Social Creature

Download Social Creature full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Social Creature ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Social Creature

Author : Tara Isabella Burton
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525436413
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Social Creature by : Tara Isabella Burton

Download or read book Social Creature written by Tara Isabella Burton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Books of the Year: Janet Maslin, The New York Times Vulture NPR "Social Creature is a wicked original with echoes of the greats (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn)." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, splashed with all the glitz and glitter of New York City. They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them... They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together, when they finish their stories, when they are both great writers-to Paris and to Rome and to Trieste... Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon. Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship. A Talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, this seductive story takes a classic tale of obsession and makes it irresistibly new.

The Social Animal

Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812979370
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Social Animal by : David Brooks

Download or read book The Social Animal written by David Brooks and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain’s work gets done. This is the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made—the natural habitat of The Social Animal. Brooks reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. He demolishes conventional definitions of success and looks toward a culture based on trust and humility. The Social Animal is a moving intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. It is an essential book for our time—one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.

A Most Remarkable Creature

Author : Jonathan Meiburg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101911549
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Most Remarkable Creature by : Jonathan Meiburg

Download or read book A Most Remarkable Creature written by Jonathan Meiburg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history. “Deftly intertwine[s] natural history and human history, with insights and lessons that go far beyond the subject birds.”—David Sibley, author of What It's Like to Be a Bird “Utterly captivating and beautifully written, this book is a hugely entertaining and enlightening exploration of a bird so wickedly smart, curious, and social, it boggles the mind.”—Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Bird Way In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were "tame and inquisitive . . . quarrelsome and passionate," and so insatiably curious that they stole hats, compasses, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America, sensing a larger story, but he set this mystery aside and never returned to it. Almost two hundred years later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up this chase. He takes us through South America, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana, in search of these birds: striated caracaras, which still exist, though they're very rare. He reveals the wild, fascinating story of their history, origins, and possible futures. And along the way, he draws us into the life and work of William Henry Hudson, the Victorian writer and naturalist who championed caracaras as an unsung wonder of the natural world, and to falconry parks in the English countryside, where captive caracaras perform incredible feats of memory and problem-solving. A Most Remarkable Creature is a hybrid of science writing, travelogue, and biography, as generous and accessible as it is sophisticated, and absolutely riveting.

Animals and Society

Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231152949
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Animals and Society by : Margo DeMello

Download or read book Animals and Society written by Margo DeMello and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a full overview of human-animal studies. It focuses on the conceptual construction of animals in American culture and the way in which it reinforces and perpetuates hierarchical human relationships rooted in racism, sexism, and class privilege.

Social Creature

Author : Tara Isabella Burton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408896095
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Social Creature by : Tara Isabella Burton

Download or read book Social Creature written by Tara Isabella Burton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan' Guardian, Books of the Year 'An irresistible novel about a toxic friendship taken to the extreme' Elle Lavinia has it all. Lavinia has an apartment on the Upper East Side. Lavinia goes to glittering parties that last from dusk till dawn. Lavinia wants to seize life and live it to the fullest. Lavinia is going to die soon. Louise knows this. You know this.

The World Cannot Give

Author : Tara Isabella Burton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982170077
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The World Cannot Give by : Tara Isabella Burton

Download or read book The World Cannot Give written by Tara Isabella Burton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Secret History meets The Price of Salt” (Vogue) in this “equal parts dangerous and delicious” (Entertainment Weekly) novel about queer desire, religious zealotry, and the hunger for transcendence among the members of a cultic chapel choir at a Maine boarding school—and the ambitious, terrifyingly charismatic girl that rules over them. When shy, sensitive Laura Stearns arrives at St. Dunstan’s Academy in Maine, she dreams that life there will echo her favorite novel, All Before Them, the sole surviving piece of writing by Byronic “prep school prophet” (and St. Dunstan’s alum) Sebastian Webster, who died at nineteen, fighting in the Spanish Civil War. She soon finds the intensity she is looking for among the insular, Webster-worshipping members of the school’s chapel choir, which is presided over by the charismatic, neurotic, overachiever Virginia Strauss. Virginia is as fanatical about her newfound Christian faith as she is about the miles she runs every morning before dawn. She expects nothing short of perfection from herself—and from the member of the choir. Virginia inducts the besotted Laura into a world of transcendent music and arcane ritual, illicit cliff-diving and midnight crypt visits: a world that, like Webster’s novels, finally seems to Laura to be full of meaning. But when a new school chaplain challenges Virginia’s hold on the “family” she has created, and Virginia’s efforts to wield her power become increasingly dangerous, Laura must decide how far she will let her devotion to Virginia go. The World Cannot Give is a “hypnotic and intense” (Shondaland) meditation on the power, and danger, of wanting more from the world.

