Amy C. Edmondson, 2023, Simon and Schuster; 9781982195069
Subject: General
Source: Financial Times
Review: Olympic bronze medallists appear happier and less likely to feel the sting of failure than athletes who come second and win silver, according to a classic study Amy Edmondson cites in her book Right Kind of Wrong. Armed with that knowledge about how to reframe failure, the Harvard Business School professor was braced to be a runner-up at the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year ...Read More
Right kind of wrong: the science of failing well
Olympic bronze medallists appear happier and less likely to feel the sting of failure than athletes who come second and win silver, according to a classic study Amy Edmondson cites in her book Right Kind of Wrong. Armed with that knowledge about how to reframe failure, the Harvard Business School professor was braced to be a runner-up at the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year ceremony on Monday. Even as the winner was being announced, I was just telling myself, It?s so exciting to be here. I was trying to not feel upset because it really makes no sense to be upset, she says in an interview the next day. Instead, Edmondson came away with the gold author of the first management book to win the FT prize in its 19-year history. Right Kind of Wrong is, in the words of chair of judges and FT editor Roula Khalaf, a highly readable and relevant book about learning from intelligent failure and being able to take more calculated risks. It is born of Edmondson?s research on how to foster workplaces where team members own up to mistakes and improve, known as psychological safety.
Liz Lee Heinecke, 2023, Quarry Books; 9780760375679
Subject: Science and Technology
Source: Strategy + Business
Review: The book's 25 activities are divided into five chapters: fizzy science, fluid science, edible science, material science, and natural science. Each chapter opens with an easy-to-understand explanation of the phenomenon under investigation. For example, in the description of fluid science, the concept of surface tension is explained as the way water molecules on the surface of a liquid stick togethe...Read More
Sheet pan science: 25 fun, simple science experiments for the kitchen table; super-easy setup and cleanup (kitchen pantry scientist)
The book's 25 activities are divided into five chapters: fizzy science, fluid science, edible science, material science, and natural science. Each chapter opens with an easy-to-understand explanation of the phenomenon under investigation. For example, in the description of fluid science, the concept of surface tension is explained as the way water molecules on the surface of a liquid stick together to form a sort of skin on the top. Within each chapter are five labs. Each lab includes a mess factor and complexity ranking from low to high, a list of materials, and some safety tips and hints. Most of the materials are common household items such as dish soap and milk, but some, such as the aluminum sulfate used in the Marbled Paper lab, may require an extra trip to the store. Many of the labs are simple enough for older elementary school age children to follow themselves, but some will require adult supervision, such as when gelatin is dissolved in boiling water for the Shrinking Window Gels lab.
Chip Colwell, 2023, University of Chicago Press; 9780226801421
Subject: Science and Technology
Source: Strategy + Business
Review: The book frames the story of material culture as a series of leaps ahead, each of which builds on previous ones to move people from simple beginnings toward civilization, sophistication, and modernity. This is a familiar story of social evolution, drawing not only on cultural anthropology and archaeology but also on animal behavior, psychology, and cognitive research. Colwell tells it well in a ch...Read More
So much stuff: how humans discovered tools, invented meaning, and made more of everything
The book frames the story of material culture as a series of leaps ahead, each of which builds on previous ones to move people from simple beginnings toward civilization, sophistication, and modernity. This is a familiar story of social evolution, drawing not only on cultural anthropology and archaeology but also on animal behavior, psychology, and cognitive research. Colwell tells it well in a chatty style. There is clearly a fair amount of academic thought underpinning the book, but it is worn lightly, with a greater emphasis on personal storytelling than on oppressing the reader with learned apparatus.nThe book features many of the irresistible greatest hits of human material culture. These include Acheulean hand axes, the Blombos Cave engraved ochre, Ice Age cave art, G?bekli Tepe, ?tzi the Iceman, the Northwest Coast potlatch, the Industrial Revolution, colonialism, and resistance. It is framed in terms of a handful of qualitative milestones: making tools, giving things meanings, and the accelerating accumulation of things.
Review: The benefits and harms of social media are intimately tied to the ongoing debate about artificial intelligence (AI). Will AI systems trained partly on social media benefit or harm humanity? In their excellent, sometimes alarming, analysis of engineering, social justice, commerce and government, entrepreneur and technologist Juliette Powell and writer and educator Art Kleiner compare humans develop...Read More
The AI dilemma: 7 principles for responsible technology
The benefits and harms of social media are intimately tied to the ongoing debate about artificial intelligence (AI). Will AI systems trained partly on social media benefit or harm humanity? In their excellent, sometimes alarming, analysis of engineering, social justice, commerce and government, entrepreneur and technologist Juliette Powell and writer and educator Art Kleiner compare humans developing AI tools to first-time parents. They recommend guiding AI systems ?as we would a child towards full adulthood?.
