o copy from one of the Amazon reviews about this book, “If the proverbial Martian were to write a history of Humankind, and s/he were capable of empathy, it might look something like this book.”

It walks through the history of humankind, not through stories about what happen in Rome in the year XYZ, but rather the great stories of humankind – Hunter-Gathering, Agriculture, Language, Money, Empires, Religions, Science, Technology, … It’s a mind-bending experience.

Each meeting I’ll bring a bunch of copies of one of the chapters and we’ll have an open discussion about it. People can wander in and out as they see fit. Some of us will have already read the chapter and others will not have. We did one pilot meeting and it went very well, so let’s do another one! I’ll bring some snacks and food, bring some as well!