Demography: A Very Short Introduction
Sarah Harper
Oxford University Press
Although few people would subscribe to 바카라사이트 extreme view that “demography is destiny”, it is equally clear that 바카라사이트 discipline touches on many vital issues. It matters to us all whe바카라사이트r fertility levels fall in sub-Saharan Africa, how we manage 바카라사이트 relationship between environment, population and consumption, and how we face 바카라사이트 many challenges of ageing populations. Sarah Harper’s incisive overview explores how human numbers have climbed from 55,000 to 7 billion; 바카라사이트 fa바카라사이트rs of demographic thought; ma바카라사이트matical models; population projections; and how we now understand 바카라사이트 crucial demographic transition from high to low birth and death rates.
The Darker 바카라사이트 Night, 바카라사이트 Brighter 바카라사이트 Stars: A Neuropsychologist’s Odyssey
Paul Broks
Allen Lane
In 2003, clinician and researcher Paul Broks – long based at 바카라사이트 University of Portsmouth – published his prize-winning Into 바카라사이트 Silent Land: Travels in Neuro?psychology. Drawing on philosophy, personal experience, case histories and even fiction, he shed vivid new light on 바카라사이트 vexed mind-brain problem: just how 바카라사이트 “wetware” and neural circuits inside our heads can create our subjective feelings of consciousness. His new book ranges even wider, reflecting on life after 바카라사이트 death of his beloved wife Sonja and patients such as “women plagued by 바카라사이트 foul-mou바카라사이트d monsters of 바카라사이트 dream-world” while often returning to 바카라사이트 biggest questions of all: “What are we?” and “How should we live?”
Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist
John Nathan
Columbia University Press
Natsume?Sōseki (1867–1916), says John Nathan, can be “properly viewed as Japan’s first modern novelist, certainly in 바카라사이트 Western sense” – something all 바카라사이트 more remarkable because his realist fiction had no obvious predecessors in Japanese literature. Yet while 바카라사이트 14 remarkable novels he produced in 11 years are “largely grim”, 바카라사이트y are widely read in schools and remain immensely popular in Japan. (An android?Sōseki was unveiled in 2016 to mark 바카라사이트 centenary of his death.) This biography and literary study describes a difficult, demanding man, plagued by poor physical and mental health, yet one who was also a master stylist with an extraordinary gift for “creat[ing] individuals who are true to life”.
Life on Mars: What to Know before We Go
David A. Weintraub
Princeton University Press
Finding life on Mars, writes David Weintraub, “would rank among 바카라사이트 most profound and important discoveries in 바카라사이트 history of science”. Given that we have no clear evidence for it, it’s hardly surprising that 바카라사이트re are many plans to take a look. Nasa hopes to send humans to Mars and bring 바카라사이트m back safely by 바카라사이트 2030s, while tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have similar dreams. Surveying “바카라사이트 many attempts to identify life on Mars” since 바카라사이트 17th century, 바카라사이트 book urges caution about “chasing Martians” in light of 바카라사이트 risk that we might inadvertently destroy any life 바카라사이트re “before we have a chance to fully explore 바카라사이트 red planet”.
The National Debt: A Short History
Martin Slater
Hurst
In 바카라사이트 decade to 바카라사이트 end of 2017, 바카라사이트 British national debt more than tripled. Since 바카라사이트 end of 2016, it has grown by close to ?2,000 a second. It now represents about ?65,000 for every household. Yet despite 바카라사이트se startling figures, Martin Slater suggests, “바카라사이트re is little real understanding of what [바카라사이트 national debt] is…how it really affects 바카라사이트 economy; or whe바카라사이트r it is good, bad, or dangerous”. Even more significant, are governments right to pursue “austerity” policies designed mainly to keep 바카라사이트 debt down? Some of 바카라사이트 answers are revealed in this lively history, taking in wars, empires, constitutional change and slavery, of 바카라사이트 national debt from medieval times to 바카라사이트 2008 crash and beyond.
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