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Simon Hall’s “Three Revolutions” tells together for the first time Lenin’s 1917 return to Russia, Mao’s ‘Long March’ of 1934-35 and Fidel Castro’s return to Cuba in 1956.
Told in tandem with these are the corresponding journeys of three journalists - John Reed, Edgar Snow and Herbert L. Matthews - whose electric testimonies from the frontlines would make a decisive contribution to how these revolutions were understood in the wider world.
Author: ADAM SCAIFE
Packed with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile anyone who is curious about weather.
Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs and original color artwork, “The Little Book of Weather” is an accessible and enjoyable mini-reference about the world’s weather, with examples drawn from across the globe.
It fits an astonishing amount of information in a small package, covering a wide range of topics—from weather forecasting and extreme events to the future of weather with climate change.
Despite sleep’s critical role in maintaining health and cognitive function, humans sleep less than any other primate. “The Sleepless Ape” reveals the reasons for this evolutionary paradox, showing how our unique sleep patterns evolved when our ancestors left the safety of the forest for more dangerous ground, which led them to form more secure, social sleeping arrangements. As a result, early humans developed shorter, deeper, and more flexible sleep patterns that provided survival advantages and freed more time for crucial activities such as toolmaking, social interaction, and migration.
David Baron’s “The Martians” reconstructs a bizarre tale told through newly discovered clippings that began in the 1890s when Percival Lowell, a wealthy Harvard scion declared “there can be no doubt that living beings inhabit our neighboring world.”
So frenzied was the reaction that international controversies arose and a new genre called science fiction arose.
While Lowell’s claims were savagely debunked, his influence sparked a compulsive interest in Mars that continues to this day.
In “Plato’s Second Republic”, Andre Laks argues that the “Laws,” Plato’s last and longest dialogue, is also his most important political work, surpassing the “Republic” in historical relevance.
Laks offers a thorough reappraisal of this less renowned text, and examines how it provides a critical foundation for the principles of lawmaking.
In doing so, he makes clear the tremendous impact the “Laws” had not only on political philosophy, but also on modern political history.
Laks shows how the four central ideas in the “Laws” — the corruptibility of unchecked power, the rule of law, a “middle” constitution.
This book provides a unified, theory-driven introduction to key mathematical and agent-based models of social dynamics and cultural evolution, teaching readers how to build their own models, analyze them, and integrate them with empirical research programs.
“Modeling Social Behavior” equips social, behavioral, and cognitive scientists with an essential tool kit for thinking about and studying complex social systems using mathematical and computational models.
