Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Oct Book: Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable and Miracle"
Just in time for the fall local harvest, we will read about Barbara Kingsolver's one year experiment of eating only local food. Steve will serve a special local snack!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
November Book: The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Join us November for an exciting discussion of Michael Chabon's latest. Evan will be providing Yiddish Glossaries for all non Jewish members of the group.
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Publish Post gt by the first 100 pages and you will enjoy Chabon's clever writing.
a great read -javascript:void(0)
Publish Post gt by the first 100 pages and you will enjoy Chabon's clever writing.
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