Few things seem as irreversible as death, whether for an individual or a species. But what would happen if death was reversible, if we could bring back to life something similar to the species that became extinct in the past? Recent developments in various techniques in molecular biology, among them cloning, synthetic genomes and genetic editing, have led to the emergence of a field of research that is in pursuit of de-extinction. This is a controversial ambition that presents far-reaching scientific, ethical, economic and social challenges. Even so, its proponents defend it as one of the possible ways to restore ecosystems and even fight against climate change. Explained over the course of this book are the possibilities for de-extinction and how they could transform the global ecosystem in the future.

De-Extinctions: A Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)

Science & Math

Lalueza-Fox, Carles

Biological Sciences

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"Populisms explains and expands upon the definition of populism. Few books touch a contemporary nerve quite like this one." — Benjamin Welton, Foreword Reviews "Carlos de la Torre offers the reader a masterly overview of populism as a political set of disruptive and mobilizing events, as well as a subject of sustained and diversified academic debate. The book integrates Latin America into the mainstream of populism studies and identifies its proper place in the complex web of overlapping and competing populist ideologies and strategies. By providing tools for understanding populism's left-wing alongside its right-wing variants, and by identifying the interlocking roles of reason, emotion, rhetoric, and fantasy in fashioning the worldwide, interconnected appeal —and dangers— of populist discourses, the author has written a highly persuasive, timely and readable analysis." — Michael Freeden "Carlos de la Torre's book offers an excellent introduction to populism, great current political issue. After a clear conceptual orientation follows a subtle and systematic analysis of populist leadership and the links between charismatic leaders and their followers. The work culminates in a deep and balanced discussion of the impact of populism about democracy. Convincingly, de la Torre demonstrates that despite their promises of democratic inclusion and popular participation, populism has a high risk of authoritarian involution. With all these arguments, this short book has enormous value as an explanation accessible from populism and deserves a very wide circle of readers". —Kurt Weyland, Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin "This is an essential book by the major scholar of Latin American populism." Federico Finchelstein, author of From Fascism to Populism in History "De la Torre expertly analyzes recent populist leaders, such as Donald Trump, by drawing on his deep knowledge of populism in the global south, especially Latin America. In this lively book, concepts are clearly explained and illustrated with rich case studies of populist movements, making it ideal for introductory courses on politics." —Karen Kampwirth, Robert W. Murphy Professor of Political Science, Knox College Populisms. A Quick Immersion analyzes populism globally and through the lens of Latin America, where populists have governed since the 1930s and 1940s up to the present. When populism is analyzed globally, the novelty is not its presence in most regions of the world. After all, populists have challenged the power of political and economic elites since the nineteenth century, and the first self-described Populist Party was formed in the U.S. in 1891. What is new is that populists are in office not only in Venezuela, Bolivia, the Philippines and Turkey but also in the U.S. as well as other consolidated Western liberal democracies like Italy. By learning from the experiences of populism in the global south, citizens, activists, journalists and politicians in the global north might avoid making the same mistakes when dealing with populists in power.

Populisms: A Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)

Politics & Social Sciences

De La Torre, Carlos

Politics & Government

"In this valuable study, an economist and political scientist combine to produce a succinct survey and synthesis of the multidisciplinary literature on happiness and assess its implications for how to improve personal and societal well-being." — Richard Easterlin, University Professor Emeritus USC and creator of the Easterlin paradox "This concise and bracing little book does exactly what it says. It plunges readers into the recent science, economics, and politics of happiness, and will leave them feeling clarified and refreshed.” — Darrin M. McMahon, Professor of History at Dartmouth College "This essential book moves beyond the 'happy talk' that marks the tidal wave of self-help books on happiness. Instead Radcliff and Dutt provide an accessible, engaging, and thoroughly multidisciplinary roadmap to the vast scholarly literature on the field of 'happiness science.’ There is every reason to expect that the book will be a key reference for scholars and students entering this burgeoning area of research." — George DeMartino, professor of international economics at the University of Denver This book provides a short immersion to the subject of happiness by examining the scholarly literature on it. Among the questions it explores are: What is the meaning of happiness? Is it something that it is possible to understand in general terms, perhaps by distinguishing between different meanings of it, or is it something that is best left to people to define for themselves as they seek to be happy in their own way? Can happiness and its different meanings be measured and, if so, how? On what does happiness depend? Does a person’s happiness depend on his or her disposition and individual circumstances, or does it depend in part on how society is organized and on what the government does? Does money buy happiness? What kinds of political, economic, social and environmental factors make people and societies happier? What can people do, either individually or collectively, to become happier?

