Orientalism
Author: Edward W. Said
The Humanist Book Club meets on the fourth Saturday of each month at 10:30 a.m. at the Mesa Main Library, 64 East 1st Street (East of Country Club Way at the intersection of N. Centennial Way -- N.W. corner)
From Amazon.com:
"The theme is the way in which intellectual traditions are created and transmitted... Orientalism is the example Mr. Said uses, and by it he means something precise. The scholar who studies the Orient (and specifically the Muslim Orient), the imaginitive writer who takes it as his subject, and the institutions which have been concerned with teaching it, settling it, ruling it, all have a certain representation or idea of the Orient defined as being other than the Occident, mysterious, unchanging and ultimately inferior." --Albert Hourani, New York Review of Books
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| Past Selections |
08/28/10
Your Religion is False
Author: Joel Grus
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07/24/10
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present,
Author: Howard Zinn
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06/26/10
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Birth of the Modern Arms Race
Author: Priscilla McMillan
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05/22/10
Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
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04/24/10
The Prince
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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03/27/10
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll
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02/27/10
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Author: Michael J. Sandel
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01/23/10
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Author: Jeff Sharlet
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12/19/09
The Geography of Bliss
Author: Eric Weiner
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11/21/09
1421: The Year China Discovered America
Author: Gavin Menzies
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10/24/09
Letters from the Earth
Author: Mark Twain
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09/26/09
Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe through the Islamic World
Author: John Freely
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08/22/09
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Author: Jared Diamond
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07/25/09
Outliers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
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06/27/09
A Free Life
Author: Ha Jin
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05/23/09
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World
Author: Michael Pollan
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04/25/09
One World: The Ethics of Globalization
Author: Peter Singer
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03/28/09
The Audacity of Hope
Author: Barack Obama
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02/15/09
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
Author: Simon Singh
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01/18/09
Dreams from My Father
Author: Barack Obama
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10/12/08
Rendezvous with Rama
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
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09/14/08
The Periodic Table
Author: Primo Levi
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08/17/08
Break, Blow, Burn
Author: Camille Paglia
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07/20/08
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Author: Charles Darwin
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06/08/08
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Author: Kim Edwards
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05/11/08
On the Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Author: Carl Sagan
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04/13/08
Persepolis
Author: Marjane Satrapi
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03/23/08
The Uncommon Reader
Author: Alan Bennett
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02/03/08
Atlas Shrugged
Author: Ayn Rand
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01/13/08
The World Without Us
Author: Alan Weisman
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11/11/07
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
Author: E. D. Hirsch Jr
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10/14/07
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within
Author: Bruce Bawer
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09/16/07
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Author: Christopher Hitchens
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08/19/07
Three Cups of Tea
Author: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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07/15/07
Adam's Curse: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Destiny
Author: Bryan Sykes
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06/10/07
Suite Francaise
Author: Irčne Némirovsky
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05/13/07
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Author: John Perkins
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04/08/07
Crimes Against Logic
Author: Jamie Whyte
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03/11/07
John Adams
Author: David McCullough
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02/11/07
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Author: John Allen Paulos
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01/14/07
Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow
Author: Kristen Breitweiser
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11/12/06
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Author: Howard Bloom
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10/15/06
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
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09/17/06
American Theocracy
Author: Kevin Phillips
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08/13/06
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong
Author: James W. Loewen
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07/16/06
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Thomas Friedman
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06/11/06
Ingersoll the Magnificent
Author: Joseph Lewis
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05/21/06
Ecotopia
Author: Ernest Callenbach
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04/16/06
The Iron Heel
Author: Jack London
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03/26/06
State of War
Author: James Risen
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02/12/06
A Man Without a Country
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
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01/15/06
Guns, Germs and Steel
Author: Jared Diamond
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11/27/05
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
Author: Susan Jacoby
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10/23/05
The Truth About Jesus: Is He a Myth?
Author: Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian
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09/18/05
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character
Author: Richard P. Feynman
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08/28/05
The Plot Against America
Author: Philip Roth
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07/17/05
America Declares Independence
Author: Alan Dershowitz
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06/18/05
In the Land of Second Chances
Author: George Shaffner
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05/29/05
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason
Author: Sam Harris
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04/24/05
Humanism as the Next Step
Author: Lloyd and Mary Morain
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03/27/05
Slant
Author: Greg Bear
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02/27/05
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
Author: Bill McKibben
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01/16/05
The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
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11/28/04
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
Author: Bill Bryson
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10/17/04
The Moral Animal, Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Author: Robert Wright
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08/29/04
Life of Pi: A Novel
Author: Yann Martel
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06/20/04
REASON Magazine
Author: Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief
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05/23/04
Angels & Demons
Author: Dan Brown
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04/11/04
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Author: Azar Nafisi
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03/14/04
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Author: Jon Krakauer
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02/15/04
The Bubble of American Supremacy
Author: George Soros
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01/18/04
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Author: Carl Sagan
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