This is a curated list of choice authors and their works, that percolate to the top of the many articles, reports, essays, scholarly papers, and books read by Ӎuirén Ní Sídach, (She, Her, They), Founding Architect of the federated union, Ɍáithold Cooperative.
This brief list is a precursor to the creation of a larger, more comprehensive database and search engine intended to support and lifelong students with material that substantively contributes to the vibrancy of spirit, intellectual courage, and honesty, the enduring utility, and integrity of federation member’s intentional common sense.
Truth Before Comfort
The pursuit of evidential scientific truth is less about being perfectly right and more about being progressively less wrong. Paraphrasing the words of Alcoholics Anonymous Co-Founder, Bill Wilson: The principles we seek to engender are guides to progress. We claim rational progress rather than rational perfection. The web never forgets, and so we post this on the off chance that another kindred spirit may discover this listing, and also find it useful.
Saving Capitalism
For the Many, Not the Few (Kindle/Audible)
By Robert B. Reich
The Common Good (Kindle/Audible)
By Robert B. Reich
For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America (Paperback/Kindle)
By John Curl & Ishmael Reed
Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency (Kindle/Audible)
by Larry Diamond
How Democracies Die (Kindle/Audible)
By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations (Kindle/Audible)
By: Amy Chua (蔡美兒)
The Demon-Haunted World, Science as a Candle in the Dark (Kindle/Audible)
By Carl Sagan (My Previous readings 2015-03-30, 2012-05-06)
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (Kindle/Audible)
By Peter Godfrey-Smith
Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted (Kindle/Audible)
By Ian Millhiser
Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It (Kindle/Audible)
By Amy Cortese
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Kindle/Audible)
By Anand Giridharadas
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Kindle/Audible)
By Lisa Feldman Barrett
Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital (Kindle/Audible)
By John Restakis
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Kindle/Audible)
By Yuval Noah Harari
The Non-Profit Narrative: How Telling Stories Can Change the World (Kindle/Audible)
By Dan Portnoy
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Kindle/Audible)
By Francis Fukuyama
Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism (Kindle/Audible)
By Timothy E. W. Gloege
Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism (Kindle/Audible)
By Richard Carrier
We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy
A Handbook for Understanding and Implementing Sociocratic Principles and Practices (Kindle/Print)
By John Buck & Sharon Villines (About Sociocratic Democracy Website)
Environmental Psychology: An Introduction (Kindle/Audible)
By Linda Steg, Agnes E. Van Den Berg
A History of Future Cities (Kindle/Audible)
By Daniel Brook