The Creature with Ideas and Power

Author : John Sheehan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781516554003
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Creature with Ideas and Power by : John Sheehan

Download or read book The Creature with Ideas and Power written by John Sheehan and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creature with Ideas and Power: An Investigation of Anthropology and Human Culture analyzes human beings as biological creatures capable of developing ideas and then manipulating their environments to conform to those ideas. The book presents culture as the intellectual medium through which ideas are made manifest. It takes readers on an intellectually stimulating journey from the origins of physical anthropology in evolution, genetics, and primatology to today's globalized world of international integration. The text explores the development of western cultures, the cultures of early tribal peoples, oral and written traditions as demonstrated in artifacts, and the basic elements that comprise a society. Students also learn about family, kinship, and marriage, cultural bonds and genetic inheritance, and how humans extract and use resources. The book includes an ethnographic study of the Haudenosaunee as an example of how the various sub-disciplines in anthropology come together to tell the story of a people. The Creature with Ideas and Power helps students understand the biological creature that is Homo sapiens and learn how cultures are both physically and socially derived. The book was written for anthropology and cultural anthropology courses. John Sheehan earned his D.A. in history at St. John's University in Jamaica, New York. He is particularly interested in multidisciplinary and intercultural pedagogies. Dr. Sheehan currently teaches in the anthropology, history, and sociology departments as an adjunct faculty member at the State University of New York, Cortland, Tompkins Cortland Community College, St. John's University, and Elmira College. Dr. Sheehan's professional writing has appeared in The Journal of Men's Studies, The Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators, and The Encyclopedia of Modern Monarchs, and he is the author of The Warrior Messiah.

On Earth as It Is in Heaven

Author : David Vincent Meconi S.J.
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802873502
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis On Earth as It Is in Heaven by : David Vincent Meconi S.J.

Download or read book On Earth as It Is in Heaven written by David Vincent Meconi S.J. and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent publication of Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si', many people of faith have found themselves challenged to seek new ways of responding to serious ecological questions essential to the flourishing of all creatures. On Earth as It Is in Heaven brings together fifteen top scholars to consider pressing contemporary environmental concerns through the lens of Catholic theology.Drawing from ancient Christian sources, the contributors delve into such diverse topics as equitable food distribution, responsible procreation, land stewardship, evolutionary theodicy, and poverty and providence. A concluding essay addresses the liturgy as the space in which all creation is consecrated before the cross of Christ. Allowing the earliest Church Fathers and voices from the Christian tradition to speak to our unique circumstances today, this engaging volume shows that ancient, creedal Christianity contains important insights into caring for God's creation.

Digital Shutdowns and Social Media

Author : Shekh Moinuddin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030678881
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Digital Shutdowns and Social Media by : Shekh Moinuddin

Download or read book Digital Shutdowns and Social Media written by Shekh Moinuddin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a spatial insights on the social mediasphere in the context of digital shutdowns and reflects the dimensions of political economy and of social media in general. Internet shutdowns have been found to be more prevalent in developing countries than in developed countries, with India leading in Internet shutdowns in the world. Internet shutdowns have occurred in India for several reasons, mainly to hinder the spreading of information through social media – this is discussed in detail along with political motives behind this and how this can conflict with government policies, such as the flagship program “Digital India” which is ostensibly meant to improve the infrastructure and expansion of digital information throughout the country. This book suggests new dimensions in the digital spatiality. Furthermore, the digital space is defined and discussed, including its role and how this might be reflected in concepts around spatiality and spaces. More concretely, the book considers the following questions: How is social media reflected in spatial sciences? How does the space differ from more tangible spaces, such as the hydrosphere or atmosphere? How do (computer/mobile phone) screens behave as a space/place in the context of behavioural sciences? How is this reflected in what is shaping and reshaping the spatiality of digital gadgets? Do digital gadgets change the socialization process that’s often considered a path towards how we develop in society? How do internet shutdowns affect the political economy and what patterns can be seen in how individuals, companies and the internet industry in particular react to these shutdowns in India?

A Psychological Approach to Ethical Reality

Author : K. Hillner
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080515328
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (153 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Psychological Approach to Ethical Reality by : K. Hillner

Download or read book A Psychological Approach to Ethical Reality written by K. Hillner and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-11-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pre-eminent 19th century British ethicist, Henry Sidgwick once said: "All important ethical notions are also psychological, except perhaps the fundamental antitheses of 'good' and 'bad' and 'wrong', with which psychology, as it treats of what is and not of what ought to be, is not directly concerned" (quoted in T.N. Tice and T.P. Slavens, 1983). Sidgwick's statement can be interpreted to mean that psychology is relevant for ethics or that psychological knowledge contributes to the construction of an ethical reality. This interpretation serves as the basic impetus to this book, but Sidgwick's statement is also analyzed in detail to demonstrate why a current exposition on the relevance of psychology for ethical reality is necessary and germane.

