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Fall 2019 Reading Groups
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions and Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
Discussion Leader: Patrick Duffey
Creating an Ecologial Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams
Discussion Leaders: Jessica Healy and Jeremy Posadas
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
by Keith Payne
Discussion Leader: Terry Hoops
The True History of Tea
by Erling Hoh and Victor H. Mair
Discussion Leader: Mindy Landeck
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
by James M. Lang
Discussion Leader: Catie Patterson
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
by Mariana Mazzucato
Discussion Leader: Andra Petrean
Lab Dynamics: Management and Leadership Skills for Scientists
by Carl M. Cohen and Suzanne L. Cohen
Discussion Leaders: David Aiello and John Richardson
Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities
by John Warner
Discussion Leader: Lisha Storey
Spring 2020 Reading Groups
Why Only Us: Language and Evolution
by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky
Discussion Leader: Truett Cates
Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation
by Carolyn Cocca
Discussion Leader: Jeff Fontana
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan
Discussion Leader: Hank Gorman
A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
by Barbara Oakley
Discussion Leader: Jim Hebda
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
By Jean M. Twenge
Discussion Leader: Karla McCain
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David J. Epstein
Discussion Leader: Danny Nuckols