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From the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the early nineteenth century, they desired to learn what lay beneath.
David J. Drewry provides an insider’s account of the ambitious and often hazardous radar mapping expeditions that he and fellow glaciologists undertook during the height of the Cold War, when concerns about global climate change were first emerging and scientists were finally able to peer into the Antarctic ice and take its measure.
Author: Nick Tabor
Nick Tabor’s “Africatown” charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution.
In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the US from West Africa.
Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders.
Author: Angela Saini
For centuries, societies have treated male domination as natural to the human species.
But how would our understanding of gender inequality look if we didn’t assume that men have always ruled over women?
In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini explores the roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present.
The book also analyzes the latest research findings in science and archaeology, and traces cultural and political histories from the Americas to Asia.
This insightful book outlines the process he used to determine the next best step for him and how you, too, can pursue more meaning and purpose in your life and work, says a review published on Goodreads.com.
If you want to change your career and circumstances but aren’t sure how, this guide from Jeff Henderson will help you reevaluate your purpose and determine your next best step. the next chapter of your life starts today, with one simple step. and you’ll know how to take that step because you know “What to do next.”
In today’s financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face- to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execute astounding volumes of transactions.
“Trading at the Speed of Light” tells the story of this epic transformation.
Donald MacKenzie shows how in the 1990s, in what were then the disreputable margins of the US financial system, a new approach to trading — automated high-frequency trading or HFT— began and then spread throughout the world.
Edited by Nikolas Rose & Des Fitzgerald
Most of the world’s people now live in cities and millions have moved from the countryside to the rapidly growing megacities of the global south.
How does the urban experience shape the mental lives of those living in and moving to cities today? Sociologists study cities as centers of personal progress and social innovation, but also exclusion, racism, and inequality. Psychiatrists try to explain the high rates of mental disorders among urban dwellers, especially migrants.
But the split between the social and life sciences has hindered understanding of how urban experience is written into the bodies and brains of urbanites.
