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A Myriad of Tongues

A Myriad of Tongues

Everett, Caleb | 2023 | Harvard University Press | 9780674976580

Subject: Education


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Review: In the Amazonian region of Brazil, where anthropologist Caleb Everett spent much of his childhood, speakers of Tupi-Kawah never refer to time passing by. Indeed, the language has no word for time. By contrast, most European languages have few abstract words for odours, whereas languages in a number of other cultures have more than a dozen. Everett's fascinating book based on collaboration with bio...Read More

Affective Feminisms in Digital India Intimate Rebels

Affective Feminisms in Digital India Intimate Rebels

Pillai, Meena T | 2023 | Routledge India | 9781032535319

Subject: Gender Studies


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: The key achievement of Meena T. Pillais's book Affective Feminisms in Digital India: Intimate Rebels is that it successfully delineates certain Diffuse, slippery, emotional, and elusive Forms of digital dissent and transforms this mess of affective phenomena into Soft structures of feelings. And evolving modes of Intimate Rebellion. According to the author, Despite the fluid, tentative, and elusiv...Read More

Broken Code: inside Facebook and the fight to expose its harmful secrets

Broken Code: inside Facebook and the fight to expose its harmful secrets

Horwitz, Jeff | 2023 | Penguin Random House | 9780385549189

Subject: Biography


Source: The New York Times

Review: In a welcome departure from the subgenre of stories about Facebook, Jeff Horwitz's Broken Code doesn't open in a Harvard dorm room. Expanding on the revelations of his blockbuster Facebook Files series of articles in The Wall Street Journal, the book focuses squarely on the past decade. It begins when Facebook is already a global behemoth with a user count in the billions and a company ethos that ...Read More

Brotherhood: When West Point Rugby Went to War

Brotherhood: When West Point Rugby Went to War

Pengelly, Martin | 2023 | David R. Godine | 9781567927115

Subject: Sports


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: On Sept. 12, 2001, we all woke up to a different world. This was especially true of our men and women in uniform. Many had joined the service during relative peace, and few could have imagined the decadeslong global war on terror that was about to unfold. The following spring, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's class of 2002 became the first cohort since the Vietnam era to graduate into an ...Read More

Chasing bright Medusas: a life of Willa Cather

Chasing bright Medusas: a life of Willa Cather

Taylor, Benjamin | 2023 | Penguin Random House | 9780593298824

Subject: General


Source: The New York Times

Review: Benjamin Taylor, the author of an excellent brief biography of Proust, a short, lively memoir of his long friendship with Philip Roth, and two novels, among other works, offers just that with Chasing Bright Medusas, His crisp sketch of Cather's life is a portrait, as she described her vision for one of her novels, like a thin miniature painted on ivory. portraying Cather with the sort of swift, op...Read More

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

Land, Stephanie | 2023 | Atria/One Signal Publishers | 9781982151393

Subject: Education


Source: The New York Times

Review: In her second memoir, Land describes the challenges of trying to get a college degree as a single mother living below the poverty line. As in her debut book, the blockbuster Maid, Land is not just exploring her own story but also the larger implications of what it means to fall between the cracks of American capitalism....Read More

Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good

Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good

Thomason, Krista K. | 2023 | Oxford University Press | 9780197673287

Subject: Psychology


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: How can we reconcile ourselves to the fact that bad feelings feelings like anger, envy, contempt, spite and Schadenfreude play such a prominent role in our mental lives? According to Krista Thomason, a philosophy professor at Swarthmore, we would do well to regard them as beneficial more than bad. Such feelings, she says, should be seen as worms in the garden of our mind. Sure, they are weird and ...Read More

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

Graydon, Samuel | 2023 | Simon and Schuster | 9781982185121

Subject: Biography


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Review: Science journalist Samuel Graydon calls his first book a mosaic biography, aiming to piece together Albert Einstein's life from brief but significant shards, mostly in chronological order. Its 99 sections matching the atomic number of einsteinium and ranging in length from one page to several each focus on a moment or aspect of its subject. Some concern Einstein's science, others his personality;...Read More

Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras

Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras

Iyengar, Radhika | 2023 | Harper Collins | 9789356994669

Subject: History


Source: Telegraph

Review: Radhika Iyengar's debut book is a hard-hitting, incisive, poignant, and empathetic exploration of the structural lacuna in a stratified society that pushes a community to the margins where even the vestiges of humanity are not accorded to them. This community comprises the Doms, the corpse burners of Banaras, who make ends meet on the currency of morbidity. Assigned the task of performing the Hind...Read More

