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library
In conjunction with each session, members receive recently published books, chosen to extend ideas and topics being addressed. This collection forms an impressive library that provides members with additional perspectives on issues covered in the sessions and provokes new thinking.

2010
February: SHIFTS HAPPEN
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
by Jaron Lanier

2009
February: Ahead in the Clouds
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis

May: Re: Learning
Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement by Ruth Colvin Clark

JULY: Leapfrogging Technologies
The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
by Kishore Mahbubani

OCtober: More from less
Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change
by Anique Hommels
Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating
by Mark Bittman

December: NextGens Technologies
Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-intensive Scientific Discovery edited by Tony Hey, Kristin Tolle, and Stewart Tansley

2008
February: Smart(er) Data
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Arieley

April: Being everywhere
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky

July: Generation Techs
Generation Blend by Rob Salkowitz

September: All Systems Green
Fuel edited by John Knechtel
World's Greatest Architect
by William Mitchell

December: NextGens Technologies
Closing the Innovation Gap by Judy Estrin

2007
February: Identity & Trust
Identity Crisis: How Identification is Overused and Misunderstood by Jim Harper

May: Global Threats … Global Opportunities
The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (and What to Do about It) by Michael Raynor
Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet by Denise Caruso

July: New Form/New Content
Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge

September: The wealth of networks
The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

December: NextGens Technologies
The Design of Future Things by Donald A. Norman

2006
February: Crossover Technologies
Got Game: How the Gamer Generation Is Reshaping Business Forever by John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade
Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling

April: Resilience, Risk & Reward
One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China by James McGregor
The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage by Yossi Sheffi

July: China's New Tech Era
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler
 
September: Time, Place & Space
Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories by Janet Abrams and Peter Hall

December: NextGens Technologies
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006, by Brian Greene and Tim Folger
The Change Function, by Pip Coburn

2005
February: All That Data
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

April: Future Networks
No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society by Robert O’Harrow

July: Evolving Systems
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

September: Extreme Interfaces
What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer by John Markoff

December: NextGens Technologies
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil

2004
February: Security and Privacy
Firewalls and Internet Security (Second Edition): Repelling the Wily Hacker by William Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin, and Aviel D. Rubin

April: Powering the Future
The Hype about Hydrogen by Joseph Romm

July: Harnessing Innovation
Uncommon Sense by Peter Cochrane
The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World by Bhaskar Chakravorti

September: The Challenge of Complexity
Sync by Steven Strogatz

December: NextGens Technologies
Digital People by Sidney Perkowitz

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