Plagues and the Paradox of Progress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plagues and the Paradox of Progress write by Thomas J. Bollyky. This book was released on 2018-10-09. Plagues and the Paradox of Progress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why the news about the global decline of infectious diseases is not all good. Plagues and parasites have played a central role in world affairs, shaping the evolution of the modern state, the growth of cities, and the disparate fortunes of national economies. This book tells that story, but it is not about the resurgence of pestilence. It is the story of its decline. For the first time in recorded history, virus, bacteria, and other infectious diseases are not the leading cause of death or disability in any region of the world. People are living longer, and fewer mothers are giving birth to many children in the hopes that some might survive. And yet, the news is not all good. Recent reductions in infectious disease have not been accompanied by the same improvements in income, job opportunities, and governance that occurred with these changes in wealthier countries decades ago. There have also been unintended consequences. In this book, Thomas Bollyky explores the paradox in our fight against infectious disease: the world is getting healthier in ways that should make us worry. Bollyky interweaves a grand historical narrative about the rise and fall of plagues in human societies with contemporary case studies of the consequences. Bollyky visits Dhaka—one of the most densely populated places on the planet—to show how low-cost health tools helped enable the phenomenon of poor world megacities. He visits China and Kenya to illustrate how dramatic declines in plagues have affected national economies. Bollyky traces the role of infectious disease in the migrations from Ireland before the potato famine and to Europe from Africa and elsewhere today. Historic health achievements are remaking a world that is both worrisome and full of opportunities. Whether the peril or promise of that progress prevails, Bollyky explains, depends on what we do next. A Council on Foreign Relations Book
Paradoxes of Progress
Paradoxes of Progress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradoxes of Progress write by Gunther Siegmund Stent. This book was released on 1978. Paradoxes of Progress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Progress Paradox
The Progress Paradox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Progress Paradox write by Gregg Easterbrook. This book was released on 2004-11-09. The Progress Paradox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century–and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous generations. Detailing the emerging science of “positive psychology,” which seeks to understand what causes a person’s sense of well-being, Easterbrook offers an alternative to our culture of crisis and complaint. He makes a compelling case that optimism, gratitude, and acts of forgiveness not only make modern life more fulfilling but are actually in our self-interest. An affirming and constructive way of seeing life anew, The Progress Paradox will change the way you think about your place in the world–and about our collective ability to make it better.
Paradoxes of Progress
Paradoxes of Progress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradoxes of Progress write by Gunther Siegmund Stent. This book was released on 1978. Paradoxes of Progress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Gendered Paradoxes
Gendered Paradoxes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gendered Paradoxes write by Fida J. Adely. This book was released on 2012-08-28. Gendered Paradoxes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. The resulting demographic picture there—highly educated women who still largely stay at home as mothers and caregivers— prompted the World Bank to label Jordan a “gender paradox.” In Gendered Paradoxes, Fida J. Adely shows that assessment to be a fallacy, taking readers into the rarely seen halls of a Jordanian public school—the al-Khatwa High School for Girls—and revealing the dynamic lives of its students, for whom such trends are far from paradoxical. Through the lives of these students, Adely explores the critical issues young people in Jordan grapple with today: nationalism and national identity, faith and the requisites of pious living, appropriate and respectable gender roles, and progress. In the process she shows the important place of education in Jordan, one less tied to the economic ends of labor and employment that are so emphasized by the rest of the developed world. In showcasing alternative values and the highly capable young women who hold them, Adely raises fundamental questions about what constitutes development, progress, and empowerment—not just for Jordanians, but for the whole world.
