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ReadingList
Page history last edited by peterga 3 mos ago
Current
- Proust Was a Neuroscientist - Jonah Lehrer
- Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management - Peter Ferdinand Drucker, David Garvin, Dorothy Leonard, Susan Straus, John Seely Brown
- Pagan Christianity - Frank Viola, George Barna
- The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber - Mel Gordon
- Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know about the Game is Wrong - Ed. Johan Keri
- The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
In the queue
- Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief - Rodney Stark
- Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality - Jared Diamond
- Philanthrocapitalism
- What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything - John Brockman
- The Bible - Karen Armstrong
- The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature - Steven Pinker
- The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
- The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution - Sean B. Carroll
- Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology
- Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World's most Powerful Mercenary Army - Jeremy Scahill
- The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War
- Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong - Marc D. Hauser
- Indivisible By Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins - Nancy L. Segal
- The Selfish Gene (30th Anniversary Edition)
- How Bill James Changed Our View of Baseball - Ed. Gregory F. Augustine Pierce
- The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions - Karen Armstrong
- A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government - Garry Wills
- Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of our Time - Ed. Lynn Margulis, Eduardo Punset
- It Ain't Over Til It's Over: The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book - Ed. Steve Goldman
- Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers
- Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness - Dennett
- The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success - Rodney Stark
- The Rise of Mormonism - Rodney Stark
- Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert (no copy in hand yet, recommended in supercilious e-mail by stevei)
- Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq - James Fallows
- Religion, Deviance, and Social Control - Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge
- Tales of the End - A Narrative Commentary on the Book of Revelation
- The Once and Future Jesus - Funk et. al.
- The Republican War on Science - Chris Mooney
- Christianity Without God - Lloyd Geering
- Herzog
- Chance - A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market & Just About Everything Else
- A Natural History of the Senses
- Curve Ball - Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game
- Baseball by the Numbers - How Statistics are Collected, What They Mean, and How They Reveal the Game
- A Mathematician at the Ballpark - Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans - Ken Ross
- The Third Chimpanzee - The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal - Jared Diamond
- Monkeyluv - And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
- Religious Movements: Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers - Rodney Stark
Recently Completed
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America - Steven Johnson (good)
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet - Neil deGrasse Tyson (good)
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) - Tom Vanderbilt (very good)
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The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 - Thomas Ricks (excellent)
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America - David Hajdu (good)
- The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati (very good)
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions -- Dan Ariely (very good)
- Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris (okay)
- What Americans Really Believe - Rodney Stark (good)
- I am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter (okay)
- Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built and American Kingdom - John Gorenfeld (good)
- Worlds of Their Own: A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair Robert J. Schadewald (good)
- Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture Daniel Radosh (very good)
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (okay)
- The Drunken Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow (excellent)
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama (very good)
- Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire - Matt Taibi (very good)
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon - Daniel Dennett (very good)
- The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki (very good)
- Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays - Frederick Crews (excellent)
- Blind Side - Michael Lewis (very good)
- What Is Intelligence? - James R. Flynn (good)
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (disappointing)
- A Tragic Legacy: How A Good VS Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency - Glenn Greenwald (a good summary, but little new info for people paying attention at the time)
- A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers V.S. Ramachandran (very good)
- Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans - Garvey and Widmer
- Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What it Means to be Human - Ed. Susan Blackmore (excellent)
- Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior - Nancy L. Segal (very good)
- Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction - David Kuo (very good; should be read by every religious conservative)
- State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III - Bob Woodward (overrated, considerably inferior to Hubris or Fiasco)
- Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War - Michael Isikoff and David Corn (very good)
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks (excellent)
- A World Without Time - The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein (good)
- Foundations of Vision (very good)
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