Friday, November 29, 2013

Coming in 2014!


2014 Urban Engagement Book Club (Hosted by CitySquare)

Every FIRST Thursday at Noon
Highland Park United Methodist Church (at SMU), Room 120
3300 Mockingbird Lane Dallas, Texas 75205
www.UrbanEngagement.org          
                                                                                              
January 9
Outliers: The Story of Success , Malcolm Gladwell

February 6
Black Like Me (50th Anniversary Edition), John Howard Griffin

March 6
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy ,Bruce Katz & Jennifer Bradley

April 3
The Other America: Poverty in the United States ,Michael Harrington

May 1
The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools,
Christopher A. Lubienski & Sarah Theule Lubienski

June 5
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir

July 3
No Book Club: Summer Break

August 7
The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives, Sasha Abramsky

September 4
Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide, Michael Dear

October 2
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, Diane Ravitch

November 6
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell

December 4
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women,  Susan Faludi


Every THIRD Thursday at Noon
First United Methodist Church, Crossroads Room
1928 Ross Ave Dallas, Texas 75201

January 23
Outliers: The Story of Success,Malcolm Gladwell

February 20
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass,
Douglas Massey & Nancy Denton

March 20
The Other America: Poverty in the United States,Michael Harrington

April 16
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, T. R. Reid

May 15
The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools,
Christopher A. Lubienski & Sarah Theule Lubienski

June 19
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell

July 10
The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Second Edition, Leo Chavez

August 21
NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism , Tamara Kay

September 18
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley

October 17
The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate
Walter Nicholls

November 21
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,Sheryl Sandberg

December 18
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir






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