Historical Social Psychology (Psychology Revivals)

Author : Kenneth Gergen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134608810
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Historical Social Psychology (Psychology Revivals) by : Kenneth Gergen

Download or read book Historical Social Psychology (Psychology Revivals) written by Kenneth Gergen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast majority of research in social psychology focuses on momentary events: an attitude is changed, dissonance is reduced, a cognition is primed, and so on. Little attention is a paid to the unfolding of events over time, to social life as an ongoing process in which events are related in various ways as life unfolds. Originally published in 1984, Historical Social Psychology opens a space for theory and research in which temporal process is central. Contributors to this broad-ranging work provide a rich range of perspectives, from the theoretical to the methodological, from micro-sequences to the life-span, and from contemporary history to the long durée. Together, these authors set the stage for a major shift in the focus of social psychological inquiry.

Biology And The Social Sciences

Author : Thomas C. Wiegele
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429724527
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Biology And The Social Sciences by : Thomas C. Wiegele

Download or read book Biology And The Social Sciences written by Thomas C. Wiegele and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exciting new developments in behavioral biology are creating an intellectual revolution in the study of human behavior and are causing social scientists to reassess the ways in which they approach their disciplines. This book examines how these new findings are likely to transform and shape anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science in the coming decade. The book begins with an overview of the rapidly changing relationship between biological and social studies. In successive sections, well-known social scientists, biologists, and philosophers address the theoretical challenges involved in incorporating material from sociobiology, ecology, genetics, and psychophysiology into their own disciplines' approaches to the analysis of human behavior. The concluding chapters examine specific methodological problems and related issues.

Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts

Author : Carolynn Van Dyke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137040734
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts by : Carolynn Van Dyke

Download or read book Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts written by Carolynn Van Dyke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their own right. The contributors combine close reading of Chaucer's texts with insights drawn from cultural or critical animal studies.

Social Psychology and Human Values

Author : Anselm L. Strauss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351489704
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Social Psychology and Human Values by : Anselm L. Strauss

Download or read book Social Psychology and Human Values written by Anselm L. Strauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the contributions of M. Brewster Smith to social psychology and personality study, this selection includes not only his best known essays but also previously unpublished material. Professor Smith's consistent striving for a psychology both scientific and humane unifies the collection; it is a valid and valuable overview of the relevance of social psychology to human experience and societal problems by a man at the midstream of his career.An introductory essay traces the major themes in Professor Smith's work. Part I discusses the interdisciplinary relations of social psychology with other behavioral sciences; it shows that social psychology, standing at the crossroads of the social sciences, must articulate its contributions with those of the other disciplines, and it delineates the problems involved in this articulation. Part II presents the author's principal contributions to the social psychology of attitudes and values, a central topic in the field, in which he is a major proponent of the functional approach. Part III is devoted to the broader issues of personality theory, focusing on the "self" as the object of personal attitudes and including a classic paper on the phenomenological approach.Parts IV and V probe human effectiveness and "mental health," consider the social development of personal competence, and examine from a social psychological perspective a variety of social problems -foreign students and cross-cultural education, population growth, ethnic prejudice, and student protest. The final group of essays deals with perennial human concerns: the nature of rationality, the ethics of behavioral research, the psychology of literature, and the problems of evil.

Swahili State and Society

Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966468239
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (682 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Swahili State and Society by : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui

Download or read book Swahili State and Society written by Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the social and political impact of the Swahili language.

The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue

Author : Adam Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315302578
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue by : Adam Green

Download or read book The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue written by Adam Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures. Virtue is normally thought of as something that allows individuals to accomplish things on their own. Although contemporary ethics is increasingly making room for an inherently social dimension in moral agency, intellectual virtues continue to be seen in terms of the computing potential of a brain taken by itself. Thinking in these terms, however, seriously misconstrues the way in which our individual flourishing hinges on our collective flourishing. Green’s account of virtue epistemology is based on the extended credit view, which conceives of knowledge as an achievement and broadens that focus to include team achievements in addition to individual ones. He argues that this view does a better job than alternatives of answering the many conceptual and empirical challenges for virtue epistemology that have been based on cases of testimony. The view also allows for a nuanced interaction with situationist psychology, dual processing models in cognitive science, and the extended mind literature in philosophy of mind. This framework provides a useful conceptual bridge between individual and group epistemology, and it has novel applications to the epistemology of disagreement, prejudice, and authority.

The Chinese Human Rights Reader

Author : Stephen C. Angle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317457943
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Chinese Human Rights Reader by : Stephen C. Angle

Download or read book The Chinese Human Rights Reader written by Stephen C. Angle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative selections from China's twentieth-century human rights discourse, rendered into fluid and non-technical English. The documents are arranged chronologically, and each is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the author and the immediate context. The book also includes a glossary in which translations of key terms are linked to their Chinese equivalents.