Edward N. Luttwak, 2023, Harvard University Press; 9780674660052
Subject: Science and Technology
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: The history of Israel is a history of its wars. The first was fought in 1948, when Arab enemies sought to kill off a newborn state that barely had an army. The last was provoked when Hamas erupted out of Gaza to murder as many Jews as it could in the space of a few hours. Israel's wars don't end: Peace, when it comes, is a full however prolonged before bloodshed starts anew The history of Israel...Read More
The art of military innovation: lessons from the Israel defense forces
The history of Israel is a history of its wars. The first was fought in 1948, when Arab enemies sought to kill off a newborn state that barely had an army. The last was provoked when Hamas erupted out of Gaza to murder as many Jews as it could in the space of a few hours. Israel's wars don't end: Peace, when it comes, is a full however prolonged before bloodshed starts anew The history of Israel
Martin Wolf, 2023, Penguin Random House; 9780735224216
Subject: Political Science
Source: Economic and Political Weekly
Review: Arich feast is offered to the reader on a platter via this timely and remarkably engaging book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf, the renowned Financial Times columnist and commentator of long years of repute. The beauty of the book, among other things, lies in its connect not only with economists and policymakers but also with any interested reader. The combination of lucidity, ...Read More
The crisis of democratic capitalism
Arich feast is offered to the reader on a platter via this timely and remarkably engaging book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf, the renowned Financial Times columnist and commentator of long years of repute. The beauty of the book, among other things, lies in its connect not only with economists and policymakers but also with any interested reader. The combination of lucidity, clarity and substance is simply breathtaking. The book has served an important purpose to unfold, in no uncertain terms, the present malaise afflicting today's liberal democracies in waving a red flag to today's market capitalism and in exploring a sound, dispassionate way forward in the form of a new new deal
Helena Kelly, 2023, Simon and Schuster; 9781639365340
Subject: Biography
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: After Charles Dickens's death in 1870, the first biographer to narrate his life and career was his closest friend. John Forster's The Life of Charles Dickens, published in 1872, served for many years as the standard biography. Its primary source was Dickens himself, who assumed that Forster would eventually write his life and provided much of the material. Extant letters between subject and future...Read More
The life and lies of Charles Dickens
After Charles Dickens's death in 1870, the first biographer to narrate his life and career was his closest friend. John Forster's The Life of Charles Dickens, published in 1872, served for many years as the standard biography. Its primary source was Dickens himself, who assumed that Forster would eventually write his life and provided much of the material. Extant letters between subject and future biographer reveal a deep love and affinity: According to one of Dickens's recent biographers, Claire Tomalin, Forster filled a need for Dickens that no one else, parents, sister, friend or wife, had done. After his friend's death, Forster grieved that the duties of life remain while life remains, but for me the joy of it is gone forever more
Mike Vago, 2023, The Experiment Press; 9781615197781
Subject: Enviornment
Source: Strategy + Business
Review: Most diagrams of the Solar System show the orbits of the planets as evenly separated circles, all packed closely together, with the planets themselves often arranged in a straight line. Although that representation is compact, it is misleading and not remotely to scale. Read More
The planets are very, very, very far away: a journey through the amazing scale of the solar system
Most diagrams of the Solar System show the orbits of the planets as evenly separated circles, all packed closely together, with the planets themselves often arranged in a straight line. Although that representation is compact, it is misleading and not remotely to scale.
Karen Bakker, 2023, Princeton University Press; 9780691206288
Subject: Science and Technology
Source: Strategy + Business
Review: America's most endangered marine mammals. And in Southeast Asia, scientiststurned- DJs are broadcasting the spirited sounds of healthy coral reefs to attract larval fish and coral to artificial reefs.Read More
The sounds of life: how digital technology is bringing us closer to the worlds of animals and plants
America's most endangered marine mammals. And in Southeast Asia, scientiststurned- DJs are broadcasting the spirited sounds of healthy coral reefs to attract larval fish and coral to artificial reefs.
Review: Previous works on the history of French India have mainly focused on historical facts, political events, and juridical texts. These narratives were linear discourses using what Pierre Singarev lou (2023) calls a methodological nationalism, whether they wrote from French, Indian, or British perspectives. Therefore, Towards Freedom in Pondicherry: Society, Economy and Politics under French Rule (181...Read More
Towards freedom in Pondicherry society, economy and politics under French rule (1816-1962)
Previous works on the history of French India have mainly focused on historical facts, political events, and juridical texts. These narratives were linear discourses using what Pierre Singarev lou (2023) calls a methodological nationalism, whether they wrote from French, Indian, or British perspectives. Therefore, Towards Freedom in Pondicherry: Society, Economy and Politics under French Rule (1816 1862), by J B P More is more welcome in that historiographical context, where comprehensive research in social sciences about French India was almost a forgotten domain.
