SANE Bookclub
Interested people get together the last Sunday of each month to talk about books related to education, social analysis and social change.
Book list for SANE Book Club
Topics/authors of interest:
Deschooling
Environmental sustainability
Co-housing
Massey lectures
Anything by Ivan Illich
George Lakoff
Margaret Visser
Matt Hern
Lynn Margulis
Books
Teenage Liberation Handbook
Freakonomics – Stephen Levitt
Bolo Bolo
Gaia – James Lovelock
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
Guns,Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R Covey
Short History of Progress – Ronald Wright
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
5 People you meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
The End of Food – Thomas Pawlick
Not on the Label – Felicity Lawrence
My year of Meats – Ruth Ozeki
All over Creation – Ruth Ozeki
Underground History of Education – John Gato
Presence – Peter Senge
Walking after Midnight – Kati Hutchison
Curious Incident of the Dog at Midnight – Mark Haddon
The Dispossed – Ursula le Guin
Hold on to your Children – Gordon Neufeld
Tanglewreck – Jeanette Winterson
If they give you lined paper, turn it sideways – Daniel Quinn
Smoke & mirrors – Neil Gaiman
The Politics of Meaning – Michael Lerner
Lies my Teacher told me – James Loewen
The Body Never Lies – Alice Miller
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
Women recreating Family, Community and Home
Hidden Messages in Water – Masaro Emoto
The Healing Power of Water
Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli
Secret of Shambala – James Redfield
Last Chance to see -- Douglas Adams
The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics -- Riane Eisler
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil--Philip Zimbardo
Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed --Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, and Michael Quinn Patton
Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society)--Robert Putnam
Watch Yourself! by Matt Hern
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
Movies/Documentaries
What the Bleep do we know?
BBC series on Freudian though through the Century – “The
Century of the Self” ?