Other books that might interest you

• 

  At Work in the Ruins - Finding...

  Dougald Hine

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  'One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books yet written about the multiple intersecting crises that are now upending our once-familiar world. . . Essential reading for these turbulent times.' Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement   
  Dougald Hine, author and social thinker, has spent most of his life talking to people about climate change. And then one afternoon in the second year of the pandemic, he found he had nothing left to say.  
  Why would someone who cares so deeply about ecological destruction want to stop talking about climate change now? At Work in the Ruins explores that question.  
  “Climate change asks us questions that climate science cannot answer,” Hine says. Questions like, how did we end up in this mess? Is it just a piece of bad luck with the atmospheric chemistry—or is it the result of a way of approaching the world that would always have brought us to such a pass?  
  How we answer such questions has consequences.  According to Hine, our answers shape our understanding and our thinking about what kind of problem we think we’re dealing with and, therefore, what kind of responses we go looking for. “But when science is turned into an object of belief and a source of overriding authority,” Hine continues, “it becomes hard even to talk about the questions that it cannot answer.”  
  In eloquent, deeply researched prose, Hine demonstrates how our over-reliance on the single lens of science has blinded us to the nature of the crises around and ahead of us, leading to ‘solutions’ that can only make things worse. At Work in the Ruins is his reckoning with the strange years we have been living through and our long history of asking too much of science. It’s also about how we find our bearings and what kind of tasks are worth giving our lives to, given all we know or have good grounds to fear about the trouble the world is in.  
  For anyone who has found themselves needing to make sense of the COVID time and how we talk about it, At Work in the Ruins offers guidance by standing firmly forward and facing the depth of the trouble we are in. Hine, ultimately, helps us find the work that is worth doing, even in the ruins.  
  'A book of rare originality and depth—profound, far-reaching, mind-altering stuff.' Helen Jukes, author of A Honeybee Heart has Five Openings

  Show book

• 

  Bodysnatchers - Digging Up the...

  Suzie Lennox

  • 0
  • 1
  • 0

  The grim history of England’s bodysnatching trade: “Lennox’s thorough exploration is riveting” (Naomi Clifford, author of The Disappearance of Maria Glenn).   From the string of murders committed by Burke and Hare, a pair of ghouls who are still the stuff of pop culture legend, to the lesser-known but equally gruesome grave-robbing exploits of Henry Gillies, William Patrick, and Joseph Grainger, here is the fascinating true chronicle of England’s “Resurrection Men.”   During the winter months of 1742–1832, selling fresh cadavers to anatomists up and down the country, all in aid of medical advancement, was the surest way to earn a living for desperate men. After all, anatomy schools would pay high prices for corpses to dissect—the fresher the better. And they asked no questions as to their origins. This resulted in the criminal underworld of the “Sack ‘em up Men” who left behind disinterred churchyards and burial grounds, and spread fear and horror throughout the United Kingdom.   In Bodysnatchers, Suzie Lennox unearths the truth behind the macabre tales, separating fact from folktale, and setting the record straight about Britain’s gruesome, often forgotten history.

  Show book

• 

  New Report Reveals Where You...

  PBS NewsHour

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Children of low-income families in certain communities are more likely to move up the economic ladder than others, says a new report by Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley. Jeffrey Brown talks to co-author Raj Chetty, Harvard professor of economics, for more on their portrait of American social mobility.

  Show book

• 

  Logic Philosophy & Psychoanalysis

  J.M. Kuczynski

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  This volume contains monologues and dialogues in which the most basic questions of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and logic are given clear and cogent answers. Table of Contents: 30 Laws of LogicDifferent Kinds of Mathematical Functions: A DialogueFunctions, Bijections, and Mapping-relationsWhat is Logic?Outline of a Theory of KnowledgeDeterminism, Indeterminism, and Personal FreedomA DialogueNeurosis vs. PsychosisWhat determines whether one is happy?Compulsive WorkStutteringHow men and women are differentOne learns from adversity, not from failureDoes everybody want money?The #1 Rule of WritingLack of CoordinationMental Illness: The Ultimate Litmus TestThe #1 Rule of BusinessHonesty and IntegrityA DialogueAngerA DialogueWhat is Bullshit?A Short Treatise on CausalityPart 1: Causality and ContinuityPart 2 : Causation and ExplanationPart 3: Causation and Counterfactual TruthPart 4: Program-causationPart 5: The four different kinds of causes involved in the development of mental illnessPart 6: Singular CausationObsessions and CompulsionsA Dialogue concerning OCDWriting Animated Dialogues as Self-Analysis:A DialogueNeurotic Anxiety as Rational Fear:A DialogueAgencyAnalyticityAnomalous MonismBullshitTwo Kinds of InsanityIgnorance of the FutureJusticeProof that Time-Travel is ImpossibleRationality vs. Intelligence: A Dialogue

  Show book

• 

  Practical Matter - Newton's...

  Larry Stewart, Margaret C. Jacob

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  “A highly ambitious and provocative survey of the cultural history of science and industry” from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries (Journal of Modern History). In 1687, the publication of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica sparked a profound transformation in the world. From that event in the late-seventeenth century to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually moved to the center Western thought and economic development. In Practical Matter, Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart chronicle this dramatic, epochal shift. Despite powerful opposition on the Continent, a Newtonian understanding gained broad-based acceptance and practical application. By the mid-eighteenth century, the race was on to apply Newtonian mechanics to industry and manufacturing. The ascendancy of the new science culminated in the creating of the Crystal Palace Exhibition, London’s temple to scientific and technological progress. With fascinating insight into the changing culture of industry and higher learning, Jacob and Stewart show that there was nothing inevitable about the Scientific Revolution. “It is easy to forget that science might have been stillborn, or remained the esoteric knowledge of court elites. Instead, for better and for worse, science became a centerpiece of Western culture.”

  Show book

• 

  Rescue 911 - Tales from a First...

  Michael Morse

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  People from all walks of life call 911 when things go bad. These are their stories, told by the people who respond and make things better. 
  First responders often don't tell stories, preferring to keep what happens at work private. Rescue Captain Michael Morse changes that with these heartfelt descriptions of hundreds of emergency calls, with the usual coverings peeled back, exposing the bizarre, heartbreaking, and often hilarious reactions to 911 emergencies.

  Show book