Gandhi and the Champaran Satyagraha: Select Readings

Gandhi and the Champaran Satyagraha: Select Readings

Das, Suranjan | 2023 | Primus Books | 9789355724106

Subject: History


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: The book, Gandhi and the Champaran Satyagraha: Select Readings edited by Suranjan Das, containing five parts accounting for 36 chapters, is a comprehensive compendium in which M K Gandhi's various roles (as an analyst, catalyst, and participant) in the Champaran Satyagraha (1917) are substantially unearthed. Select readings provide a thick description of resolved or unresolved finality in the Cham...Read More

Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature

Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature

Cahn, Robert N. | 2023 | Simon and Schuster | 9781639364824

Subject: Science and Technology


Source: Strategy + Business

Review: The authors show how Dirac's concise quantum equation for relativistic electrons ended up accurately predicting positrons. the antimatter counterparts of electrons. Which Carl Anderson discovered in 1932. Initially, however, Dirac had wrongly characterized that class of solutions to his equation. corresponding to holes left behind by electrons as they emerge from a negative energy sea as protons. ...Read More

How Big Things Get Done

How Big Things Get Done

Flyvbjerg, Bent | 2023 | Penguin Random House | 9780593239513

Subject: Management


Source: Financial Times

Review: From the Sydney Opera House to the UK's HS2 rail line, megaprojects often run over time and budget. Flyvbjerg and Gardner lay out why that happens (lack of planning, for one) but, more importantly, draw some crucial lessons from high-profile failures that readers can apply to mini-projects. Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award....Read More

How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

Nicolson, Adam | 2023 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9780374610104

Subject: Literature


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Like horse breeders and Hollywood studio executives, the early Greeks saw the world primarily as combinations and adaptations of past hits. Hesiod's Theogony, for example, pitched Okeanos The river that supposedly ran round the rim of the world As Earth meets Sky, and imagined Sleep, Death, and Blame as spinoffs of Night. In this epic creation story, written around the eighth century B.C., the fam...Read More

How to Build a Boat

How to Build a Boat

Feeney, Elaine | 2023 | Biblioasis | 9781771965859

Subject: General


Source: The New York Times

Review: This tender novel, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, follows a boy as he works to build a perpetual motion machine, which to him is not just an engineering project, but a way to get closer to the mother he never knew.Read More

How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To

How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To

Yates, Kit | 2023 | Basic books | 9781541604940

Subject: Science and Technology


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Drawing the connection between two such superficially disparate ideas is typical of Kit Yates's How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To. Mr. Yates, a mathematician at the University of Bath, gathers examples from science, literature, history, and current events to illustrate the situations that surprise us and discuss why we? He was consta...Read More

Insulin: A Hundred-Year History

Insulin: A Hundred-Year History

Bradwel, Stuart | 2023 | Polity Press | 9781509550722

Subject: History


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Two years ago, the diabetes community celebrated the 100th anniversary of insulin's discovery, a medical miracle that saved the lives of dying patients, transformed unheralded Toronto scientists into Nobel Prize winners, and catalyzed a century of innovation for improved diabetic care. In Stuart Bradwel's telling, however, insulin's anniversary was a gloomy reminder of all that is wrong with healt...Read More

My Name Is Barbra

My Name Is Barbra

Streisand, Barbra | 2023 | Penguin Random House | 9780525429524

Subject: Biography


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: First, there's is sheer heft. At nearly 1,000 pages, Barbra Streisand's memoir, My Name Is Barbra, is longer than the combined recollections of Prince Harry (Spare), Britney Spears (The Woman in Me) and Henry Winkler (Being Henry). Hello, gorge us. Then there's its breadth. Granted, Ms. Streisand, now 81, is the enduring pop voice of her generation, not to mention a Broadway and Hollywood star, mo...Read More

Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To)

Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To)

Schneider, Jack | 2023 | Harvard University Press | 9780674248410

Subject: Education


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Review: Grades, tests and transcripts stand in the way of student learning, Write educationists Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt in their broad analysis of what is wrong with US schooling. The IQ test Introduced into US schools in the 1920s It was once considered revelatory but is now relegated. Do they argue that pupil assessments should likewise be dropped in favor of improvements designed to motivate lear...Read More

On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy

On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy

McIntyre, Lee | 2023 | MIT Press | 9780262375597

Subject: Public Policy


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Review: Philosopher Lee McIntyre has written extensively on science denial and disinformation. His latest book deliberately brief and accessible analyses disinformation's effect on US politics. Does he regard the self-proclaimed patriots Who stormed the Capitol in Washington DC after Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election as the result of Seventy years of lies about tobacco, evolution,...Read More

On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

White, Ronald C. | 2023 | Penguin Random House | 9780525510086

Subject: History


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Ronald White's On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Chamberlain, who played a decisive role in the Union victory at Gettysburg, has been the subject of several previous biographies and was also a central protagonist in Michael Shaara's beloved 1974 novel, The Killer Angels....Read More

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