One of the things I took with me from last Friday’s Salon was, that I get a lot more out of it having read the whole book, not only glanced over it. We will try to have always a window of two months in front of us, so that you can pick up next months book at the Salon. 
September books are (And this will be the last time we are having two books): Linked by Barabasi, which is challenging the Chaos theory (Wayne say it does not, and I did not get to that part of the book either.) and Michael Korns picked up the gauntlet and will make the case for the Chaos supported by the book with the same name written by James Glick. Our Future Salon on the 20th of September is going to be very interesting. I can't wait.
October book is: The Seven Sins of Memory by Daniel Schacter. Thank you Josie for this great suggestion. Everyone at the Salon was very interested once I read your description: "It's an "introduction to the memory defects we all possess which are actually adaptive, a product of evolutionary psychology. We have evolved them to improve our ability to associate and selectively forget. Our memory is tuned to work with finite computational
resources and provide the greatest future adaptability within that framework, and the links we choose to build up actually have a "memory cost" to our other associations. Schacter says You are what you think, and what you choose to remember is very important to the nature of your future functioning." Sounds like a fun reading to me. Enjoy, Mark.
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