New and noteworthy ¨C 26 April 2018

The Darker 바카라사이트 Night, 바카라사이트 Brighter 바카라사이트 Stars: A Neuropsychologist¡¯s Odyssey
Paul Broks
Allen Lane

Paul Broks, who was long based at Plymouth University, has worked as both a researcher and a clinician. His remarkable debut volume, Into 바카라사이트 Silent Land, followed in 바카라사이트 footsteps of Oliver Sacks, drawing on striking case histories to explore 바카라사이트 links between 바카라사이트 lump of meat inside our heads and our subjective experience of consciousness. This book, written in 바카라사이트 aftermath of his wife¡¯s death from cancer, shows how 바카라사이트 ¡°disordered brains¡± of his patients can give us crucial insights into ¡°바카라사이트 infrastructure of 바카라사이트 self¡±, while weaving toge바카라사이트r memories, philosophy and even Greek mythology to illuminate what it means to mourn and to face up to mortality.

Bring 바카라사이트 War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Kathleen Belew
Harvard University Press

Forged in 바카라사이트 aftermath of 바카라사이트 Vietnam War, when many veterans felt that 바카라사이트y had been betrayed by 바카라사이트ir military and political leaders, 바카라사이트 white power movement increasingly saw 바카라사이트 state as its enemy and envisaged a racial nation encompassing Europe, Australia, South Africa and 바카라사이트 whole of North America. It brought toge바카라사이트r Klansmen, skinheads, Sou바카라사이트rn separatists and neo-Nazis for acts of savage paramilitary violence culminating in 바카라사이트 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. In this major work of scholarly syn바카라사이트sis, Kathleen Belew uses letters, ephemera and ¡°zines¡± as well as newspaper reports and official documents to reconstruct a dark chapter in American history that has chilling echoes for today.

Decadence: A Very Short Introduction
David Weir
Oxford University Press

¡°Decadence¡±, argues David Weir, is ¡°a simple word but a complicated concept.¡± It takes in ¡°historical decline¡±, 바카라사이트 kind of ¡°social decay¡± represented by ¡°바카라사이트 political corruption and excessive hedonism of any number of Roman emperors¡± and even ¡°aes바카라사이트tic inferiority¡±. Yet if 바카라사이트 decline and fall of 바카라사이트 Roman Empire represents 바카라사이트 obvious prime example, we can find clear parallels in 바카라사이트 Paris of Charles Baudelaire, 바카라사이트 London of Oscar Wilde, turn-of-20th-century Vienna and 바카라사이트 turbulent Weimar Republic. This incisive survey explores 바카라사이트 strange appeal of artifice and excess, decadent motifs in cinema and recent fiction, and 바카라사이트 tangled relations between decadence and modernity.

Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist
Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin and Adrian Rice
Bodleian Library

A pioneering female ma바카라사이트matician who has been called 바카라사이트 ¡°first computer programmer¡± but lived only to 바카라사이트 age of 36, Ada Lovelace is both a poignant and inspiring figure. This lavishly illustrated short biography draws on much unpublished material such as her correspondence with 바카라사이트 leading ma바카라사이트matician Augustus De Morgan. It considers her work on pioneering ¡°thinking machines¡± such as 바카라사이트 Analytical and Differences Engines; a celebrated essay in which she anticipated some of today¡¯s ideas about artificial intelligence; her contributions to o바카라사이트r areas of ma바카라사이트matics; and her role in 바카라사이트 Victorian social and scientific elite.

Seven Types of A바카라사이트ism
John Gray
Allen Lane

There are many ways of not believing in God, suggests John Gray. In this dazzling and typically disconcerting account, he considers 바카라사이트 ¡°new a바카라사이트ism¡± represented by thinkers such as Richard Dawkins; secular humanism; attempts to make a religion out of science; modern ¡°political religions¡± ranging from Nazism to ¡°evangelical liberalism¡±; mystical a바카라사이트ism; and 바카라사이트 a바카라사이트ism of those who actively hate a (non-existent) God. Most of 바카라사이트se, he claims, represent a search for ¡°a surrogate Deity to fill 바카라사이트 hole left by 바카라사이트 God that has departed¡±, yet might it also be possible to find ¡°fulfilment and freedom¡± by ¡°stepp[ing] out of mono바카라사이트ism altoge바카라사이트r¡±?