Happiness: A Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)

Radcliff, Benjamin

Amitava Krishna, Dutt

Social Sciences

"I remember the early years of science as it applies to cooking and have seen how it has developed since then with contributions as Nathan Myhrvold . Claudi Mans makes a new contribution in his book The Science of Cooking. A Quick immersion, offering a vision of what happens when we cook, from the point of view of science, while using clear and straightforward language." Harold McGee “An incisive and well-documented book that provides an entrance into the world of cuisine as seen through the prism of science.” Ferran Adrià "This book of Professor Mans is an excellent description of some of the science that is important for cooking, told as science, but through the eyes of a chef." David A. Weitz (Harvard University). In recent years, new products, new techniques and new cooking styles have entered the market with force. And, at the same time, interest has grown in the relationship between nutrition, health and gastronomy. The sciences—biology, physics and chemistry— are the tools for understanding the entirety. Chemistry, in particular, describes what substances are responsible for color, smell and taste, and why they change in cooking. On the other hand, the chemical and biological structures of animal and plant cells and tissues explain the textures and their changes in the kitchen. In this book, all these aspects are treated with every day and understandable language, while it remains technically rigorous and provides a large amount of information. With all this, the reader will be able to know what is in their food before and after cooking it, resulting in greater intellectual satisfaction, added to the sensory.

The Science of Cooking: A Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)

Mans, Claudi

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

"Τhis splendid book offers a powerful set of insights into how to read Aristotle in a holistic way, by allowing his ideas to emerge out of his own texts. The tenacity, rigor, and interpretive boldness with which Reeve explores these texts, and the clarity of his own writing, makes this an ideal “immersion” in Aristotle for non-experts, but experts too will have much to learn from it." —Pavlos Kontos, Professor of Philosophy, University of Patras"C. D. C. Reeve is one the world’s most accomplished scholars of Aristotle’s thought. His publications bear on nearly every aspect of Aristotle’s philosophy. His translations of many of Aristotle’s works are of great value to specialists and students alike. Here, in this brief overview of the whole of Aristotle’s philosophy, he makes this difficult thinker intelligible and appealing to any reader." —Richard Kraut, Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University"This quick immersion into the depths of Aristotle’s thought is breathtaking and an eye-opener. David Reeve shows convincingly how the fact that Aristotle (unlike his teacher Plato) attributed life (and soul) to plants as well, had important consequences for his doctrine of reproduction of man and animals. He explains also why pneuma (the life-bearing spirit with its vital heat) as a soul- and form- transmitting body is necessary for all generation of new life. In this way he shows that Aristotle’s famous book De Anima (On the Soul), containing his theory about soul and the understanding, provides the background for his seminal biological work Generation of Animals." —Abraham P. Bos, Professor of Ancient and Patristic philosophy (retired), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam"In this compact and elegantly organized monograph, David Reeve provides a comprehensive - and extremely comprehensible - overview of Aristotle’s vast and diverse body of work in science and philosophy. Perhaps because most of his works were apparently class lecture notes, Aristotle is always ready to delve into the nice details and complications of the issues he discusses in order to ensure adequate understanding on the part of his audience. As a result, to understand him it is not enough just to know the philosophical positions he adopts; one must also, as in Reeve’s book, understand how he arrives at them. This “immersion” will be an invaluable resource as an introduction to Aristotle not only for students, but for anyone preparing to learn about the groundbreaking contributions of this most innovative and influential thinker to the Western intellectual tradition." —Michael Ferejohn, Professor of Philosophy, Duke UniversityThis book shows you what it is like to think along with Aristotle and helps you to see the universe and our place in it as he thought they they had to be seen to be scientifically intelligible. As a portrait is composed of colors and shapes that collectively represent someone, so Aristotle’s works are composed of arguments that collectively represent the causal structure of the universe, from the stones, plants, and animals around us to the starry heavens above and the god beyond them. The aim of this brief immersion is to guide you through those arguments in a way that lets you understand for yourself why they proceed as they do and end where they do.

Aristotle: A Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)

REEVE, C.D.C.

