Author: Ruth Fallenbaum File Type: pdf African American Patients in Psychotherapy integrates history, current events, arts, psychoanalytic thinking, and case studies to provide a model for understanding the social and historical dimensions of psychological development across African American communities. Among the topics included are psychological consequences of slavery and Jim Crow, the black patient and the white therapist, the toll of even small racist enactments, the black patients uneasy relationship with health care providers, and a revisiting of the idea of black rage. Author Ruth Fallenbaum also examines the psychological potential of reparation for centuries of slave labor and legalized wage and property theft. **

Author: Yuval Noah Harari File Type: epub NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanitys future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.hrOver the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark stylethorough, yet rivetingfamine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little more people die from old age than from infectious diseases and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deusexplores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first centuryfrom overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This isHomo Deus.With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future. **Amazon.com ReviewAn Amazon Best Book of February 2017 Those who read and loved Yuval Noah Hararis Sapiens have been eagerly anticipating his new book Homo Deus. While Sapiens looked back at our evolutionary development, this new book examines where we might be headed (Homo Deus is subtitled A Brief History of Tomorrow). Predicting the future isnt as easy as deconstructing the past, and Harari openly admits the challengebut even if hes completely wrong in his predictions, and most of us doubt he is, Homo Deus is the kind of provocative, food-for-thought read that drew so many of us to his work in the first place. According to Harari, our future could be very different from our presentdark, technocratic, and automatedbut reading about our possible fates, presented in Hararis clear-eyed and illuminating style, sure is fascinating. --Chris Schluep, The Amazon Book ReviewReviewPraise for Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind Here is a simple reason why Sapiens has risen explosively to the ranks of an international bestseller. It tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language. -- Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Praise for* Homo Deus Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. Above all, it will make you think in ways you had not thought before.Daniel Kahneman, author ofThinking, Fast and Slow* Israeli Professor Harari is one of todays most exciting and provocative thinkers. His innovative new book blends science, history and philosophy to explore the future of humanity in the face of artificial intelligence and examine whether our species will be rendered completely redundant. Cambridge Network Spellbinding. . . . This is a very intelligent book, full of sharp insights and mordant wit. . . . Its real power comes from the sense of a distinctive consciousness behind it. It is a quirky and cool book, with a sliver of ice at its heart. . . It is hard to imagine anyone could read this book without getting an occasional, vertiginous thrill. The Guardian Its a chilling prospect, but the AI weve created could transform human nature, argues this spellbinding new book by the author ofSapiens. The Guardian Nominally a historian, Harari is in fact an intellectual magpie who has plucked theories and data from many disciplines including philosophy, theology, computer science and biology to produce a brilliantly original, thought-provoking and important study of where mankind is heading. Evening Standard Hararis work is . . . an unsettling meditation on the future. Hes opened a portal for us to contemplate on what kind of relationships we are forming with our data-crunching machines and whether right must be determined by empirical evidence or good old gut instinct. The Hindu [Hararis] propositions are well-developed, drawing upon a combination of science, philosophy and history. While the book offers a rather pessimistic and even nihilistic view of mans future, it is written with wit and style and makes compelling reading. iNews

Author: Marta Bertolaso File Type: pdf Focusing on cell dynamics, molecular medicine and robotics, contributors explore the interplay between biological, technological and theoretical ways of thinking. The collection makes a strong contribution to current debates in the philosophy of science and the changing role of scientific practice. **About the Author Marta Bertolaso is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Engineering and Institute of Philosophy of the Scientific and Technological Practice, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome. She previously won the Philips National competition for Young Researchers with a study on Experimental verification of the initial events in germination and is currently Visiting Fellow at Egenis, University of Exeter.

Author: Peter F. Lau File Type: pdf Considered by many historians to be the birthplace of the Confederacy, South Carolina experienced one of the longest and most turbulent Reconstruction periods of all the southern states. After the Civil War, white supremacist leadership in the state fiercely resisted the efforts of freed slaves to secure full citizenship rights and to remake society based upon an expansive vision of freedom forged in slavery and the crucible of war. Despite numerous obstacles, African Americans achieved remarkable social and political advances in the ten years following the war, including the establishment of the states first publicly-funded school system and health care for the poor. Through their efforts, the states political process and social fabric became more democratic. Peter F. Lau traces the civil rights movement in South Carolina from Reconstruction through the early twenty-first century. He stresses that the movement was shaped by local, national, and international circumstances in which individuals worked to redefine and expand the meaning and practice of democracy beyond the borders of their own state. Contrary to recent scholars who separate civil rights claims from general calls for economic justice, Lau asserts that African American demands for civil rights have been inseparable from broader demands for a redistribution of social and economic power. Using the tension between rights possession and rights application as his organizing theme, Lau fundamentally revises our understanding of the civil rights movement in America. In addition to considering South Carolinas pivotal role in the national civil rights movement, Lau offers a comprehensive analysis of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) during the height of its power and influence, from 1910 through the years following Brown v. Board of Education (1954). During this time, the NAACP worked to ensure the rights guaranteed to African Americans by the 14th and 15th amendments and facilitated the emergence of a broad-based movement that included many of the nations rural and most marginalized people. By examining events that occurred in South Carolina and the impact of the activities of the NAACP, Democracy Rising upends traditional interpretations of the civil rights movement in America. In their place, Lau offers an innovative way to understand the struggle for black equality by tracing the movement of people, institutions, and ideas across boundaries of region, nation, and identity. Ultimately, the book illustrates how conflicts caused by the states history of racial exclusion and discrimination continue to shape modern society. **