Good Books

This page of good books will be continuously updated as members of the group encounter books they want to recommend.

Human Behavior (Ethics, Morality, Cooperation, Reciprocity, Trust)

• The Moral Landscape, by Sam Harris
• Statistics of Deadly Quarrels, by Louis Fry Richardson, (Quaker mathematician, physicist, meteorologist and pacifist)
• Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker
• Super Cooperators: Altrusim, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed, by Martin Nowak
• Primate's Memoir, by Robert Sapolsky
• The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist, by Frans de Waal

Living With Hope and Integrity

• Ecotopia, by Ernest Callenbach
• Books by Terry Tempest Williams, including Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, and Refuge, An Unnatural History of Family and Place
• Excuse Begone! How to Change Lifelong, Self-defeating Thinking Habits, by Dr. Wayne Dyer
• The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes, by Gregg Braden
• Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
• Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace, by Amory Lovins
• Reason for Hope, by Jane Goodall
• The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future, by Thomas Berry
• Books by Pema Chodron
• The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature: Our Responsibility, a conference at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences

Spirituality, The Mind

• Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, by Rick Hanson
• Earthspirit: A Handbook for Nurturing an Ecological Christianity, by Michael Dowd
• John Woolman and the Affairs of Truth, edited by James Proud

Biographies and Autobiographies of Scientists

• Naturalist, by Edward O. Wilson
• Curious Naturalists, by Nikko Tinbergen
• Steller's Island: Adventures of a Pioneer Naturalist in Alaska, by Dean Littlepage
• Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Geology, Earth History, Universe History

• The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood, by David R. Montgomery
• Stardust: Supernovae and Life, by John Gibbin

Evolution, Genetics

• Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin
• Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory, by Edward J. Larson
• The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
• The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, by Richard Dawkins
• Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of EvoDevo, by Sean B. Carroll
• The Beak of the Finch, by Jonathan Weiner