On Dec 18 we start Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

 On Dec 18 we start Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

date	pg	chp
12/18/22	62	Tending Sweetgrass
12/25/22	skip	skip
1/1/23	120	Picking Sweetgrass
1/8/23	175	The Honorable Harvest
1/15/23	223	Sitting in a Circle
1/22/23	277	Old Growth Children
1/29/23	341	People of Corn, People of Light
2/5/23	385	end

Voting list

 These are the books provided that we will vote to read

title and author	description	proposed	price	rank
Biohack Your Brain: How to Boost Cognitive Health, Performance & Power by Kristen Willeumier	reveals how you can change your brain by making simple and easy modifications to your lifestyle. Combining clinical experience with revolutionary science, she details how biohacking your brain can boost your cognitive performance and so much more.	Jim	$7	2
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright	unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics--as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies	Kevin	$2	2
RISING TIDE: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. By John M. Barry.	Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of African Americans north, and transformed American society and politics forever	Kevin	$2	6
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY. By Jean-Dominique Bauby	Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter	Kevin	$1	5
FERMAT'S ENIGMA: The Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem. By Simon Singh	story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it. Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics	Kevin	$1	4
HOW THE MIND WORKS. By Steven Pinker.	explanations of our mental life from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and other fields to explain what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and contemplate the mysteries of life.	Kevin	$2	2
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer	reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return	Marcella	$11	1
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta	provides a new model for our everyday lives. Rich in ideas and inspiration, it explains how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world. It’s about how we learn and how we remember. It’s about talking to everyone and listening carefully. It’s about finding different ways to look at things.	Marcella	16	3

We Start The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson On 10/16

 We Start The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson On 10/16

	chp
10/16/22	7
10/23/22	13
11/6/22	15
11/20/22	end

We start The Swerve Book by Stephen Greenblatt on 9/18

 We start The Swerve Book by Stephen Greenblatt on 9/18

We will read up until

	chp
9/18/22	3
9/25/22	5
10/2/22	7
10/9/22	end

We start our next book Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit on 8/21

 We start our next book Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit on 8/21

each week we will read up until

	chp
8/21/22	7
9/4/22	15
9/11/22	end

On 5/29/22 We Start AI 2041: TEN VISIONS OF OUR FUTURE by Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan

On 5/29/22 We Start AI 2041: TEN VISIONS OF OUR FUTURE by Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan

each week we will read up until

	chp
5/29/22	2
6/5/22	3
6/12/22	4
6/19/22	5
6/26/22	6
7/17/22	7
7/24/22	8
7/31/22	9
8/7/22	10
8/14/22	end

Voting List

 

title and author	description	proposed by	rank	pages
Moral Freedom by Alan Wolfe	ventures into the minds and hearts of Americans to determine how we really think about morality in today's age, focusing on traditional values of loyalty, self-restraint, honesty, and forgiveness	Kevin	3	224
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana	Written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834. With his writing I can almost feel I am on a sailing ship trying to make it around Cape Horn or anchored off a very early California. I know I will read this book a couple more times before I depart this planet.	Kevin	6	420
Emma's War by Deborah Scroggins	once a disturbing love story and an up-close look at Sudan: a world where international aid fuels armies as well as the starving population	Kevin	7	416
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit	radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history	Kevin	2	184
Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt	a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functions without the aid of gods, that religious fear is damaging to human life, that pleasure and virtue are not opposites but intertwined, and that matter is made up of very small material particles in eternal motion, randomly colliding and swerving in new directions. Its return to circulation changed the course of history. The poem’s vision would shape the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein, and—in the hands of Thomas Jefferson—leave its trace on the Declaration of Independence.	Kathy	4	377
AI 2041: TEN VISIONS OF OUR FUTURE by Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan	imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping short stories, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041	Doug	1	452
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson	How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?"	Doug	5	219