PDF-(BOOK)-Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others

br Winner of the 2012 AnisfieldWolf Book Award for Nonfictionbrbr brbr A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other with stunning examples from world history as well as todays headlines brbr brbr brBrute Cockroach Lice Vermin People often regard members of their own kind as less than human and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm enslave or exterminate Dehumanization has made atrocities like the Holocaust the genocide in Rwanda and the slave trade possible But it isnt just a relic of the past We still find it in war genocide xenophobia and racism Smith shows that it is a dangerous mistake to think of dehumanization as the exclusive preserve of Nazis communists terrorists Jews Palestinians or any other monster of the moment We are all potential dehumanizers just as we are all potential objects of dehumanization The problem of dehumanization is everyones problemLess Than Human is the first book to illuminate precisely how and why we sometimes think of others as subhuman creatures It draws on a rich mix of history evolutionary psychology biology anthropology and philosophy to document the pervasiveness of dehumanization describe its forms and explain why we so often resort to it Less Than Human is a powerful and highly original study of the roots of human violence and bigotry and it as timely as it is relevant. The Kirby Institute formerly the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research University of NSW 2 Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society La Trobe University The following individuals approved the 57375nal version of the ab brPage 1br Joumal of Advanced Nursing 1995 22 55656 cal i wor someho demean it th socia constructio o tal i th car o terminall il patient Car Ma BScEco Ph Senior Research Fellow Department o kitsch would not exist then. But thequestion is in fact: is it necessary to ban kitsch?One of the Frenchs ANALYZING THE CAESAR MODEL Guillermina Jasso New York University and IZA January 2008 Forthcoming in: Advances in Group Processes ABSTRACT When a society overthrows a ruler diff spores: “germinate, exterminate” Peter Lambert School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University Professor Peter Lambert Antimicrobial Agents Dr Tony Worthington Clinical Micro By: James Bailey. Book Review by Grace Gilles CS110. Reassigning the Tasks of the Mind. Bailey discusses how, during the industrial revolution, tasks were first industrialized on the human scale and then fully revolutionized, beyond the human scale.. by . Kevin D. Mitnick. , . William L. Simon. , . Steve Wozniak.  . Presented by-. Dipti Singhal. Janish Jindal. About the author - Kevin Mitnick. Controversial American computer security consultant, author and hacker.. November 8, 2018. Jeannie Rodriguez. Regina Seguin. Nardia Cumberbatch. What is the . Human Library™. ?. Created by Ronni Abergel, Dany Abergel, . Christoffer. . Erichsen. and . Asma. . Mouna. of the Danish youth organization Stop The Violence in 2000. &DPEULGJH&RUHWHUPVRIXVHDYDLODEOHDW KWWSVZZZFDPEULGJHRUJFRUHWHUPV  KWWSVGRLRUJ Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris, author of the best-selling Why the West Rules—for Now, explains why. The result is a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications for how we understand the past—and for what might happen next.Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need—from foraging, farming, and fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific values. In tiny forager bands, people who value equality but are ready to settle problems violently do better than those who aren’t in large farming societies, people who value hierarchy and are less willing to use violence do best and in huge fossil-fuel societies, the pendulum has swung back toward equality but even further away from violence.But if our fossil-fuel world favors democratic, open societies, the ongoing revolution in energy capture means that our most cherished values are very likely to turn out—at some point fairly soon—not to be useful any more.Originating as the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, the book includes challenging responses by novelist Margaret Atwood, philosopher Christine Korsgaard, classicist Richard Seaford, and historian of China Jonathan Spence. This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger\'s own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century.In 2013, Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators--men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through 8-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave 40 feet underground. With this team of underground astronauts, Berger made the discovery of a lifetime: hundreds of prehistoric bones, including entire skeletons of at least 15 individuals, all perhaps two million years old. Their features combined those of known prehominids like Lucy, the famous Australopithecus, with those more human than anything ever before seen in prehistoric remains. Berger\'s team had discovered an all new species, and they called it Homo naledi.The cave quickly proved to be the richest primitive hominid site ever discovered, full of implications that shake the very foundation of how we define what makes us human. Did this species come before, during, or after the emergence of Homo sapiens on our evolutionary tree? How did the cave come to contain nothing but the remains of these individuals? Did they bury their dead? If so, they must have had a level of self-knowledge, including an awareness of death. And yet those are the very characteristics used to define what makes us human. Did an equally advanced species inhabit Earth with us, or before us? Berger does not hesitate to address all these questions.Berger is a charming and controversial figure, and some colleagues question his interpretation of this and other finds. But in these pages, this charismatic and visionary paleontologist counters their arguments and tells his personal story: a rich and readable narrative about science, exploration, and what it means to be human. Human error is implicated in nearly all aviation accidents, yet most investigation and prevention programs are not designed around any theoretical framework of human error. Appropriate for all levels of expertise, the book provides the knowledge and tools required to conduct a human error analysis of accidents, regardless of operational setting (i.e. military, commercial, or general aviation). The book contains a complete description of the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), which incorporates James Reason\'s model of latent and active failures as a foundation. Widely disseminated among military and civilian organizations, HFACS encompasses all aspects of human error, including the conditions of operators and elements of supervisory and organizational failure. It attracts a very broad readership. Specifically, the book serves as the main textbook for a course in aviation accident investigation taught by one of the authors at the University of Illinois. This book will also be used in courses designed for military safety officers and flight surgeons in the U.S. Navy, Army and the Canadian Defense Force, who currently utilize the HFACS system during aviation accident investigations. Additionally, the book has been incorporated into the popular workshop on accident analysis and prevention provided by the authors at several professional conferences world-wide. The book is also targeted for students attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University which has satellite campuses throughout the world and offers a course in human factors accident investigation for many of its majors. In addition, the book will be incorporated into courses offered by Transportation Safety International and the Southern California Safety Institute. Finally, this book serves as an excellent reference guide for many safety professionals and investigators already in the field. A complete examination of issues and concepts relating to human factors in simulation, this book covers theory and application in space, ships, submarines, naval aviation, and commercial aviation. The authors examine issues of simulation and their effect on the validity and functionality of simulators as a training device. The chapters contain in depth discussions of these particular characteristics and issues. They also incorporate theories pertaining to the motivational aspects of training, simulation of social events, and PC based simulation. The Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC) is a long-term research platform exploring immersive socio-technical environments in which stakeholders can collaboratively frame and solve problems and discuss and make decisions in a variety of application domains and different disciplines. The knowledge to understand frame and solve these problems does not already exist but is constructed and evolves in ongoing interactions and collaborations among stakeholders coming from different disciplines providing a unique and challenging environment to study foster and support human-centered informatics design creativity and learning. At the social level the EDC is focused on the collaborative construction of artifacts rather than the sharing of individually constructed items. It brings individuals together in face-to-face meetings encouraging and supporting them to engage individually and collectively in action and reflection. At the technological level the EDC integrates tabletop computing environments tangible objects sketching support geographic information systems visualization software and an envisioned virtual implementation. This book is based on 20 years of research and development activities that brought together interdisciplinary teams of researchers educators designers and practitioners from different backgrounds. The EDC originated with the merging of two research paradigms from disparate disciplines to build on the strengths approaches and perspectives of each. This book describes the artifacts and scenarios that were developed with the goal of providing inspiration for human-centered informatics not focused on technologies in search of a purpose but on the development of systems supporting stakeholders to explore personally meaningful problems. These developments have inspired numerous research and teaching activities. The challenges prototypical systems and lessons learned represent important milestones in the development and evolution of the EDC that are relevant for future research activities and practices in human-centered informatics.