 1:40:09 PM4/26/12
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Below is a list of the books read and discussed at the CFI Austin non-
fiction book group. You can reply to this thread to make suggestions
for future readings.
1. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
2. Marc Hauser, Moral Minds
3. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
4. Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great
5. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
6. Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex
7. Anthony Lewis, Freedom for the Thought that We Hate
8. Austin Dacey, The Secular Conscience
9. Michael Shermer, Science Friction
10. Bertrand Russell, Why I am not a Christian
11. Neal Shubin, Your Inner Fish
12. Lawrence Keeley, War before Civilization
13. Robert Ingersoll, What's God Got to Do with it?
14. Phil Plait, Death from the Skies!
15. Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things
16. David Linden, The Accidental Mind
17. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
18. Bart Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted
19. Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True
20. William Lobdell, Losing My Religion
21. Arthur Brooks, Who Really Cares?
22. Dinesh D'Souza, Life after Death
23. Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience
24. Randy Olson, Don't be Such a Scientist
25. Richard Sloan, Blind Faith
26. Sean B. Carroll, The Making of the Fittest
27. George Lakoff, Don't Think of an Elephant
28. Scott Lilienfeld, 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology
29. Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook
30. Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate
31. Carol Tavris, Mistakes were Made (But Not by Me)
32. Michael Specter, Denialism
33. Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail
34. Robert Pape, Cutting the Fuse
35. Robert Bryce, Gusher of Lies
36. Jean Guilaine, The Origins of War
37. Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape
38. Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder
39. Greg Graffin, Anarchy Evolution
40. Marco Iacoboni, Mirroring People
41. Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test
42. David Eagleman, Incognito
43. Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit
Gary Hardcastle, Bullshit & Philosophy
44. Antonio Damasio, Self Comes to Mind
45. Touré, Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?
46. George Cunningham, Decoding the Language of God
47. Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain
48. Matt Ridley, The Agile Gene
fiction book group. You can reply to this thread to make suggestions
for future readings.
1. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
2. Marc Hauser, Moral Minds
3. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
4. Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great
5. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
6. Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex
7. Anthony Lewis, Freedom for the Thought that We Hate
8. Austin Dacey, The Secular Conscience
9. Michael Shermer, Science Friction
10. Bertrand Russell, Why I am not a Christian
11. Neal Shubin, Your Inner Fish
12. Lawrence Keeley, War before Civilization
13. Robert Ingersoll, What's God Got to Do with it?
14. Phil Plait, Death from the Skies!
15. Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things
16. David Linden, The Accidental Mind
17. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
18. Bart Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted
19. Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True
20. William Lobdell, Losing My Religion
21. Arthur Brooks, Who Really Cares?
22. Dinesh D'Souza, Life after Death
23. Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience
24. Randy Olson, Don't be Such a Scientist
25. Richard Sloan, Blind Faith
26. Sean B. Carroll, The Making of the Fittest
27. George Lakoff, Don't Think of an Elephant
28. Scott Lilienfeld, 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology
29. Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook
30. Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate
31. Carol Tavris, Mistakes were Made (But Not by Me)
32. Michael Specter, Denialism
33. Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail
34. Robert Pape, Cutting the Fuse
35. Robert Bryce, Gusher of Lies
36. Jean Guilaine, The Origins of War
37. Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape
38. Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder
39. Greg Graffin, Anarchy Evolution
40. Marco Iacoboni, Mirroring People
41. Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test
42. David Eagleman, Incognito
43. Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit
Gary Hardcastle, Bullshit & Philosophy
44. Antonio Damasio, Self Comes to Mind
45. Touré, Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?
46. George Cunningham, Decoding the Language of God
47. Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain
48. Matt Ridley, The Agile Gene
Nathan Toups
Apr 26, 2012, 1:50:03 PM4/26/12
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Two books I really enjoyed (and I don't see on the list) are:
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert Park (great book, published in 2000)
Steve
Apr 26, 2012, 1:56:50 PM4/26/12
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Free Will is scheduled for September 2012.
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