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The Road to Character (click to see Amazon hyperlink) by David Brooks is one that folks for the conserving of social values will like, will those who can't stand conservative thought, will dismiss as a protest against the prevailing wind of progress. The thesis that Brooks puts forward is that...

What's the title of the works?

Oh snap Print better for comprehension than e-books which make you a knuckle dragging, troglodyte. :devillook

Jeremy Rifkin is one heck of a futurist writer. His End of Work is NOT to be missed if you want to glean what the future holds. The guy predicted the state of society before Uber and Airbnb. This book sounds quite interesting, though I don't know if "industrial" is the right description.

Listening to a lot of Alice Wolf. What an incredible band that reminds me of the grungy '90s.

A novel idea! book vending machines

In terms of race and social conditions, perhaps we have learned and things have improved considerably....not that there isn't room for improvement. I'm not certain if we've learned about economics and whether or not allowing financial traders to run things is akin to allowing teenagers have...

This would put a bummer on things.

Ethics in a permissive society was a book published in 1971 an features a Christian apologetic's take on social issues of the day. The first two chapters revolve around ethics as expounded by Jesus and Paul and is surprisingly, one of the better chapters in the book as they are a side bar to...

For August, how about a book title with August in it?

From a blog, and not a bad one at that. Scripture for a Dead God. "I would argue that Leaves of Grass is the first great work of scripture to be penned since modernity killed God." Well then.......

What a career..... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/el-doctorow-dead_55aeed2ce4b08f57d5d2ead6?

I hear James Patterson is teaching a writing class........

Oh yeah, not difficult at all. It's simply written and straight forward when it comes to worldview.

Yep, a non-fiction argument, no matter how unproven or stretched, is still non-fiction.

That is a great book, no doubt about it. I'd also read Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln. It will give you more of an insight as to how he dealt with some of those personalities, especially the slow as molasses moving generals.

If nobody reads, then why is YA booming? Trivial reading is still reading and at a younger age, it can lead to more substantive reading. You have to start somewhere and what interests you at a certain time can spark interest in other areas. I would imagine the reaction to the young man is more...

And "progress" marches on. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27762088

We changed owners again? o_O