First Coast Freethought Society, Inc.
Jacksonville, Florida
"To question is the answer."

 

Book Discussion Group   

A humanist book discussion group meets at 2:00 p.m. on the third Sunday of each month.  The location is Borders Books (8801 Southside Boulevard; phone 519-6500). Borders will order a small number of books for each meeting; books will be held behind the register under the name of Kross.

For further information, leave a message at 904-996-1553 or write jewellkross@yahoo.com.  Hope you can join us!

Book List

bulletAugust 17, 2008 - The Atheist Bible:  An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Thoughts, edited by Joan Konner
bulletJuly 20, 2008 - Book of your choice
bulletJune 15, 2008 - The Future of Life, by Edward O. Wilson
bulletMay 18, 2008 - The Portable Atheist, edited by Christopher Hitchens
bulletApril 20, 2008 - Cool It:  The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming, by Bjorn Lomborg
bulletMarch 16, 2008 - Robbing Us Blind, by Steve Brouwer and Matt Wuerker
bulletFebruary 17, 2008 - Dark Ages:   The Final Phase of Empire, by Morris Berman
bulletJanuary 20, 2008 - Book or article of your choice.
bulletDecember 16, 2007 - Christ Stopped at Eboli, by Carlo Levi
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November 18, 2007 - The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, by Bobby Henderson.  Note, in November the group is meeting at Barnes & Noble, 9282 Atlantic Blvd., in Jacksonville.  (Books will be held behind the cash register under the name of "Humanist.")
bulletOctober 21, 2007 - Any book by Kurt Vonnegut
bulletSeptember 16, 2007 - The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore
bulletAugust 19, 2007 - Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
bulletJuly 15, 2007 - Book of choice - Come prepared to discuss the latest book you have read.
bulletJune 17, 2007 - Breaking the Spell, by Daniel Dennett
bulletMay 20, 2007 - Affirmations:  Joyful and Creative Exuberance, by Paul Kurtz
bulletApril 15, 2007 - A Rulebook for Arguments, by Anthony Weston
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March 18, 2007 - The March reading selections are found on the website: www.positiveatheism.org/tochtwai.htm. There you will find printable writings of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
bulletFebruary 18, 2007 - The Moral Animal:  Why We Are, the Way We Are:  The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright
bulletJanuary 21, 2007 - The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
bulletDecember 17, 2006 - Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
bulletNovember 19, 2006 - Humanism as the Next Step, by Lloyd and Mary Morain
bulletOctober 15, 2006 - Free Inquiry Magazine, Oct/Nov 2006 edition
(This publication should be available in all public libraries.  Please let the board know if it is not.)
bulletSeptember 17, 2006 - Civil Liberties vs. National Security in a Post 9/11 World, edited by Katherine B Darmer, Stuart E. Rosenbaum, and Robert M. Baird
bulletAugust 20, 2006 - Values and Virtue in a Godless Universe, by Erik J. Weilenberg
bulletJuly 16, 2006 - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins
bulletJune 18, 2006 - Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
bulletMay 21, 2006 - God Versus the Gavel, by Marci A. Hamilton
bulletApril 16, 2006 - One Planet, One People, by Carl Coon
bulletMarch 19, 2006 - The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
bulletFebruary 19, 2006 - The Crisis of Islam, by Bernard Lewis
bulletJanuary 15, 2006 - Life, Sex, and Ideas:  The Good Life without God, by A.C. Grayling
bulletDecember 18, 2005 - The End of Faith:  Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, by Sam Harris
bulletNovember 20, 2005 - The Happy Heretic, by Judy Hayes
bulletOctober 16, 2005 - Atheism:  The Case Against God, by George H. Smith
bulletSeptember 18, 2005 - Aug/Sept issue of Free Inquiry magazine
bulletAugust 21, 2005 - July issue of Skeptic Magazine
bulletJuly 17, 2005 - May/June issue of The Humanist
bulletJune 19, 2005 - Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer
bulletMay 15, 2005 - The Fundamentals of Extremism, by Kimberly Blaker, Ed.
bulletApril 17, 2005 - Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
bulletMarch 20, 2005 - Dumbth:  The Lost Art of Thinking, by Steve Allen
bulletFebruary 05, 2005 - Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
bulletJanuary 16, 2005 - The Philosophy of Humanism, by Corliss Lamont
bulletDecember 19, 2004 - Drug Crazy, by Mike Gray
bulletNovember 21, 2004 - Best of Robert Ingersoll:  Selections From His Writings and Speeches - by Rober E. Greeley, ed
bulletOctober 17, 2004 - Continuation of previous discussion on the Bush administration and implications for November elections. Book of your choice. Recommended:  The New American Empire. - by Rodrigue Tremblay
bulletSeptember 15, 2004
bulletThe Bush-Hater's Handbook, by Jack Huberman
bulletThe Despoiling of America, by Katherine Yurica
bulletAugust 15, 2004 - Writings On An Ethical Life, by Peter Singer

Revised June 19, 2008

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