Marilyn J. Roossinck, 2023, Princeton University Press; 9780691240800
Subject: Science and Technology
Source:
Review: 'Roossincks infectiously enthusiastic, irresistibly illustrated analysis is entitled. The Good Viruses Throughout, she stresses viral complexity, noting that there is no simple answer to the question Are viruses alive Many arguments have been offered for and against, although seldom by virologists. In general, virologists find their favourite entities fascinating, and whether they are aliv...Read More
Viruses: a natural history
'Roossincks infectiously enthusiastic, irresistibly illustrated analysis is entitled. The Good Viruses Throughout, she stresses viral complexity, noting that there is no simple answer to the question Are viruses alive Many arguments have been offered for and against, although seldom by virologists. In general, virologists find their favourite entities fascinating, and whether they are aliv
Oliver Franklin, 2023, Simon & Schuster; 9781398505452
Subject: Enviornment
Source:
Review: "Unlike people, garbage doesn't lie," writes journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis in his disturbingly vivid journey through the waste created in various countries. It opens at a British materials-recovery facility, where people in hard hats and high-visibility vests pick through refuse and channel valuable bottles, cardboard and aluminium cans into sorting chutes. Later, he visits a giant landfill ne...Read More
Wasteland oliver franklin-wallis
"Unlike people, garbage doesn't lie," writes journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis in his disturbingly vivid journey through the waste created in various countries. It opens at a British materials-recovery facility, where people in hard hats and high-visibility vests pick through refuse and channel valuable bottles, cardboard and aluminium cans into sorting chutes. Later, he visits a giant landfill near New Delhi, India: 65 metres high, and known to locals as Mount Everest. Here, he meets waste pickers climbing to retrieve valuables to sell, the main occupation of up to 20 million people around the world: "In one man?s trash, another's treasure."
Philip Goff, 2023, Oxford University Press; 9780198883760
Subject: General
Source: Financial Times
Review: Bertrand Russell once posited that the purpose of philosophy is to start with something so simple that it seems unworthy of stating and to conclude with something so paradoxical that no one would believe it. Philip Goff's latest book, "Why? The Purpose of the Universe," appears to embrace this philosophy wholeheartedly, leaving readers questioning the very essence of philosophical inquiry....Read More
Why? the purpose of the universe
Bertrand Russell once posited that the purpose of philosophy is to start with something so simple that it seems unworthy of stating and to conclude with something so paradoxical that no one would believe it. Philip Goff's latest book, "Why? The Purpose of the Universe," appears to embrace this philosophy wholeheartedly, leaving readers questioning the very essence of philosophical inquiry.
Dara McAnulty, 2023, The Experiment Press; 9781615199167
Subject: Enviornment
Source: Strategy + Business
Review: In the opening pages of "Wild Child," teenage naturalist Dara McAnulty's enchanting and approachable introduction to the natural world, readers are invited on a journey of discovery, a "wild wandering." The book's five ensuing chapters offer a glimpse of nature from different vantage points the window, the garden, the woods, the open country, and the river. Every section opens with a whimsical poe...Read More
Wild child: nature adventures for young explorers - with amazing things to make, find, and do
In the opening pages of "Wild Child," teenage naturalist Dara McAnulty's enchanting and approachable introduction to the natural world, readers are invited on a journey of discovery, a "wild wandering." The book's five ensuing chapters offer a glimpse of nature from different vantage points the window, the garden, the woods, the open country, and the river. Every section opens with a whimsical poem before venturing into fun facts about the habitat's animals and plants. Readers will discover, for example, that wrens embellish their nests with spider egg sacs, earthworms "see" without eyes, and a single oak tree can produce 10 million acorns. Each chapter then dives slightly deeper into one topic (e.g., animal migration, tree propagation) and concludes with a simple activity or experiment. Tasks such as terrarium building can be done at home, but others (e.g., exploring life-forms in a body of water) require a trip outdoors.
Review: In "Wildscape," Nancy Lawson guides readers through a sensory wonderland that transcends the usual human inclinations and concerns. Instead, one learns about the curious preferences of cuckoos for spiky, stinging caterpillars; the fetid allure stinkhorn mushroom spores have for passing flies; and the fog of sensory confusion wrought by chemicals in automobile exhaust and lawn treatments. For anyon...Read More
Wildscape
In "Wildscape," Nancy Lawson guides readers through a sensory wonderland that transcends the usual human inclinations and concerns. Instead, one learns about the curious preferences of cuckoos for spiky, stinging caterpillars; the fetid allure stinkhorn mushroom spores have for passing flies; and the fog of sensory confusion wrought by chemicals in automobile exhaust and lawn treatments. For anyone who relishes a walk in the woods, this book offers fascinating new rabbit holes to hop down.
