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She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Readers will discover that tribalism cannot, and should not, be eliminated entirely-to do so would be to destroy what makes us human. This bold and brilliant book reveals provocative truths about our nature. An interdisciplinary scholar investigating major behavioral and physiological transitions in human evolution, he has worked with a range of primate species and studied sleep in different types of human societies. Samson engages with cutting-edge science and philosophy, as well as his own field research with small-scale societies and wild chimpanzees, to explain the science, ethics, and history of tribalism in compelling and accessible terms. SAMSON is an associate professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Toronto. But in our vast modern world, has this blessing become a curse? Our Tribal Future explores a central paradox of our species: how altruism, community, kindness, and genocide are all driven by the same core adaptation. It is so powerful that it can predict our behavior even better than race, class, gender, or religion. Tribalism is one of the most complex and ancient evolutionary forces it gave us the capacity for cooperation and competition, and allowed us to navigate increasingly complex social landscapes. Others may envision their own tribe: family, friends, and the bonds of loyalty that keep them together. What do you think of when you hear the word "tribalism?" For many, it conjures images of bigotry, xenophobia, and sectarian violence. An astounding and inspiring look at the science behind tribalism, and how we can learn to harness it to improve the world around us. In “Reading Teaches Us Empathy, and Other Fictions,” she warns against seeing stories by writers of color as a “kind of ethical protein shake” to teach white readers how to be better people, and urges that “we have to push back against the idea that engaging with our art in ways that look beyond the aesthetic is a cheapening of our engagement.” In “The Limits of White Fantasy,” Castillo critiques white authors’ appropriation of narratives about oppression, including Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which was partly “inspired” by dissidents in the Philippines during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos. Novelist Castillo ( America Is Not the Heart) argues in this brilliant and passionate collection that the publishing industry is designed to suit white readers and that changing the way one reads can change the way one sees the world. She really has become one of my most favorite writers to date. How can I trust it with the biggest heartbreaker of them all? Perfect for readers who love a good mix of sweet and sizzle, toe-curling kisses, swoony book boyfriends, and a happily ever after. Emily Childs is one of the best Contemporary Romance storytellers ever. I’ve had my heart broken too many times before. No one has ever seen the real guy behind the bad boy of baseball, but the more I get to know Parker, the harder it is to ignore the feelings I'm catching. I didn’t mean to shut the guy down so hard, and I didn’t expect to see him in my gym on the first day at the office. He thought I was going to be his next conquest. And Parker certainly had no idea I'm the team owner's daughter. I didn't know who he was when we randomly met off the field. After making a move to prove I deserve a place within my dad's baseball empire, the last thing on my mind is a play boy pitcher. Those are only a few reasons why a guy like him is never getting near my heart. Parker Knight is a smooth-talking pitcher with a smile for days and a roster of broken hearts behind him. Barker's subjects are the women who flit around the edges of the tales that have been told about these legendary warriors. Skittish, inexperienced Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, sits with his father's men – "all intertwined and wriggling like worms in a horse's s-" – deep in the bowels of the wooden animal, the air around him thick with the stench of sweat and fear.Īs the title suggests though, this is not Pyrrhus's – or any man's – story. Take the magnificent opening chapter of her new novel, The Women of Troy, which takes us inside the Trojan Horse. Pat Barker – who won the 1995 Booker Prize for the final volume of her masterful Regeneration trilogy about the horrors of the First World War – has never been one to shy away from the nerve-shredding blood and guts of battle. He also recounts the extraordinary correspondence surrounding the book’s first publication and the influence of two determined women-publisher’s agent Constance Smedley and the author’s wife, Elspeth Grahame-who helped turn the book into the classic for children we know and love today. He identifies the colleagues and friends on whom Grahame is thought to have based the characters of Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad, and explores the literary genres of boating, caravanning, and motoring on which the author drew. Peter Hunt explores the unusual trajectory of The Wind in the Willows through previously unpublished archival materials, original drawings, and fan letters (including one from Theodore Roosevelt). Though first inspired by bedtime stories Kenneth Grahame told to his son Alastair, as he wrote them down, the tales of these woodland creatures developed into something much more sophisticated. Yet, with its oddly bureaucratic town dramas and the esoteric hobbies of its protagonists, The Wind in the Willows was originally intended almost entirely for adults. Badger-and their tangles with the Weasels-have been adored by children for more than a century. From 1964 onwards I was enrolled for a Ph.D. Clark writes, From fairly early on in my undergraduate career I was determined to do my graduate work in art history, and in particular to find a way to put the history of painting in contact with other histories, social, economic and political. He is the author of two previous books on nineteenth century French art, The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-51 and Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution. Before becoming professor of art history at Harvard University in 1980, he taught at Essex University, Camberwell School of Art, U.C.L.A. Clark's The Painting of Modern LifeĪccording to the back flap of The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (Knopf, 1985), the book's author was born in Bristol, England, and was educated at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of London University. They were really alive in me - they still are - to the point where I would be working away and this voice, if you will, would come into my head and say: ‘I would not say that.’ “For me, it was more like I was telling their stories for them. “These characters came alive really, really early on in the process,” said Good. Their stories, while they obviously overlap greatly, are all very different tales of survival and trying to cope while searching for some solid footing and a way to overcome or even forget their past as they search for a future. Article contentĬlara, Kenny, Lucy, Howie and Maisie are snatched as kids and then pushed out into the world with no support, money or idea of what to expect. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. The book was a New York Times bestseller and was the 2012 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public understanding of topics in behavioral science, engineering and medicine. It covers different phases of his career: his early work concerning cognitive biases, his work on prospect theory and happiness, and with the Israel Defense Forces. Kahneman performed his own research, often in collaboration with Amos Tversky, which enriched his experience to write the book. From framing choices to people's tendency to replace a difficult question with one which is easy to answer, the book summarizes several decades of research to suggest that people have too much confidence in human judgement. The book delineates rational and non-rational motivations or triggers associated with each type of thinking process, and how they complement each other, starting with Kahneman's own research on loss aversion. The book's main thesis is a differentiation between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 popular science book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman. |