For readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism—and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of history’s most influential utopian movements. In the wake of the Enlightenment and the onset of industrialism, a generation of dreamers took it upon themselves to confront the messiness and injustice of a rapidly changing world. To our eyes, the utopian communities that took root in America in the nineteenth century may seem ambitious to the point of delusion, but they attracted members willing to dedicate their lives to creating a new social order and to asking the bold question What should the future look like? In Paradise Now, Chris Jennings tells the story of five interrelated utopian movements, revealing their relevance both to their time and to our own. Here is Mother Ann Lee, the prophet of the Shakers, who grew up in newly industrialized Manchester, England—and would come to build a quiet but fierce religious tradition on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Even as the society she founded spread across the United States, the Welsh industrialist Robert Owen came to the Indiana frontier to build an egalitarian, rationalist utopia he called the New Moral World. A decade later, followers of the French visionary Charles Fourier blanketed America with colonies devoted to inaugurating a new millennium of pleasure and fraternity. Meanwhile, the French radical Étienne Cabet sailed to Texas with hopes of establishing a communist paradise dedicated to ideals that would be echoed in the next century. And in New York’s Oneida Community, a brilliant Vermonter named John Humphrey Noyes set about creating a new society in which the human spirit could finally be perfected in the image of God. Over time, these movements fell apart, and the national mood that had inspired them was drowned out by the dream of westward expansion and the waking nightmare of the Civil War. Their most galvanizing ideas, however, lived on, and their audacity has influenced countless political movements since. Their stories remain an inspiration for everyone who seeks to build a better world, for all who ask, What should the future look like? Praise for Paradise Now “Uncommonly smart and beautifully written . . . a triumph of scholarship and narration: five stand-alone community studies and a coherent, often spellbinding history of the United States during its tumultuous first half-century . . . Although never less than evenhanded, and sometimes deliciously wry, Jennings writes with obvious affection for his subjects. To read Paradise Now is to be dazzled, humbled and occasionally flabbergasted by the amount of energy and talent sacrificed at utopia’s altar.”—The New York Times Book Review “Writing an impartial, respectful account of these philanthropies and follies is no small task, but Mr. Jennings largely pulls it off with insight and aplomb. Indulgently sympathetic to the utopian impulse in general, he tells a good story. His explanations of the various reformist credos are patient, thought-provoking and . . . entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal “As a tour guide, Jennings is thoughtful, engaging and witty in the right doses. . . . He makes the subject his own with fresh eyes and a crisp narrative, rich with detail. . . . In the end, Jennings writes, the communards’ disregard for the world as it exists sealed their fate. But in revisiting their stories, he makes a compelling case that our present-day ‘deficit of imagination’ could be similarly fated.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism

History

Jennings, Chris

Americas

Random House Publishing Group

Random House]

Understanding And Preventing AIDS: A Book for Everyone

Understanding And Preventing AIDS: A Book for Everyone

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Health Alert Pr

Medical Books

Medicine

Few people realize that the familiar HIV/AIDS global statistics are actually estimates. For example, UNAIDS estimated that the Republic of South Africa (RSA) had 140,000 HIV/AIDS deaths in 1997. However, after tabulating all deaths for 1997, the Republic of South Africa attributed only 6,635 deaths to HIV/AIDS. Such discrepancies are rarely noted. The Republic of South Africa (RSA) stands as the exemplar of these discrepancies. It is reputed to have the world's largest AIDS epidemic with an estimated 5.6 million people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) in 2008. Such PLWH estimates, as with the estimates of HIV/AIDS deaths, are highly questionable. HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction clarifies the reasons behind these discrepancies by describing two common misunderstandings of HIV infection that contribute to poor mathematical modeling outcomes. Unfortunately, the health authorities in the Republic of South Africa grant more validity to computer-generated estimates than to their own empirical death counts. HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction discusses why these modeled estimates, and the HIV sero-prevalence surveys upon which they are based, are simply implausible. Fully referenced, HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction presents and compares raw numerical data on: ● the tabulated number of HIV/AIDS deaths in the RSA; ● the number of AIDS cases detected by RSA disease surveillance systems; ● UNAIDS/WHO estimates for AIDS deaths in the RSA; and ● UNAIDS/WHO estimates for the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the RSA. The total cumulative numbers of HIV/AIDS cases in the United States and the cumulative totals for the continent of Africa are also presented for purposes of comparison, and to place the African and RSA data within appropriate epidemiological context. Overall, these data span from 1981 to 2009. Altogether, these data, plus additional information detailing the nature of HIV infection and heterosexual HIV transmission rates, explain why the hyperbolic mathematical estimates and HIV antibody test surveys - the primary sources of HIV/AIDS data in Africa - are simply implausible. Contents: 118 pages, 20 tables, several side boxes, and 240 references.

HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction

Administration & Medicine Economics

Health Alert Communications

"The theory that AIDS originated in African monkeys arose from an incident of laboratory contamination." ● The scientific literature is clear: (1) New York City is the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic; (2) the theory that HIV came from monkeys is a fallacy; the theory that AIDS originated in African monkeys arose from an incident of laboratory contamination; and (3) the African AIDS epidemic-as-holocaust never manifested. "The first Africans diagnosed with AIDS were residents of Belgium." ● Fully referenced, based on a forensic review of over 3000 scientific and medical journal articles, this book redefines global concepts for the prevalence and distribution of HIV infection. For many readers, each page will be a revelation as the Author not only deconstructs many myths and misconceptions, but also describes how the current misconceptions came into being."The first documented case of international HIV transmission occurred between New York City and Copenhagen."HIV/AIDS - The Facts and the Fiction has an adjuvant companion book, HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction, which provides numerical substantiation to some of the assertions presented in HIV/AIDS - The Facts and the Fiction. Together, they redefine global concepts for the prevalence and distribution of HIV infection, and have powerful implications for HIV/AIDS funding, research prerogatives, and global health care interventions. Chris Jennings (Harvard, B.A., Biology 1976/77) excels at writing scientific books that fulfill the needs of professionals while rendering the science accessible to the average reader. His prior book, Understanding and Preventing AIDS: A Book for Everyone, was favorably reviewed by the New England Journal of Medicine ● adopted for staff education by Massachusetts General Hospital, the hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); and Walter Reed Army Medical Institute ● sold in medical bookstores ● purchased by innumerable city and state health agencies ● and utilized as a textbook at colleges, nursing schools, and public health schools.Contents: 218 pages, 20 tables, innumerable side boxes, and 500 references.

HIV/AIDS - The Facts and The Fiction

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

Chaos, a new book by artist Tauba Auerbach produced in conjunction with her exhibition Here Now/And Everywhere at New York's Deitch Projects, explores the shadowy gap between order and disorder, pattern and randomness. By linking mathematical philosophy and scientific theory with larger, existential human concerns, Auerbach produces an array of complex conceptual and visual experiments that manifest as a body of striking paintings and photographs, minimalist metaphors of information overload. Evoking the information abyss of visual static, Auerbach's Crease, Crumple, Shatter and Static series investigate the logic and machinery of communication and representation. As they do so, unintended or unexpected effects emerge in conjunction with instances of ambiguity, contradiction, paradox and breakdown. Fully illustrated and beautifully bound, Chaos also constitutes a mini-catalogue raisonné of Auerbach's artist's books and includes new critical essays by Will Bradley, Chris Jennings and Brian Sholis.

Tauba Auerbach: Chaos

Arts & Photography

Bradley, Will

Sholis, Brian

History & Criticism

Deitch Projects

Conversations Made Easy: Building Your Playbook for Growing Sales and Connecting with Customers

For sales professionals and business leaders, communicating effectively and authentically is a never-ending struggle, especially in building new business and improving team performance. It’s a struggle with a long-lasting impact, rippling into both profit and reputation. 
Don’t rely on price discounts and canned pitches to win business. Let your team see and hear authentic leadership so they too become good leaders. In Conversations Made Easy, entrepreneur and communications consultant Chris Jennings shows how to make some of your most difficult conversations easier and more authentic to create confidence, win trust, and expand the skills of every customer-facing member of your team. Chris trashes the stereotypical sales script and takes the guesswork out of building rapport with your customers. His framework helps you lead authentically and provide employees with the tools and mindset they need to secure business and create long-lasting customer relationships. Make your words count and build better connections with this insightful framework for more compelling communication.

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Houndstooth Press

For sales professionals and business leaders, communicating effectively and authentically is a never-ending struggle, especially in building new business and improving team performance. It's a struggle with a long-lasting impact, rippling into both profit and reputation.\nDon't rely on price discounts and canned pitches to win business. Let your team see and hear authentic leadership so they too become good leaders. In Conversations Made Easy, entrepreneur and communications consultant Chris Jennings shows how to make some of your most difficult conversations easier and more authentic to create confidence, win trust, and expand the skills of every customer-facing member of your team. Chris trashes the stereotypical sales script and takes the guesswork out of building rapport with your customers. His framework helps you lead authentically and provide employees with the tools and mindset they need to secure business and create long-lasting customer relationships. Make your words count and build better connections with this insightful framework for more compelling communication.

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From the Beach to the Bay: An Illustrated History of Sandbridge in Virginia

Gardner, Hank

Walsworth Pub. Co

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