Featured Book The Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness By Jonathan Haidt (2024) Report by Kathleen MazorContributing Writer “It matters what we expose ourselves to…we need to take back control of our inputs.” – Jonathan Haidt In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt focuses on … Continuer la lecture de The Anxious Generation→
The focus of modern Western medicine has been largely on intervening in the body’s machinery with drugs and surgery. Nonetheless, psychosocial factors play a major role in who gets sick, the course of their illness, as well as recovery. Stress—or more accurately, how we feel about stress—is key. By David Sobel, MD, MPHContributing Writer Chest … Continuer la lecture de Mind and Health→
Education holds transformative power when it takes into account diverse learners’ needs, bridging gaps, and empowering individuals and communities alike. Educators strive to meet learners where they are and are inspired by stories of intrepid learners who overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles on their educational journeys. By Kathleen Mazor, EdD, MSContributing Writer Some children enter school … Continuer la lecture de You CAN Get There from Here→
Our social identities come from a lot of places: our race, sex, age, political affiliations, medical diagnoses, schools, and favorite sports teams. Each of those identities comes along with a set of expectations or stereotypes. David Sobel, MD, MPH, and Sally MallamContributing Writers In his autobiography Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White, Brent Staples, … Continuer la lecture de Stereotyping: What Is It and Can We Neutralize Its Effect?→
As the United States struggles and the economies of Europe stagger, we fail to see a way out of this agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. In fact, there are thousands of ways to solve not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. Solutions are already in place where terrible problems once existed. The changes came about not through increased conventional taxation, enlightened self-interest, or government programs but by people simply rethinking the concept of money. With this restructuring, everything changes.
by Mervyn King
Something is wrong with our banking system. We all sense that, but Mervyn King knows it firsthand; his ten years at the helm of the Bank of England, including at the height of the financial crisis, revealed profound truths about the mechanisms of our capitalist society. In The End of Alchemy he offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance.
by Felix Martin
What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political, cultural, and economic history, Felix Martin challenges nothing less than our conventional understanding of one of humankind’s greatest inventions. Martin describes how the Western idea of money emerged in the ancient world, and was shaped over the centuries by tensions between sovereigns and the emerging middle classes. Money, he argues, has always been an intensely political instrument, and that it is our failure to remember this that led to the crisis in our financial system and the Great Recession.
In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world's people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards. A struggle rages within each of these nations between reformers and corrupt leaders--and the corrupt are winning.
by Bear Heart
With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world.
by S.G.F. Brandon
Professor Brandon explores the relationship between Jesus and the whole Jewish cause against Rome, including the Zealot movement. He provides a fundamental reinterpretation of a great part of the four Gospel narratives as these were shaped by political and social forces two generations later.
by Dave Cullen
Something changed with Parkland. When Nicolas Cruz shot seventeen students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on 14th February 2018, the story was tragic and familiar. Yet the eighth school shooting that year made history for another reason.
by David Werner, Carol Thuman & Jane Maxwell
Hesperian's classic manual, Where There Is No Doctor, is arguably the most widely-used health care manual in the world.
Useful for health workers, clinicians, and others involved in primary health care delivery and health promotion programs, with millions of copies in print in more than 75 languages, the manual provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent common diseases. Special attention is focused on nutrition, infection and disease prevention, and diagnostic techniques as primary ways to prevent and treat health problems.
