Here's the latest issue of Canadian Journal of Sociology. Calculated Terror: How a computer model predicts the future in some of the world's most volatile hotspots. A review of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and 20 Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell (and more and more). Are Americans stuck to their cubicles? An interview with Mary Collins, author of American Idle: A Journey Through Our Sedentary Culture. A review of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande. An excerpt from Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind by Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth. A review of Frontiers of Consciousness: The Chichele Lectures. For A.M. Hinton, abortion was simply another issue to debate over drinks — then she became pregnant. A review of In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles by Chris Welles Feder. A review of Critical Transitions in Nature and Society by Marten Scheffer. From H-Net, a review essay on Martin Heidegger. The Lessons of Lady Gaga: With digital dominance, business savvy, a niche-busting sound and 1,001 wardrobe changes, she is a new model for success. From American Arts Quarterly, Frederick Turner on value, meaning and the economic crisis and on art and economics. Scionism: Jason Zengerle on the question of Democratic dynasties. Easy=True: How "cognitive fluency" shapes what we believe, how we invest, and who will become a supermodel. Here are excerpts from Kill or Get Killed by Col. Rex Applegate, first written in 1943 to quickly and effectively teach American solders hand-to-hand combat skills.
