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Author: Adam Grant
“Think Again” is a book about the benefit of doubt, and about how we can get better at embracing the unknown and the joy of being wrong.
New evidence shows us that rethinking can be taught and Grant explains how to develop the necessary qualities to do it.
Learning to rethink may be the secret skill to give you the edge in a world changing faster than ever.
Authors: Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz, Richard Biesanz
Written with the perspective of more than half a century of first-hand observation, this unparalleled social and cultural history describes how Costa Rica’s economy, government, education and health-care systems, family structures, religion, and other institutions have evolved, and how this evolution has affected and reflected people’s daily lives, beliefs, and their values.
The authors are particularly concerned with change since the economic crisis of the early 1980s and the structural adjustment that followed.
The book provides a comprehensive introduction to a country the writers know well, according to a review on goodreads.com.
Authors: Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta
Banks in America are private institutions with private shareholders, boards of directors, profit motives, customers, and competitors. And yet the public plays a key role in deciding what risks are taken as well as how, when, and to what end. Public-private negotiations over financial governance has evolved into an essential ecosystem of banking risk management.
In “Private Finance, Public Power,” Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta offer a new history of finance and public policy in the US by examining the idiosyncratic way the nation manages financial risk across the public-private divide.
Covering two centuries, from the founding of the Republic to the early 1980s, Conti-Brown and Vanatta describe the often-contested, sometimes chaotic, engagement of bankers, politicians, bureaucrats, and others in the overlapping spaces of the public-private system of bank supervision.
In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults.
He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences.
Authors: Yuval Grossman and Yossi Nir
“The Standard Model” is an elegant and extremely successful theory that formulates the laws of fundamental interactions among elementary particles.
This incisive textbook introduces students to the physics of the Standard Model while providing an essential overview of modern particle physics, with a unique emphasis on symmetry principles as the starting point for constructing models.
“The Standard Model” equips students with an in-depth understanding of this impressively predictive theory.
Author: Jo Bovy
This book provides an in-depth introduction to the dynamics, formation, and evolution of galaxies.
Starting with the basics of galactic structure and galactic dynamics, it helps students develop a sophisticated understanding of the orbital structure of spirals, ellipticals, and other types of galaxies.
The book demonstrates how observations led to the discovery that galaxies are dominated by dark matter and explores in detail how structure evolves from the primordial universe to form the halos that host galaxies.
