Superior
Title | Superior PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Saini |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2019-05-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807076910 |
2019 Best-Of Lists: 10 Best Science Books of the Year (Smithsonian Magazine) · Best Science Books of the Year (NPR's Science Friday) · Best Science and Technology Books from 2019” (Library Journal) An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences. Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. After the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of intellectual racists and segregationists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s 1994 title The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races. If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas and considered race a social construct, it was an idea that still managed to somehow survive in the way scientists thought about human variation and genetics. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, most of whom claim to be just following the data, Angela Saini shows us how, again and again, even mainstream scientists cling to the idea that race is biologically real. As our understanding of complex traits like intelligence, and the effects of environmental and cultural influences on human beings, from the molecular level on up, grows, the hope of finding simple genetic differences between “races”—to explain differing rates of disease, to explain poverty or test scores, or to justify cultural assumptions—stubbornly persists. At a time when racialized nationalisms are a resurgent threat throughout the world, Superior is a rigorous, much-needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of race science—and a powerful reminder that, biologically, we are all far more alike than different.
The Superior Person's Book of Words
Title | The Superior Person's Book of Words PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Bowler |
Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9780879235567 |
This book will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, precise words for vocabular exaltation.
Lake Superior
Title | Lake Superior PDF eBook |
Author | Lorine Niedecker |
Publisher | Wave Books |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2013-04-02 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1933517662 |
A reader-friendly anthology of influence—the geologic, historical, and personal history to supplement Lorine Niedecker’s poem.
South of Superior
Title | South of Superior PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Airgood |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2011-06-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101535237 |
A novel full of heart, in which love, friendship, and charity teach a young woman to live a bigger life. When Madeline Stone walks away from Chicago and moves five hundred miles north to the coast of Lake Superior, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, she isn't prepared for how much her life will change. Charged with caring for an aging family friend, Madeline finds herself in the middle of beautiful nowhere with Gladys and Arbutus, two octogenarian sisters-one sharp and stubborn, the other sweeter than sunshine. As Madeline begins to experience the ways of the small, tight-knit town, she is drawn into the lives and dramas of its residents. It's a place where times are tough and debts run deep, but friendship, community, and compassion run deeper. As the story hurtles along-featuring a lost child, a dashed love, a car accident, a wedding, a fire, and a romantic reunion-Gladys, Arbutus, and the rest of the town teach Madeline more about life, love, and goodwill than she's learned in a lifetime. A heartwarming novel, South of Superior explores the deep reward in caring for others, and shows how one who is poor in pocket can be rich in so many other ways, and how little it often takes to make someone happy.
Life with Mother Superior; a Play
Title | Life with Mother Superior; a Play PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Trahey |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780822206637 |
THE STORY: The action begins with the arrival of the author and several other new students at St. Mark's Academy, a strict Catholic school for girls. Determined to cause trouble, the girls begin by giving false names for themselves, which quickly b
The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-bred Words
Title | The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-bred Words PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Bowler |
Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9781567921618 |
A collection of unusual and amusing words.
Brough Superior
Title | Brough Superior PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Miller |
Publisher | Crowood Press UK |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-10-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 9781847971128 |
George Brough started building motorcycles shortly after the First World War. The machines were named Brough Superior both to distinguish them from his father's Brough machines and to denote the highest levels of performance and quality of manufacture. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the name Brough Superior was synonymous with the very best in motorcycle design. The machines gained fame in the hands of riders such as Bert le Vack, Eric Fernihough, Noel Pope and, of course, T. E. Lawrence 'Lawrence of Arabia'. This book documents the full story of Brough and Brough Superior from the early years of the twentieth century through to the end of production in the Second World War, and post-war attempts at revival.