Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Radical Possibilities
Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
The core argument of Jean Anyon’s classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed...
My Freshman Year
What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
After fifteen years of teaching anthropology at a large university, Rebekah Nathan had become baffled by her own students. Their strange behavior—eating meals at their desks, not completing reading assignments, remaining silent through class discussions—made her feel as if she were dealing with...
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can...
The Moral Landscape
How Science Can Determine Human Values
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists—agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values....
Waking Up
A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.
From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books,...
Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem,...
by Kevin Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision oftechnology as a living force that can expand our individual potential
This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal...
by J. Chris Carter
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Applying new skills to established topics, this is how you want to examine human geography.
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Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online combines a comprehensive examination of human geography with engaging activities using the ArcGIS Online service.
Birth...
Making Sense of Science
Separating Substance from Spin
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Cornelia Dean draws on her 30 years as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers when they try to make sense of science. She calls attention to conflicts of interest in research and the price society pays when science journalism declines and funding dries up.
Who Can You Trust?
How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?
From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it.
In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are...
by Kathryn C. Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media cultureas consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.
by Andrew Keen
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Keen’s previous book, The Internet Is Not the Answer, was widely praised by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, and Economist, among others, and chosen as a best book of the year by Kazuo Ishiguro in the New Statesman.
As consensus builds around the problems caused...
AN Optimist's Tour of the Future
One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?"
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, a smart and entertaining guide to the future of civilization
When unexpectedly confronted with his own mortality, Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep-thinker, and stand-up comedian-began to ponder what the future holds for our...
Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education
Philosophies of Iethi'nihstenha Ohwentsia'kekha (Land)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Indigenous scholars have been gathering, speaking, and writing about Indigenous knowledge for decades. These knowledges are grounded in ancient traditions and very old pedagogies that have been woven with the tangled strings and chipped beads of colonial relations.
Pathways for Remembering...