Tag: Ourselves

Free Download The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI by Neil D. Lawrence
English | June 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0241625246 | 448 pages | PDF | 3.28 Mb
What does Artificial Intelligence mean for our identity? Our fascination with AI stems from the perceived uniqueness of human intelligence. We believe it’s what differentiates us. Fears of AI not only concern how it invades our digital lives, but also the implied threat of an intelligence that displaces us from our position at the centre of the world.

Free Download Nathan Pettijohn, "Travels with Hafa: In Search of Ourselves"
English | ISBN: 1544515758 | 2020 | 244 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
On the heels of a breakup, author Nathan Pettijohn rents an RV and takes off on the road with his dog to explore the Pacific Northwest for the month of October. Along their journey, Pettijohn and his dog Raphael, or "Hafa," meet with locals in small towns and stay at sites ranging from national parks, trailer parks, and campgrounds, to parking lots and open spaces. While going to a number of iconic bucket-list road trip stops, Pettijohn shares his views on everything from dog training to dating apps, in a modern exploration of life on the road today in America for adventurers, vagabonds, and dog lovers.

Free Download Zhongdang Pan, "To See Ourselves: Comparing Traditional Chinese And American Values"
English | ISBN: 0367274043 | 2020 | 258 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This study compares the ever-changing cultural values of contemporary China and the contemporary United States. Surveying 2000-Shanghi area residents and villagers as well as 2500 US citizens, the authors examine to what extent there has been a loss of "traditional" values in the United States. The book looks at value systems in both cultures associated with family relationships, kinship ties, male-female relationships, and general interpersonal relationships – the fundamental social relationships comprising the social fabric of a society. The authors conclude that although both societies have experienced changes in this century, they have followed quite different paths. In exploring the extent to which this process has differed, the authors address the following questions: what traditional Confucian values persist in China after 40 years of communist indoctrination and the recent "invasion" of Western culture? How are fundamental human relationships viewed in the United States? How do these two societies differ today, both in adherence to traditional values and in the dynamics of value change? These and many more issues are explored.

Free Download Anita Johnson, "How Well Do We Know Ourselves"
English | ASIN : B07T4KQFDB | 2019 | 145 pages | EPUB | 315 KB
Strong is a word often associated with her. She must be judging from her hand in life. Anita (the youngest girl of the eleven Johnson children) gives you her truth accompanied by words from her sisters of the polar struggles and love she endured growing up in her hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana. This offering is a blend of drama, self help, and comedy all rolled into a story that will tickle you into tears as you vicariously travel with her through her life. Her descriptive memories will carry you through this reading keeping you anxious to see what "Nita" is up to next. Grab yourself a highlighter, a snack, maybe even a drink, and get ready to be glued not only to this book, but the heart of the lady the world calls Mama Nita.

Free Download Sarah Winkler-Reid, "Individually Ourselves: Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School "
English | ISBN: 1805391011 | 2023 | 184 pages | PDF | 944 KB
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school, Individually Ourselves demonstrates how young people elaborate notions of individual personhood through their friendships, and pervasive peer ethics, shaped in and through relations of power and inequality. By examining the interplay between ourselves and others during such a formative time of life, the book addresses how individuality is produced in everyday life and how our interactions help create the person we become.

Free Download H. R. McMaster (Author, Narrator), "At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House"
English | ASIN: B0CNJ26Z2C | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:42:00 | 349 MB
A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirteen months in the Trump White House.
At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy at a critical moment in history. McMaster entered an administration beset by conflict and the hyper partisanship of American politics. With the candor of a soldier and the perspective of a historian, McMaster rises above the fray to lay bare the good, the bad, and the ugly of Trump’s presidency and give readers insight into what a second Trump term would look like.

Free Download Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPTCL8Z2 | 2024 | 8 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 241 MB
Author: Niobe Way
Narrator: Niobe Way
From NYU professor of developmental psychology Niobe Way, an in-depth exploration about what boys and young men teach us about themselves, us, and the toxic culture we have created, one in which we value money over people, toys over human connection, and academic achievement over kindness. Based on her longitudinal and mixed-method research over thirty-five years, Rebels with a Cause is a true call to action to change the culture so that we stop the vicious cycle of violence and blame. Dr. Niobe Way has spent her career researching social and emotional development and finds that boys and young men desperately want and need the same thing as everyone else: close friendships. Yet they and we grow up in a stereotyped "boy" culture, one that devalues and mocks those relationships, rather than recognizing that they’re necessary for human survival.

Free Download Adam Greenfield, Michael Butler Murray (Narrator), "Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire"
English | ASIN: B0D7QWYP1D | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:35:00 | 236 MB
How to reclaim power in a time of perpetual crisis
We are living through a Long Emergency: a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, droughts, resource wars, and other climate-driven disasters. In Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield asks what might happen if the tactics and networks of care that spring up in response to these times might be brought together in a single, coherent way of life?
Using examples from the Black Panthers’ "survival programs," the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort, and the neighborhood-based mutual aid groups that sustained many during COVID lockdowns to the large-scale, self-organized polities of municipalist Spain and Kurdish Rojava, Greenfield argues for rethinking local power as a bulwark against despair-a way to discover and develop the individual and collective capacities that have gone underutilized during all the long years of late capitalism, and a means for thriving in the face of impending catastrophe.

Free Download Jill W. Rettberg, "Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves"
English | ISBN: 1137476648 | 2014 | 109 pages | AZW3 | 323 KB
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves and allowing our machines to tell us who we are.

Free Download John J. Macionis, Nijole V. Benokraitis, "Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0132204916 | PDF | pages: 552 | 3.6 mb
This best-selling collection is the only reader that systematically weaves together three types of articles-classic, contemporary , and cross-cultural-for each general topic typically covered in a sociology course. Seeing Ourselves conveys sociology’s diversity of viewpoints and methodologies and includes important issues and debates that capture the fascinating complexity of the social world.