Review: Women in the Wild is an unusual book. It brings together stories of wildlife conservation pioneers, all women. All but two of the contributors are women: they are conservationists, journalists and novelists. Another pioneer pieces the book together. She also contributes two pieces to the volume. The book celebrates Indian women in wildlife conservation and begins with the piece de resistance. But ...Read More
Women in the wild: stories of India's most brilliant women wildlife biologists
Women in the Wild is an unusual book. It brings together stories of wildlife conservation pioneers, all women. All but two of the contributors are women: they are conservationists, journalists and novelists. Another pioneer pieces the book together. She also contributes two pieces to the volume. The book celebrates Indian women in wildlife conservation and begins with the piece de resistance. But I would suggest that the readers start with the last piece first and move in that order.
Christian Wiman, 2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 9780374603458
Subject: General
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: The challenge of measuring the commands of religious belief against the unavoidable state of mortality and suffering goes back at least as far as Job. For years, the Yale theologian and poet Christian Wiman has grappled with a cancer diagnosis and a difficult prognosis, white-knuckling through a rollercoaster of chemotherapy and pneumonias, turning to faith and family for anchorage, his notebook f...Read More
Zero at the bone: fifty entries against despair
The challenge of measuring the commands of religious belief against the unavoidable state of mortality and suffering goes back at least as far as Job. For years, the Yale theologian and poet Christian Wiman has grappled with a cancer diagnosis and a difficult prognosis, white-knuckling through a rollercoaster of chemotherapy and pneumonias, turning to faith and family for anchorage, his notebook for emotional ballast. His medical travails are the backdrop to "Zero at the Bone: 50 Entries Against Despair," an ardent if pious and uneven pastiche of personal anecdote, criticism, his own poetry, and (many) quotes from other luminaries.
Review: The author commences his discourse in Chapter 1 titled "Approaching Midnight: The Threat of Human Extinction" by emphasizing the existential threat hanging over the world like the Sword of Damocles due to the spiraling arms race. This, according to the author, is exacerbated by the burgeoning interface between artificial intelligence (AI), nuclear weapons, and biotechnology that can lead to a glob...Read More
A world without war: the history, politics and resolution of conflict
The author commences his discourse in Chapter 1 titled "Approaching Midnight: The Threat of Human Extinction" by emphasizing the existential threat hanging over the world like the Sword of Damocles due to the spiraling arms race. This, according to the author, is exacerbated by the burgeoning interface between artificial intelligence (AI), nuclear weapons, and biotechnology that can lead to a global war involving weapons of mass destruction by accident or intent. The chapter details the evolution of various weapons, including low-yield nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles. The author argues that these weapons, "deployed in hair-trigger alert positions, make the world's future unpredictable."
Review: Social movements, not only in India but all over the world, have been the subject of intense scrutiny and research, and tremendous changes have occurred in the manner in which protests are mobilized and conceptualized. This book focuses on contemporary movements in the mediatised landscape of the 21st century. The book intends to capture "this momentary climate of cultural and political transforma...Read More
Social movements, media and civil society in contemporary India: historical trajectories of public protest and political mobilisation
Social movements, not only in India but all over the world, have been the subject of intense scrutiny and research, and tremendous changes have occurred in the manner in which protests are mobilized and conceptualized. This book focuses on contemporary movements in the mediatised landscape of the 21st century. The book intends to capture "this momentary climate of cultural and political transformation in New India, which we believe has changed Indian political behaviour" (p. 28). It seeks to address a gap in research on this new dimension and the change in the cultural and public sphere.
Review: Caste, a significant social phenomenon in India, holds immense sway across academia and public life. It wields influence over various aspects of society, politics, economy, culture, and policymaking. The concept of a society devoid of caste seems inconceivable, as caste leaves a profound imprint on cultural and personal memories, leading to experiences of social alienation, exclusion, and inequali...Read More
Caste, communication and power
Caste, a significant social phenomenon in India, holds immense sway across academia and public life. It wields influence over various aspects of society, politics, economy, culture, and policymaking. The concept of a society devoid of caste seems inconceivable, as caste leaves a profound imprint on cultural and personal memories, leading to experiences of social alienation, exclusion, and inequality. The rise in caste-related atrocities, exploitation, and disparities in both rural and urban settings urges us to examine the role and impact of caste on power dynamics in India.
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