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📚️ False Prophets of Economics Imperialism: The Limits of Mathematical Market Models
"The book is a formidable analysis of the epistemic limitations of modern-day economics and marks a significant counter to its methodology’s encroachment across the wider social sciences."
🔗 https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-false-prophets-of-economics-imperialism.html
#Economics #SocialSciences #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Book #Books #Bookstodon
📚️ The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
"In The Man Who Broke Reality, renowned science communicator Philip Ball reveals that it was Bohr who first explained the physics of the nuclear atom, and it was his model of the atom’s dense nucleus that enabled scientists to understand how it could be split apart."
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo280707026.html
#History #Histodons #HistSci #Science #Physics #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Biography #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon
📚️ Cormac McCarthy’s Neoliberalism A Breakdown in Mercantile Ethics
"The contributors explore how McCarthy’s fictions—often set against vast, barren landscapes—reflect the predatory logic of neoliberal capitalism, marked by economic inequality, environmental degradation, and social upheaval."
🔗 https://utpress.org/9781621909378/cormac-mccarthys-neoliberalism/
#Essays #Literature #Criticism #Politics #PoliticalScience #CormacMcCarthy #Neoliberalism #Ethics #Reading #UniversityPress #Fiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon
📚️ 🌊 The Undersea War: The International Battle for Supremacy at the Bottom of the World
"This is the newest battlefield where countries must protect their interests – and the functioning of daily life – while rivals test their limits. From the Baltic to the Pacific, sinister ruptures, mysterious vessels and submarine incursions mark a conflict already under way."
🔗 https://www.johnmurraypress.co.uk/titles/elisabeth-braw/the-undersea-war/9781399825412/
#Geopolitics #InternationalRelations #Politics #Sea #Ocean #Geography #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon
📚️ Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines
"But technology, by offering to do everything, teaches us that we neither need nor have the capacity to take risks, have hard conversations, struggle through uncertainty or insecurity, or rely on our own faculties and judgment."
🔗 https://www.sherryturkle.com/artificial-intimacy
#Psychology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon
📚️ King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
"Janet Nelson's wonderful new book brings together everything we know about Charles I, sifting through the available evidence, literary and material, to paint a vivid portrait of the man and his motives."
🔗 https://www.ucpress.edu/books/king-and-emperor/hardcover
#History #Histodons #Europe #Biography #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Biography #Book #Books #Bookstodon
When in Rome
The first material evidence of the Schola Saxonum suggests Anglo-Saxon expats received special treatment in Rome’s “Little England"
🔗 https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/anglo-saxon-expats-in-romes-little-england
#Medieval #History #Histodons #Archaeology #AngloSaxon #Rome
📚️ 🐋 Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale: Philosophical Perspectives
"The wide-ranging set of essays approach the issue of significance in Moby-Dick in relation to German idealism, American transcendentalism, and to the thinkers (Nietzsche, Heidegger) who rebelled against idealism."
🔗 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/melvilles-moby-dick-or-the-whale-9780197633892
#Essays #Philosophy #Literature #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Book #Books #Bookstodon
📚️ Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction
"This well-organized, readable textbook takes the reader through a chronological account of how and why racial categories were created and how the study of “race” evolved in multiple academic disciplines, including genetics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. "
🔗 https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/race-racism-and-science/9780813537368
#Science #History #Histodons #Anthropology #Ethnography #Ethnology #Race #Racism #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon
📚️ Populations of Individuals: Understanding Biological Variation from Molecules to Ecosystems
"Populations of Individuals illustrates with examples from each level of biological complexity that this underlying principle can replace instability and noise with a coherent and mathematically consistent description of stable variation observed across the breadth of biology."
🔗 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/populations-of-individuals-9780197846001
#Science #Biology #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon
Economic footprints: mapping coin circulation and economic networks in ancient Rome
"Our findings highlight how coin circulation mirrored governance, mobility, and regional interdependence, offering new insights into the economic geography of the Roman Republic and demonstrating the value of formal methods in ancient economic history."
Haddad, E.A., Araujo, I. Economic footprints: mapping coin circulation and economic networks in ancient Rome. Humanit Soc Sci Commun (2026). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-07815-7
#OpenAccess #OA #Study #Research #Academia #Ancient #Rome #Economy
Morning all
Afternoon all
The FT is reporting that insurers brace for multi-million dollar claims arising from 'rogue' AI agents.
👉 Doesn't bode well for the future, does it?
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #FT #News #Insurance
🏴 The English paid off the Vikings for almost a century. But was the Danegeld such a bad idea?
🔗 https://doi.org/10.64628/AA.e9a3e5nhc
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Vikings #AngloSaxon #England #Europe
🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🎙️ Italy PM Meloni seeks EU trademark for her voice amid AI deepfake risks
#News #Italy #GiorgiaMeloni #Meloni #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #DeepFakes #Voice #Europe
Afternoon all.
📚️ 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Great Powers: A History of Britain and Germany
"It reveals the many links that united Britons and Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the unprecedented violence they inflicted on each other in the twentieth, and how they have grappled with its legacy ever since."
🔗 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/315896/great-powers-by-ruger-jan
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #Germany #Europe #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon
