@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-19 18:00:49
"Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Books
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-19 18:00:49
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-07-21 01:11:08
recent-ish reading/rereading. #books @…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-19 17:00:49
"Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Books
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-08-19 11:28:03
Content warning: multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis
As with covid, you don't want to give TB the chance to evolve, either. There already is a multiple-drug-resistant strand of TB (or more than one, probably - I'm not up on the details). I remember reading a book about it, Tracy Kidder's book about Dr Paul Farmer.
#tuberculosis #MDRTB #books
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza2025-06-19 12:56:28
I'm so hyped for the fourth part of Adrian Tchaikovskys "Time" series, 'Children of Strife'. I'm currently on a re-listening of the audiobooks with the equally phenomenal speaker Mel Hudson.
As each book of the series was increasingly mind bending, I don't know what to expect from the next.
#books
@stf@chaos.social2025-07-17 13:39:29
last year i was blessed to read the #murderbot series by Martha Wells. last week i had the pleasure to watch the series based on the 1st book. if you want to read something cool go buy the #books, and as an appetizer go and watch the tv series. both have my blessing of approval.
@spamless@mastodon.social2025-07-08 18:12:52
I will try to use "Demon Copperhead" in my book club next spring here in Wiesbaden, Germany.
#books #acitivism
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-08-13 23:17:05
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-08-14 16:57:00
Survey on longform content in institutional repositories. This is part of a study commissioned by The British Academy and carried out by Information Power Ltd. #OpenAccess #books #AcademicPublishing
@AmazingMeagen@historians.social2025-06-16 20:51:22
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by G Zevin
Was captivated by the people, the changing narrative style and a new world for me, gaming.
New York Times "100 Best Books of the 21st Century"
#bookstodon
@davidshq@hachyderm.io2025-06-16 01:32:43
when it comes to #psychology and #mentalhealth I've read a decent number of #books on the topic.
I think the best I've read are:
- David D. Burns' Feeling Good (CBT generally including anxiety, depression)
- Sue Johnson's Hold Me Tight (romantic/marital relationships)
- Peter Kramer's Against Depression (on why depression is not a creative gift or sign of moral incompetence, biological underpinnings)
Peter Rutter's Sex in the Forbidden Zone has also been instrumental in forming my understanding of the unhealthy ways romantic interest manifests.
Anne Wilson Schaef's Co-Dependence: Misunderstood--Mistreated is the best I've read explaining how "being good" can oftentimes actually be bad.
The latter two are both more things I extract from the books rather than the books themselves and both are couched in ways that make them not ideally suited to the topic...but still the best I've found.
In addition one might include Joel Fuhrman's Eat for Life (I'm reading it now, I originally read Eat to Live) for nutritional health (which affects psychological) and David Allen's Getting Things Done (still one of the most influential books I've read on productivity).
My #question is, are there books you've read that you'd considered "must reads" on psychological / mental health? Not just mental illness, but mental health?
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-06-08 00:35:55
recent-ish reading/rereading. #books @…
@skaverat@skaverat.net2025-07-07 13:08:42
There's finally a hardcover version of #HouseOfLeaves .
#books
@pre@boing.world2025-07-24 18:48:23
Content warning: "Outland" by Dennis E Taylor
Read "Outland" by Dennis E Taylor, book one of the Quantum Earth series in which some college students figure out how to make a portal to parallell Earths just in time for their Earth Prime to suffer a supervolcano.
Taylor is pretty good at this stuff, loved his Bobiverse books.
Story was always progressing, even if it sometimes seemed to progress too slowly. Everyone's hip with all the literature so are comparing their situation to movies and TV shows all the time. Realistic cat-herding difficulties as they try and save as many people as they can and slowly realize that none of them will be going home and their home is doomed.
Looking forward to the next one.
#reading #books #scifi
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2025-08-05 07:31:18
Is anyone familiar with The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher? I picked one up at a book swap, by total fluke the first in the series, and so far it's actually quite good. Given the premise I wasn't sure which way it would go.
This was an emergency book as I'd left my *actual* book in my work bag: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, which I'm really enjoying #books
@andrewspink@mastodon.green2025-06-04 10:43:59
Archive of all German detective novels above Cafe Sherlock, Hillersheim, Eifel.
#books #detectives #library
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-06-07 16:11:12
This book is so cool. 650 pages with amazing screen shots and descriptions of each game.
#books #videogames #jrpg
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-08-10 13:05:46
𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝: 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 by Charles Perrow. It made a big impression on me when I first came across it but when I put it in my backpack for a trip to Binghamton I recalled that the versions of many incidents in it aren’t the best you can find in the literature.
Not sure how well it aged: flying has gotten safer and people don’t write about maritime accidents like they did in the 70’s
#books
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk2025-07-28 10:05:38
Sitting in the shade enjoying the first day of my holiday and I'm already half way through Rory Stewart's "Politics on the Edge". It's a beautifully written if slightly concerning run through his political career and how the system fails us. #ukpolitics #books
@elisabeth_p@social.linux.pizza2025-07-01 13:16:37
Noch einmal das Foto von drei Büchern, Romane zum Thema "Der Wiener Kreis".
Gestern fotografiert in der Ausstellung in der Wien-Bibliothek im Rathaus.
The Expert of Subtle Revision ist ein Roman der Autorin Kirsten Menger-Anderson @… #books
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-08-07 15:16:32
As I will be leaving #OAPEN, the managing director wrote this blog. For me it feels a bit weird, like reading your obituary, but if you are looking for a job in the space of #OpenAccess #books and have t…
@glauber@writing.exchange2025-06-27 22:07:46
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-07-22 10:21:15
Time for another "review". This one's hard. While the book was quite interesting, it required me to be quite open-minded. Still, I think it's worth mentioning:
Robert Wright — Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The book basically focused on a thesis that both biological evolution and cultural evolution are a thing, they are directional and this directionality can be explained together using game theory — as eventually leading to more non-zero sum games.
It consists of three chapters. The first one is is focused on the history of civilization. It features many examples from different parts of the world, which makes it quite interesting. The author argues that the culture inevitably is evolving as information processing techniques improve — from writing to the Internet.
The second chapter is focused on biological evolution. Now, the argument is that it's not quite random, but actually directed towards greater complexity — eventually leading to the development of highly intelligent species, and a civilization.
The third chapter is quite speculative and metaphysical, and I'm just going to skip it.
The book is full of optimism. Capitalism creates freedom — because people are more productive when they're working for their own gain, so the free market eliminates slavery. Globalisation creates networks of interdependence that make wars uneconomic. Increased contacts between different cultures makes people more tolerant. And eventually, the humanity may be able to unite facing a common "external" enemy — the climate change.
What can I say? The examples are quite interesting, the whole theory seems self-consistent. Still, I repeatedly looked at the publication date (it's 1999), and wondered if author would write the same thing today (yes, I know I can search for his current opinions).
#books #bookstodon @…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2025-08-01 18:17:00
I've just finished Lissa Evans' Small Bomb at Dimperley. I love her #books: they're well written often quite humorous easy reads with great characters.
Next up, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, followed by The Place of Tides by James Rebanks. That one's for a book group run by a local bookshop. I'm trying it for the first time in September.
Also picked…
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-06-16 09:42:56
At @oapenbooks.bsky.social, we have updated our #Metadata feeds, to better integrate our #OpenAccess #books into #libraries
@andrewspink@mastodon.green2025-05-23 17:37:41
Graafdier door Nikki Dekker is een interessante boek. Hier is mijn review:
#books
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-07-14 01:00:00
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-07-28 12:15:59
Are you a #MetalHead? Here's two #OpenAccess #books for you:
1. Herbst, J.-P., & Mynett, M. (2025). Heaviness in Metal Music Production, Volume I: How and Why It Works. Taylor & Fra…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-06-03 01:58:20
can they really claim to be "Authors" is the question....
#AI #plagiarism #lazy #writing #literacy #books https://mastodon.social/@dtgeek/114616913983544628
@jake4480@c.im2025-07-27 02:28:22
Found the Cosmos book from 1980 (made about the show) at thrift for a couple bucks, this thing is incredible.
#CarlSagan #Cosmos #bookstodon #books
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-08-01 16:29:16
So... Is there already a #FlowChartFriday? How about this chart on uploading #OpenAccess #books into the #OAPEN
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-24 14:46:34
Content warning: Tiago Forte on thinking about climate change
Good to see Tiago Forte talking about this. A lot of people read his stuff.
(He's a writer/teacher best known for the "Building a Second Brain" framework.)
"It was that summer when climate change stopped being an abstract concept and became viscerally personal for me. I realized that this wasn’t a one-time freak event—every summer we could expect deteriorating air quality from rampant wildfires. ...
"This convergence of physical heat, failing infrastructure, and human vulnerability isn’t just a temporary inconvenience. It’s a preview of the fundamental challenge that Jeff Goodell explores in The Heat Will Kill You First, a book that forced me to confront an uncomfortable truth: all our routines for productive living and working are built on the assumption of a stable climate. It no longer makes sense for me to teach people how to build productive systems without taking into account the increasing instability of our wider environment."
#TiagoForte #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #environment #books #heatwave
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-07-31 07:52:06