| Date: | Author | Title |
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| January 2010 | William J. Bernstein | A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World |
| December 2009 | Keith E. Stanovich | What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought |
| November 2009 | Malcolm Gladwell | Outliers: The Story of Success |
| October 2009 | Daniel Kennefick | Traveling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves |
| September 2009 | Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending | The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution |
| (2 books discussed together): |
| August 2009 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Ron Paul | Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse |
| Paul Krugman | The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 |
| July 2009 | Peter Leeson | The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates |
| June 2009 | Dean Keith Simonton | Greatness: Who Makes History and Why |
| April 2008 | Arthur De Vany | Hollywood Economics: How extreme uncertainty shapes the film industry |
| February 2008 | Stephen Ziliak and Deirdre McCloskey | The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives |
| January 2008 | Michael Abramowicz | Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making |
| December 2008 | Diane Coyle | The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters |
| November 2008 | Mark Edward Lewis and Timothy Brook | The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han |
| October 2008 | Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson | The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin & Reward |
| September 2008 | Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae | Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime |
| August 2008 | Charles Murray | Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 |
| May 2008 | Paul Martin | Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams |
| May 2008 | Gregory Clark | A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World |
| April 2008 | William Bernstein | The Birth of Plenty : How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created |
| (2 books discussed together): |
| February 2008 | James R. Flynn | What is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect |
| Nicholas Humphrey | Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness |
| January 2008 | Christine Kenneally | The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language |
| December 2007 | Ken MacLeod | The Execution Channel |
| November 2007 | Keith E. Stanovich | The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin |
| September 2007 | Daniel Gilbert | Stumbling on Happiness |
| August 2007 | Sunny Y. Auyang | How Is Quantum Field Theory Possible? |
| July 2007 | Thomas Sowell | Black Rednecks and White Liberals |
| June 2007 | David Warsh | Knowledge and the Wealth Of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery |
| April 2007 | Judith Rich Harris | No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality |
| March 2007 | Lee Smolin | The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next |
| February 2007 | Robert Pape | Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism |
| (2 books discussed together): |
| January 2007 | James Surowiecki | The Wisdom of Crowds |
| Robert Hahn | Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions |
| December 2006 | Edward Castronova | Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games |
| November 2006 | Helmut Schoeck | Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior |
| September 2006 | Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner | Innovation and Its Discontents : How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It |
| August 2006 | Michael Lockwood | The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe |
| July 2006 | (2 books discussed together): |
| Sue Savage-Rumbaugh | Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind |
| Marc Bekoff (editor) | The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition (a few selected papers from this book) |
| June 2006 | Charles C. Mann | 1491 : New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus |
| May 2006 | J. Philippe Rushton | Race Evolution & Behavior |
| March 2006 | Sam Harris | The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason |
| March 2006 | David J. Buller | Adapting Minds : Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature |
| January 2006 | Thomas L. Friedman | The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century |
| December 2005 | Charles Stross | Accelerando |
| November 2005 | Kenneth Pomeranz | The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy |
| September 2005 | Eric B. Baum | What Is Thought? |
| August 2005 | John Steele Gordon | Empire of Wealth, An : The Epic History of American Economic Power |
| July 2005 | Wayne C. Gramlich, Patri Friedman and Andrew Houser | Seasteading: A Practical Guide to Homesteading the High Seas |
| June 2005 | Thomas P. M. Barnett | The Pentagon's New Map |
| April 2005 | Cory Doctorow | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom |
| March 2005 | Jeff Hawkins | On Intelligence |
| February 2005 | Michael Scheuer | Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
|
| January 2005 | Alexander Tabarrok (ed) | Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science |
| November 2004 | Peter Ward, Donald Brownlee | Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe |
| October 2004 | Mancur Olson | Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups |
| September 2004 | Judea Pearl | Causality : Models, Reasoning, and Inference |
| August 2004 | Michael Lewis | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game |
| June 2004 | Mark Skousen | The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers |
| 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
|
| December 2000 | David D. Friedman | Law's Order |
| 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)
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| 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 |