This week in Summer Reading

Book cover for Think Again

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Adam Grant

Grant’s book discusses how we can go about defining ourselves by values which could give us the flexibility to rethink and update our plans and practices based on ongoing new evidence. It encourages you to reexamine and challenge your own beliefs and assumptions.

LOIS WAREHAM
Manager
IT Client Services
Special Operations and Security Response

 

 

Book cover for The Dawn of Everything

The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber and David Wengrow

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity is a 2021 book by anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow. It puts forth a dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution — from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality — and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. I recommend this book because it causes us to reevaluate the “rules” of human society, and gives us a more hopeful vision of the creativity that characterizes our species.

CAROLINE M. WILLIAMS
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Biology