|
|
History and Current Events November 2022 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Laughing With the Trickster : On Sex, Death, and Accordions
by Tomson Highway
Tomson Highway offers generous personal anecdotes, including of his beloved accordion-playing father, and plentiful Trickster stories as guides through such crises as climate change, economic disparity, racial intolerance, and all-out unhappiness. Laughter is medicine. Within the endless circle of life in Indigenous mythologies, the Earth is a garden of joy unlimited. A world we must protect as the birthright of future generations.
|
|
|
|
Life Savers and Body Snatchers : Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War
by Tim Cook
From Canada's top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations. It brings to light shocking revelations of the ways the brutality of combat and the necessity of agonizing battlefield decisions led to unimaginable strain for men and women of medicine who fought to save the lives of soldiers.
|
|
|
|
Status and culture : how our desire for higher social rank shapes identity, fosters creativity, and changes the world
by W. David Marx
W. David Marx weaves together history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, cultural theory, literary theory, art history, media studies, and neuroscience to reveal for the first time the inner workings of status. While there have been some explorations in the past of how status needs affect our individual behavior, Status and Culture seeks to go one step deeper and link the behavior of individuals to the formation of our broader culture.
|
|
|
|
The story of Russia
by Orlando Figes
Based on a lifetime of scholarship, this fresh approach to the thousand years of Russias history discusses the national mythologies and imperial ideologies that have shaped how Russians think about their past and how the country thinks and acts today.
|
|
Visit the Library for more great books! |
|
|
|
|
|
|