Everett, Caleb | 2023 | Harvard University Press | 9780674976580
Subject: Education
Source:
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
A Myriad of Tongues
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 biologists, chemists, political scientists and engineers ponders such differences between the world's 7,000-plus languages.
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
Affective Feminisms in Digital India Intimate Rebels
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 elusive forms the flows of digital feminist dissent take, the book captures how these intimate rebels Successfully mobilize Possibilities of transnational impulses Into networked feminist politics Engendering in the process a popular mode of gendered dissent marking a watershed moment for feminism in India (p 5). Drawing on theorists like Baruch Spinoza, Giles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Brian Massumi, who identify the fault lines in the represent National paradigm and acknowledge the relevance of researching phenomena located at the intersection of sensation, affective intensity, and materiality, the author accomplishes a crucial breakthrough in feminist cultural studies: her monograph is simultaneously a messy multiplicity of feminist activism. And a helpful way to think about intersectional identities and transnational feminist coalitions online (p 14). The book is an authentic cultural studies event that marks a crucial intervention in today's ethical-political debates about the affective turn in women's struggles in India as a whole and in the state of Kerala.
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
Broken Code: inside Facebook and the fight to expose its harmful secrets
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 has yet to account for its capacity to effect enormous social and political change.
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
Brotherhood: When West Point Rugby Went to War
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 active war. More than 200 cadets would join the infantry and take on the bulk of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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
Chasing bright Medusas: a life of Willa Cather
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, opinionated strokes she used to create her characters, Taylor offers an elegant literary essay rather than new facts or startling interpretations. I wish to frame the story as driven by Cather's antagonism to the times in which she lived, He states early on. She believed in luck, particularly her own, and the luck-making power of desire. She had a destiny she devoutly believed in; she swept aside impediments; her goals were vividly before her.
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
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
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.
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
Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good
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 ugly. But like worms enriching soil they are integral to our self-enrichment and self-care. Ms. Thomason believes that by focusing on the unattractive qualities of bad feelings, as we tend to do, we lose sight of their value, and she wants to correct the record.
Graydon, Samuel | 2023 | Simon and Schuster | 9781982185121
Subject: Biography
Source:
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
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles
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; many integrate the two. The overall effect is illuminating, despite inevitable omissions given the book's relative brevity.
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
Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras
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 Hindu ritual of cremation, the Doms ? labelled ?untouchables are situated at the lowest rung of the caste hierarchy. To aspire is a right denied to the members of this Dalit sub-caste. Whatever semblance of life there is for the Doms, it stems from the burning pyres on the ghats of the holy city. Their social currency rests with the dead. Quite literally.
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
Gandhi and the Champaran Satyagraha: Select Readings
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 Champaran Satyagraha. The satyagraha, as a public responsibility, contributed to forming a collective for civil disobedience. This is remarkable for the purposes of beginning to shake the framework of permanent political acquiescence. The diverse readings in this book revisit the past to rekindle the contemporary.
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
Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature
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. That scheme made little sense because protons are much heavier than electrons.nIn a wonderful personal anecdote, Quigg recalls conversing with Dirac in his later years at a cocktail party after a colloquium Quigg delivered at Florida State University and boldly asking him what he could possibly have been thinking. Pressed to justify why he misidentified protons, at first, as the positive counterparts of electrons in his equation, Dirac shrugged it off by saying, In those days, we were a little less ready to speculate about new particles.
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 Big Things Get Done
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.
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 Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
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 familiar Olympian gods, such as Zeus and Athena, are knit together with Titans, nymphs, and half-personified forces (Desire, Deceit) into a giant family tree. The personal isn't political; it's cosmic.
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 Build a Boat
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.
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
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To
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 constantly caught off guard by them.
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
Insulin: A Hundred-Year History
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 healthcare in many countries, particularly the United States: the autocratic doctors who impose their will on helpless patients, the predatory insulin companies that have no concerns beyond their bottom line, and the cowardly government officials whose faith in the free market has come at the expense of their citizens.
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
My Name Is Barbra
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, movie director, producer and composer, and political and social activist. She has met and worked with many famous people, befriended some of them, campaigned for a few (notably Bill and Hillary Clinton), and thus has lots of ground to cover. A winner of Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and Tony, Ms. Streisand is a woman of many talents.
Schneider, Jack | 2023 | Harvard University Press | 9780674248410
Subject: Education
Source:
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
Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To)
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 learning, communicate meaningful information about student knowledge, and synchronize a broken system
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 Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
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, global warming, and vaccines? The final chapter offers ten ways to end the war on truth. The first step. Could you take a look at the liars?
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
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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.
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