Category: Book Club
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Book Club July: Privilege, Power, and Difference
As we traverse fortune this month, we must understand what the implications of that fortune are. We’ll take a journey with Allan G. Johnson to look at the ways our privilege effects us and those around us. We will examine this topic in the areas of race, gender, and physical disability status to gain some…
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February Book Club: On Desire
This month’s theme is Desire, and specifically how our cravings effect us. It will be important to not why we want the things we want as well. William Irvine is philosopher who has done extensive work on this subject and has published a book that does not revel in the theoretical aspects of his topics…
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BOOK CLUB: THE MARSHMALLOW TEST
In the late 1960’s Walter Mischel asked kids to delay their satisfaction for a greater reward later. The results of the experiment spawned a breakthrough in psychology. In this book Walter walks us through the experiment, its findings, and practical applications in casual language that is worthwhile to you whether you are a psychologist or just want…
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13 Books We Utterly Devoured In 2014
This year we started our book club and just barely survived the holiday season and cranked out 13 books. Each in the category of non fiction spanning subject matter from feminism, to behavioral economics, to physics, and design. We will no doubt traverse even greater variety in 2015 but definitely add these to your book…
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BOOK CLUB: The Obstacle Is The Way
None of us are immune to facing trouble on our path to achieve our goals. Even the greatest most powerful men have had to learn ways of moving beyond the obstacles set before them. Author, Ryan Holiday delves into this topic and shows how we can learn from our trials using in depth historical reference.…
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Book Club: Cities Are Good For You
As we explore our relationship to the spaces we inhabit, the city is a construct that we can not explore, this month we take a look at the city from many perspectives and dive into its possibilities with author Leo Hollis. We reached out to Leo and he prepare this primer for the read especially…
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Book Club: Language Wars
Have you ever spoken to someone who you could not understand at all even though you were both speaking English? Maybe they were from a different region of the country than you, or from a different country altogether. In America there are so many different accents that it can be difficult to understand some one…
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Book Club: Nudge
As Citizens Of Culture investigates our cultural perspective on Money: Personal Finance, Choice, and the Creative Economy we look to also uncover some information about how we make decisions in our environment and what amount of input we prefer from outside sources. If you have ever asked a waiter at a restaurant “What’s good here?”…
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Book Club: How To Be A Woman
In a month when we are discuss gender roles, relationships, and intimacy things can have the potential to get very dicey if you do not have an open mind to the discussions we are having. We would like everyone to evaluate the topic, not from a gender neutral position but conversely digging into what it…
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Danielle Dorky and C20 Book Club Launch Party
We are teaming up with DanielleDorky.com to Launch our book club with a live book exchange and language arts showcase. Come celebrate spoken and written word, have a drink, and enjoy some delicious thai food on the patio deck of the Mandrake Bar. Be there, AND be square.