But What If We're Wrong?

But What If We're Wrong?
Title But What If We're Wrong? PDF eBook
Author Chuck Klosterman
Publisher Penguin
Pages 290
Release 2017-04-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0399184139

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“Full of intelligence and insights, as the author gleefully turns ideas upside down to better understand them. . . Replete with lots of nifty, whimsical footnotes, this clever, speculative book challenges our beliefs with jocularity and perspicacity.” —Kirkus (starred review) “Klosterman’s trademark humor and unique curiosity propel the reader through the book. He remains one of the most insightful critics of pop culture writing today and this is his most thought-provoking and memorable book yet.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) The tremendously well-received New York Times bestseller by cultural critic Chuck Klosterman, exploring the possibility that our currently held beliefs and assumptions about the world will eventually be proven wrong—now in paperback. But What If We're Wrong? is a book of original, reported, interconnected pieces, which speculate on the likelihood that many universally accepted, deeply ingrained cultural and scientific beliefs will someday seem absurd. Covering a spectrum of objective and subjective topics, the book attempts to visualize present-day society the way it will be viewed in a distant future. Klosterman cites original interviews with a wide variety of thinkers and experts—including George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Alex Ross, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Dan Carlin, Nick Bostrom, and Richard Linklater. Klosterman asks straightforward questions that are profound in their simplicity, and the answers he explores and integrates with his own analysis generate the most thought-provoking and propulsive book of his career.

But What If We're Wrong?

But What If We're Wrong?
Title But What If We're Wrong? PDF eBook
Author Chuck Klosterman
Publisher Penguin
Pages 290
Release 2016-06-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0399184147

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New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or—weirder still—widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we “overrate” democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we’ve reached the end of knowledge? Klosterman visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We’re Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers—George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others—interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It’s a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It’s about how we live now, once “now” has become “then.”

U-Turn

U-Turn
Title U-Turn PDF eBook
Author Bruce Grierson
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 354
Release 2008-03-18
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1582345872

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Drawing on hundreds of case studies, a look at the psychology of major midlife U-turns examines the life-transforming phenomenon from a philosophical, literary, scientific, and psychological perspective to explain why it occurs.

What Went Wrong?

What Went Wrong?
Title What Went Wrong? PDF eBook
Author Trevor Kletz
Publisher Butterworth-Heinemann
Pages 641
Release 2009-06-17
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 008094969X

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"What Went Wrong?" has revolutionized the way industry views safety. The new edition continues and extends the wisdom, innovations and strategies of previous editions, by introducing new material on recent incidents, and adding an extensive new section that shows how many accidents occur through simple miscommunications within the organization, and how strightforward changes in design can often remove or reduce opportunities for human errors. Kletz' approach to learning as deeply as possible from previous experiences is made yet more valuable in this new edtion, which for the first time brings together the approaches and cases of "What Went Wrong" with the managerially focussed material previously published in "Still Going Wrong". Updated and supplemented with new cases and analysis, this fifth edition is the ultimate resource of experienced based anaylsis and guidance for the safety and loss prevention professionals. - A million dollar bestseller, this trusted book is updated with new material, including the Texas City and Buncefield incidents, and supplemented by material from Trevor Kletz's 'Still Going Wrong' - Now presents a complete analysis of the design, operational and for the first time, managerial causes of process plant accidents and disasters, plus their aftermaths - Case histories illustrate what went wrong, why it went wrong, and then guide readers in how to avoid similar tragedies: learn from the mistakes of others

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Lies My Teacher Told Me
Title Lies My Teacher Told Me PDF eBook
Author James W. Loewen
Publisher The New Press
Pages 466
Release 2008
Genre History
ISBN 1595583262

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Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.

Being Wrong

Being Wrong
Title Being Wrong PDF eBook
Author Kathryn Schulz
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 418
Release 2011-01-04
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0061176052

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To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher. In Being Wrong, journalist Kathryn Schulz explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken. Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine, Darwin, Freud, Gertrude Stein, Alan Greenspan, and Groucho Marx, she shows that error is both a given and a gift—one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and ourselves.

Eating the Dinosaur

Eating the Dinosaur
Title Eating the Dinosaur PDF eBook
Author Chuck Klosterman
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 258
Release 2009-10-20
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1416544208

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The bestselling author of "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" returns with an all-original nonfiction collection of questions and answers about pop culture, sports, and the meaning of reality.