Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age, by Carl D. A sweeping reintrepretation of spiritual life.
For all the tumult accompanying the popular democratic revolutions, rise of industrial capitalism, and decline of institutional religion, Green argues, society did not secularize: “The age of scientific and technological discovery was also one of frantic religious creativity.” Among the results: the world’s largest democracies, the United States and India, “are the world’s most religious democracies,” and the Christian belief in reincarnation-a fringe, heretical notion two centuries ago-is widespread. The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898, by Dominic Green, A.M.
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As the world explores alternatives to fossil fuels, he is wary of this one because “it is hard to be optimistic about a future free of nuclear accidents,” even with new technologies, as the power industry remains “vulnerable to repeating old mistakes in new…ways.” Having written vividly about Chernobyl and the Cuban missile crisis, the Hrushevs’kyi professor of Ukrainian history turns to the challenges of managing nuclear weapons and nuclear power generally, from radiation releases during a weapons test at Bikini Atoll to Three Mile Island and Fukushima.
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Given how policy has shaped agriculture, they explain the possible move toward “zero-emission production of plants and animals that can sequester carbon in soil and biomass.” Professionally oriented, but generally useful in suggesting how to make any major greenhouse-gas-emitting activity more sustainable.Ītoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters, by Serhii Plokhy (W. To the traditional fruits of farming-food, feed, fuel, and fiber-they add a fifth: the future. Lehner, head of Earthjustice’s sustainable food and farming program, and Rosenberg, a visiting scholar at the Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, address the legal framework for climate-neutral agriculture. Rosenberg, (Environmental Law Institute, $24.95 paper). Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine.įarming for Our Future, by Peter H. She graciously attributes the quality of the prose to her mother, Dr. An experienced critical-care physician offers practical, sympathetic guidance, proceeding from the understanding that “no one in the ICU suffers as much as the family members of patients” (not least because the latter are usually sedated and unable to advocate for themselves). COVID-19 unfortunately made millions aware of hospital intensive care units. The ICU Guide for Families, by Lara Goitein ’91, M.D. A labor of love and of scholarship, it happily makes available exquisite renderings that resonate today, aesthetically and in terms of appreciating the past.
The author, associate professor of architecture at Northeastern, returns to the subject of her dissertation: a Florentine architect (1443-1516) whose meticulous drawings of ancient Rome did much to shape the Renaissance perception of antiquity, and to inform his own building designs. Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome, by Cammy Brothers ’91, Ph.D.
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