Explorers
 

The Explorers group focuses on a wide variety of readings, including novels, plays, science, philosophy, history, and poetry.

Day/time   Location
First Wednesday of the month at 8:00 pm   Barnes & Noble
7626 Westheimer (at Voss)
Houston, TX

Map
Group Secretary
Nelda Pena
281.496.4325
 
Date Author Book / Reading Selection Notes
 
Oct 6, 2010 Stephen Hawking The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
Nov 3, 2010 Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych
Dec 1, 2010 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto
Jan 5, 2011 Julius Caesar The Gallic Wars: Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulis Hiertius
Feb 2, 2011 Khayyam/FitzGerald The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Mar 2, 2011 Walt Whitman Memoranda During the War: Civil War Journals 1863-1865
Apr 6, 2011 Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
May 4, 2011 James Joyce Dubliners Rene Lead
Jun 1, 2011 Tania Gergel Alexander the Great: Selected Texts from Arrian, Curtius, and Plutarch
Jul 6, 2011 Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action
Aug 3, 2011 George Bernard Shaw and Jean Anouilh Saint Joan and The Lark
Sep 7, 2011 Barbara Tuchman The Zimmerman Telegram Rene Lead
Oct 5, 2011 William Hubben Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche & Kafka
 
Group Archive
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