Philosophy

"Among the most lucid, authoritative accounts of Jewish culture in the English language. A work of impressive breadth, great intelligence and clarity." -Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University "Jess Olson guides his readers through four thousand years of Jewish experience, his eye set firmly on the life of the Jewish people today. An "incisive insider" and master teacher, Olson's A Quick Immersion in Jewish Culture? is a delightful entry point to all things Jewish." -Steven Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History, Director, Center for Israel Studies, Yeshiva University"Jess Olson has written a clear, well-conceived, deeply informed, highly engaging introduction to Judaism. Highly recommended " -Michah Gottlieb, Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, New York UniversityJewish Culture. A Quick Immersion offers a broad overview of Jewish culture and identity throughout Jewish history. In accessible language, Jewish Culture explores the religious, ethnic and national components of Jewish identities as they have developed over some 4,000 years. It is an ideal text for those with little familiarity with Jewish history, religion and culture, as well as the more informed reader interested in a broad synthesis the many strains of thought and experience that have shaped Judaism and the Jewish people.

Jewish Culture: A Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)

Religion & Spirituality

Olson, Jess

Judaism

ENDORSEMENTS .Roger Griffin has given us a masterful, concise guide to one of the most complicated ideological conundrums to emerge from the 20th-century. By analyzing fascism as a political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a regenerative form of populist ultranationalism, Griffin provides us with the critical means to evaluate both the history of fascism's global appeal and its ominous, contemporary manifestations . Mark Antliff. Anne Murnick Cogan Professor, Duke University . This deceptively short book, written by the world's leading authority on fascism, shows how a cogent definition based on serious engagement with its devastating inter-war history allows it to be distinguished from other forms of today's right-wing politics. It thus provides much needed clarity to the terms we use when assessing the mounting dangers to a truly liberal democracy. David Roberts, Emeritus Professor at the University of Georgia . With a droll yet direct approach Griffin sweeps away the cobwebs currently obscuring the concept of fascism. His discussion of 'Four key processes affecting post-war revisions of fascism' is alone worth the purchase price of this remarkable book. Chip Berlet .SUMMARY Seventy-five years ago, George Orwell complained that there was no accepted definition of fascism, lamenting that "we shall not get one - not yet, anyway." In the media, the blogosphere, and in public commentary, little has changed. But for those intrigued and infuriated by the word, this book brings welcome news as it takes stock of the confusion surrounding the term before introducing the succinct but powerful working definition that now serves as the premise of the flourishing international and multilingual field of comparative fascism. This definition is then applied to providing a survey of the 'fascist era, ' showing how it helps explain the initial success of Fascism and horrific destructive power unleashed by the Third Reich, even while so many movements withered on the vine or became Nazi puppets.

FASCISM: A Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)

GRIFFIN, ROGER

History

This Quick Immersion introduces readers to one of the most dramatic and influential events in world history,one that opened a door to the implementation of 'liberal revolutions' across the globe in the following two centuries. The narrative's main focus is the peculiar political dynamic -oscillating between an almost utopian optimism and a pessimistic distrust of other political actors-that propelled the French Revolutionaries from one pivotal crisis to the next. Smith follows the story from the arguments over fiscal reform in the 1770s and 1780s, where many of the seeds of mistrust were first planted, to the fall of Robespierre and the dismantling of emergency government in 1794-1795.

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)

Smith, Jay M.

Europe

Jazz is the foundation of all American music. Starting out as a rhythmic revolution in New Orleans, jazz morphed into big band swing, bebop, and rhythm-and-blues, while its ideas of groove and improvisation became integral to soul and rock, then funk and hip-hop. This book focuses on jazz's development in the African-American communities of five cities - New Orleans, Chicago, Kansas City, New York, and Los Angeles - through a combination of urban studies, historical context, and key profiles of major figures. It is also a listening guide: curated playlists illuminate the dynamic interaction of solo and group, blues and grooves, improvisation and ensemble swinging. Jazz masters taught the planet's musicians how to find their own individual voices and then to risk this in dynamic conversation with others. Jazz is a story of art, culture, race, freedom, aesthetics, politics, struggle, and self-expression.

JAZZ: A Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)

Arts & Photography

Dinerstein, Joel

Music

This book provides an overview of nonviolence. It offers answers to the questions of what nonviolence is, how and why it ought to be used, and who ought to employ it. The book discusses examples of successful nonviolent social protest, from 20th Century movements for civil rights and colonial liberation to the Arab Spring and contemporary Black Lives Matter protests. It considers recent research that explains the power of nonviolence. It also explores philosophical and religious sources of nonviolence, while discussing key historical figures including Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and Malala Yousafzai. The book offers insight into the link between nonviolence and democracy. And it reminds us that nonviolence gives us the power to build a better -more just, truthful, and loving- world.

Nonviolence: A Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)

Fiala, Andrew

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